Aiah

Template:!World InfoboxAiah is a rogue planet far beyond the clustered stars of Cosmoria, surrounded distantly by the far-spread stars of the halo. Its cold surface plays host to a bizarre, solitary life form spread across the planet, keeping a detached watch on the universe for all of time. Lit by nothing, the ancient world drifted alone before its discovery by Sarepha, and it would never play a major part in history save one single moment, the Battle of Aiah in the War of Saiheran Succession.

History

Aiah is almost as old as the universe itself, forming from an anomalous clumping of heavy metals before even the formation of the first stars. At the time of its formation, the background temperature of the universe was warm enough for water to survive on the surface of the planet, but this froze over before life could begin to evolve. However, life rapidly evolved beneath the frozen surface of the water, beginning as simple bacteria and rapidly evolving among Aiah's hydrothermal vents.

However, roughly 1.6 billion years ago, the Providence Union landed on the planet and accidentally deposited a very adaptable microbial lifeform on the surface. They promptly forgot about it until very shortly before their fall, when they begun studying it and logged the planet's location in the Glanadi Archives. However, the black hole bombs which triggered the fall caused a heavy amount of damage to the planet.

Over a billion years later, the planet was found by an explorer from the Kingdom of Saihera shortly before the outbreak of the War of Saiheran Succession. However, before it had time to be logged in the database, the war begun, with Princess Zelera, one of the rival monarchs, setting up a base on this remote planet to avoid heavy damage. They began researching the life which had spread over all the nooks and crannies of the planet, but this did not affect the outcome of the war, with Princess Zelera being killed in the final combat, and none of the monarchs actually becoming ruler. After this and the founding of the United Nations of the Florathel, Aiah became a neutral territory, for scientists from all member nations to study. As of today, Aiah is not particularly important on the galactic stage but has a high concentration of scientists nonetheless.

A rudimentary image of the patterns on Aiah.