Lotruxaras

Template:InfoboxPlanetLotruxaras is an old, Mercury-like moon, the homeworld of the now extinct Lotru species. The Lotru founded the once great Galactic Alliance of Ecological Planets (GAEP) and had Lotruxaras as the GAEP's capital. Lotruxaras has been occupied by the super-advanced AIs The Supreme and DELYATU ever since they destroyed the GAEP. The Supreme is mining most of the moon's resources, such as iron, while DELYATU is trying to convert the remaining Lotruxaran sentients to its religion.

The moon's atmosphere is surprisingly made up of nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor and carbon dioxide, though the pressure is too low for human survival and Lotruxaras is too far away.

Description

Nomenclature

The name Lotruxaras originated from the combination of several words in the Jezmuc language. These words were “Lotru”, which means “all of us”, “xa”, meaning “world”, and “ras”, meaning “rich”. Lotruxaras thus means “the rich world of us all”.

Appearance

Lotruxaras is a TLf-class moon orbiting the gas giant Huutraxa, which has over five masses of Jupiter and is of TSj-class. From space, the moon has a cyan-coloured atmosphere and only a few clouds. The liquid water seas have a dark cyan tint caused by the atmosphere's color, as happens in some other worlds, such as Nantak-Ro. The soil is mostly made of grey rocks and iron compounds. No forests exist, but small, garden-like “mini-forests” and plants are scattered across the surface. The moon has a few active volcanoes due to geological activity under the crust.

Astrographical

Lotruxaras is located in the outer arms of the Joparaxa Galaxy, billions of light-years away from the Milky Way. It orbits the fourth planet from the system and is the second major moon from it. The moonz by virtue of its isolation, has been a peaceful place for billions of years before the arrival of the two AIs.

Climate

Lotruxaras has a relatively stable and peaceful climate due to the lack of clouds.

However, destructive hurricanes and sandstorms frequently happen, and they were highly problematic for the early Lotru.

History

The ancient Lotru

This moon's former dominant species first appeared around 8.2 billion years ago as frog-like terrestrial amphibians, which resided in the small inland forests. 7.9 billion years ago, the Lotru became humanoids and learned how to use fire. Cities started to be built at around 7.7 billion BCE, a few millions of years after the Lotru developed agriculture.

The Lotru evolved into a Type I civilization 6.7 billion years ago, after beginning to use renewable energy sources. 7,000 years later, they expanded to nearby systems and formed the Alliance of Lotruxaras to unify their colonies.