Darvikus

Overview

Darvikus is the fourth planet in the Frealee System and the homeworld of the Darvikans. Darvikus has three major moons, Arnena, Ronelis, and Frar. Darvikus is most associated with the Cnara-Frealee Federation, as it is the homeworld of the federation's second most powerful species and the legislative capital of the federation. The planet houses several bureaus which help run the United Nations of the Flower Galaxy, but is not one of the official capitals. Even so, Darvikus is one of the most important worlds in the galaxy's history, as it served as the birthplace of the Darvikans, the second most powerful species in said galaxy. Due to its importance in galactic history, Darvikus is one of the most well-known planets in the galaxy and is in at least the first three planet names in every history textbook.

As of today, Darvikus is a paradise residential world, one of the top tourist destinations in the Flower Galaxy, and a very busy trading hub. Many arcologies are barely visible from orbit splattered across the continents. Some are even underwater in the planet's oceans.

Most farming on the planet is done by self-sufficient arcologies. Usually, only luxuries need to be brought in, meaning that the planet can and has weathered many a siege.

Darvikus is much greener than it was in ages past, as almost the entire population lives in self-sufficient buildings called Arcologies, leaving most of the surface area to turn to wild, including the abandoned and disassembled cities.

Most energy on Darvikus comes from beamed power from the Frealee Dyson Swarm and other renewable energy sources like solar and wind. Some also comes from recently developed forms of nuclear fusion that are clean and safe. A tiny percentage comes from geothermal processes in Darvikus' mantle and outer core, while the rest comes from power plants in the Arcologies.

Geography

Darvikus has seven continents, North Narvea, South Narvea, Atarra, Eria, Asar, Ranvia, and Astrella. Each of these holds a population of at least a trillion, rivaling entire colony systems. Separating these continents are the four distinct oceans: The East and West Corvucadic, Norric, and Rhethys oceans.

Across these continents are a fair amount of different landscapes, including forests, savannahs, tundras, badlands and so on. However, there has always been a complete lack of deserts. Thanks to this quite varied geography, Darvikus is relatively famous for the diversity of its landmasses.

Climate

Darvikus' climate is very varied. Its climate changes depending on the latitude, with areas warm enough to create vast horrendously buggy swamps and cold enough to create vast plates of ice sheathing the poles of the planet. Temperatures also range from being cold enough to freeze water at the poles to being warm enough to be mildly annoying at the equator. Each region of the planet supports a unique biosphere able to support a huge variety of flora and fauna.

Darvikus' overall climate is very temperate, and is quite close to the "temperate planet" model set by Earth. Its position in the system allows carbon-based life to thrive across the planet, orbiting in the "habitable zone" of its parent star.

This perfect climate is also kept in check by the planet's inhabitants, using various structures to carefully manipulate the temperature and climate of various areas of the planet. These structures have actually allowed the planet to become even more habitable to its native life than it originally was.

Population

Being the homeworld of the Darvikans, it would be expected to have a large population. It actually does have a large population, over 5.9 trillion people. This is far over the natural holding capacity, but this is sustained by large networks of self-sufficient Arcologies where most of the population lives.

Darvikus is quite culturally diverse, as it still contains fragments of every single extant human culture, some of which still follow state borders.

Rings

Roughly three million years ago, one of the planets moons crossed the roche limit and broke up into billions of pieces of varying size, from dust grains to city-sized rocks carving gaps in the beautiful ring system. Some of the bigger asteroids have been colonized, building up large populations and even larger tourism industries. The system has remained stable to this day.

History

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