Sothus

Sothus


Sothus is the fourth planet in the Caprus system and sparsely populated. Bearing the name the Aacat Oriqoi gave it. Sothus is a frozen, seemingly barren wasteland. However there is a pleathora of life in the snow and ice if one knows how to look.

Sothus is a planet of ice, snow, and cold. It's warmest days see temperatures of -18F while it's coldest average -80F. The atmosphere contains just enough oxygen to support terran life, however most colonies on the planet have their own air filtration systems. There is a great deal of natural gas trapped beneath the icy crust of the planet as well as compounds that can be melted down for use in Titan Mining operations. This is harvested and used by surface dwellers and sold as an extra energy source for space stations.

Sothus is home to many a bizzare animal and game. Half-frozen salt lakes provide excellent sea-food (should you survive hunting them) while mammals roam the surface. Of particular importance is the wamakasta, a massive, six-legged mammoth-like creature with heavy, stony horns to help it cut through ice and plow snow. They have been known to cause heavy, sometimes irreparable damage to encapsulated settlements and bunkers. It is fiercely territorial and notoriously dangerous. Once a season, large numbers of Aacat Oriqoi gather on Sothus for the Great Hunt, in which young bands of warriors hunt the wamakasta. Young women work together to survive the perilous ice lakes (an act every bit as, if not more dangerous than the giant beast hunts) and scope out prospective husbands.

The Aacat Udah maintain small, but stable settlements on Sothus, while the Aacat Oriqoi are there seasonally. There are also some Terran outposts and waystations found on the world, but no cities.

Sothus has only one moon named Sabya, a black mineral-rich rock with no breathable atmosphere. There is a single dome-station on Sabya owned by Titan Corp and used as a processing facility for the some materials harvested from Sothus.