Hjara



Hjara is a frigid planet located in the Orien Occupation Zone.

Hjara is a planet orbiting the star of J'Rei, in a system of just two cold planets. Hjara is beyond the green zone, the range of garden world habitability. It is one of the last places you'd expect an advanced civilization to rise from, but alas it gave rise to the Harivi civilization.

Hjara's climate can be fairly wonky from time to time, it has no moon and no axial stability so the temperature fluctuates intensely throughout the majority of the year. Every 7-9 million years, tectonic plate activity sparks back to life and begins shifting the land masses of Hjara around. During this stir, volcanoes heat up in mass, some erupting and spewing sulfur into the atmosphere. During these times of heating, population and species abundance vastly increases.

So these cycles of life and death have gone on for most of Hjara's history, abundant animal life would be born then it would be frozen to death or dehydrated. Until the Harivi rose, they resisted and so did other animals that'd adapted quickly enough.

Worryingly enough, Hjara's eco-system seems to be on the decline. Hjara is a dying planet, it's eco-system is crumbling and the Harivi can't protect it as they've waged a decades-long resistance against the invading Orien.