Humans are DeadWorlders (1/4)

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Khaden_Allast

Humans are Deadworlders.

When someone says that, younger races tend to imagine a world high in gravity, or perhaps with violent weather phenomena, tectonic activity, or hostile flora or fauna. They often imagine that their own worlds are "deathworlds." This isn't the case. In reality, some or even all of these conditions tend to be relatively normal for planets that eventually evolve sapient life. After all, there's relatively little need for higher intelligence to evolve, along with all of its increased burdens, if you don't have at least some trials to overcome.

Humans are not deathworlders, they are deadworlders. That's to say they come from a planet that is now completely inhospitable to all life.

Of course it didn't used to be this way. It was once, according to their records, quite the beautiful world. That was until the Bhren-Comvin War. The bhren, never being a particularly militaristic people, were losing. It wasn't desperate, yet, but their analysts could find no way out without ultimately submitting to the comvin's demands. Their only hope? To try to resist long enough to at least lessen the burden of those demands. That however did not seem to be going well for them.