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Rain and seasonal meteor showers are to be expected. | Rain and seasonal meteor showers are to be expected. | ||
==Flora== | ==Flora== | ||
Dathis II abounds with plant life, ranging from prosaic ferns to eerie, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffid triffid]-like lifeforms. Visiting Terrans have compared the ecosystem to that of 20th century (Terran) notions of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_in_fiction Venus], albeit poetically. More erudite botanists note that the planet has ten times more plants than planets of comparative volume and atmosphere. Many theories have been put forth to compete for explanation of the seemingly superfluous species of vegetation. | Dathis II abounds with plant life, ranging from prosaic ferns to eerie, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffid triffid]-like lifeforms. Visiting Terrans have compared the ecosystem to that of early 20th century (Terran) notions of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_in_fiction Venus], albeit poetically. More erudite botanists note that the planet has ten times more plants than planets of comparative volume and atmosphere. Many theories have been put forth to compete for explanation of the seemingly superfluous species of vegetation. The wide variety of flora has an almost as broad range of uses in Dachlyd culture; the plants are used for food, utensil, decoration, religious ceremony, etc. As a result, many Dachlyds appreciate flora even on worlds with comparatively sparse vegetation. | ||
(Despite research expeditions by xenobotanists, no sentient manner of plant life has been discovered on the surface of Dathis II.) | Each region of Dathis II has a native plant associated with it: | ||
Squamos - the shield bush or "sssquarti" (a taro plant with lozenge-shaped leaves of yellow and green) | |||
Taelend - the swizzle vine or "kasstick" (a somewhat-brittle, ubiquitous epiphyte which grows in shades of mauve) | |||
Kassilend - the king's crown or "gly-taass" (a variegated [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromeliads bromeliad] of six iridescent colors considered sacred by most Dachlyd and gaudy or outlandish by most other races) | |||
. . . (et al.) | |||
(Despite research expeditions by xenobotanists, no sentient manner of plant life has yet been discovered on the surface of Dathis II.) | |||
==Culture== | ==Culture== | ||
Dathis II, while being the homeworld of the Dachlyd race, is not the seat of Dachlyd culture. Starship, sub-light freighter, and space station -dwelling Dachlyds outnumber their homeworld fellows. It is more accurate to say that Dachlyd culture is rooted on Dathis II and has branched off from the homeworld. The colony worlds of the Dachlyds began along the same vein as Dachlyd settlements upon Dathis II. Dachlyd society is not [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony hegemonic]. Rather it doctrinally opposed to hegemonies, a sort of tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism egalitarianism]. | Dathis II, while being the homeworld of the Dachlyd race, is not the seat of Dachlyd culture. Starship, sub-light freighter, and space station -dwelling Dachlyds outnumber their homeworld fellows. It is more accurate to say that Dachlyd culture is rooted on Dathis II and has branched off from the homeworld. The colony worlds of the Dachlyds began along the same vein as Dachlyd settlements upon Dathis II. Dachlyd society is not [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony hegemonic]. Rather it doctrinally opposed to hegemonies, a sort of tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism egalitarianism]. | ||