Kai Dranchak

In the Desert of Lapane, crime is judged by the High Hydro Priest. The Hydro Priest spreads the word of water, what the people of the Desert worship. Because there is so little water, it has become so important to their society it evolved into a religion. The highest crime that can be committed is disrespecting the water. Spitting in, spilling, or sneezing in the supply is punishable by death. After they are executed, their blood is spread among citizens as a reminder of what happens when you break the laws. Attempting to reproduce without prior approval is also high on the list of punishable offenses. Desert citizens must ask for authorization to reproduce. This helps keep the population down and resources less scarce. If caught breaking this rule, their genitals will be mutilated in order to stop further instances. Stealing and murder are held to the same severity. Punishment could range from loss of resource privilege for a week to exile, but never execution. If citizens s

Lapane is a tidally locked planet. Because of this, there is a strip of comfortably habitable land. On the edges are barely habitable lands from the Desert to the Tundra. Due to the overpopulation on Earth, some humans expanded out to Lapane. Their population stayed within the comfortably habitable part of the planet. That was thousands of years ago. Facing the same problem of overpopulation, people had to pay to stay in the habitable part, the Center. Those that couldn’t afford to stay were sent to the edges, the Tundra, which was extremely cold, and the Desert, which was extremely hot. Both are barely habitable. Those in the Desert come in bands and tribes. They are foragers, as much as they can be. The Desert provides little that can be eaten. They drink cactus juice, Ponilon (a creature similar to an armadillo) meat, and bugs. They are also provided canned meals from the Center. The first inhabitants of the desert had very slurred speech from the heatstroke. They based down

In the distant future, Earthlings spread out far beyond the Milky Way in search for planets they can live on. They spread between different planets and settle on a few that are suitable for life. Nuoti is on of these.  Nuoti is a large planet with two others locked into its orbit. Lapane, the largest of the two, is tidally locked to Nuoti. Because Lapane does not turn, the half that faces the sun is a desert and the face that doesn't is tundra. The desert brings heat to make water boil, constant hurricanes, and a never ending day. The tundra is eternally dark and is cold enough to freeze man's blood. In between where the two meet is a small strip of habitable land. This was enough.  But thousands of years later, because of over population, humanity has had to spread outwards. Those who have adapted are able to live on the outskirts on the tundra or the desert. In the desert and the tundra, man is not the top of the food chain.  In the tundra, large blubbery beasts f