The largest volcano on San Lucas began to wake up not long after we arrived. It was in the center of the Hankou continent, surrounded by vast lowlands filled with intelligent cats. Humanity felt its first, tentative, throat clearings on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The eastern continent of San Lucas is named Hankou, and is home to the Toshi and Laohu civilizations that are embroiled in a contentious religious war to this day. Hankou is a roughly circular continent dominated by lowland jungles and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The New Andes Mountains are the tallest mountain range on San Lucas. They bisect the New Andes/Gangani continent from western to eastern shores, and even continue as underwater ranges for hundreds of kilometers into the twin oceans surrounding the continent.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The westernmost continent home to intelligent cats on San Lucas was originally named New Andes, after the New Andes Mountains that bisected it. We officially renamed it Gangani after the local cats made Contact with us. That is the name[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Landscapers on San Lucas are a different breed than those seen on most other worlds humanity has settled. The indigenous, alpha predator, sabertooth cats love how we taste, and so every town near the coast must have a kilometer-wide kill[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most of the human population of San Lucas lives on the shorelines of New Brazil. They are made of beautiful, white sands that stretch out for kilometers under blue-green waters lit by a yellow sun slightly dimmer than Earth’s own.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The South American colonists of San Lucas had a difficult road pacifying the single small continent they’d made their home. New Brazil was rich and beautiful, but it was also home to one of the most dangerous alpha predators we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first continent humanity colonized on San Lucas was not much larger than Earth’s Australia. New Brazil had the largest population of sabertooth-descended alpha predator cats of any of the major continents, but it also had the largest deposits of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We found the Lucas Cats on two of San Lucas’ major continents. The first was a tall and relatively narrow continent reaching from the warm equator up to the cold polar regions. It has a wide range of landscapes, starting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are three major landmasses on San Lucas, along with thousands of smaller islands. The South Americans focused on the smaller continent due to it being home to the greatest amount of heavy metals and fuel we could mine for.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…