Creature:Kadelba

Kadelba (known also as Kadelbans) are a race of sapient, reptilian creatures located on the planet Kadelbe in the Helva-1 system. Their empire controls approximatly 1/4th of their local star cluster and are members of the Genfiris Cluster Committie; an organisation composing of the star cluster's local empires. The Kadelba are a naturally proud race that favor violence and warfare over peace. They previously followed a Philosophy of Force and were infamous for their ruthlesness. However, soon many Kadelba were influenced by surrounding empires to become diplomatic and the International Kadelban Revolution took place on their homeplanet(see History).

Planet and Star System Geology
The planet Kadelbe came into being soon after the creation of its star, which came into being in such a violent explosion that it split in two. The first 'sub- star' quickly spewed out enough material to form four planets and progressed into its main sequence. The other sub- star, however, did not have the same amount of energy as its counterpart and could only form planets at an incredibly slow rate. The star itself did not have enough energy to 'ignite', and as a result, it remains a Proto- Planetary Disc. It is still forming to this day. Both sub- systems are respectivly called Helva-1 and Helva 2.

Kadelbe is the furthest planet from Helva-1. It is a planet with a completely level orbit (it has no tilt), so there are no seasons and global temperatures are similar. It is surrounded by a series of rings that glow a golden colour when facing Helva-1. The climate and terrain of Kadelbe is temperate and there are rich grasslands and forests. There are two mountain ranges; Yrisignan and Jornaaz. These are cold places and Kadelba cannot survive easily here. There are only two continents; Arbek and Suonbek, which, in Kadelbeeze, means Northland and Southland. Unlike other planets, the Kadelba only give their interconnected ocean one name, Varsos, which simply means ocean.

Above the planet's atmosphere is its only moon: Janlirit, which means 'Spinning Ball' in Bahlu, the language of the Bahluing, another sentient race that resided on Kadelbe's surface before becoming extinct. Janlirit was originally a brownish colour; rocky and barren with high pressured gas locked beneath its surface, which frequently shot out in geysers of gas and rock. However, it was later terraformed by the original Kadelban Empire in order to produce spice, which could be mined and converted to energy to be used in starship fuel. Janlirit had its spice mining operations greatly reduced towards the end of the empire and became a domestic planet. Many Kadelban citizens chose to go there to live later in their lives. It is now a yellow-coloured, temperate, tropical moon.

Acatedas is the closet to Helva-1 and was originally a fiery lava planet with an atmosphere of carbon monoxide and helium. The very air itself was virtually on fire. It had vast seas of lava and scientists reckon that the little land that there was was literally floating on the mantle. They think that the land was slowly being consumed and melted down by the lava and that Acatedas would one day be nothing than a ball of searing liquid magma floating in space; like a small sun almost. It did, however, upon closer study by the crew of the KSS Compromise, have abundant supplies of red spice and a well protected colony was set up shortly after the colonisation of Janlirit. Over the next 100 years, small scale terraforming took place by the colonists. They couldn't walk out into the open, because their bodies would explode into flame, even with protective gear. The only thing protecting them from the lethal atmosphere was a ray shield mounted over the colony. Eventually, it was turned into a safer place. Its surface is now dusty and red and the seas of lava had cooled to form new land. Oceans formed due to forced rainfall, but they have little oxygen and they are devoid of life. Plants and animals have mutated or have been forcibly changed by the colonists to survive on Acatedas. Every two days, the colonists still induce a shower of rain to keep life flourishing on the planet. It has slowly become one of the most industrialised planets belonging to the Kadelba, when vast factory colonies were set up at some of the larger spice and raw material sites.

Alana is the only gas giant in the Helva-1 system. When the Kadelbans achieved space travel, their starships weren't designed to withstand the atmosphere and harshness of Gas Giants and it was widely unvisited for 10 years; only studied from space stations orbiting it from afar. One probe designed to survive its climate was sent there, launched from a space station, but its signal wasn't strong enough to be detected in Alana's atmosphere and contact was lost with it. Alana hasn't been visited since. It is the most famous Gas Giant belonging to the Kadelbans and yet it is shrouded in mystery.

Urtumnius is a grassland planet closest to Kadelbe. It has never been colonised, because there are no spice geysers on its surface and, although respected by many Kadelbans, it is the least interesting planet known to them. There is life on its surface, but it was deliberately put there to study the effects of intentionally induced evolution on a planet. The research was a great help later for scientists and astro-biologists, but after, the tests were abandoned and life was left to flourish. Urtimnius is best known for the 'Rounn' discovery (Wreck is english). The KSS Compromise, the first ever ship on its fist interplanetery flight was bound for Urtumnius. When it arrived and began to scan the terrain, it picked up some peculiar signals, which were similar to ones detected by the Kadelban SETI program over 70 years before spacecraft were invented. The crew made the decision to investigate, and flew in on the first ever manned visit to another planet. They found an amazing discovery: a crashed extra-terrestrial starship and an interstellar map drawn in the earth. The crew spent over 3 hours carefully extracting the starship's components using both the KSS Compromises' tools and some tools by hand. In the meanwhile, biologist Yuoron Giihn studied the skeletons and bones of the dead crew and deemed them to be roughly 40 years old.

Ancient
Roughly 6,070,300 years ago, the Kadelba officially achieved sentience. Different packs began to interact in a basic, grunting language and clustered together. As time went on, the Kadelba developed their own language and the clustered packs formed tribes; using basic tools to construct wooden buildings. By judging recordings taken from the 'Orhin' (a collection of tablets that the ancient Kadelba used to record events; they have been studied and interpreted by scientists for almost five centuries) there were roughly 86 tribes on both Arbek and Suonbek at the beginning of Tribal history.

It is widely accepted and known, that the tribe Kadelbania was the most famed and most important part of the Tribal stage, as it would one day grow into the international capital of the Kadelban Empire and the very planet would be named after it.

Although the ancients did record their history down on tablets, it is in a language that has not been spoken for over one million years and understanding it is hard. Therefore, little is known about Kadelban ancient tribal history, other than there was a great continental war between tribes on Arbek and an ice age occoured about four million years ago, lasted for a further million, then global temperatures soared. It was also known that almost all the other sentient races on Kadelbe were wiped out by the Kadelbania tribe. The Kadelbanians biggest rival was the Bauling, a race who shared the Kadelbanian's fierce love of violence. The two tribes fought each other fiercely, wiping out many other tribes on the way, but the Kadelbanians were eventually victorious and the Bauling were made extinct. But elements of their existence remain, such as mass burial sites and names taken from their language; the best example being Janlirit, the name of Kadelbe's moon.

Early Civilisation
Tribes eventually expanded into stone castles and cities about 10,000 years ago. Technology was virtually non existent and religion had a strong hold on the planet. Exactly what these religions comprised of isn't completely understood, but one worshipped a single God, who came down from the heavens at the time of Civilisation and granted the people who followed him great knowledge. This religion is now widely thought to have started when another race detected life on Kadelbe and flew down to investigate, possibly dropping a monolith which would have advanced the Kadelban evolution. Some Kadelba may have believed their starship to be a God and a religion would have spread from there.

The other religion was one that believed the bloodline of the first sentient Kadelban was divine and godlike, therefore, they were the rightful leaders of all Kadelbans and must be worshipped and followed. Scientists and Philosophers believe that this was the original belief of almost all Tribal and early Civilisation Kadelba, and that the other spawned after an alien visit to Kadelbe.

Religion was responsible for all the conflict during pre-tech society. Bitter wars were fought with swords and spears and arrows as city counties fought to glorify their beliefs.

Life in the Early Civilisation era was tough. There was no kind of electricity at all and no form of industrialisation existed yet. The two continents were divided into small counties, which was basically land ruled by a single city, which had many villages around it. Each city was ruled by a king/duke/lord or any other kind of ruler, who made the laws of their domain and kept the population organised.

Then, 1000 years after Early Civilisation began, Kwain Hurroy invented the first engine. Inspired by his success, other Kadelbans began to invent technology after extensive research. Two years after Hurroy's engine, Saaml Byon invented the telescope or in Kadelbeeze, Farrviel. He discovered the planets in the solar system and named them. He then began to gaze at Janlirit and study its features. He wrote down his original thoughts on it and he was the first to deny religious beliefs about Janlirit.

Late Civilisation
The world changed. With Kadelbania leading the way with brand new engine and weapon technology, the species began to live in a much more entertaining and comfortable world. The Kadelban gut instinct of fighting was a major part of society. Theatres, instead of shows, would show live gladiator fights on stage, with thousands flocking to watch. Kadelbania finlly reached its peak industry when it discovered the uses in spice for just about everything. Pumps on land and rigs at sea were set up; each one making its claim to more territory. The old religions finally started to go extinct as Kadelbans rediscovered their aggressive anatomy.

Then, war broke out. The many alliances that had formed between countries all over the world would cause a knock on effect if just one country stepped out of line. That country was Gryeikn. It was very small and the country's leaders were afraid that its larger neighbours would soon invade. It is situated on the coastline of Suonbek and new that the only way to escape its neighbours was over the sea. A large military force left the shores of Gryeikn and arrived one morning at the Kadelbanian port. A huge conflict broke out. The KNM (Kadelbanian National Military) was taken by surprise and most of it was wiped out along with many Catalyst and Breaker tanks. The surviving civilian population fled into the Jornaaz mountain range for shelter, while the military organised a counter offensive. The KNM left, bound for Gryeikn, which had most of its fighting force away in Arbek. The country was over run and was renamed Kadelbania. The Gryeikn military also renamed old Kadelbanian Gryeikn. Other countries, however, united with Kadelbania started to invade the new country, and similarly so did Gryeikns allies. The First World War broke out and the planet was left devastated.

However, out of the rubble came a new invention.

The first ever space craft.