Planet:Serafhan

"It's sort of like Tuuros in miniature, if you think about it."

- Anonymous Squirrel

The lush world of Serafhan is an unclaimed terrestrial world in the remote Imi-Xicca Sector of. Such worlds are hardly notable in Tuuros, but Serafhan is something of an oddity.

Serafhan is a life-supporting world. Serafhan is all but overflowing with life. Serafhan is a horrifyingly fecund death world that has killed thousands of unwary would-be explorers. Serafhan is a place where ruthless natural laws contend with strange Essence phenomena that arbitrarily warp and defy those laws.

To a colony, Serafhan would offer little benefit. Most of its easily-accessible mineral resources were used up tens of thousands of years ago, and extracting others would require contending with its thoroughly-inimical biosphere. Still, pioneers continue to trickle into Serafhan because it offers something far more valuable than simple resources: it offers the Essence-charged and strangely empowered artifacts that dot its surface, each one worth a fortune to right-minded individuals and organizations.

Atmosphere and Climate
"If the flora and fauna don't kill you within a week, the weather will step up next."

Serafhan is overall high in oxygen, in atmospheric pressure, in humidity, and in temperature.

Dangers arise from this: Storms are both common and intensely dangerous: lightning strikes may spark explosions and enormous fires, wind speeds in flat areas regularly exceed 70 mph, and low-lying wetlands suffer periodic flash floods capable of sweeping boulders out of their niches. Strong hurricanes are fully capable of tearing trees out of the earth.
 * Heatstroke
 * Storms - wind and lightning
 * Fires
 * Flooding

Geography

 * mostly various sorts of rainforest and every kind of wetland, a few drier plains

Anomalies and Artifacts
"Yeah, there's all sorts of ghost stories out there. My favorite is the one about the four squirrelers who vanished into the jungle for four backpacks between them. They came back two weeks later, with packs full of junk but missing one guy. So someone asked, "hey, what happened to the fourth guy?" And you know what they said? They said, "what fourth guy?" Swore blind there were only ever three of them, that there was never a fourth one. But you know what? They were carrying four packs. Puts a chill down your spine, right?"

- Anonymous squirreler