Planet:Shriig

Planet Shriig is the homeworld of the Shriig Empire, and an important member of the Merophian Federation.

Geography

Shriig is the seventh - and farthest - planet from its homestar, Hestia, and is barely within the habitable zone. It is a very cold planet, but the native Shriig Empire have grown accumstomed to it during their evolution. Much of the planet's surface is covered in a thin layer of ice, except for the equator, which has melted. This looks very odd from space, and many call it "Shriig's ring".

The planet has no real rings, but it does possess two moons: Kose, a snow-covered T1 world, and Tora, a frozen asteroid with no atmosphere.

Planetary Neighbors

There are seven planets orbiting Hestia. From closest to farthest, they are: Whootis (a purple gas giant almost skimming the star), Nerezza (a tiny sphere that's usually eclipsed behind Whootis), Malon (a 5,000 kilometer planet that houses a light population of tribal aliens), Ratia and Yor (two yellow gas giants), Wal (a massive terrestrial planet devastated by earthquakes and volcanoes) and Shriig. The gas giants each have dozens of moons, all of which are uninhabitable.

Inhabitants

In addition to the native Shriig, members of several different species reside on the planet. Most are other members of the Merophian Federation, such as Tyrendians, Ashonas, and Dragoozi.

There has been speculation that another species once lived on Shriig, but abandoned the planet for unknown reasons.

Industry

The Shriig are highly dedicated to science and exploration, and are usually ready for just about anything. Shriig is home to a large weapons foundry, where weapons such as justa bombs and anti-matter missiles are produced. They also mine valuable pink spice, but only sell it to those who they feel deserve it. These industries often produce toxic wastes, which are usually vented into space but are occasionally sold to races who power their own machines with the materials.

Religion

Most Shriig are athiests, but like many worlds there is a small community of Spodists present as well. Most Spodists spend their time protesting Shriig's industry, claiming that they are damaging Spode's universe. Little action has yet been taken for or against them.

Enemies

Aside from the servents of Spode, few empires war against the Shriig empire. A criminal called Xerxes once launched a pirate raid on the planet, but were unable to steal very much spice before being forced to retreat.

The Grox once launched a large-scale invasion on the planet, bombing the surface from space before sending down an Infestation Pod to corrupt the atmosphere. The invasion force was eventually destroyed, but not before the destruction of several major cities and the deaths of over 200,000 inhabitants.

During the space battle, a team of Dronox attempted to infiltrate a space station orbiting Shriig. After killing much of the crew, they were literally frozen in their tracks by when a cryogenic tank ruptured. However, they reanimated a week later and once again tried to capture the station, infesting the engineering room. At that point, the Shriig government decided to evacuate who they could and then vaporized the station with an ICBM. Not a single Dronox survived the blast.