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 * Another thread, another story.
 * Let's begin!

What is this life form called?
They're called "Skean."

What is their home planet?

 * (Credit: Fantasy Name Generators - Planet description generator).

Their homeworld's name is Heiria.

The planet Heiria, named so by its discoverer, is an earth-like planet in a huge solar system filled with 26 other planets. Its home system is currently the Guinness Book of Galactic Records (maintained by the United Nations of Humanity, which consists of multiple planets primarily populated by humans).


 * The Ioria System (the Solar System with 27 planets) may or may not have multiple planets with sentient life.

Heiria is about 12.6 times bigger than Earth and its gravity is about 3.45 times that of Earth.

A single day lasts 17.78 hours and a year lasts 408 days. The planet is made up of 7 continents, which make up 86% of the planet's landmass.

1 moon orbit the planet and Heiria itself orbits a red sun in a fairly circular orbit.

The plant-like organisms on this planet are almost exclusively types of grass. They can reach incredible heights due to the strength of some species, while others would be barely noticeable on the floor, if not for their spectacular colors. Shrubs, bushes and flowers are also fairly prominent, but fungi and trees are nearly non-existent.

These organisms may not be much more than the very basics of life as we know it, they make gorgeous landscapes nonetheless. It makes you wonder how amazing this planet will be in even 10,000 years.

Corals, although very basic, can be found all over the planet's oceans, seas and lakes. While they lack the bright colors and odd shapes you'd find on Earth's corals, they do have the makings of a varied aquatic wildlife, with an abundance of gorgeous species.

This planet is home to a huge variety of animals, mostly related to reptiles, birds and fish. However, the most advanced species are birds, some of which have become sentient. Their behavior is remarkable and fascinating to study, most of them are unlike anything we've seen on Earth. Whole communities of birds can be found throughout the planet, many of which have evolved into completely separate species.

What's it like?
They look like this.

They are humanoid birds with four purple eyes, feathers with various colors such as gold, grey, or white, and talons.

They keep their wings on their shoulders retracted, only showing them once they want or need to fly.

They have the beak shape of grain-eating birds.

Their average lifespan is one century (100 years).

Their staple food is Zopou Seeds. A Zopou Seed is about 30 centimeters long (the length of a ruler), 20 cm tall, and 15 cm wide. One seed is enough to feed an entire small family of Skeans (1-3 people). These seeds give all nutrients (except water) that a Skean need: carbohydrates, protein, minerals, vitamins, and fat. They taste like chocolate, yet there is no sugar in them.

Timeline

 * Year 2: Primitive Skeans have discovered fire and learned to handle it properly, since their feathers make them more vulnerable to fire than humans.
 * Year 3: Primitive Skeans have discovered the perfect food of Heiria: Zopou Seeds.
 * Year 28: Primitive Skeans have discovered that they have superpowers (weak ones, but still), and they use it to defense themselves against eight-eyed, acid-shooting, giant winged serpents: Vandhats.
 * Fireballs to damage Vandhats' eyes, basic barriers to block Vandhat Acid, and laser bullets to kill Vandhats by shooting them in the heads.
 * Year 71: Skeans have entered Bronze Age. They seems to be quick learners and they develop early technologies much faster than humans do.
 * Year 539: Skeans have entered Iron Age.
 * Year 1001: Skeans have entered the Middle Ages. Meanwhile, the Vandhats, have become sentient.
 * Year 1036: The Vandhats realized that they're capable of eating Zopou Seeds as well, so they grew their own Zopou crops, not steal from the Skeans, in order to stay away from them as far as possible.
 * Year 1572: The Skeans have entered Modern Age. Meanwhile, the Vandhats have entered the Middle Ages. With the Zopou Seeds, the Vandhats no longer hunt anymore, and they apologize to the Skeans for hunting them in the first place. And such, both species have learned to get along and live in harmony.
 * Year 2100: The Skeans and the Vandhats have entered Space Age, for they have explored the entire Ioria System and other neighboring stars, and they have finished their first colony ship, and they're ready to colonize their own planets.
 * Year 2100: The colony ship, SVE Vision, have colonized on an oceanic planet named Ogrion, in Ioria System (the same solar system as Heiria, their homeworld). And this is the beginning... of the Skean-Vandhat Empire, for many opportunities and challenges lie ahead.