Andromeda is the home planet of the Yarasa
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Andromeda is one of the most unusual planets in the known galaxy - a colossal gas giant, blacker than coal. It orbits the star Eryllion at a great distance, reflecting no light whatsoever. When the Reiker Corporation first discovered Andromeda they dismissed it as an oddity, and little more; after all, what value could such a planet possibly have?
However, one of its trailing surveyors decided to monitor the solid core, and found something so unexpected that the fleet was recalled for a closer look. Somehow, creatures were living on the surface, which was covered– against the odds – in dark-hued scrubland and pallid vegetation. Most surprising of all was the discovery of the Yarasa, a race of sentient, winged humanoids, able hunters who swooped through the atmosphere to stalk the creatures that occupied its gas clouds.
They were a fairly primitive culture, having begun to develop the basic rudiments of civilisation, and had built structures both on the surface and in the networks of caves that riddled the world. They did not seem to mind the enduring nights caused by Andromeda’s long orbit – in fact, based on initial observations from orbit, they did not need to be able to see in order to hunt.
The Andromeda report was met with great interest, and now many observers are eagerly watching to see how this strange exoplanet develops.
Although the Reiker Corporation took great pains to only monitor Andromeda from afar, other corporations were not so patient. When a Spiczak survey craft entered the lower atmosphere it was attacked by a flight of Yarasa hunters.
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