Jannah

Jannah is the Sovice homeworld, more accurately the Janni homeworld prior to their extinction. It is approximately 300 light years from Avbaroy.

Prehistory and Evolution of Life
Jannah is an example of lifeforms evolving in an almost impossible way. The elements that compose it organised in such a way on compacting that they produced Jannah's unique climate, which is largely produce because Jannah has no ozone layer, whilst it has a high volume of silicates, carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. The formation of the planet left a significant portion of the planet without the necessary oxygen to form ozone, but enough to form dense cloud cover in other areas, producing the "topsy-turvy" climate of equilibriums that exists today.

The climate is most stable near the equator of Jannah. Here, high moisture and precipitation allowed basic organisms to thrive. As adaptations grew, life spread outside of the equator and evolved in the Iceland and Hotland areas. Climate shifts frequently served as a form of natural selection, killing many developing species.

Eventually, an ape-like species developed from the pairing of reptile-like Seke Salin (Quad-snake) and mammal-like Tundran Nosorog species (A pairing that is antagonistic in modern times). This species evolved into the Janni. The Janni developed at an accelerated rate compared to Earth humans due to the climate of the planet and the dangerous organisms that survived the climate shifts.

Eventually, the Janni developed higher brain functions and began to use tools and logic, which quickly made them the dominant species of the planet. In Jannic year 3000, scientist Angstrom was born, who proved one of Jannah's greatest scientific minds when she created the first wholly-sapient android, Visna.

An engineered prodigy, Visna soon surpassed expectations when she developed the first reprogrammable chemically-produced nanoscopic machines, which swiftly formed the basis for the Sovices. When lessons learned in the Dark Space War (J-year 1280-1310) resurfaced, much of the public became disillusioned with Sovice technology and called for Visna to be dismantled and the Sovices destroyed.

Angstrom protected her mechanical daughter for as long as she could, but an angered mob stormed their residence, and Visna gave command orders for defensive procedures. On a global scale, this caused the Sovices to attack the Janni population, who were wiped out almost overnight. The Sovices then expanded outward into space, conquering and eradicating other species for decades.

Future
Jannah is maintained by the Sovices for its rich historical and cultural heritage. The star it orbits is surrounded by the first Jannic dyson bubble, and the Sovices maintain the reactions of their home sun diligently, but in approximately 8 billion years it will, as a result, collapse into a black hole much like the elder Jannic stellar engines, destroying Jannah and its solar system. Plans have been regularly considered for ways to prevent the collapse or relocate the dyson bubble & planet, but solutions are still few in number.

Climate
Jannahs orbit and rotation give it a 22-hour day and a 8 month year (With 52, 53, 53, 52, 52, 52, 53, and 52 days per month, respectively), each new year typically marked poignantly by a solar eclipse visible from the equator.

At its best, Jannah borders on uninhabitable. The Northern and Southern hemispheres are embroiled in constant harsh climates, with the two dominant forms of Iceland and Hotland.In the Hotland, there are few cloud formations, allowing the full brunt of Jannah's solar radiation to heat the surface to extreme limits. Much of the Hotland areas are almost entirely sand and near-boiling ocean.

Conversely, the Iceland regions have extremely dense cloud cover, obstructing most of the solar radiation and freezing the surface into an icy wasteland.These two climatological superstructures remain largely stable, but every decade or so a "climate shift" occurs wherein the points of equilibrium between them break down and they re-arrange across the planet.

The solar radiation and planetary rotation equalises the climate close to the equatorial belt, which is where most life on Jannah evolved and where much of the civilisation collected.

Climate shifts
Every ten years or so (In Jannic time), the equilibrium of the Menerav lines destabilises under tension from lunar gravity. This causes the Hotland and Iceland to rearrange across the planet. Violent storms ignite in the equator and frozen tundra abruptly meets with burning desert, causing fog and exposing creatures therein to vastly different conditions. The Janni were able to predict the proximity of a climate shift based on the electrical activity in the Meneravs, caused by the interaction of the two environs outside of them.

Throughout the evolutionary development, climate shifts served as extinction events, forcing rapid evolution of creatures able to withstand the shifts or recover from them quickly, the Janni being the ultimate result of this. After a period of between ten days to a month at most, the Menerav lines restabilise as the different regions slow down in various regions, producing a domino effect that stabilises the borderlines entirely.

A rare example of positive consequences of climate shifts for Jannah occured in Jannic year 2982, when a climate shift unearthed 200 of the missing 10,000 soldiers of the lost 51st Legion, missing since 1297.

Fauna
Lifeforms on Jannah were predominantly adapted to one of the different regions on it, and were generally incapable of surviving outside of their specialist region. The exceptions to this were the Janni themselves and their cousin species, the Cross Hair (Tektak Spruss).

The Iceland regions were home to: The Hotland regions were home to: And the Menerav lines supported:
 * Berg Sharks (Sileik Kesh), a massive whale-like species physically similar to liopleurodon, but almost two and a half times larger in scale
 * Big Arms (Temac Ambae), a giant squid-like species with dual beaks in its primary tentacles, predator and prey to Berg Sharks
 * Tundran Nosorogs (Hes't Nosorog), a herbivorous elephant-sized mammalian species akin to the woolly rhinoceros, one of the Janni predecessor species
 * Dawn Fish (Si'il Liekesh), a fish-like species the size of a human head that moved in colonies like herring and bred rapidly to counter heavy predation
 * Dune Hounds (Dus Silan), a man-sized dog-like species, heavily domesticated by Janni as pets
 * Quad Snakes (Seke Salin), a large reptilian species specialising in ambush attacks from underneath sand dunes, one of the Janni predecessor species
 * Sea Snakes (Ella Salin), a massive serpentine fish-like species, the primary predator of the Hotland oceans
 * Sky Beaks (Se'ai Ashel), a blind gas-bladder based bird-like species that, except for diving for food in the seas, spent its entire lifespan in the sky


 * Scuttle Shells (Birisia Telen), a small armour-domed insectoid species that thrived on ground moss and whose egg hatchlings ate the parent from inside out
 * Soar Bills (Silais Elash), a small pterosaur-esque species that uses the steam plumes for flight and possessed a dagger-like beak

Moon
Jannah's moon formed early in its development, roughly 1.2 billion years (Of 4 billion prior to Janni development). It is small and desolate, with a rapid but regular orbit that makes it useful as a measure of time, it orbits almost exactly 419 times each year. The equilibrium of the Menerav lines (Where the two conflicting climates meet) are the only things that keep the moon from wreaking havoc on the environment.

Habitability
Jannah had a Janni population of ~7 billion at the peak of their civilisation. It now supports a population of over 500 trillion Sovice block equivalents. Many of the original lifeforms, including flora and fauna, have been mimicked by the New Sovice Empire in an effort to repair the cultural and historical damage to the planet.