Xerica E582421-3
A crew of Solomani exiles discovered and settled this arid world five centuries ago.
Visitors to the planet’s only major settlement, Xerica City, will notice the marked familial similarity among the natives; lantern jaws, wide-set eyes, blond hair, polydactyly, and olive complexions.
Eighty years ago, the government implemented an ‘Improve the Race’ scheme. Visiting human males find the young, unmarried women very accommodating. Xerican mores tolerate fornication before marriage, but harshly condemn adultery. Maidens wear bows over the left ear, matrons over the right. Married women scream bloody murder if accosted by strange men— their husbands and male relations all carry blade weapons and archaic guns.
Xericans love games of chance (Capellan faro, finger-bones, dirty-sixes) and visitors might win gold or opals at the gaming tables in Xerica City. Cheaters forfeit a digit.
Watch out for wyvernflies; aggressive, meter-long flying, stinging insectoids.
Microbial pathogens taint most water sources.
A crew of Solomani exiles discovered and settled this arid world five centuries ago.
Visitors to the planet’s only major settlement, Xerica City, will notice the marked familial similarity among the natives; lantern jaws, wide-set eyes, blond hair, polydactyly, and olive complexions.
Eighty years ago, the government implemented an ‘Improve the Race’ scheme. Visiting human males find the young, unmarried women very accommodating. Xerican mores tolerate fornication before marriage, but harshly condemn adultery. Maidens wear bows over the left ear, matrons over the right. Married women scream bloody murder if accosted by strange men— their husbands and male relations all carry blade weapons and archaic guns.
Xericans love games of chance (Capellan faro, finger-bones, dirty-sixes) and visitors might win gold or opals at the gaming tables in Xerica City. Cheaters forfeit a digit.
Watch out for wyvernflies; aggressive, meter-long flying, stinging insectoids.
Microbial pathogens taint most water sources.