Yavia

Yavia, often nicknamed the Warlord's Backyard was a planet in in the western mid rim (wild space). Yavia had an extremely low density; despite being physically a lot larger than most terrestrial planets (over 30'000 km in diameter), Yavia actually had lower-than-standard gravity, about 0.49 G.

Ecology and History
Yavia was a verdant world covered mostly by grassland, swamps and shrubs. It was home to a huge variety of monstrous creatures, as well as several sentient species, all of which formed tribes and went to war with one another.

The four largest tribes; the Abunnaki, the Kozu, the Dreadnought and the Legionnaire tribes had outposts all across the planet Yavia, and were constantly at war with each other. Another tribe, Moloch, made its home in the caverns beneath the planet's surface.

One of the unique things about Yavia was a type of green bacteria that lived in vast colonies beneath the planet's surface. This bacteria was known to the sentient inhabitants of Yavia simply as goo. The warlords of Yavia knew how to turn this goo into pretty much any other lifeform, and they used it to create monstrous creatures to attack one another with.

Goo was one of the four baseline substances around which the economy of Yavia revolved; the others were Wood, Stone and a unique electrically conducting metal/silicon compound known as putty.

Rather than marching their monster armies across the planet's surface, the warlords of Yavia often took advantage of the planet's low gravity and used gigantic flingers to launch monsters across miles of land right into the enemy base. They also used catapults to fire large amouts of wood, stone or putty at the enemy's stronghold, while using armed towers to defend their own bases.

Ecology and Manufactured Creatures
Many thousands of creatures could be manufactured from the Goo harvested beneath the planet.

These included:


 * Pokey
 * Land Squid
 * Bolt Bug
 * Fink
 * Eye-Ra
 * Fang Crawler
 * Brain Mite
 * Vorg
 * Amoeboid
 * Ichi
 * Bandito
 * Great Shelled Crab
 * Zafreeti
 * Teratorn Bug
 * Burrow Worm
 * Pentaped
 * Dark Venator
 * Drull
 * Gorgo
 * Fomor
 * Korath
 * Krallen