System: Ebro

As humans explored and colonized the worlds of the soon-to-be Federated Suns, they encountered dangers they had never before seen on Terra. For the most part, those dangers were cataloged and notices to spacefarers were passed on. But there were also individuals who weren’t so careful, surveyors that didn’t follow standard landing and exploration protocols, or colonists that landed on a world they knew nothing about. When the planet’s ecosystem attacked, they fled, but they didn’t guard their ships well enough, allowing some of the hostiles — be they flora, fauna, or just disease — to enter the ships with them. That inattention led directly to the spreading of dangers that threatened to wipe out entire worlds.

The trachazoi spread to dozens of worlds in the Federated Suns’ Outback and the nearby Periphery in just this way. Known by its more common name of “brain-eater,” the trachazoi is a small yet powerful carnivore that hunts much larger creatures, especially primates (including humans). It is a tree-dwelling creature that hunts primarily at night, preferring to drop down upon its prey and rip its skull open with powerful and sharp claws to feast upon the brains within.

There are no functional factories located on this planet.