RODEL
Most,who look upon this planet think it's a gas planet. Lifeless, boring. However Rodel wasn't always like this...
1000 years ago
This was not an ordinary world. Rodel was boasting with life a long time ago. Trough it's geographical features were one of the oddest. You were walking in a thick jungle, and then you suddenly find yourself on the border. The border which separated the "Great Golden Desert", and the "Plateau Jungle." Water was not on the surface, but below. Deep within the planet's crust. There were two tribes, who ruled the planet. The ones in the empire of the Barren Lands, and the ones in the Jungle. While the jungle tribes were excellent hunters, and had small oases of water, the tribe of the Desert were excellent miners. They had unbelieveable riches below their feet, which brought them great merry.
But these times didn't last long.
Slowly, clashes were taking place between the tribes. The ones in the desert needed food. While the ones in the jungles needed Jewels to praise and show their respect for their gods. But they didn't have anything they could pay with. As sadly the leaders of the two tribes weren't able to find a solution, a civil war emerged. And they started killing each other. The war got so bloody, and each side was so desperate, that they set out to settle the conflict once and for all...with a superweapon.
The tribe of the Barren Lands made a missile with their finest engineers. "The life crumbler."
A missile designed to destroy the whole Plateau Jungle, by causing an earthquake so massive, that it would swallow the entire Jungle region. It had it's tip made out of 'Intridium". One of the most unique metals on the planet. The tests proved that the metal granted the missile the ability to dig down over 14,000 kilometers with ease.The tribe of the Jungle, learning of it's enemy's intention, launched a total assault to defuse, or destroy the missile before it could harm them...it turned out they were too late. Before reaching the base, where the missile was stored, the order was given, and it flew out of it's launch bay, towards the Jungle. However something went wrong, as the missile's navigation system malfunctioned, and it dove down into the ground far before reaching it's target. It was programmed to explode on time, which the scientist calculated out carefully. It supposed to explode some hundred kilometers beneath the Plateau Jungle, but since it started diving far before that time, it digged deep down...and exploded into the planet's core.
Every Rodelan was terrified. They thought they just have summoned doom upon themselves, as the planet started shaking violently a few minutes after the missile descended into the ground. When everything seemed alright, they went back to their civil war, to solve their problems in a way.
Then odd things started to happen. The scientist started to register confusing information. Which showed that a day seemed to end 26 minutes earlier than usual. However this was only the start. Years passed and the days grew shorter, and strong winds blew on the planet, which never happened before...EVER.
As scientist started to examine the weird anomaly, they encountered an answer they didn't expect. It seemed that the "Life Crumbler"'s previous actions triggered a fusion reaction within the planet's core. And accelerated it's spinning rate, which accelerated the planet's spinning rate as well. As more time passed, the days only lasted for no more than 10 hours, while tree ripping "windstorms" ravaged the Plateau jungle, and massive Sand tornadoes were formed in the Great Golden Desert. The scientist revealed to their leaders, that within a few years, the surface conditions would become so dire, that living on the surface would not be possible. And it happened just as they said...
As the two tribes confirmed, that they were facing their last days, they've put their oppositions aside, and joined up together. They travelled under the surface, and built out large cities. The tribe from the Jungle has brought as much seeds as they could carry from their home. So that living beneath the grounds will be fitting.
This is how Rodel is now. Days last no longer than 5 hours, while massive, never ending 800km/h sandstorms blow above. The Great Golden Desert is the only thing that is on the surface. The Plateau Jungle is no more. It was buried beneath sand a long time ago.
These dire times have enstrengthened the connections between the two tribes. And a few decades later, they were not exisiting as two different tribes, but as one race...as the Rodelan Alliance.
Well, there you go. The official Backstory of the Rodelan Alliance! 😃
I hope you're happy @IVIemories. I know you've been waiting for something like this.
