Alcanti

"“Alcanti. Sculpted over millennia, the red-and-teal orb of Aldra has come to represent everything the Draknir admire and believe in. All at once it is their ideals, passions, self-opinion, power and majesty laid out on a single planet to explore and discover.”"

- - Stanvor Kaeseb, Alcanti: Notes of a Travel Writer

Throneworld of an empire so vast and ancient as to be incomprehensible in its true entirety to mortal minds, a beacon of culture and sophistication with an influence galaxy-wide, Alcanti (High Dracid: the Encompassing Plane) is the most important terrestrial planet in the entirety of the Dravanmus Galaxy. Orbiting Aldra, the primary star within the Aldra-Selenis System, deep within the Crown. The historic homeworld of the Draknir and longstanding capital of their ancient Imperium, Alcanti's strategic, economic and symbolic importance within the fabric of Draknid society and the very centre of Imperial politics makes it one of the most important planets within not just the Imperium Draknir, but the galaxy itself.

Given its immense political, economic, and cultural status the planet is heavily defended by a vast array of satellites, space fleets, and other collective security forces, security probes and mighty battlestations. Despite this immense level of militarised security the planet’s population lives in the lap of luxury. Alcanti itself is idyllic, if not paradisal. Indeed, as well as being the political heart of the Imperium, the planet is a gathering site for Dravanmus’ extraordinarily wealthy elite, made evident by the large numbers of shining private towers in its cities, palatial manors in the countryside, and sophisticated private compounds in orbit.

Billions of souls visit and leave the Throneworld each day; businessmen, politicians, tourists, and more, paying immense fees to set foot upon the surface of the red-and-blue jewel of Dravnmus. The costs to live on the world are beyond the imagination of most, let alone reality, and even the wealthiest of foriegn visitors can afford to stay long before their coffers run dry. Despite this, the people of the planet - in its most visible places - live comfortable lives of wealth and glamour without fear of financial hardship, supported by their vast networks and companies operating across the galaxy.

Geography
Two distinct landmasses, as well as hundreds of smaller islands, make up the Alcanti planetscape. An enormous supercontinent divided into the regions of Miminas, Krades and Ossilas by history and politics. And the nearby island continent of Annekhas. Around these are many islands ranging in size from a few to a hundreds of kilometres across.

Life on Alcanti primarily occupies the northern hemisphere and the equator.

Miminas
Located in the northern hemisphere, Miminas has historically been the centre of life and evolution on the planet. In the south, choking jungles of rose-red trees ring the coastlines, fed by the rivers that flow from the mountains in the north and west. Further north, jungles make way for hilly uplands. Great cities dot the rivers that descend north-to-south, leading to the steppes and highlands of the northern reaches.

And far to the north, the Ohsir Mountains span from sea to sea. These mountains separate Miminas from the polar reaches. But within these mountains can be found the Ohsilan Valleys. Dranlathos can be found here, weaving between the natural and artificial mountains.

Miminas’ western reaches are also edged with mountains and internal seas. These peaks separate Miminas from Krades, forming difficult passes and coastal crossings. But otherwise sheltering the continent from the harsh desert life and climate of the supercontinent’s deep interior.

Krades
The largest and most inhospitable of all the primary continents. Krades’ most well-known feature is the Great Central Desert. Otherwise known as the Great Waste for its inhospitality. With only a salt-rich internal sea as the only large body of water for over a thousand miles in any direction from its perimeter, and no rainfall in its central areas, the Great Wastes are famous in legend and history as a place punishingly hot and dry, lethally unfriendly to any who dare wander into it. A severe continental climate severely exacerbates these issues, making the Great Waste utterly impassable without use of high-speed rail, or air travel.

The northern and southernmost latitudes on the other hand are very different, and are somewhat more hospitable. Early draknir are thought to have crossed northern Krades by way of the coastward latitudes in order to reach Ossilas on the other side.

Krades connects the landmasses of Miminas and Ossilas into a single giant landmass.