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I've been interested in the concept of a Counter-Earth (a planet in our Solar System that's invisible to Earth because it's exactly on the other side of our Sun) for a while. It's a great, pulpy idea. Obviously, the physics involved is ludicrous as an actual theory, but it's a cool storytelling device.

That said, I've looked for interesting Public Domain takes on the idea and the only ones I could find were boring. One just had Counter-Earth be exactly the same as regular Earth. Where's the fun in that? So, I decided to just come up with my own version - with influence from Mongo from various versions of Flash Gordon, as well as Eternia and Etheria from the He-Man and She-Ra franchise, among other things.

The planet is called Clarion and is made up of many biomes that each house their own dominant races. One such biome is the Tropical Zone along the equator, ruled over by the Amphibimen. They long controlled the trade on Clarion, but in the 1930s, a brutal dictator named Rabazar the Ruthless made attempts to expand his empire over the entire planet and its 3 inhabited moons. He was opposed by American adventurers (to be named later) and was eventually overthrown.

Obviously, that history is based on Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon. There was a concerted effort in the 80s and 90s to attempt to rehabilitate various Yellow Peril villains - which usually meant making them green-skinned aliens. They did it with the Mandarin on the Iron Man cartoon, and even Doctor No on James Bond Jr. It happened to Ming twice, once in the 80s and again in the 90s, where he was made fully reptilian. These people being green-skinned was a nod to that strange trend.

Amphibimen, as their name suggests, are amphibious humanoids. They are equally at home in water and on land, and build their cities to accommodate both. They thrive in hot, humid climates, and require special equipment to stay in other regions for long periods of time. They reproduce by laying eggs, and go through early tadpole-like stages. They are non-mammalian; the "breasts" seen on the female above are merely metal cups worn as a fashion in imitation of other civilizations on Clarion.

There will be more Clarion/Counter-Earth stuff to come. Sometimes it's fun to come up with these concepts without being bound by existing descriptions and such.

Description
I've been interested in the concept of a Counter-Earth (a planet in our Solar System that's invisible to Earth because it's exactly on the other side of our Sun) for a while. It's a great, pulpy idea. Obviously, the physics involved is ludicrous as an actual theory, but it's a cool storytelling device.

That said, I've looked for interesting Public Domain takes on the idea and the only ones I could find were boring. One just had Counter-Earth be exactly the same as regular Earth. Where's the fun in that? So, I decided to just come up with my own version - with influence from Mongo from various versions of Flash Gordon, as well as Eternia and Etheria from the He-Man and She-Ra franchise, among other things.

The planet is called Clarion and is made up of many biomes that each house their own dominant races. One such biome is the Tropical Zone along the equator, ruled over by the Amphibimen. They long controlled the trade on Clarion, but in the 1930s, a brutal dictator named Rabazar the Ruthless made attempts to expand his empire over the entire planet and its 3 inhabited moons. He was opposed by American adventurers (to be named later) and was eventually overthrown.

Obviously, that history is based on Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon. There was a concerted effort in the 80s and 90s to attempt to rehabilitate various Yellow Peril villains - which usually meant making them green-skinned aliens. They did it with the Mandarin on the Iron Man cartoon, and even Doctor No on James Bond Jr. It happened to Ming twice, once in the 80s and again in the 90s, where he was made fully reptilian. These people being green-skinned was a nod to that strange trend.

Amphibimen, as their name suggests, are amphibious humanoids. They are equally at home in water and on land, and build their cities to accommodate both. They thrive in hot, humid climates, and require special equipment to stay in other regions for long periods of time. They reproduce by laying eggs, and go through early tadpole-like stages. They are non-mammalian; the "breasts" seen on the female above are merely metal cups worn as a fashion in imitation of other civilizations on Clarion.

There will be more Clarion/Counter-Earth stuff to come. Sometimes it's fun to come up with these concepts without being bound by existing descriptions and such.