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An old planet dominated primarily by cool steppe, the local technologically primitive population consists primarily of the descendants of Human settlers (68 percent). The most technologically advanced members of the population generally live in towns with roads and irrigation canals along the planet's equatorial ocean and there are currently 10 permanent settlements with populations in excess of ten thousand, however, the majority of the population subsist as nomadic tribesmen following the large herds of the 2.5 ton bipedal avian 'Tor-Maks'.

The minority native population consists of a people called the 'Ka-Thosa' (32 percent): avian-descended, bilateral omnivorous centauroids, with a mass of 0.5 tons. Masters of the steppe, the majority of the Ka-Thosa dwell in the deepest, driest of grasslands away from open water. Generally competitive with Humans, verbal interspecies communication is possible at the local technological level. Human and Ka-Thosa working together as hunters and warriors are noted for being especially proficient, with the Ka-Thosa effectively being armed with a second, back-bound bow and arrow or sword.

The indigenous Ka-Thosa are few in number and largely incapable of establishing their own permanent settlements as their population is persistently devastated by a plague called the "Krek'ta": a virus which jumped species from Humans.

Description
A request by .

An old planet dominated primarily by cool steppe, the local technologically primitive population consists primarily of the descendants of Human settlers (68 percent). The most technologically advanced members of the population generally live in towns with roads and irrigation canals along the planet's equatorial ocean and there are currently 10 permanent settlements with populations in excess of ten thousand, however, the majority of the population subsist as nomadic tribesmen following the large herds of the 2.5 ton bipedal avian 'Tor-Maks'.

The minority native population consists of a people called the 'Ka-Thosa' (32 percent): avian-descended, bilateral omnivorous centauroids, with a mass of 0.5 tons. Masters of the steppe, the majority of the Ka-Thosa dwell in the deepest, driest of grasslands away from open water. Generally competitive with Humans, verbal interspecies communication is possible at the local technological level. Human and Ka-Thosa working together as hunters and warriors are noted for being especially proficient, with the Ka-Thosa effectively being armed with a second, back-bound bow and arrow or sword.

The indigenous Ka-Thosa are few in number and largely incapable of establishing their own permanent settlements as their population is persistently devastated by a plague called the "Krek'ta": a virus which jumped species from Humans.