Editing System Brief: Rhianna (section)

== Native Life ==

===Karakah Trees===
The karakah trees, reaching more than 100 metres in height, are common to all of the planet's forests.  The trunks are often 10 metres wide at the base.  These trees have long, thick flexible needles that remain on the branch throughout the year.  Thick, porous bark insulates them during the winter.  Finally karakah trees have developed a sap that does not thicken appreciably or freeze during the severe cold season.<br>
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Karakah trees produce a rich fruit in great numbers.  These fruit seem to be the base of the herbivorous food chain.  The fruit falls throughout the summer.  The fruit is roughly 30 cm long and spindle shaped.  It it covered in a thick leathery husk, and a fibrous membrane layer underneath, and the rest is a rich pulpy fruit.

===Gwerrah===
A stocky quadraped covered in course black hair, some specimens reaching a height of 10 metres at the shoulder.  These large omnivores range across the icy hills and mountains of Alcazzar.  They walk with a shambling gait, and are known to be fearless and easily provoked if encountered.

===Lokkuku===
A small 1.5 metre tall primate that roams the karakah forests of Alcazzar.  They appear to be curious and mischievous protosapient, who tend to shy away from close observation.  They seem to have largish troupes that nomadically roam the planet.  Their diet is assumed to be omivorous by the researchers of the Twilight Moon expedition.

===Sky Shrikes===
A medium-sized dog-like creature with large leathery wings that prowl and hunt the grasslands of Alcazzar. They are carnivorous, and appear to attack any creature smaller than they are.

===Other Life===
Many forms of animal life inhabit the planet, but they have not been researched, so very little is known about them.  All animal life must deal with the extended winters.  Many of the animals migrate, resulting in masses of creatures moving around the planet's surface as the year goes by.  All of these creatures travel a complete circle around the planet each year.  Other animals hibernate.  The mammals live off of stored body fat; the insects lay eggs, then die off to be replaced next summer.