Shan-Sent

Shan-Sent is an inhabited planet in the Coalition of Allied Star Systems. It is known for its vast grasslands, towering plateaus, and arid stretches of desert.

Geography

Pre-Great Seeding

Shan-Sent is much less tectonically-active than worlds like Heva or Artashia, being around 8.3 billion years old. Years of erosion from wind and rain has mostly eroded much of the previous mountain ranges, leaving only stretches of smooth rolling hills, with most barely reaching a kilometer in height, across much of the planet's surface. Being a rather dry world, most of the world's water is stored in its thousands of seas, lakes, and rivers.

Archaeological evidence points to the fact that the planet once contained life, but the world became sterile after a mass extinction event around 8.1 billion years ago.

Open grasslands in the Ered-Shaihol province.

Post-Great Seeding

The rather flat planetary surface formed from reduced tectonic activity, along with the ENAHU terraforming pod, created large swaths of grassland, floodplains, steppes, and deserts on Shan-Sent.

Culture

Shan-Sent is inhabited by the Shan-Senti, a semi-nomadic civilization sharing a similar ancestry to the Huai. The Shan-Senti subsist mostly through pastoral means, herding Shan-Senti geofauna like the giant silky elephant.

The Sky-Supporting Pillar, the tallest natural formation on Shan-Sent, rising 4,393 meters into the sky.