Heva

Heva (Iquis: Hēwa), designated as Shwen AB III, is a planet in the Shwen system. Its administrative capital planet of the Coalition of Allied Star Systems.

Its 26 billion inhabitants live in its two thousand-year old urban sprawl which covers ninety-nine percent of its landmasses. The only area where the original surface is still visible and exposed is the Government Quarter.

History

Years after Icnosis

Archaeological and secondary documentation confirms that Heva was settled by initial human pioneers in 166 AAI, one of the first worlds that the civilizations in Incognita discovered and subsequently chosen as a new home.

The world was originally a habitable earth-like world with luscious alien fauna and flora, which were later domesticated by the settlers as farm animals and sources of food. The native fauna lacked a prey instinct for the new humans that now shared their world, and most displayed curiosity and friendliness when approached. Predators mostly kept to themselves.

By the 3rd centruy AAI, civilization on Heva returned to a more primitive form compared to the ancestors of the settlers that had originally arrived from Incognita, as pastoral and agricultural lifestyles were far more productive for community growth. Old Iquis began to appear as a distinct language separate from Proto-Icnotic A.

The first resemblance to a nation-state was the Republic of Ikarun.

First Ecumenopolis

By 1662 AAI, the urban sprawl of Heva grew to cover most of the existing landmasses.

Great Devastation (2021 AAI)

In 2021 AAI, several nation states unleashed nuclear attacks on each other, devastating much of the important urban centers. The nuclear detonations were powerful enough to collapse many levels of the urban structures, significantly damaging global infrastructure and waste management. The event wiped out more than 78% of the global population, which numbered around 19 billion at the time.

Second Ecumenopolis

Newer stabilization technologies employed by the Heva Reconstruction Group allowed the government to build a new layer of urban growth on top of the now-sealed off ruins of the First Ecumenopolis.

Geography

Heva is traditional divided into 4 major continents.