Ares
Ares is perhaps the most unchanged of our worlds. The Worldsingers seemed to think that it's red sands were all that were needed for the world to fulfill it's purpose. They were correct in the end, as Humanity focused it's military might upon and below it's surface. We may have grown immensly since our first days, but we never forgot to be afraid of what might be between the stars.
Ares bears the most scars from the Great War. Bases, trenches, bunkers, fields of skeletons and rusting guns, silos, airfields, and space elevators. All left behind. Crumbling remnants of a war machine that collapsed under the strain that it faced. Yet, that is not all that Ares holds. It is more than a grave that holds the blades and bullets of the lost. It is without question that the Humans who still live upon Ares surface maintain a martial outlook and their culture holds the obvious genetics of their descent from soldiers, nor should the fact that the most martial of the xenos species have founded their own settlements upon its surface be ignored, but new forms of life have slowly been taking hold in the sands. Plantlife is becoming more common, and the animals that have been brought to the planet by visitors and its inhabitants are slowly growing more numerous. Given enough time, the oasis may become much more than mere respites against Helios' gaze. The day they become the beating hearts of a forest or jungle on Ares would be a special day indeed.
Fauna & Flora
While much of the animal life on the planet is small rodents or avians that can survive off limited resources. Two examples, however, are remnants of cultures not ours which are no longer on the leash of their masters.
That would be the Qhorphiri Cairnhounds and the Yashite Jade Hawk. These creatures both were designed or bred by their masters for war, and yet now they have been released for so long that their original purpose has faded. They're still incredibly dangerous, make no mistake, but now they've adapted to the planet's harsh environs and have even thrived in large numbers.
The majority of plant biomass on the planet comes from old, sallow crop fields that grew wild during the Graveyard Era and were engineered to grow on the surface of Ares. While they can't overtake the desert, and can't stray far from their water sources, the species of grain is a staple good for the inhabitants of the planet, Xenos and human alike.
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