#15. NAME- Flitter Neel (Rooted Ones)
WORLD- Tarneel (Sacred One)
LENGTH OF ORBIT- 389 days.
GEOGRAPHY- Again a world with no land masses on the equator. Almost all the land lies in the equatorial regions making a mild climate. Land is very broken up. Though it actually has a little bit more land to sea ratio than Earth, it looks less because the land masses are so small.
SOLAR SYSTEM- Eighteen planets. Tar Neel being the sixth. Two
of the inner planets are also life sustaining but no life evolved there.
They were colonized by The Ashtarians but the colonies did not do well,
and withdrew even before the recent difficulties. All the outer planets
are too cold to sustain life.
There are only two gaseous giants in the system and they are the furthest
out. They have no moons or ice rings. None of the system's planets have
any moons.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION- Flitter Neel look very human but one look at their skin would tell you they're not. It's green. The Flitter Neel are plants. Though they have developed internal organs that perform many of the functions of mammals' organs, they are plants. To reproduce the female carefully selects about a pound of soil which she puts in a slit in her absdomen. The male then sprays pollen into the slit until the female feels the seed inside her growing. When the seed is ready it drops into the soil she has put in her abdomen, and roots. It remains there for ten months, then the abdomen splits, whereupon the child is removed from the mother and planted in a specially prepared pot in the house, where it continues to grow for ten years, until its arms, legs, and internal organs develop. Its roots break, and it becomes mobile.
POLITICAL SYSTEM- Clan affiliation with elected officials to a governing council. No single elected leader. All decisions made by majority vote of the council.
RELIGION- Ancestor worship. The Flitter Neel believe in a Divine being but believe it too powerful to approach themselves, so pray to their Ancestors and ask their Ancestors to intercede on their behalf. They also read each day from a book of wisdom which is very similar to Confucious or Buddhist teachings that give examples of righteous living. One of its primary expressions is, 'Betray not others, for you, yourself, would not want to be betrayed.' Good bits of wisdom!
