Kreeg

Kreeg has the highest gravity of any settled planet, a fact which contributes to the short, bulky stature of people and animals living there. The Kreeg also have a high tendency toward albinism. Their main religion is a variant catholic cult known to the Kreeg as The Functional Orthodoxy.

Kreeg was the first planet to be terraformed by travellers through an accelerative discontinuity, in 8442. However, the discontinuity moved further and further outside the system, eventually leaving the settlers stranded. More than 3000 years passed before a temple ship managed to correctly determine the warp pathway to reach the world, during which time the entire planet was left completely isolated.

The extreme circumstances killed many of the inhabitants, and the colony only survived due to favourable conditions which allowed them to reproduce at a rate much higher than normal. The short lifespan and unfavourable conditions made for a significant evolutionary pressure, and by the time contact was restored, the Kreeg had diverged almost far enough to be counted a distinct subspecies of humanity.

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Timetable code: KRE