Pandora, also known called Eywa's Child by the Na'vi (Na'vi name: Eywa'eveng), as The Savage World, is the homeworld of the pre-spacefaring blue-skinned alien race called the Nav'vi, located within the Alpha Centauri System. it is an Earth-like habitable extrasolar moon from the Alpha Centauri System, the closest star system to humanity’s own Solar System. It is the fifth moon of the gas giant Polyphemus, which orbits Alpha Centauri A. The names of both the moon and its mother planet are coined by humans in reference to figures in Greek mythology.
Despite being almost as large as Earth, Pandora is only a moon of a planet that has thirteen other moons. However, due to the smaller mass, Pandora's gravity is 20% less than Earth's, although its atmosphere is much denser than Earth's due to the presence of heavier gases. Depending on the position of the various moons, Pandora can have two or even three moons in its sky at once, and have solar eclipses on almost a daily basis. Pandora and its sister moons also cast large black shadows on Polyphemus.
In XXXX NE, the United Systems of Earth, the Divided Soviet Union and the Greater German Empire competed each other over the control of the planet's resources during the Pandoran Resource Wars, until the Nav'vi tribes drove them out, forcing the two powers to abandon the planet and compete elsewhere within Alpha Centauri. Due to the lack of civilization and literacy, the planet's people do not get involved into politics and thus remain apolitical and neutral by nature, although they appreciate support from the Alliance of Nations to leave them be once it was restored to it's natural state.
Geography Features[]
The terrain on Pandora differs somewhat from place to place, as do the Na'vi clans that inhabit them. There are different ecosystems within each region, and many species such as the Mountain Banshee are present over a much wider range of biomes than their name would suggest. It also appears that floating land masses are not only isolated to the forest region. The Pandoran surface features forests, mountains, volcanoes, plains (savanna), and oceans. A desert also exists in Anurai mythology.
The forests of Pandora contain a wide diversity of flora and fauna. These are all part of the giant neural network that covers Pandora. The forests are full of bioluminescent life that glows in shades of blue, green, indigo and violet during the night. Despite the Resource Wars that affected the landscape, it was able to recover in years with the Alliance's aid of rebuilding the ecosystem.
Fauna and Flora[]
Due to Pandora's lower gravity, most Pandoran lifeforms are hexapods, although the Na'vi resemble humans and have only four limbs. Creatures that roam the air and forest canopy below., but on a scale several times larger. One of the most domesticated creatures on Pandora is the direhorse, a gray-skinned, hexapodal herbivorous animal with bioluminescent qualities that the Na'vi ride when hunting, similar to the human usage of horses. The Na'vi also ride the mountain banshee to hunt from the air, but the hunter can become prey in the presence of the Great Leonopteryx. In the canopy below, other deadly yet exotic wild animals inhabitL vicious packs of viperwolves, thick skinned Hammerhead Titanotheres and the most fearsome predatory animal of all, the Thanator.
Other than the richness of varying colors, The trees on Pandora have the familiar trunks, branches and leaves, though due to the difference in gravity, many of bizarre shapes and the proportions are greater because of the lower gravity. The trees and plant life of Pandora have formed electrochemical connections between their roots and effectively act as neurons, creating a moon-wide "brain" that has achieved sentience, which is known to the Na'vi as Eywa.
Pandora's wildlife also has bioluminescent qualities. Pandora looks like a lush paradise during the day, but at night, virtually all life on the moon exhibits bioluminescent qualities in various shades of blue, purple and green. This possibly explains the Na'vi's blue skin color, which most likely provides them better camouflage at night on Pandora.
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