Prologue

     On the year 3436 the spaceship U.N.S.S. Quetzalcoatl arrived on Kepler-452b. Its journey of  fourteen hundred years was finally finished. Before they had left their home world the planet they were heading towards was named Ardu from the French word for "Arduous". The ship carried any and all possible biological specimens the the colonists would need to survive on their new world. Everything from bacterium to elephants on the land. In addition to a similar range for the waters both fresh and salt. During the journey both the human and other lifeforms were genetically altered to better survive their new planet. Even before they left their home planet they had known that the gravity of Kepler-452b was greater than what they had been born to. As they got closer they learned more about the adaptations that were needed so those were included into the lifeforms on the ship.

       Not long after the establishment of the colony it was discovered that Kepler-452b was inhabited by other intelligent races called the Uqaid and the Ndogba. At first the colonists only knew about the Ndogba and the two groups coexisted fairly peacefully. However unbeknownst to the colonists the Ndogba already had strained relations with the completely subterranean Uqaid. It didn't take long for conflict to begin. The Uqaid declared war on all of the surface dwelling races. This conflict quickly soured relations with the Ndogba as well. While the colonists were victorious against Uqaid. Relations with the Ndogba were completely shattered and they were driven underground as well.     

       During the war a scientist discovered a new energy field, one that had never been discovered before. Along with the new field, completely new atomic elements were discovered. As far as the scientists could tell the field had no effect on anything nor could they discover where it came from. It was simply there, doing nothing. At the same time small but unexpected changes were happening to the first children of the new colonists. At that time no one connected the two, mainly because genetic adaptations could present in unusual ways. It was assumed that this what caused the minor differences. All of which were useful on their new home.

      Forty-six years after the founding of their colony a disaster happened. Their colony ship was destroyed by a rogue asteroid. While they had gotten the basics they needed to maintain their colony, they still used much of the more advanced equipment on the ship. Thanks to the war they hadn't yet managed to remove everything they needed especially the more advanced scientific equipment. Most importantly they hadn't yet built the new home for the ships AI. The most important item for maintaining their technology.

       There was a mad scramble to rescue as much as they could from the ship as they could. Most of the biological resources left on the ship were retrieved, but nowhere near the technological resources. This meant that rather than being a high tech world immediately they were going to have to rebuild much of their tech from scratch. As to the AI, all they could do was pray that its components survived the crash landing into the surface of Ardu. Luckily it had survived the landing but it only could be accessed through its holographic interface. All other forms of communication with the AI were destroyed during the crash.

       Over the next two generations the changes to the colonists continued to happen. Finally what was left of the medical and genetic personnel finally figured out that the new atomic field was what was driving the new changes. No one knows now which of the medics realized that all of the modifications to the colonists children and grand children look like mythical races from earth. It was discovered then that while the changes always bred true if the parents had the same mutations. When they didn't the results could be, interesting. Nonetheless any one of the mutations could breed with any other because in the end they were all human. That was one of the many reasons that the colonists decided to spread out across their new planet.

     Over the following generations the memory of their home world faded along with the ship that had brought them to Ardu. They forgot that the various groups were all members of the same race leading to conflict and strife between them. Finally the various groups became nations which lead to even more conflict. Ultimately the strife became war. A war that spread across all of Ardu and, according to some, one side was backed by a dark god. In due time the dark gods side was soundly defeated and the dark god was so forgotten that not even its name was remembered. All that was remembered of that war was who had fought on which side. The biggest effect of the war as far as the people of Ardu were concerned was that the Treaty country of Kishnagar was created. A country that comprised all of the peoples of Ardu.

     The general appearance of each peoples are as follows:

Long Yi    - Bipedal reptilian in appearance

Michocan - Unmutated

Ljosafar   - Vaguely feline in appearance

Zwergin   - Short, stocky, and very robust in appearance

Oranang  - Short, slender in appearance

Manggar  - Very short, thin and wiry, almost emaciated in appearance

Ashfan     - Horned almost demonic in appearance

Hafla        - Short, muscular in appearance

Xotico      - Robust, swarthy vaguely feline features

Oristani    - Tusked, slightly pointed ears, any height, any possible color