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'''Phaedra''' ('''Fi’draah''' to the [[T’au]]{{Fn|2}}) is an inhospitable [[Ocean World|ocean world]] noted for its exceptionally difficult biosphere, with only its lack of macropredators or cataclysmic geological events preventing it from being classified as a true [[Death World|death world]].{{Fn|1b}} It is home to the [[Saathlaa]], a sanctioned strain of mutants descended from humanity, and may itself be [[List of sentient species|sentient]].{{Fn|1e}}{{Fn|1b}}
==Overview==
One of two inhabited worlds of the eleven planets in the [[Yuxa System]],{{Fn|5}} itself part of the [[Damocles Gulf]]{{Fn|5}} region of the [[Eastern Fringe]],{{Fn|1c}} Phaedra is described as a “grey-green hell” and “too lazy to be a death world, too bitter to be anything else”.{{Fn|1b}} Its surface is over eighty-percent water,{{Fn|2}} which takes on a yellow, blotchy, curdled appearance and smells of sewage thanks to glutinous [[algae ]] blooms,{{Fn|1d}} divided into oceans and typhoon-wracked seas such as the '''Sargaatha'''.{{Fn|1b}}{{Fn|1f}} Ancient coral growths form landmasses, some considered continents, the largest of which is [[Dolorosa]].{{Fn|1b}}{{Fn|2}} This archipelago comprises many islands, notably those designated by the Imperium as '''Topaz''', '''Vermillion''', '''Magenta''', and '''Azure'''.{{Fn|1b}}{{Fn|1c}}{{Fn|1e}}{{Fn|1h}} At least one is large enough to contain an inland sea, named '''Lake Amrythaa''', meaning “Wellspring of Life” in the [[Saathlaa|local tongue]].{{Fn|1j}}
Dense jungles of fleshy trees with bladder-like fronds, caustic spidervines, enormous, omnipresent, bioluminescent fungi, and stinging, anemone-like wyrmtrees known collectively as the '''Mire''' grow in the grey mud produced by the slow breakdown of dead mega-corals and the constant sticky rain.{{Fn|1b}}{{Fn|1d}}{{Fn|2}} Spores are shed in such numbers from these jungles that both off-worlders and engines often require sophisticated filters to function, particularly in the high-altitude band dubbed the “'''Strangle Zone'''”.{{Fn|1e}}{{Fn|1j}}{{Fn|2}} Narcotics can be rendered from certain spore strains, including the [[Stimm|stimm]] '''Glory'''.{{Fn|1b}} Despite the cloying atmospheric canopy, global temperatures never drop low enough for “winter” conditions.{{Fn|1b}}
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Requiem Infernal (Novel)]]
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