West Grand Campo
Western Half of the Grand Campo. Part of the Mega continent Grand Campo. This area is largely unsettled and not much explored. It is bordered by Grand Campo North and the intervening mountain ranges, to the west the coast of the Shaleck Sea, and the south with the polar ice caps.
Geography
A largely flat and barren plain it has two massive river valleys that have carved their way through creating massive canyons and plateaus. The Western Basin Mountain chain forms the main northern/ eastern border of the region. The general eastern boarder is the great swamps that run through the center of the continent. In the south huge permafrost swamps and several massive lakes often covered in glaciers.
Ecosystem
This area collects moisture off of the Shaleck Sea which is then heated over the plains and then hits the eastern mountains pouring rain into the basin, which along with the glacier melt from the poles causes massive flooding which pours down the river valleys back out to the sea. The area is known for large tornadoes, dust storms in the summer and flooding. It also gets very hot during the summers and collects a lot of snow in the winter.
Fauna & Flora
Massive open plains are home to millions of herd animals and the large predators that follow them. The herds live off of the prarie grasses that grow up to 12' tall and can hide very large predators. There are some mega fauna to be found here as well.
The swamps are permafrost forests and are teeming with all manner of animals and both native and alien.
Natural Resources
This area has not been well surveyed and it's primary resource is grasslands for grazing and some outcroppings of coal and other useful minerals. The Soki and Aerolend colonies in the region are mostly agricultural performing as ranching and farming hubs.
History
Only in the last 600 to 900 years have there been colonies and expeditions mounted to settle the area. The distances are vast and the ability to drive domesticated animals thousands of miles back to market is daunting. Farming can yield better returns to their home cities. Furs, skins, and exotic animals are a minor but important colony economic input. The mining that does exist is for the small deposits of low grade coal.
Explorers have tales of ruins in the river valleys, and though mostly flooded and ground down to just rubble someone had colonies or whole cities in the region thousands of years ago. Who these people were is lost to time almost nothing exists of their cities, it is hard to tell if they were built in the millennia after the crash or long after technology was common.
Some Goliath tribes will hunt these plains, so it is possible to encounter their tribes. Their knowledge of the area centers on what the dangers are and the kinds of things available to hunt. They report there are no known Goliath settlements in the area, they all return to the Citadel of Challenges for the winter.
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