Nestphar
Beneath an orange haze of city-sized spore clouds in its upper atmosphere, the lush world of Nestphar is home to the great Arborec hivemind. Plant-formed bodies of all shapes and sizes crawl, slither, and walk across the mold-swamps, Letani nurseries, and spore gardens. Each is a single note in the Arborec’s prime Symphony.
Phara
Located in the middle northern latitudes, Phara is the capital of Nestphar. Many in the galaxy assume this means some important aspect of the Arborec’s physiology is within the area, but there is no actual evidence of that. The capital consists of a cluster of sky-splitting landing stalks with a variety of showcase laboratories between them. The architecture is largely grown, but it is shaped in a fashion to accommodate humanoid forms.
Phara showcases a little bit of everything the Arborec can produce for trade, including custom-grown plants to use in medicinal compounds, to meet hunger demands, to serve as construction materials, and much, much more. The Dirzuga conduct a standard tour for new arrivals, and the city has more detailed tours that focus on specific areas.
The Stalks
The stalks are a field of mountainous, beanstalk-like growths with hundreds of landing pad-sized buds shooting out from all around to receive visitors. Dirzuga traffic controllers guide visitors to a landing site, and another Dirzuga meets them at their ship. Then, they generally either take the party on a tour of the facilities best suited to their needs or bring them to a negotiation room so they can petition or bargain for whatever they might need.
The same Dirzuga typically remains with visitors for their entire stay. However, the nature of the Arborec hivemind means they aren’t limited to doing so. The Dirzuga are literal mouthpieces of the Arborec, and the Arborec can speak and listen by alternating each word through a crowd of forty of them as easily as through one. Of course, the Arborec have long since learned that most humanoids much prefer to deal with a single Dirzuga, which they often subconsciously anthropomorphize, even though it has all the individuality of a fingernail as far as the Arborec are concerned.
Kushin
Not far from Phara, Kushin contains the Arborec’s laboratories. Here, experiments with molds, spores, and other plant life have dedicated space. Many of these labs conduct projects in secret, such as the experiments that created the Dirzuga, while other labs pursue unique specifications set by trading partners. Controlling these spaces are singular laboratory plant forms possessing body designs with steady, dexterous limbs; robust sensory bulbs; and a sealed, waxy epidermis to prevent contaminating experiments.
The Honeycombs
Always just above a cloudy haze of Flaah spores, the honeycomb stations are long, flat, and oval shaped with a roughly hexagonal cellular honeycomb structure fit for landing or docking cargo vessels. They serve the bulk of interstellar traffic to and from Nestphar, ensuring trade continues uninterrupted at all times.
The bay interiors are unlike any others in the galaxy, and most beings consider them strangely elegant. Smooth bulkheads and decks show none of the usual piping and cabling for transferring power and vital life-support gases and fluids. Instead, there is a series of stomata, slit-like openings in the bulkheads that allow for the transfer of gases throughout the structure.
Dirzuga traffic controllers get ships to the proper docks. There, Dirzuga wait in the bays to liaise between the arriving crew and the Arborec. Once deals are struck, the Arborec’s hulking fungal laborers do most of the cargo shifting, loading, and unloading with a quick and silent, if slimy, efficiency.
Star Name and Type
Farruban, yellow main sequence star
Population Status
homeworld, 1 (100% Arborec)
Government
hivemind
Major Imports
minerals, ores, technology
Major Exports
foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, exotic plants and seeds
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