from Fhet Kings Annual Issue 1
Section 4, ruled by King Manes Juyame, is ruled by superstition. Most Fhetatians believe in the divinity of the planet Fhet, but those of section 4 are the most religious and devout. King Manes married his Queen Manes Fal because of her ability to discern the will of Mighty Fhet based on its movements and position in relation to its star. She was a popular spiritual leader before her marriage to King Manes, and her almanac, Fhet’s Moods, is a must have for everyone in the section.
Fhet Kings
Section 1 – King Sao-Reyne
Section 2 – King Sayrone Yut
Section 3 – King Gilthon Ju-arl
Section 4 – King Manes Juyame
Section 5 – King Ma-ad Zulu
Section 6 – King X-el Lasie
Section 7 – King Aid-o Minios
Section 8 – King Im-pir Le
Section 9 – King Lud Kel
Section 10 – King Laudnau Vax
Section 11 – King Uilo Faski
Section 12 – King Urfrey Wyath
Section 13 – King Qhi-ip Peer
Section 14 – King Klezhar Dek
Section 15 – King Teknon We-la
Section 16 – King Cras-myne Re
– Issue 2 –
A typical single-family home on the Fhetat is a rust colored dome, like half a cylinder on the black sand of the residential landscape; some do extend into the ground underneath, but most rest on top. The only doors that are part of a home, open to the exterior; rooms inside have doorways to other rooms, but no doors. The accommodations inside are generally more comfortable than they appear. Furniture is made of light-weight metal that can be painted and customized, and cushions of varying sizes are used on couches, chairs and bedding.
Some Fhetatians have outdoor furniture, and they enjoy passing the time staring up at the artificial sky that covers the Fhetat and simulates a standard daylight-twilight cycle that replicates the conditions on the ancient homeworld of the Fhetatians, Ife. Occasionally, the simulated sky is dropped in sections, when the view from the ground below coincides with the simulation, and the look of the natural spacescape is captivating, usually dominated by the view of Fhet from the inner-rim of the Fhetat.
There is civilized life on the Fhetat. There is civilization among it’s bustling cluster cities with skyscrapers made of the rusty half-moons, but larger with flattened tops, stacked up to fifty high. There are homes, neighbors who grow up next to one another. And there are education centers, usually one large half-moon with ample outdoor space for physical education to pass along ancient martial arts developed by Fhetatians long ago. There are cities, businesses that manufacture homes from entirely recycled material, others that produce clothing, or grow and sell food. There are monuments to the honorable dead who worked in life to provide for a future they would not see.
There are unspeakable acts of horror on the Fhetat as well.
All punishments on the Fhetat are corporal, and the penalty for many crimes is dismemberment. The most severe punishments are reserved for unjustified or negligent murder, unjustified harm against children, and attacks against royal families or local government officials and their families.
Death penalties are designed to be both cruel and unusual in order to serve as proper deterrent from criminal behavior. Various methods of tortured are employed until the victim expires, which has been known to last for many daylight cycles.
The martial arts that children learn in school, usually result in the death of at least five students over the course of a school term due to the rigors of the work. Parents send their children to schools based on the rigor of physical instruction, and a high student death count is not considered a deterrent.
Disputes between neighbors are usually settled in bare-knuckle fights organized and officiated by community members. Anything from claims of petty theft to infidelity are usually solved by close-knit community groups before they are escalated to regional government officials who make decisions as surrogates of their section King.
There is horror on the Fhetat, barbaric practices that seem out of line with conventions of civilization that exist in many of the cultures represented at the Interstellar Panel, but they are a people with lives under a star both natural and artificial.
The most recent publication of the almanac called Fhet’s Moods by Queen Fal, wife of Fhet King Juyame of Section 4, was controversial. It described a gathering darkness that would spread Fhet from a point at its equator and out to swallow the natural color of the planet in a widening band along the center. This is a phenomena known as the Black Storm that is actually a giant hurricane that can form over the warm oceans of Fhet that stir up dark clouds for thousands of miles and is visible from space. This Black Storm has been well documented in previous publications of the almanac before Queen Fal was its editor, and in the long history of the Fhetatian habitation of the Fhetat, the emergence of a Black Storm visible from the ring of the Fhetat, coincided with great tragedy that befell the Fhetatians.
The Fhetatians measure local time in rings, a standard measure like a day on Earth. A ring is the amount of time it takes the Fhetat Section 1 to revolve from, and back to, the position directly between Fhet and its star, which takes about sixty days, or two months, RET. When the Fhetat has completed ten rings, then Fhet has usually completed a full revolution around it’s star and this is known as a fhring, similar to a year on Earth.
Many fhrings ago, the first documented Black Storm coincided with Fhetat-wide crop failure that led to the death of livestock and a famine that nearly destroyed a generation. In recent history, the last Black Storm coincided with the calamitous war with the Rhasdwiis on their homeworld of Wiis that saw massive Fhetatian casualties.
Queen Fal warned in the most recent alamac that Fhet was overdue for a storm and the coming fhring could bring the Blackest Storm ever recorded, which meant sure doom for the mighty Fhetatian people.
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