Atria

Atria
System	Orpheon
Capital	Sabiak
Races	Decheeran

Atria is the densely forested the homeworld of the Decheeran race, in the Orpheon system. The planet of Atria is locked in synchronous orbit with its single huge moon, Theia, ensuring that one side of the planet is always shrouded in shadow, while the other side is always bathed in sunlight. This has produced fascinating evolutionary traits in the local flora and fauna, with several types of plantlife on the dark side of the planet boasting natural luminescent qualities.

With no oceans, Atria is almost entirely one huge, rainy, forest-covered landmass, with a gravity only a few percentage points less than that of earth. Despite the lack of oceans, there are an uncountable number of freshwater sources on the planet: rivers, springs, lakes, streams, and inland seas spring up from the vast water table located within the earth's crust. While the poles are slightly colder than the equator, the entire planet is remarkably temperate, which scientists believe is due to the interaction of its many forests with the thick, carbon-monoxide rich atmosphere.

Decheeran cities, such as the capital, Sabiak, are barely recognizable as such, the dwellings and habitations being crafted as they are from living trees. From above, they look almost identical to an uninhabited forest, with only the occasional glimpse of an antenna or flash of a force field to give them away. Decheeran architecture is very much 'nature meets technology'. They certainly use it, and are actually quite adept with it. They live in their native communities with technology, but it's usually blended with or accompanied by significant organics. That might be as simple as having lots of living trees on their starships, for instance, or might go further, and blend tech with a house they grow out of shaped trees. They keep unsightly technology out of sight underground or shielded, to better blend with the surrounding environment.

Closely connected to their environment, early Decheerans were deeply intrigued by how things work (and still are). So once they pretty much mastered the workings of nature and were able to optimize its processes and efficiency to their desired outcomes, they moved on to technology, effectively doing the same thing with things like CPUs.