Kalo-Mahoi

Kalo-Mahoi

(Cosmos)

Type

Moon

Orbits

Bretheda

System

Pact Worlds system

Inhabitants

Kalo
Linnorms

Source: Core Rulebook, pg(s). 457

A water world covered in a shell of ice, Kalo-Mahoi is a moon of the gas giant Bretheda and is an independent member of the Pact Worlds government.

Geography

Kalo-Mahoi is covered in an icy crust that covers moon-wide frigid seas. Portals to the First World, known as blooms, naturally open and close at random across Kalo-Mahoi.

Kalo-Mahoi is usually divided into three ecosystems. The crust is home to creatures that evolved to live on the surface to escape predators and access light, but is poor in nutrients compared to the oceans. The photic zone is abundant in resources and has historically been dominated by massive apex predators, though the kalo have developed technology necessary to settle there. In the aphotic zone, almost every creature is bioluminescent, like serpentine predators communicating through patterns on their back or grasses glowing soft blue to attract prey. Despite the lack of sunlight, the aphotic zone is not colder than the photic zone due to hydrothermal vents that serve as oases for life, around which filter-feeding fronds spring up like forests.

Government

Kalo-Mahoi is acknowledged as a full-fledged Pact Worlds member and is independent from Bretheda. As an independent Pact Worlds member, the kalo have their own independent representatives on the Pact Council on Absalom Station.

Inhabitants

The aquatic kalo call Kalo-Mahoi home. The kalo live in organic vent-cities, from which they dominate the Pact Worlds system's art and fashion scenes. The world's icy crust contains numerous spaceports and liaison centers, which the kalo constructed to make the moon more inviting to air-breathing species. Kalo-Mahoi is the most industrialized of Bretheda's moons. Nevertheless, pollution is not a problem; hydrothermal vents naturally provide energy and the kalo heavily emphasise waste recycling. Several areas are marked off as national parks, though some environmentalists claim that this is insufficient to maintain biodiversity and advocate for further deindustrialisation. Relations are further complicated by the local fey and water elementals who cannot or do not follow laws; while the kalo try hard to leave parts of the moon to their neighbours, conflict is inevitable.

Many linnorms live in the ice caves within Kalo-Mahoi's crust or deep in ocean trenches. They claim unbroken descent from Ragadahn, whose spiral iconography can be found in ruins in the deepest trenches, which seemingly have nothing to do with the kalo.