Tyr

General Information

Tyr is Hatirs’ sister planet. The two planets are locked in an elliptical orbit around each other, though Hatir moves slower than Tyr does. Hatir keeps a more static distance to the sun than Tyr does.

Tyr has a population of 900 million  people. 

A year on Hatir and Try is 8 months.

One day on Tyr is 31 hours. 

During the two months Tyr is the closest the weather is mild and less prone to storms. The rest of the year, especially around Hatarian Leitnacht, when Tyr is the furthest from Hatir and the sun, constant snow and freezing temperatures are the norm. 

Its axis to the sun is heavily slanted causing strong seasonal changes. Colloquially Tyr and Hatir are considered each other’s moons. However, Hatir is much more stable in its own orbit relative to the sun than Tyr is, which strays much further away from it, causing very low temperatures at its furthest away from the sun. The weather on Tyr is a lot colder than on Hatir for most of the year, but not as apocalyptic. 

Snow is extremely common all around the planet in spring, autumn and winter.

Culture

Tyr operates as a stratocracy. The Supreme Commander is head of the military, while the Cancelour acts as the elected people’s representative.

Everyone on Tyr is drafted into military service of some kind. 

Natural farming is basically impossible on Tyr outside the two summer months when the snow taws and for a few weeks the entire land goes through a rapid cycle of blossoming and bearing fruits and seeds, while most hibernating species of animals become active as well.

Architecture

Style: Military industrial frostpunk

Most cities are constructed under heated domes to protect from the elements. Military structures dominate almost all aspects of civilisation and life, with all cities having been started as military outposts first and settlements second.

Shared History with Hatir

Neither the people of Hatir or Tyr are native to the planets. Hatir and Tyr used to be one planet which was destroyed. The destruction scattered the remains of the planet into the system from which the twin planets Hatir and Tyr formed. The system itself stayed uninhabited for a very long time after that. 

The people of Hatir and Tyr actually share common ancestors. 

Many centuries ago, a prison fleet passed through the system and suffered a catastrophic prison revolt that saw warden defend against prisoners and not much later the total destruction of the entire fleet. The two opposing factions with the resources they managed to take hold of crash landed on Tyr and Hatir respectively.

Due to struggles within the powers that had commanded the fleet in the first place, no rescue was ever sent. 

Only able to rely on what little supplies and technology they could scavenge from their broken ships , both factions lost all contact to each other for decades as the struggle to metely survival and setback in tech level to near medieval levels prevented any chance of leaving the planets. While the people on Hatir quickly came to rely on the protection and strength of the wolves in their mids, the people on Tyr quickly formed a striked and efficient military order to face this emergency. 

 Neither side even learned about the fall of the people they once belonged to and that by then nobody even knew them to be there. And neither side was even aware the other still existed. 

First as the first ships were sent into space again, Tyr became aware of Hatir and Hatir of Tyr. 

Not much later the fighting started - because they are long living people. And many still recognized whom they were dealing with. 

It took many centuries of war and ceasefires and even episodes of forced peace till 80 years ago the first real treaty of peace was formed between the two planets, made possible by the unification of Hatir.  

Both planets, since being formed by the same destroyed one before, share a very similar composition, with many precious metals being widely available and spread all over the planets’ crust.