Amer

Amer is the founder and capital of the United Republic of Amer Prime, and an ally of the Trans-Galactic Government.

Overview
Amer is the third planet in the Amer Prime System, at the junction of old Commonwealth hyperlanes. Amer has one natural moon, Ica, an oceanic world. From space, Amer's surface appears mostly blue against the grey of its standing defense grid. Amer also has two artificial moons, known as Overseer I and Overseer II. Amer also has extensive urbanization and industrial developments, most visible with its standing defense grid, which stretches around the planet's equator, and vast megacities.

Geography
Amer has vast oceans and 8 large continents, including its polar ice caps. Its landmasses consist of several different biomes and natural formations, including plains, hills, mountains, deserts, and forests.

Urban Layout
Large chunks of Amer's regions were made into towering megacities, although these cities are mostly confined to landmasses. The olders megacities were often built in a stacked, pyramid-like formation, while newer ones are more level, although they also rise high into the sky. Balconies and upper floors buildings with no ground access were common in the older layers of megacities, due to the prominence of the flight-capable Halians, although they were modified to be accessible to other species sometime during the Republic expansion. While some older areas of megacities still appear analog, they have been mostly updated for a modernized version. Like megacities across the cosmos, the level on which a Republic citizen lives reflects their income. The megacities reach deep into the surface as well, although the lower levels are often industrial rather than residential. One of its most famous, largest, and most populated megacity spires is Nova Yerok, the Republic's true center of commerce, and stands unrivaled in size among the megacities.

Environment
Amer has temperate and cool climates, although these vary across the various regions of the planet, able to grow hot in its deserts and cold near its poles.

Citizens
Amer is populated by citizens of the United Republic of Amer Prime, with residents native to Amer known as Amerians. Halians, Amer's native species, make up the majority of Amer's population, with Lutrinites and Marsuleons also making up notable amounts of the population. The remaining members of Amer's population are a combination of several other species, such as the Britonicans, whose race arrived as the original Commonwealth colonists.

Native Species
The native sapient species of Amer is the avian Halians, which bear great resemblance to the Terran bald eagle. They are capable of flight through biological wing-based graviton control matrices, causing old buildings to have rooms that cannot be accessed from the ground. Although the Halians spread out across all parts of the Republic, they still make up the majority of Amer's population.

Flora
Amer's flora is well-known across the Republic. Amer is famous for still-preserved forests of Triwoods, trees that appear to have three different types of bark intertwined to make one organism, and grows very tall. Other notable flora include the chrome-covered Shine Flowers, and the Nester plants, which appear to be large bird nests that produce sweet Orbfruits, which are spherical purple fruits that have pink paste-like insides. Caltron Poolers, flowers that float across freshwater bodies, have been sighted dotting the lakes and rivers in the region of Caltron.

Fauna
Native fauna on Amer have been found across its regions. Chavin Hounds, a canine whose earliest fossils were found in the Chavin Canyon, is the most commonly domesticated animal on Amer, and can be found among people of all classes. Ripplers, a jellyfish-like creature that creates ripples through the water with strange tendrils that release small sonic shockwaves, is among Amer's most exotic fauna and is commonly avoided. An early attempt to relocate the species to Ica was quickly vetoed. The Ios, an avian creature native to Amer's north pole, is found among old symbols and icons throughout the Republic government, most often used to symbolize peace. In some of the northern regions of Amer, a large, armored, quadruped apex predator known as the Charpex roams forests and plains, known for charging at prey and crushing them against hazards or its mere head armor. It also sports two reddish sacs of poisonous liquid, which connect to biomechanical nozzles that the Charpex can use as another weapon against prey, although it is mainly used against stronger opponents or when it does not have enough room to charge.

Government and politics
Amer is ruled by the United Republic of Amer Prime. Amer houses the White Nest, the Republic's capital, but the URAP President is mainly in charge of the general Republic, despite also holding the position of planetary ruler. The URAP Vice President often handles planetary affairs. In contrast to many worlds, even some Government worlds, many adult Amerians are known to own multiple energy weapons, often in the assault variant. While various laws on the control and regulation of firearms and other weaponry have been proposed, passed, and debated over the course of the Republic's history, Amer's own equivalent of the Government's 2nd Amendment remains in place.

Military
Amer is defended by URAP forces organized into the Nest Defense Division. Its standing army is formidable, and Amer houses and commands the reserve forces. Amer's ground command controls Amer's two artificial moons, Overseer I and Overseer II, which are the command centers for interstellar armies and automated defense systems. Overseer I is the command center for automated defenses in and around Amer and Ica. Amer also has a Ringworld connected to its surface, but serving as an automated defense structure, including a planetary shield generator that was later fitted with weather control technology.

Law Enforcement
The Republic Department of Judicial Enforcement covers the law enforcement duties on Amer, being found across all Amer's cities and other civilian complexes.

Public Works
Due to Amer's high population and primary government spending on its military force, some services come at moderate costs, although these are often payed with taxes, making such services free in several regions. Public transportation uses fees due to their common use in crowded megacities, providing a stable income to the regions. Personal vehicles are common, especially among the upper levels, with well-maintained ground and hoverlanes being present across the planet. Vehicle hoverlanes often have side lanes for those flying without a vehicle, as many Halian citizens prefer to fly with their own wings for short distance travel. Like other industrialized worlds, most products made on Amer are recyclable, but those which cannot be recycled are either sent to landfills in the lowest megacity levels or shot into orbital incinerator stations. Megacities are organized in similar manners to other worlds, with the rich and powerful gaining residence on the highest levels, while the poor stay on the ground or lower levels.

Economics
Amer's economy is built on components such as trade, commerce, infrastructure, and high productivity. Amer gains most of its energy from Ica by purchasing or processing vast scores of refined Energy-Aqua for use in infrastructure or interstellar trade. Amer also manufactures goods as its primary industry, mainly advanced technology, and houses the major manufacturing industries in the Amer Prime system and greater Republic, in terms of both headquarters and physical facilities. Amer has the largest free market in the Republic. Taxes are notably high on Amer, higher than most worlds in the Republic. Amer also houses major banking industries in the Republic, including the Nest Reserve.

Pre-Republic
Amer formed as the third planet in the Amer Prime system. Its native sapient species, the Halians, formed several different nations and tribes. Following a series of wars, there was one dominant nation on Amer, known as the Union of Nova Yerok, which had Nova Yerok, originally founded as a city state, as their capital. As they developed to a technological level that was able to launch fossil fuel-powered spacecraft to deploy satellites, The Commonwealth, a Britonican megacorporation that held control of sectors in the Nostrom Cardinal Galaxy at the time, came to Amer with the pretense of establishing peaceful relations. However, they were merely tricking the Union government into giving them authority, claiming Amer and Ica as their own, making them among the last worlds they colonized before their fall. While the Halians were not as oppressed as the Lutrinites on Ica, they became aware of the Commonwealth's lie, and had their voices mostly oppressed shortly afterwards with the arrival of Commonwealth colonists and legislation limiting free speech, creating a period of Commonwealth rule. Organized rebellion movements began in secret, gaining allies among Halians and other individuals still in Amer's ruling system. Using their influence, Amer gained some autonomy, reducing Commonwealth presence, an action which was helped by the Commonwealth increasing their assets used in a war against Cavor, an advanced sovereign world leading a coalition of many systems that resisted the Commonwealth's colonization efforts for three decades. Due to the mobilization of Commonwealth soldiers from the Amer Prime System, Amer was able to build its own defense force. Once they had an organized military force, the Halians and their allies launched a rebellion against the Commonwealth forces still on Amer. Most foreign colonists on Amer fled from Amer as the rebellion liberated both Amer and Ica from Commonwealth rule. The commanding officer of Commonwealth forces in the Amer Prime System, General Ornwalli, led a counterattack, but had his forces destroyed by revolutionaries both on Amer and on other worlds in the system. Using captured Commonwealth assets, the Amerian revolutionaries led an ambush on the Commonwealth forces attacking Cavor from the Pyonium Belt. Combined with the Cavor fleet, the Commonwealth forces in both the Amer Prime and Hieron Systems were destroyed.

Republic
After the revolution, the Commonwealth was fragmented, as it had lost major sources of income and major military assets, resulting in rebellions and uprisings across their colony systems and worlds, such as the penal colony of Australcora. Amer became the founder of the United Republic of Amer Prime, which first incorporated Ica, which soon became an economic powerhouse, to great benefit of the native Lutrinites. The rest of the worlds in the Amer Prime system soon joined the Republic, such as the mining world of Guatrom. Republic laws undid the oppression of the Commonwealth and formed a democracy. Due to most of the foreign colonists fleeing Amer during the revolution, Amer's population was mostly comprised of Halians and Lutrinites. Following the incorporation of Australcora and its colonies as the Republic spread out of its system, Marsuleons joined the population of Amer. After over a century of expansion, URAP came into conflict with Ursus following the Solar War, starting a century-long cold war between the two states, proving to be some of the most trying times for URAP, with Halians split between favoring swift military action or negotiations of peace. However, after Ursus collapsed due to civil war, the Nostrom Cardinal Galaxy had peace for some time, prompting a gradual breakdown of URAP's military forces.

Attack on Ica
During the Second Trans-Galactic War, the United Republic of Amer Prime had contact with the Trans-Galactic Government and wished to join them as allies. However, at the same time, Ica was attacked by a terrorist known as Rix Giger, who used a genetically modified Aralssor to cause chaos among the undersea infrastructure and wildlife so that he and his Brainfish minions could take hostages. Among those hostages were the URAP President, Enu Forgon, and the URAP Defense Administrator, Cora Degro. Hucon Misis, the current Governor of Ica, was assassinated by Giger. The efforts of URAP soldiers, a Holy Faction operative named Thomas Fru, a Parfinoid mercenary named Nara Genopos, and Starwatch marines rescued the hostages, destroyed the invading species, and had Giger arrested. Following this, the damaged areas of Ica's infrastructure had to be rebuilt by the combined efforts of the Government and URAP. Amer became an ally of the Government soon afterwards, and agreed to make the Amer Prime system into the Government's forward base of operations in No Man's Space, prompting them to rebuild their military forces to their former strength.