DARK SUN
& SPELLJAMMER
DARK SUN
& SPELLJAMMER
DEJ
Type D ~ Spherical ~ Earth Body (3 Moons)
Dej is the closest planet to Athas yet it remains mostly invisible, depending on their locations in orbit, or else is seen as a bright star. It is primarily inhabited by zik-chil (xixchil) and thri-kreen (all six Athasian subspecies). Dej is also home to thousand of other insectiles, including variants of rastipede, ankheg, antloid, and others. Some may even be native to Dej, spread throughout the multi-verse by the Kreen Empire of the Known Spheres. A few renegade tribes of lizardmen live as barbarians, clinging to mountain areas, and the kee-reen and flying insects dominate the jungles.
The thri-kreen cities are huge, putting even the tohr-kreen empire of G’lathuk to shame. Worse still, it seems the thri-kreen have retained wildspace travel without magic. Their methods are somewhat slower than spelljamming: they catapult pods into the atmosphere, and the passengers lower their vital functions (psionic suspended animation) until the journey is over. A planet-to-planet trip takes centuries, but they somehow manage to trickle a small number of zik-chil into the heart of G’lathuk on Athas. This is the greatest conspiracy of the tohr-kreen empire, one that not even the Haazi (Emperor) is aware of.
The thri-kreen, zik-chil, ankheg and antloids will likely just attack any mammals they encounter. PCs may find some sympathy with slave castes like the rastipede, but they are more likely to just get killed.
Kreen actually live on one of Dej’s moons. The largest moon (Kostok ~ Type B ~ Spherical ~ Earth) is home to several colonies of to’ksa thri-kreen. This is a convenient solution to overpopulation. Unfortunately, Sed’as (Type B ~ Spherical ~ Water) is far too moist for the desert kreen, and Koshoz (Type A ~ Spherical ~ Earth) has no atmosphere.