Mount Sedimus
The dormant Mount Sedimus rests twenty miles south of Metropolis Volcano, both inside of Karkhalan territory. This volcano is famed for its helsaurus colony; the entire northern face of the mountain is covered in dinosaur nests.
Mount Sedimus forms part of the Ormasu Range. Dust storms swallow up the volcano during the cold season, casting peculiar shadows on the surrounding lands. Many of those that work in close proximity to this mountain tell tales of mysterious figures lurking around.
Geography, Location & Climate
Ormasu Range
It may not be the largest, but it is the most well known mountain range on Hell. Metropolis Volcano is its capital.It is the tallest mountain range on the planet, with twenty-five of the thirty tallest peaks.
Mount Sedimus stands approximately 1,507 metres above magma level. The volcano is composite, built from thousands of layers of compressed ash, volcanic rock, and thick magma. Mount Sedimus has formed along the Ormasu Subduction Zone, where the Mascriff Plate rolls underneath the Armasai Plate.
Ash fields wrap around Mount Sedimus, consuming and feeding the local plant life in a strange cycle. This ash flows from the volcano even in its dormant state, which it has been in for the past two hundred years.
History
Hell has never cultivated sophontic life; all of its inhabitants hail from various planets across the Milky Way. The Ormasu Range is controlled by Karkhala and the oanie, after commandeering it from Saturn nearly two hundred years ago. Karkhala expanded its territories east in order to claim this entire mountain range, for access to these volcanoes.
Mining operations have begun at the base of Mount Sedimus, in order to extract a number of precious minerals, including but not limited to: gold, silver, bauxite, semestriite, and malasite.
Karkhalan mining company Zinacore currently operates on the southern face of Mount Sedimus, extracting malasite and other precious ores.
The company has dealt substantial damage to Mount Sedimus. Thirteen years ago, drilling equipment ruptured volcano, nearly causing it to reactivate. Despite the volcano not actually erupting, tremors caused significant damage to expensive equipment, and forced workers to relocate.
Ecology
Outside of nesting season, Mount Sedimus sees little life. Tall spiny grasses thrive in the ash fields, with dithering euphora trees tearing up volcanic soil. Giant firepedes scuttle through the fields, hunting down wild herd animals grazing on the overgrowth.
Helsaurus, apaticeratopses, and a number of other large dinosaurs nest on the north face of Mount Sedimus. On this face, magma flows incredibly close to the surface, incubating eggs tucked into small holes even while parents are not around.
Egg hunting dragons, such as borotars, prey on eggs left unmonitored. Some predators will even lie inside the nest in wait, oblivious dinosaurs laying eggs directly into a gaping maw.
Burning spirits hide amid dust storms around the mountain. As blisteringly hot haboobs roll over the mountain, swallowing up factories dotted around the volcano's base, these spirits hunt under the cover of darkness. Any sudden disappearances of workers is chalked up to dust storm fatalities, leaving the burning spirits as nothing more than legends in the eyes of those that live on Hell.
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