Born less than twenty-one million years ago, when the location of the Homestalk was still known, Kemetti was only a few hundred thousand years old when the Djeraki invasion of the Ancient Expanse began. His mother, Gama, took him and his sister, Helika, into deep space to escape the destruction. %r%tSeparated from the Homestalk, the two younger spacefarers could not draw from that vast source of wisdom and information and could only learn from their mother. %r%tThey gathered other refugees as they went, most of them residing aboard Gama due to her size. The vast majority of these refugees were from a flotilla of Muscipulans who were the first to join the “herd”. The Muscipulans turned the older Yaralu's interior into a tremendous jungle garden, and the little fleet flew from world to world, gathering what resources could be found to keep everyone fed. %r%tThis arrangement continued until long after the Kamir and the Hekayti drove the Djeraki out of known space, the Muscipulans eventually giving way as the dominant species to Lotorians. Civilizations rose and fell within the Yaralu, most of the races of Hiverspace gaining a foothold with them for a time. %r%tThe two smaller Yaralu would act as scouts, flying to new worlds so that their denizens could survey them and report back as to their available resources. One of these journeys sent Helika to a distant star system and she never returned. Kemetti, nearly 10 million years old by this time, scoured the system in question, but could find no trace of her. Gama followed and both of the spacefarers combed the system for any hint of Helika's whereabouts, but she had apparently vanished. %r%tThe two Yaralu remained in that system for five million years, searching and brooding. Their resources ran dangerously low and many beings left them in fear of starvation. Gama refused to leave the system but feared for for Kemetti's survival and thus sent him off on his own into deep space. %r%tWith what remained of Gama's population, Kemetti ventured on, returning to the area that had once been known as the Ancient Expanse. The Yaralu and its residents then began to work for the Kamir, transporting large amounts of cargo between the worlds they controlled. %r%tWhen the Hiver war broke out, Kemetti was set upon by the Il'ri'Kammi while travelling near the Rigor Strand. They attempted to take control of the Yaralu for their own purposes, but a B'hiri patrol interfered. %r%tFrom then on, Kemetti joined the war on the side of the B'hiri, enraged by the attempted usurpation of his free will. The spacefarer was heavily damaged in the Battle of Blue Sands, however, and was forced to limp outside of known space. %r%tA small detatchment of Hiver-controlled ships engaged the wounded Yaralu in orbit around a heretofore uncharted planet, causing it to crash on the world's polar regions. There the immense creature rested, frozen in the ice cap, it's crew dying of injuries, starvation, and hypothermia. That world would later become known as Fortrain.
Cargo and Landing Hollow This massive chamber is supported by the grey-green bones of the Yaralu that houses it. It seems to be separated into to sections, one a landing area for incoming vessels, the other a huge cargo warehouse with mobile units capable of retrieving the catalogued units of cargo in minutes. The entrance from space has had an airlock built into it that seems eons old, but still well-maintained and functioning. The opening is narrow, a scar that runs across the rear, dorsal end of the creature, allowing ships to slip through. The floor is made of a hard, grey material, nerveless and useable for construction. It seems to have been flattened and polished by the residents of the tremendous creature over the centuries. At the far end from the lock is a wide aperture that opens up into the main habitable areas of the life form. Tangler cannons are spaced out at varying points within the body of the creature so that in the public areas, at least two can be trained on any individual at any time.
Spinal Market A wide, long passage runs beneath the gargantuan spinal column of the Yaralu, with webbing stretching down from the ceiling to hold up the floor. The grey material of the floor allows vendors to build stalls and shops along the twisting, winding paths that stretch out from a wider “street” that runs straight from one end of the cavern to the other. The chamber's floor dips in the middle, like a valley, allowing the beings traversing the main thoroughfare to see the sellers farther down the back alleys. Mobile units block the entrance to the control center at the fore end of the massive Yaralu, while tunnels wind down from the market to the chambers below. Hanging from the ceiling are huge baskets overflowing with plant life that droops down nearly to the roofs of the shops below. Lights are hung from these swaying tendrils to make up for the light blocked by the hanging gardens. Lotorians seem to occasionally make their homes in the vines and branches that extend down from above.
Control Center Six bony tiers funnel down to the control matrix of Kemetti, found near the massive creature's brain. A mobile unit sits in the middle of the chamber, capable of controlling the functions of the vessel from the banks of control panels that surround it. Weapons, Engineering, and Navigation: they are all controlled from here. A viewscreen has been installed, as well as an aging holo-projector, to show what is outside the Yaralu to any of her residents who might have access to the control room.
Residential Nexus Tunnels from Spinal Market make their way down into the bowels of the Yaralu. Literally. The residential Nexus is the hub of these tunnels which lead to the various