#neytek tribe

[anilexia]

The large huts (big brown circles) are used for families, ranging from either a newly mated couple to a couple and their children. The Neytek typically have two or three children. The small huts (smaller brown circles) are generally reserved for single Mecha and warriors whose mates have passed on.

Every large hut has their own cooking fire that continually burns. For the single huts, fires can be made within the hut (since there is a hole in the roof for smoke to escape from) or those Mecha can use the large fire behind the Chief’s hut. The fire behind the Chief’s hut is free for everyone to use, and it is also a meeting place for the whole village to gather around when the Chief needs to make an announcement.

The green spaces are gardens. The largest households (the ones surrounded by brown ovals) have their own gardens. The large garden space on the west side of the village is for the whole village to use. The brown ovals are walls, made from mud, straw, and some pieces of stone. The huts are constructed in a similar way. Their circular structure helps keep the roof upright (similar to the physics needed for igloos). The roofs are typically long grasses and fronds from trees.

The brown rectangles are market stalls. Every new moon, the Neytek gather for a type of market where they share the goods made in the community. Pottery, food (such as vegetables, meet (smoked and some fresh) and some baked goods), leather harnesses and bags, jewelry, and weapons (bows/arrows, spears) are often traded at the market. The Neytek do not use much in the way of currency, so when other tribes come by for trading they just trade goods.

The Neytek are a very tight knit community. There are about fifty members to the tribe, give or take a few. A large earthquake has recently hit the village and killed the chief’s mate and son. The chief’s daughter survives to one day take her place as leader of the village.

[anilexia]

The main grass plain is the Kasa Savannah. The Kasa covers Alaba in drought-tolerant grasses. Even if the grass is alive, it still is highly flammable. Thunderstorms easily spark the grass into flame and the fires have been known to burn whole swaths of the continent at a time.  Fires cannot easily jump the Costoña river because it is quite wide. A quarter mile across at its widest, the Costoña carves a path through Alaba. Inhabited by fifteen foot+ crocodiles and hippos the size of Old Earth elephants, the Costoña can only be crossed at shallow, narrow places.

The original Decepticons who started on Old Earth began a base of operations on Africa. This base is located below Semiramis, a cluster of mountains surrounding one larger mountain. These mountains are used for mining. They have been mined so extensively that any earthquake above a four on the Richter scale could knock them down. Inside, the tunnels are held up by metal beams which provide a kind of skeleton for the mountains to rest on.

The villages on the map (#1, 2, 3, 4, 5) are villages of centaurian Mecha. These Mecha with a centaur’s body as an alternate form were used often by the Decepticons for mining. As the mines were depleted of minerals and useful elements, the ‘working day’ for the miners was increased. When working days were lengthened a third time (to appease Megatron’s demands for more production) the majority of the centaurian workforce rebelled and went rogue. Megatron believed without a steady supply of energon to feed them these Mecha would either starve or return, but he was wrong. These Mecha found their way to a small human village in the Alaban bush and from there, learned the very basic hunting/survival skills needed to survive on the Savannah. Now, the centaurian bush Mecha deny any connection they may have to Mecha. Now, the tribes are second and third generations away from the miners, so they do not recognize themselves as Mecha and they do not know how to transform. There are five distinct groupings of these centaurian Mecha. I have mainly focused on the Neytek tribe as of yet.

Where the Neytek Village is located ( #1 on the map), the river is shallow enough to cross. The Neytek do not often cross, however, as there are several large crocodiles that patrol the waters. Instead, the Neytek opt to hunt in the northern regions, avoiding Troutbeck and Lithus.