#hp-7

Telchines aren't much different than their ancestors, except for the notable lack of the second pair of arms that most HP-7 life has. Telchine history is long but all you really need to know right now is that they were in their equivalent to the 1980s when Humans first crash landed on their planet. Telchine society as a whole is still going thru major technological whiplash now that they're introduced to all the hyper-futuristic tech of the wider galaxy. They have access to FTL travel, but most Tel still use black & white cameras that were common just a decade back. It's really funny to see. (All art made by @oberorka! Go follow her!)

Many! After the proto-telchine resource war, HP-7 has like, exactly 3 barrels of oil on the ENTIRE planet and very rare coal supplies. Rail is the only real transportation system they've had for a long time until the discovery of ethanol which allowed for things like streetcars. Still, trains are how most telchines travel long distances, as the past 2 centuries have been spent connecting every last town and city by rail. Telchine trains mainly ran on charcoal, and were decently slow but they got the job done. Post-Great War, more trains have switched to either ethanol or electricity, but some charcoal trains are kept around for tradition and historical preservation. There's also The Train, an ancient, still functioning proto-telchine passenger train. It's upkeep is thanks to several tribes of telchine that worship it as an ancient temple. It was a diesel train, but sometime after the proto-telchine resource war it got gutted and turned to a coal/charcoal train by an unknown group. Since then, the telchine tribes that worship it have been feeding it dried wood & charcoal.

Many of those that fled to the oceans died of starvation, as the over-fished ocean life had long become weary to them. Still, some survived and slowly warped into the Telchines we know today!

No, it’s slightly smaller than Earth.