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Aven Prime, from a human's point of view, is nothing but contradictions. It's alien and wild but more Earthlike than any other colonization candidate they've found. It's beautiful and lively, but the animals are aggressive and the air itself is toxic enough to kill. The plants are like the most gorgeous flowers -- a natural rainbow -- a feast for the eyes... but they're useless and inedible without considerable processing, and even then, the food that comes of them tastes worse than the most sickening bile.
All in all, it's a strange land, but it's home.
And it's empty.
...unless it's not.