Hiqä
A death-trap planet of death but actually moreso trappedness
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Hiqä (Kunejätujaa: /hiʔæ/ English: /ˈhiˌə/) is an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone of a red dwarf called Haro. It emits strange radio signals, and for some reason, whenever any starship gets within a few kilometers of it, the starship immediately ceases to function, and comes crashing down to the surface. It is populated by three sapient species; humans, the descendants of the survivors of a crash that happened 15000 years ago, living in the desert in the south of the continent Nata, ruujy  a stocky species with a humanoid build, with polychrome spines, small, curved beaks and four fingers on each hand, and the dominant civilisation on the planet, and lastly, haaqinohämä, the newest arrivals, who have radial symmetry, eight arms with six digits at the end of each, and dwell in the sea to the south of Nata.