Anur System

The Anur System is a dark and gloomy planetary system in the Milky Way Galaxy, inhabited by species that mostly resemble classic Halloween monsters, including Ectonurites (ghosts), Loboans (werewolves), Thep Khufans (mummies), Transylians (Frankenstein's Monster), and the now-extinct Vladats (vampires).

Very few beings have any contact with the Anur System, including the Plumbers -- an intergalactic law enforcement organization that protects the universe from various threats and attacks -- and the inhabitants of the Anur System often think of other species outside of their system as monsters, being frightened by their unnatural and "terrifying" appearance compared to what they're used to.

--Planets and People-- Anur Phaetos is a perpetually dark world of the ghost-like species, the Ectonurites, surrounded in jagged bone-like structures. Though many legends have spoken of it as the center where galactic chaos springs forth, not much is known about the shadowy world of Anur Phaetos. Since no voyager has ever returned to tell tales of a visit and there is scant evidence as to the true nature of its existence, Anur Phaetos remains the galaxy's most dangerous mystery. Ectonurites are a ghost/phantom-like species from Anur Phaetos, possessing a single eye that can move along a black line wrapped around their body. Ectonurites can make themselves intangible and invisible, are able to possess the bodies of their enemies and control their movements, and have used their ghost-like powers to slowly become rulers of every planet in the Anur system. Ectonurites are very vulnerable to bright lights, especially sunlight, the latter being capable of destroying them.

Anur Transyl is the steampunk mechanized home planet of the Transylians, and appears to be a planet held together by stitches, much like Transylians themselves, with large gaps in between continents, causing the planet's core to be exposed. At least some of the surface of Anur Transyl is occupied by dark shantytowns inhabited by various species. Transylians are a human-like species which resemble Frankenstein's monster, made of several different body parts sewn together, as well as various electrical generating equipment and life support technology. Thanks to their bio-metallic conductor coils on their body, Transylians can produce and manipulate bio-electric discharges as powerful as bolts of lightning and capable of using this electricity to enhance their blows and increase the damage output. Transylians view anything hideously ugly as attractive and are not too friendly towards other-worlders outside the Anur System, viewing them as monsters.

Luna Lobo is Anur Transyl's moon and where the Loboans originate. A lush, forest-covered moon, it is one of the few "beautiful" places in the whole Anur System, but it's wooded landscape is prowled with a race of cunning wolf-beasts with a thirst of blood. While these feral creatures mostly hunt in packs, it is a lone wolf beast that often proves to be the most savage of all. Loboans have grey or brown fur, some have a long flowing mane, and a bushy tail, with three or four sharp claws on each hand. Their jaws have four hinges and can open outward. By opening their quadra-lobed muzzles into four separate parts, Loboans can amplify their howling to create powerful concussive blasts of sound. Loboans have voracious appetites and will eat anything, including others of their own kind, and have very strong hunting instincts. There are good and evil Loboans, but their social norms are not the same as humans.

Anur Khufos is a desert-like wasteland filled with very large amounts of a glowing, purplish mineral called Corrodium, which is highly radioactive and can cause hideous mutations to most other species if they are exposed to its radiation. It is also the home planet of Thep Khufans, who live in deep, dark structures to keep them away from their planet's heat and wind. Thep Khufans are mummy-like creatures with thin, humanoid-shaped bodies composed of thousands of tendrils stemming from their hard shell-like head, with their tendrils actually being a thin but powerful skin that they can control, and wear clothing resembling that of the ancient Egyptians. Thep Khufans can generate a steady supply of the bandages that make up their bodies, extend their bandages' length to approximately 30 feet, and control their movement for various purposes, such as wrapping, grappling, lifting, and moving around objects and opponents. The more well off Thep Khufans sleep in sarcophagi, which the poorer ones are unable to afford, making them a kind of status symbol among the Thep Khufan wealthy elite.

Anur Vladias is the original home planet of the now-extinct Vladats. Anur Vladias is a vast spike filled, rocky, honeycombed network of underground cathedral cave crypts. The caverns plunge so deep into the planet's crust that they are cut off from any light. Anur Vladias is currently abandoned and uninhabitable, as all life was purged from the world during the Vladat extermination. Vladats are an extinct vampire-like species that were wiped out by the other Anur aliens rising up against them. Judging from their past history with the Transylians, Vladats are arrogant, cruel and both literally and figuratively bloodthirsty, considering other creatures to be inferior and only useful to them as slaves and/or food, draining and consuming the life energy of other beings. Vladats are masters of controlling other beings, possessing both the ability to hypnotize other beings through eye contact, and can control beings by shooting Corrupturas (small bat-like crystalline entities they produce from their mouth) at their foreheads. Just like Ectonurites, Vladats are vulnerable against the sunlight.