Isseio Prime can generously be described as a nightmare world where nobody wants to live, not even the native issei. The planet rotates along a completely horizontal axis, so the north or south pole will experience multi-month-long summers, but their nights last just as long.

During these winters, the nomadic issei retreat to permanent settlements to survive the long night, and are occasionally beset by creatures called snow demons. Because the clans are now members of the Protectorate, this means we have to garrison forces to defend them.

10 years of emergency engineering later, and most of the clans have been received modern infrastructure with central heating, and the required fuel. This renders garrison duty as ‘moderately unpleasant’ rather than ‘borderline uninhabitable’.

But now our soldiers have been complaining about boredom, sitting around indoors during the long nights.

So the young peldaks have been doing what young peldaks do.

The buildings we gave the issei are sprawling complexes, with no section rising higher than three stories tall. There’s room for the entire clan of issei, the garrison of peldaks, and the various beasts the clans own. Each complex is up to 80,000 square feet.

The game these peldaks play is a squad of them go into one of the ‘heatlock foyers’. They open the outside door to let the sub-zero temperatures flood in, strip off their uniforms, and then try to run a lap outside while naked. It’s supposed to be a test of strength, but in reality it’s just a sly way for peldaks under 150 to see each other naked.

3 peldaks have died from heart issues due to the sudden decrease in temperature. Intense wind caused another 5 to suffer frostbite and required amputations.

Issei are frequently invited to join, but thankfully they’re too smart for that.