Setting: A small planet that is over 90% of nothing but forest...



Inhabitants: Lack of technology like here on Earth, yet the people are extremely civilized and full of good heart. Everything food related and shelter related is shared and equal.

Transportation methods: Walking/running ... horseback ... future transportation found in forest possible.

Weapons of the trade: Bow and arrows (sometimes with poison tips) ... crossbows, knifes, small swords, leather/studded armor only.

Plot: The inhabitants of the planet help a nearby planet of civilized aliens by teaching them how to survive on the forest planet and help each other out living as a huge "community" of different species. These aliens greatly respect the humans (that's the race I will use on the forest planet) and return the favor of gratitude with food, water, and any supplies but refuse to give their own technology for risk of self-destruction that was witnessed 3500 years ago on a planet 80 light years away (Earth). Many years of prosperity go by until one of the aliens get a parasite from the forest that has never been discovered yet (a new species, the first of it's kind) ... it takes control of the alien ... and as the infected host/alien are in a line up with the non infected aliens while the chief (leader) of the forest planet gives them supplies and their teachings...

The infected alien seems to shoot the chief in the head, yet the people that witnessed it only saw the back of the chief so it was hard to make 100% certain that the chief was actually struck and most likely dead from the shot. The infected alien takes the chief to the massive forest and brings it back to where the parasite originated from ... eventually killing the host alien, the parasite leaves it's host and takes control of one of the forest beings to protect it's pray (the cheif) ... the inhabitants of the forest planet, who never entered the forest since everyone that had gone in there had perished, are forced to go in for the first time to save the cheif, assuming he is even alive, and to kill the parasite freeing them from it's future clutches.

Many new species and dangers are discovered in the forest and they have to adapt quickly.

What do you think?