Carribia

Carribia is a rocky planet that contains large oceans. Its one continent is a rather wide band around a little over half its equator, with many islands scattered across the rest of the equator. It is home to a large tourism industry, but there are few cities.

History
Thousands of years ago, Carribia was home to a thriving civilization with rudimentary space travel, but enough to participate in the Ancient Space Age. At this time the planet and civilization were known by the name Zeta, part of a early Greek-letter planet-naming strategy that is now only preserved in the names of Epsilon and perhaps Calpha. Shortly before that age ended, Carribia was a belligerent in a conflict over the Quamethysphere, and as a result of that conflict the planet was badly damaged and the civilization broken. Several decades later, after losing all contact with other worlds, Carribia was impacted by a rare shower of highly toxic asteroids, killing the unprepared inhabitants as well as anything that lived on land.

The planet was forgotten until recently, when an explorer participating in the Planet Prospectors discovered it. He found it flourishing with plant life, since the ancient toxins had long been used up or broken down. The planet was also uninhabited, giving the explorer the right to name it and claim it. Finding it similar to the Caribbean region on his home planet Earth, the explorer named it after the sea and began a tourism venture, today still among the largest on the planet. Most tourism is some form of enjoying the tropical climate and solitude of one of many small and all-to-yourself islands; however, there is a significant body of enthusiasts who use Carribia's waters for sailing around in old-style pirate ships.

Ecosystem
No animals native to Caribbia survived the toxic asteroids several thousand years ago, and the travel agencies aren't very pet-friendly. Only a few species of plants are native (but have become quite successful), one of which is a carnivorous and self-aware vine that lives on the mainland. Most plants on the planet have been imported recently to complete the tropical vacation appearance, and these have spread invasively to cover much of the land in an Earth-like jungle.