Quinquennial, Part 11 Released!

You heard it right, it's time for another Quinquennial part! In fact, unless I decide to change things around later, this is going to be the penultimate Quinquennial part, and then we go back to business as usual. Don't get me wrong, this has been a very fun special to make and I've enjoyed revisiting the series I've devoted my life to for the last 5 years, but I feel like we should get back to normal STNL before I start school up again. Besides, July 1st was almost 2 months ago!

But enough with the future, let's think about the present. This part sees us take a trip to an alternate universe, where a familiar species known as the Toriins is about find a mysterious gateway to another dimension...

The Quinquennial logo, here hovering next to the Toriin
equivalent of 10 Downing Street.

A random Toriin bystander poses for a picture.

Jercy stares at the Toriin city and its... funnily-shaped buildings.

A beautiful shot of the Toriin capital and its environs.

Commentary: This episode takes us back to early 2013, as a great crossover with Spore the Next Level and dumblydum's (as he was known at the time; today he goes by Aardvark123) Lives of the Toriin is unfolding. Here, we see the beginnings of it from the Toriins' perspective.
I decided to show this moment since dumblydum/Aardvark123 has loved this special from the very beginning, plus this was the only major thing that happened in early 2013 that was commanding enough of my attention, so yeah. Also, I have a plan or two up my sleeve for what to do with the Toriins when STNL² comes back... >:3
There's also a bit of backstory for STNL²'s current antagonists, the T'Rons, embedded in here, due to the fact that they're the descendants of a group of hapless genetically-engineered Toriins who fled through the Passage into STNL continuity.

Artist's concept of Proxima b, the closest exoplanet to Earth
and possibly the homeworld of  a race 
of tall orange frog-lizard-men.

In other news, a funny thing happened while I was making this adventure. Yesterday, the discovery of Proxima b, a potentially habitable exoplanet just over 4 light-years away, was announced. The reason this is relevant here is because, according to dumblydum, Proxima Centauri is the star around which the Toriin homeworld orbits! According to the report, Proxima b is probably about the size of Earth, and orbits at the right place around its small star that liquid water can exist on its surface. Unfortunately, the planet is likely to be tidally-locked, rendering it unable to produce an electromagnetic field to shield it from the solar flares red dwarves like Proxima Centauri are known for. (However, it's also likely that it's in a 3:2 resonance, meaning it spins 3 times for every 2 orbits. While it'd rotate slowly, it would allow it to have a magnetic field and be similar to Earth, much like the Toriin homeworld. Alternatively, the planet could also have a large moon that orbits close enough to tidally-lock the planet to the moon).
This also means that both the Kleekoonanoni and Toriins live on planets based on real-world exoplanets; Kepler 22-b and Proxima b respectively.
All that's left, I guess, is to start up a petition to have NASA rename Proxima b to Toriinland! (Hey, they've done it to other planets, so why not this one?)