Leera
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Leera is a fictional planet in the Animorphs
Animorphs
Animorphs is an English language science fiction series of young adult books written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic. Five humans, Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and Tobias, and one alien, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill , obtain the ability to morph into any animal they touch. They name...

series of books. Leera is a mostly aquatic planet, home to the Leeran
Leeran
The Leerans are a fictional race of aliens from the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate. They are described as a yellow amphibian species with tentacles for arms that resembles a manta ray or frog...

s, a psychic, amphibian
Amphibian
Amphibians , are a class of vertebrate animals including animals such as toads, frogs, caecilians, and salamanders. They are characterized as non-amniote ectothermic tetrapods...

 race resembling frog
Frog
Frogs are amphibians in the order Anura , formerly referred to as Salientia . Most frogs are characterized by a short body, webbed digits , protruding eyes and the absence of a tail...

s. The planet has only one continent; it was once used by the Leerans to lay their eggs, though Leeran modern technology means that this is no longer necessary.

The Yeerk
Yeerk
Yeerks are a fictional extraterrestrial species from the book and television series "Animorphs" written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic.-Biology:...

 Empire targeted the planet for invasion, which resulted in a war between the Yeerks, including Leeran-Controllers, and an alliance of free Leerans and the Andalite
Andalite
The Andalites are a fictional alien race of grazers in the Scholastic book series Animorphs.-Biology:The Andalites are fictional aliens from the book series and TV series Animorphs....

s. The Yeerk side was led by Visser Four. The war focused primarily on the continent.

Visser One attempted to bio-engineer shark
Shark
Sharks are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago....

s for use on the planet, believing that they would be useful in the watery Leeran environment. Later, the Animorphs
Animorphs
Animorphs is an English language science fiction series of young adult books written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic. Five humans, Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and Tobias, and one alien, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill , obtain the ability to morph into any animal they touch. They name...

 wound up accidentally transported into Z-space, and were picked up by an Andalite ship that brought them to Leera. The Animorphs helped the Andalites and Leerans to set off a bomb that helped to win the war, before the same effect that first brought them into space transported them back to Earth.

The Yeerks ultimately lost the Leeran War, resulting in a weaking of their empire. This also resulted in Visser Four returning to Earth and finding the Time Matrix
Time Matrix (The Animorphs)
The Time Matrix is a fictional device from the book series, the Animorphs, by K.A. Applegate.It is essentially a time machine, though it can also create a whole new universe if given improper, or mixed, directions....

, though this effect was cancelled out by a change in the timeline.
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