Paradise (Ha 3026) (world)
| Paradise/Paradise (Halcyon 3026) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1116) | C7C3774-B
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primary | A7 III | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gas Giants | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
A world in Halcyon Sector in the Distant Fringe. It is the homeworld of the Loons.
Description (Astrography & Planetology)
System
Sydal, the system primary, is an active blue-white giant star. It retains a family of three rocky planets and a single small gas giant world. Paradise orbits Sydal at a mean distance of 9.7 AU.
Mainworld
Paradise is a large world with a slightly above average density and a surface gravity of 0.95G. Its atmosphere is rated as insidious and has a relatively high surface pressure (more than 2.5 bar). It is primarily composed of nitrogen with large percentages of chlorine and fluorine. There are significant traces of muriatic acid vapour, typically in high-altitude clouds: in colder climates it may condense into pools. Paradise is a relatively temperate world with mean surface temperatures of around 20°C, though this varies by latitude and by season. The atmosphere is violent and active, powered by the system’s turbulent primary star. The murky green skies are churned by high-speed winds and lit by endless flashes of lightning.
Nitrogen trichloride – trichloramine – is created within the atmosphere both by energy from the star and by chemical reactions powered by lightning. It falls as precipitation to form oily yellow seas. When the wind drops the air fills with dense chemical mists and fogs that drift off of the trichloramine pools and lakes and hang over the land.
Paradise is geologically active, flexed both by the gravitational pull of the huge primary star and by its close moon. Seismic activity across the world constantly reveals new land surfaces and opens new faults. Around volcanic outlets there are streams and pools of sulphur dichloride, which gradually degrades into other compounds and gases. The surface of Paradise is crusted with massive amounts of salts, chlorides, and other more exotic substances, formed by the atmospheric gases reacting with exposed minerals and compounds.
The world has extensive native life. Most of the land surface is covered in dense networks of ‘plants’, sedentary but fast-growing organisms ranging from the microscopic to many kilometers across. These ingest the various salts and compounds and break them down, absorbing nutrients and releasing vast amounts of chlorine gas back into the atmosphere – enough to maintain a cycle of atmospheric renewal. Slightly more mobile ‘animals’ graze on these plants and prey upon each other, though the distinction between flora and fauna is blurred at best.
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