SCIENCE&ARTWORK | THE HOKU | PRE-STELLAR HISTORY | PART 2

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THE DIFFERENT PHASES OF AUOT'ZAE

The ancient world as of circa 5894 BFH (roughly 2600yrs before the stellar era), opening charte in "Wonders of the Known World" by Hamanen Kalinen (5921 - 5853 BFH), Hukat inventor and mathematician.

The big text says "OCEAN", the two words above and bellow the circle are "HORIZON", and the word inland is "KNOWN-WORLD"

Since the dawn of time, all there was to the world were the four great nations of Dahet, Hōkat, Torura, and Gahal. Sometimes at war, sometimes at peace, breaking and uniting again to roughly their former shape because of the cultural similarities between the constituting tribes and the way terrain made it hard to expand much further. And when not at war with each other, it was against the "barbarian" tribes of the south - and this was the world at its finest working.

It wasn't until between 2600 and 2500 years prior to the Stellar Era (PSE) that the west and east societies connected again after thousands of years, using the steppe tribes as messengers and scouts into the far lands, however, being just as ancient as the east world, the west was pretty much on par with the east, both iron-age societies, living in the same continent and separated by an expansive montainous territory, with their only interactions being the occasional exchange of goods and technology through the exportations of wealthy and eccentric individuals, trying to figure a commerce route between the two "hemispheres" of the world. This without further development of sailing technology, this connection would remain impractical until 415 PSE, when the Ent'Shelari tried to find a way around the maritmal Gagot'ri blockade that lasted 40 years, and this pursue, making contact with the peoples of the south and the New World...

THE CONQUEST OF SIDESSIA

The south continent of Sideeshazaaet (or just Sidessia) is as large as mainland Australia, stretching for twice the extension of Indonesia, composed of 11 great islands and over 20 thousand other islands smaller than 200km

The continent is formed by an extensive chain of volcanic islands, the oldest and largest of those being mainland Sidessia. It has been continuosly inhabited by the Avipoda tropicans for at least 800 thousand years between 180 ~ 997 thosand years PSE, coexisting with the A. sapiens cer and A. sapiens australis between 300 and 180 thousand years PSE, falling during this period due disease and war with the newer more sophisticated groups.

The northernmost part of the continent is very rich in natural resources, both mineral and ecological due the equatorial climate, also sporting a great deal of deserted area like Australia. While the southernmost part of the continent is pretty frigid and deserted like the Fawklands due being inside the polar circle.

Prior to the Age of First Sail (500-400 PSE), there was no such concept as borders to the peoples of Sidessia, since anyone could set sail anywhere with enough skill and resources, and it was often done amongst the chains of islands of the Sidessian sea, conflicts were rather unnecessary since for the relatively small populations that inhabited the area, the islands were everything they needed, although this didn't stop major groups from establishing within a territory and developing rudimentary forms of agriculture for native fruits, cattle, and seaweed, which could be traded with the passing sailors in exchange of few goods, information, or even the trade of slaves and arrangement of mariages to keep the genetic diversity up a few notches.

The sidessian peoples had different levels of technological development with some central and northern tribes even having access to iron smelting thousands of years before bronze was even discovered in Azapabaet, while others remained as neolithic and hunter-gatherer societies.

The arrival of the Ent'Shelari in large ships at the Port of Geva in 385 PSE left a huge mark in Gevan culture and history. Being close but still inferior to the Ent'Shelari naval force, they became allies in the conquest of Sidessia by the northern powers, enslaving the nearby islander nations to work in the mining and farming of goods to be traded in Azapabaet. Soon followed by the Gagot'ri and the Gahel nations, exploring alternative routes to put up a competition agains the Ent'Shelari spice and metal trade, this competion started the Age of Great Navigation in 300 PSE, and this period established the basis on which major superpowers would come and rise prior to the stellar era.

In technological parity, this level of development is roughly equivalent to 18th century Earth.

THE CONQUEST AND LIBERATION OF THE NEW WORLD

 The pre-Fall continent of Jekaazapat had the greatest nations by extension since no borders were defined by centuries of war and diplomacy, but by where the major powers felt it would be fair to amongst themselves

Since 400 PSE, exploration fleets have been continuously sent to the new world by both the Ent'Shelari and Gagot'ri, followed by the eastern powers of Hukat, Torera, and Gahel-Nehil for the next 200 years. While in Sidessia those powers were met with shore-expanding armies and metal-working societies, the peoples of the new world could be said to be greatly underpowered and unbeligerant, needless to say that everything the superpowers couldn't have done in Sidessia was done to the new world, becoming a beacon of economic exploration by their ultramarine overlords.

The north mid-latitude location of the continent made it a prime candidate for intense settling waves by rich families and workers following the invention of the steam-powered ship, those families and enterpreuneurs built their fortunes with the industrialization of the countries and the exploration of resources granted by it. The rapid industrialization of the previously purely agricultural and mining center that were the colonies of the new world spiked a wave of armed revolts to try pushing the ultramarine powers off the new world, which could barely put up with an appropriate response due the large distances and amount of resources involved in such long travels.

These revolts also inspired phylosophical and political uprisings back home in the Dahetian empire and its northern colonies, now figthing at a minimum for the liberation of the northern territories and the more radicals for the collapse of Dahet in its entirety, this line of thought is what we currently understand under the banner of Socialism, which given the existence of vast corporate, ultramarine companies, and monarchies, clearly needed to be fought back.

THE INDUSTRIAL ERA AND WORLD WARS

The industrial era started back with the invention of the steam-powered ship and its sister technologies such as mass production and processing of metal, textiles, chemicals, food, and goods. In the old world the two major technological and industrial powers were the Ent'Shelari and the Hukat Empire, each controlling and influencing their neighbours and allies in Sidessia, hence why a great deal of trading and technology across the Dominion was still done in Hukat and Enselari, followed by the Gahel-Nehil Empire, but the latter was rather quickly surpassed by its new-world colony, Farkade, which not much time later after the start of the colony uprisings declared itself as a splitter Empire, and shortly after, a Union.

The Farkade Union was the richest of the new world territories and heavily funded sciences and the emancipation of the peoples across the continent from their parent powers along with East Terit Republic (splitter of the Torura Empire). Even when not directly involved, its spies and enterpreneurs invested heavily in planting and nurturing rebel movements across the globe which established puppet governments in its favor, sometimes failing into fascist and corporate regimes, and sometimes a civil war which had to be "fixed" by both sides throughout the period of 200 and 90 PSE. Many smaller and more sporadic conflicts came and went after the Somoga Event...

THE SOMOGA EVENT

In the mid spring of 50 PSE in a calm clear night for the Sidessian islands, the Somoga Square-Zaega* Array of radio telescopes received a wave of narrow-band radio signals coming from a neaby starcluster, it was known at the time that the Paza system was weakly gravitationally bound to this cluster, and so any new information about it greatly interested the astronomers involved. At first the signals came and went broadcasting for a few hours each day and sometimes every few days or weeks in a rather inconsistent but frequent enough that it was of concern and object of study for a couple of years, many astronomers tried to debunk the veracity of the signals while other debated different far out-of-this-world explanations for the origin of the signals, until they started popping around different systems across the star cluster. With better telescopes ground telescopes and later space telescopes, it was then possible to detect dark clouds of non-natural elements in the space around systems previously known to broadcast those intense narrow-band signals, and it was the piece of information they needed for the conclusion of this puzzle which extended for some 50 years... Those were evidence of interplanetary and interstellar wars in the space we now know as Dominion.

Their equivalent of the United Nations, SETI, and METI organizations all decided it was better for their own survival, to remain silent and not make contact with the alien conglomerate that seemed to expand for at least 20 systems as far as they could tell, being far inferior, they needed a plan for when the day of first contact arrived, they had a clock ticking over their heads, and no-one knew when the counter would count to zero...

They needed to go interstellar, and fast.

*Zaega, unit of length measuring approx. ~1.78 kilometers or 1.104 miles, it measures 1,024 Patas which are worth 1/32,768,000ths of their planet's circunference, or about 1.74m. 

- M.O. Valent, 23/12/2022

SCIENCE&ARTWORK | THE HOKU | PRE-STELLAR HISTORY | PART 1

OUR JOURNEY STARTS SOME 300~400 THOUSAND YEARS AGO...

... Roughly at the same time modern humans appeared on Earth, so did what we now commonly call Avipoda sapiens ("wise bird-feet") appeared on Auot'zae. They have been named like that mainly for their bird-like legs, strong like those of an ostrich, and with toes like a parrot.

HERE WE USE TWO CALENDARS  (maybe three, the Arrene one isn't important as of now)

CE - Year of the Common Era, our typical current way of measuring time.

BFH - Years Before the Fall of Hokushoku, which corresponds to year 64 300 CE.

 PRE-INDUSTRIAL STAGE 
350 - 4 kyr BFH

286k BCE - 60k CE.

PRE-STELLAR STAGE
4 - 3.2 kyr BFH

60k CE - 61k CE.

STELLAR STAGE
3.2 kyr BFH - Fall of Hokushoku

61k CE - 64k CE. 

The ancestral avipodan was very likely a large arboreal generalist of the rainforest, spreading throughout the continent in bursts of forest expansion, with groups being left behind as the trees receeded south each time

THE CREATURE

The Avipodans evolved as a generalist hunter in the rainforests south of the continent of Azapabaet ("Known World"), its genus has spread across different parts of the continent in the past for 2-3 million years already, during hot-house cycles when the rainforests expand much north and south of their usual extension. During the end of the last hot-house event, a new species of Avipodan appeared with the receeding rainforest, the Avipoda sapiens cer ("meridional wise bird-feet"), which much alike its human counterpart, had more cohesive and coordinated groups, as well as developing further knowledge of the natural world compared to its predecessors because of better inter-group communication.

They are roughly humanoid and of similar stature to that of the Earth-human, with a head shaped like a crocs (the ugly shoe), having two eyes in each side of the head, as well possessing four appendages in the side and back of the head for ears, this not only gives them a great sense of depth but also directional hearing.

They have five fingers on the hands and feet - but on the hands, the index finger is located right by the thumb as a sort of second opposable thumb, while the other three fingers have similar length. On the feet, the digits adopt a zygodactyly form (similar to parrot's feet), with a vestigial fifth finger like a spur further up the metatarsus - these adaptations feed a strong belief that avipodans used to be an arboreal species prior to migration out of the rainforests, perhaps living nocturnal or in morning/nightfall for most of its evolutionary path.

The avipodan also has an incredible capability of distinguishing between different hues of yellow and orange, while being pretty much colorblind to greens and light-blues.

SPREADING ACROSS THE WORLD

Soon with the scarcity of the fading hot-house age, the meridional avipodans started splitting and traveling far across the known continent and into the southern continent of Sideeshazaet ("Volcanic Lands"). This southern group splitting so early and developing in isolation across the vast island chains gave origin to southern Avipodan, and later the great islander nations of the south.

In the following hundred millenia after the split, the meridional avipodan had ventured into the territory previously occupied by the tropical avipodan, being much older and more adapted for the drier climate, though the rainforest diseases brought by the meridional variety were quick to wipe out the local population, they had between some 20 and 10 thousand years to interbreed, generating a variety which was more adapted to the dry climate of the inner continent, coming to further spread into Azapabaet. This was a very arduous and slow journey for the northern and central parts of Azapabaet are occupied by deserted and rugged mountainous terrain where food is harder to find. Another hundred millenia after that, one group of meridional avipodans made contact with the oldest group still alive, which quickly disappeared through disease and conflicts for the rich temperate lands of the west. At roughly the same time window, the eastern group ventured to the sea, never to be seen again until much later, spreading across the continent which would be later be known as Jekaazapat ("New World"), and the horizontal migration meant there would be little distinction between the avipodans of the north Azapabaet and those of the new world.

Because the Avipodan timeline is dislocated from the human one by some 40~70 thousand years, I must give a reference that by the 21st century of our time, the avipodans were yet to make the sailing to the new world. It took them much longer to explore their own world because of sheer size and longer distances, this created some interesting technological and cultural disparities between peoples even in the same continent, and there where lots of different peoples at first.

POST-AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION

The rapid cooling of the planet in the last 100 thousand years allowed for water to collect on the mountainous region in center of the continent as huge glaciers, feeding river systems which flowed thousands of kilometers to the coast, these rivers collected organic debris and sediments along the way and deposited the material in river deltas, giving origin to vast fertile areas, akin to the Middle East's fertile crescent. The Avipodans established themselves in those more fertile regions and oasis in the following thousands of years, coming to later start an agricultural revolution as the rivers and oasis thickened between 20 and 10 thousand years ago. The ever creeping ice north of the planet and in mountainous regions had lowered the sea level by several meters, but also created tall glacier walls, cutting passages between the continent of Azapabaet and Jekaazapat.

The temporal and geographic isolation of early communities made for very cohesive cultural groups, the names of older places have barely changed in some 10 000 years

The eastern tribes of the continent discovered agriculture roughly at the same time, in a span of only 2~3 thousand years, this could have been helped by a strong trade of spices and seeds, since all major city states developed a primitive navy which was used to explore the habitable coast of Azapabaet. The western peoples were not only isolated by thousands of years but also by mountain ranges, and thus had to develop agriculture independently, the most sucessfull of them taking advantage of a huge lake fed by a river, with smaller communities further north, with a similar cereal trade.

BRONZE AND IRON AGES

The mastery of metalworking by midlatitude societies granted them the power to exert dominance over vast territories in the ancient world

But the cold climate wouldn't stay forever, the receeding of the glaciers and thus shrinking river fluxes between 13 000 and 10 000 BFH threw the avipodan world into an age of expansionist communities, because with less fertile soil by the century, more land was necessary in order to feed the growing population. During this Ice Age Collapse period we see the rapid fall of several communities that have been stable for thousands of years, and the spawning of wide and expansive kingdoms, also leading to the simplification and absorbing of their neighboring cultures.

During the transition between bronze and iron age, between 7 400 and 6 400 BFH, is where we see the establishment of the classical myths worldwide, inherited and modified from the ancient oral traditions and now properly recorded with the advent of writing.

Even though writing and numerical systems had spread pretty quickly throughout the east, the first kindom to develop it, Mo-Kahikō'shokīqe det-Hōkat ("The Civilized Land of Hōkat"), had centuries of advantage to expand its domain using the new technology, allowing it to organize proper military forces, and economic consistency, because every invention, product, person, and debt could now be tracked through time with outstanding accuracy. Though at first, reserved to higher classes of society. It is this kingdom and its sucessors, which gives the avipodans, their common name throughout the Dominion, "Hoku", meaning "person" in the classical Hukat language. The Hōkat civilization could be compared to what the Phoenicians once were, including the maritimal prowess.

The invention of writing, apart from the unification of peoples and burst of trade, also came with a side effect, by imposing teaching the nomadic tribes their spoken and written language, the eastern peoples spent several centuries trying to assimilate, wipe, and use them as spies and scouts into their neighboring empires and foreign lands, often met with resistance, the nomadic tribes of the steppe served as a sort of cultural and technological bridge between the west and east, finally connected after thousands of years, the nomads of the steppe also occasionally brought pottery and small pieces of bronze and iron technology to the south peoples, strenghtening the equatorial chiefdoms in exchange of the rainforest's goods.

AGE OF SAILING

The development of better sailing technology was originally intended to serve a military purpose, with the inner continent being mountainous and hard to transpose with large armies, an invasion by sea would allow the emerging superpowers to stop skirmishing each other through the steppes. However, once leaked plans arrived to the other side of the Known World, they were used not for maritim warfare, but further developed into long-range sailing, because now, the Gakor Empire could trade directly with the rainforest kingdoms.

Being blocked by the Gakor in between 3775 and 3730 BFH, the Ent'shelari ventured further north, where it made contact with several northern hunter tribes, later using them as an outpost to venture into the far west in an attempt to circumnavigate the world, believing it would be possible to establish a trade with the eastern kingdoms and empires once the Spice Wars were over. Instead arriving at the place later named Port of Queen Ahirama in 3 682 BFH, the first port in the temperate lands of the New World, where they have met an alternate world of societies isolated from them for nearly 40 thousand years...

- M.O. Valent, 21/12/2022

SCIENCE&ARTWORK | THE HOKU | ASTROPHYSICS | PART 2

Hokushoku's vast oceans cover around 75% of the planet's surface

HOKUSHOKU / Auot’zae, literal for "The World"

Tropical Superterran

About 4.60 Gyr old

2.54 Earth-masses, or 15.168×10^24 kg

1.42 Earth-radii, 9050 km radius

12.28 m/s², 1.25 G

Mean density 4.84 g/cm³

Escape velocity ~15 km/s at the surface

Semi-major axis 0.805 AU

Orbital eccentricity 0.014

Orbital period 0,72 Earth-years, or ~263.28 Earth-days

or 1 Hoku-years = 200.06 days of ~31h35min each.

            (add a leap day every 15.64 Hoku-years)

Axial tilt ~23.9° (current era)

EQ. Temperature 253 K (-20 °C)

Atmosphere 77.9% N2, 20.0% O2, 1.1% H2O vapor, 0.9% Helium, 0.078% CO2, 0.011% SO2, 0.01% Ar & Others (somewhat breathable for humans, poor air quality, hour-long exposure causes irritation to the eyes, nose, and respiratory tract).

~1.52 bar at sea-level.

Mean temperature between 19.7 °C with an Earth-like albedo.

Very Earth-like climate, yellow vegetation — chrysophyll pigment.

Known native species:

Hoku (Avipoda sapiens, "wise bird-feet").

Antillo.

Deathmoth.

Scute.

White peas.

With 2.01x the Earth's surface area, the continents and oceans are vast, not only allowing for large habitable spaces, but also large deserts across the two Pangea-sized continents

In natural colors it is rather difficult for us humans to distinguish vegetation from deserts because of the light yellow/orange tones, though the natives have well adapted eyes to separate soil from different types of vegetation, which had only managed to spread inland due the atmosphere's high humidity

THE MOON, NUHEZA

HOKU-b / Nuheza (moon of Hokushoku)

Rocky moon

0.0067 Earth-masses, or 4.00×10^22 kg

0.21 Earth-radii, 1340 km radius

1.43 m/s², 0.15 G

Mean density 3.78 g/cm³

Escape velocity ~2.0 km/s at the surface

Semi-major axis ~277.1 thousand km or 21.75 Earth-diameters

Orbital eccentricity 0.054

Orbital period ~26.34 Earth-days or ~8 local days

(tidally locked) (25 cycles / Hoku-year)

Exosphere trace levels of hydrogen, neon, and argon.

Mean temperature around -5 °C assuming a Moon-like albedo.

Tidal forces are on average ~2.1x That of Earth’s moon

Apparent size and brightness equivalent to that of Earth’s moon, though the tidal pull is double that of the Earth’s moon because of the mass difference between the bodies.

The moon currently orbits the planet in roughly the same orientation as its equator, which means that its orbit is very inclined, and thus, the moon is only fully full or fully new twice a year. Having a slim line of darkness or sunlit area during the other 23 cycles.

The lunar cycle of 1 Hoku-year

1 frame = 1 Hoku-day

Because Hokushoku stays close to its star, Paza, which is rather less luminous than our Sun despite having similar size, the angular size of Paza is around 0.6° in the sky (compared to the Sun's 0.5°), this makes up for slightly larger eclipse shadows over the planet.

Speaking of eclipses, the only eclipses are annular eclipses because there is a 0.02° difference between the moon's largest angular size and the angular size of Paza.

Standing on the surface of Hokushoku wouldn't feel dramatically different than on Earth, but by human standards the air has very poor quality, and coupled with the stronger gravity and thick atmosphere it may be difficult to exercise or run across large distances for time exceeding one or two hours. It feels like venturing in a volcanic island carrying extra 20 kg of cargo on your back, a task impractical to the typical human, but not impossible for trained explorers.

The moon is barely larger than Earth's moon in the sky, and the day is dictated by the main star just like on Earth, tides are noticeably more violent and tall.

- M.O. Valent, 11/12/2022

happy birthday to me!

SCIENCE&ARTWORK | THE HOKU | ASTROPHYSICS | PART 1

SYSTEM OVERVIEW

PAZA, the Greater Sister

G8V yellow dwarf star

Temperature 5435 K

(in solar units)

Mass 0.88

Luminosity 0.64

Radius 0.90

Metallicity Z* ~0.832 [Fe/H]

Abs. Magnitude +5.32

Rotational period 38 days

Unenja, the Little Sister

M4V red dwarf star

Temperature 3220 K

(in solar units)

Mass 0.124

Luminosity 0.004 ± 0.001 (weakly variable)

Radius 0.188

Metallicity Z* ~1.122 [Fe/H]

Abs. Magnitude +10.77 ± 0.19

Soft-flaring BY Draconis variable star, flare period is the same as rotational period of 52 days.

Orbital separation 0.15 AU or 22.4 million km on average.

Orbital eccentricity 0.271

Orbital period ~21 Earth-days or 16 Hoku-days

Total mass of the system amounts to roughly one solar mass, making orbital period calculations easier.

SYSTEM ZONES

Debris belt between 0.42 ~ 0.50 AU

Venus zone 0.68 AU

Water-loss 0.76 AU

Mean HZ 0.80 AU

True HZ 0.81 AU

Cold HZ 1.41 AU

Frost line 1.55 AU

Asteroid belt between 2.0 ~ 3.0 AU

Kuiper distance 32.20 AU

PLANETS

The planets of the system are named after the gods of an ancient civilization of theirs, pretty much like we call our planets by their Roman names (except you, Uranus).

In order from their star:

Bagede // BGD

The fast trickster, joker.

Hot-Neptune, ~116°C

Mass 20.95 Earth-masses

Radius 6.43 Earth-radii (thermally expanded)

Semi-major axis 0.33 AU

Orbital eccentricity 0.211

Orbital period 69 Earth-days (nice!) or 52.4 Hoku-days

Bagede’s orbit is quite anomalous given the system’s distribution of mass, no planets could form this close to the binary pair, the atmospheric escape rate does indicate it to have formed much further away from the binary, being flung into a tight eccentric and inclined orbit in the system’s deep past.

Ovilgeza // OVGZ

God of lightning, fire, archery, and messengers.

Hot-Neptune, ~18°C

Mass 24.54 Earth-masses

Radius 6.74 Earth-radii (thermally expanded)

Semi-major axis 0.59 AU

Orbital eccentricity 0.024

Orbital period 168 Earth-days, or 127.4 Hoku-days

Ovilgeza is one planet believed to have been quite disturbed by the migration of Bagede, with a tighter orbit than what its size would indicate, this can be said because the both ends of the debris belt around the binary pair are missing, with the missing mass being distributed to the two inner planets.

Auot’zae // AUTZAE

Orb of the World, the Earth.

Tropical Superterran, ~17°C

Mass 2.54 Earth-masses

Radius 1.42 Earth-radii

Semi-major axis 0.80 AU

Orbital eccentricity 0.014

Orbital period 263.3 Earth-days, or 200 Hoku-days

Has a small moon with half the mass of Luna.

Informally known as Hokushoku (the Hoku World, in the classical language) throughout the Dominion, it is the only planet in the system naturally capable of hosting Life as we know it, it is the homeworld of the Hoku. On the surface it is pretty similar to Earth, both in gravitational acceleration and landscape-wise, the planet was once covered in lush bright-yellow vegetation which nowadays struggle to get a foothold, due the destruction of the ozone layer by a hostile force. The planet has one small moon, but due the closer distance it creates tides stronger than Earth’s moon.

Namenza // NAMZ

Goddess of spring, harvest, and life.

Icy Superterran, on average -44°C

Mass 3.55 Earth-masses

Radius 1.70 Earth-radii

Semi-major axis 1.21 AU

Orbital eccentricity 0.019

Orbital period 1y120d, or 1Hy92Hd

Namenza is a bright icy world, its nitrogen and carbon dioxide atmosphere is just thick enough to maintain some levels of liquid water on the surface of the planet. However, despite the friendly conditions for life, it is completely sterile. It happens to be that the amount of volatiles in the planet's upper layers cannot generate enough pressure for efficient plate tectonics, thus the surface is pretty stagnant of chemical recycling. The crawling slow increase in Paza’s luminosity is also blamed to have kept this planet way too long in the dark to feed the chemical processes leading to the genesis of life, and now the planet is an icy wasteland, much contrary to the goddess it was named after.

ASTEROID BELT

2.0 ~ 3.0 AU

Some 3.2% of the Moon’s mass

Kotishera // KTXER

Goddess of arts, crafts, hunt, and war.

Gas Giant, ~ -150°C

Mass 165 Earth-masses

Radius 9.17 Earth-radii

Semi-major axis 3.60 AU

Orbital eccentricity 0.047

Orbital period 6y303d, or 9Hy96Hd

Kotishera can be said to be a Saturn-like gas giant, very light and sporting a thin ring reminiscent of a recently minced icy moon. It has many other icy moons to spare.

Udeqera // UDQR

Goddess of the underworld and the furies.

Gas Giant, ~ -190°C

Mass 1442 Earth-masses or 4.53 Jupiter-masses

Radius 12.83 Earth-radii

Semi-major axis 6.80 AU

Orbital eccentricity 0.035

Orbital period 17y266d, or 24Hy120Hd

Udeqera is a heavy jovian planet, with over four-times the mass of Jupiter, this giant holds a vast collection of moons named after the furies, and a very solid ring system. The total mass of the moon system is roughly ¼ of the Earth’s mass, half of which is concentrated in its three major moons. It is the last planet in the system which can be seen to the naked-eye.

Koshazat // KXZT

Titan of time, heavens, and weather.

Ice Giant, ~ -215°C

Mass 17.44 Earth-masses

Radius 6.56 Earth-radii

Semi-major axis 13.23 AU

Orbital eccentricity 0.010

Orbital period 47y350d, or 66Hy106Hd

The only planet not named after a main god of the classical pantheon, that happens because it was only discovered after the invention of the telescope. The only major entity missing from the sky was the titan of Time itself, and name was promptly accepted.

There are no major planets beyond this point, but a handful of dwarf planets and a myriad of comets in a debris belt called The Underworld, in classic Hoku.

-M.O. Valent, 05/12/2022

-M.O. Valent, posted 09/12/2022