Red Sun

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Four and a half billion years ago...

The solar system was but a spinning disk at the time. The planets were just forming. The sun was an infant star. However, it is accumulating much more mass than it does in OTL. Something occurs where the sun becomes a red giant. Mercury and Venus never formed. Earth became a barren rock. It never formed to be as large as it was in OTL. When a large body struck it, both planets were destroyed. Mars, however, could have developed life. The asteroid belt combined to form a gas giant, Ceres. Ceres caught Mars in its orbit and Mars became a moon.

Jupiter and Ceres eventually began orbiting each other. Mars was ripped apart by the gravity. Europa and Ganymede were ejected. Europa became a water planet and Ganymede became an Earth-like planet. A new planet named Greenland formed. Greenland had a thick, humid atmosphere and a tropical landscape. When a few of Saturn's moons were destroyed by a collision, the planet formed a dual ring system. Triton became habitable.

Uranus never became a gas giant. However, the planet is still too large to be habitable. Neptune developed more moons. The planet's storms grew worse. Pluto and Charon are some of the moons.

And so...

 * Humanity developed on Ganymede.
 * Mars became to be seen as hell.
 * Some cultures thought of Greenland as heaven.
 * An aquatic race formed in Europa.
 * Earth's remains have either been destroyed or become asteroids, save for a rather sizeable asteroid that has been confirmed as the remains of Earth.

Planets

 * 1) Ceres
 * 2) Jupiter
 * 3) Greenland
 * 4) Europa
 * 5) Ganymede
 * 6) Saturn
 * 7) Uranus
 * 8) Neptune
 * 9) Newton (Theorized by several until 1995, when it was confirmed real. It lies beyond the kuiper belt.
 * 10) Altaïr (Flung out beyond Sun's gravitational pull. Became a 'rogue planet'. First thought to be a star)