Luna: Earth II

Nuwathi, 3.6 neltew vineths mintu. Earth, 3.6 billion years ago.

3.6 billion years ago when the Earth was still being created came it's magnetic field, the only thing that keeps the Earth's water from escaping into space. But the main POD in this universe is that the magnetic field continued to grow and grow until it completely surrounded not just the Earth, but the moon as well. This was the key event that lead the Moon to be terraformed. Once the magnetic field protected the moon from solar wind and radiation, millions of asteroids and comets carying water droplets and microscopic life, it was as if the Moon was copying the Earth's creation story.

Early History
Billions of years ago, when the Earth was just a young molten planet, a planet the size of Mars called Theia, (derived from the mythical Greek titan Theia, who gave birth to the Moon goddess Selene) impacted the Earth with enough force to let billions of tonnes of debris into orbit around the Earth. After thousands of years, gravity lets the debris collect into a ball of rock, what we know today as Luna, or The Moon. Because of the Earth's force on the moon, friction was created which slowed Luna's rotation down until it reached the state it is in now, where it always faces one side towards the Earth. This would cause problems later on for live to thrive on the other side when the far side of the moon didn't face the sun, where temperatures would reach freezing points.

First Creation of Life
Over the course of millions of years, millions of comets and meteors bombarded the Earth along with Luna. All of these meteors and comets contained trace amounts of water, that after millions of years, added up to create lakes and oceans. But all of these lakes and oceans wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the magnetic field. In our universe the magnetic field doesn't stretch far enough to surround the Moon, but here it does. But water wasn't the only thing these meteors brought along. Minerals and amino acids were brought along too, and once the pools of water were created, they didn't crash onto the Earth's and Luna's solid surface, they landed hundreds of meters in the ocean.

These amino acids soon created microscopic life. They thrived underneath the cool temperatures hundreds of feet where the harsh sunlight wouldn't reach. While this bacteria was forming, stromatolites were also forming. These stromatolites were the same stromatolites that harboured Earth's microscopic plant life that used photosynthesis for nutrition, making oxygen as a byproduct. After millions of years, life started to thrive in the oceans of Earth as well as Luna. It seemed as if Luna was copying the Earth, except for Earth's many ice ages. Luna was evolving much faster than the Earth while the Earth was preoccupied. When the Earth was finally free of all the ice, Luna already had enough oxygen to create an ozone layer (this was because there was less amount of oxygen needed to surround the Moon.) This meant that life on Luna could evolve from the ocean to the surface, while Earth's life was only in the ocean. The major difference between life on Earth and life on Luna was gravity. If the animal species were too small, they would have a harder time walking on the surface without being too lightweight. Evolution made it so that the structure of animals and, eventually "lunans," would have enough mass to be able to walk and crawl on the surface.

The All-Knowing Lunans
Unlike humans, the intelligent species which Earth calls "lunans" didn't evolve from primates, and there isn't just one type of lunan. Earth's classification of these two intelligent species are Lunan Type-A and Lunan Type-B. Both have similar bodies except for a few features and histories. Lunan Type-As formed on the near side of the moon, while the Lunan Type-Bs formed on the far side of the moon. They both average 11 ft. 2 inches in height (to cope with the weak gravity) but the Lunan Type-Bs have different skin types. If they so choose to live on the far side when the sun is not facing them, extra skin grows to keep them warm in the coldest conditions, which they then shed when the Sun faces them for 14 days. If they choose not to, many migrate to the near side for the 14 days or sometimes for life.