Planets (White Star Jupiter)

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Contents
[hide]*1 Mercury
 * 2 Venus
 * 2.1 Ruluks
 * 3 Earth
 * 4 Mars
 * 4.1 Zanturans
 * 5 Saturn
 * 5.1 Alayans
 * 6 Uranus
 * 6.1 Huraise
 * 7 Neptune
 * 7.1 Tivers
 * 8 Pluto
 * 8.1 Xurlans
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[edit] Mercury
Mercury is a dry, barren planet, with no surface water or atmosphere. It is the closest planet to the sun, having a year of only 88 earth days. It is so close in fact, it has been tidaly locked with the sun, that is, one side is always facing the sun (Day) and the always faces away. (Night) Being the second smallest planest in the system, Mercury does not have, or has not sustained, an internal dynamo capable of creating a magnetosphere. Therefore, what little atmosphere it could contain with its small gravity, has been blown away by the solar wind long before mankind. With no water, no atmosphere, and no tectonic activity (Also caused by the lack of a dynamo) Mercury is a little-changing planet-wide desert. Mercury has no moons

[edit] Venus
Venus, in our timeline, is a vast desert with a very massive atmosphere. However, with a greater bombardment of comets, and being further from the sun, in this timeline, Venus is much cooler, having oceans, and life. Venus has one main continent, making up eighty-fivepercent of its land surface, at and around the equator. The other fifteen percent are made up by a massive chain of islands to the Northeast and Southeast. Venus has no moons at the present, though in the past, two moons were present at different times. The first moon orbited clockwise, moving away slowly, until it driffted into space. The latest moon, however, orbited counterclockwise, and eventually collided with the planet. The Ruluks, as they call themselves, inhabit this planet.

[edit] Ruluks
The Ruluks are the most humanoid non-humans,standing roughly two meters tall, with isolated fur patches on their body, and weighing a rough average of nintey kilograms. They are supported by bones made of thirty percent Calcium, and seventy percent Sulfur. They are said to have originated from the swamps and marshes of the eastern islands, and from there split into two subgroups: Alpha and Delta, for lack of better terms. The Alphas learned how to and embraced sailing, eventually coming across the main continent, which was filled with large lakes and river systems. The Deltas, however, remained on the islands, either not learning, or not caring how to sail. While the Alphas created culture and trade on the main continenet, the Deltas were embracing their warrior sides, focusing on fighting and warfare, and eventually creating a kingdom and a warrior's code.

[edit] Mars
Due to an ancient collision with an object roughly the size of Mercury, Mars was nearly annihilated, and its magnetoshere was destroyed in OTL. However, in this timeline, that object, along with the asteroid belt, collided with mars much sooner, therby increasing its mass to nearly earth-like proportions. The surface of this new Mars is 90% water, with only one central continent, just north of the equator, shaped like an oval. In addition, a series of islands and archipelagos, though not as numerous as those found on Venus, are also found, making up rougly one percent of the landmasses. Mars has two moons as of now; Phobos and Deinmos, which did not begin with life, though they have been hollowed out and the inner suface has been made habitable by the martians.

[edit] Zanturans
The Zanturans are the native sentient species of Mars, having a humanoid/squidlike appearance. They stand upright, have elongated tentacles used for walking, with modified suction cups acting in place of feet/toes to stabilize walking on land. Their body is shaped like an upside-down bell, with legs coming out the bottom, an arms emerging from the top shoulder area. From there the bell-shaped head meets the shoulders on a miniscule neck. The head has large black eyes five centimeters in diameter, and a mouth full of teeth, used for chewing, biting, and grinding. The ear is genrally kept within a pocket on either side of the head, which is then filled with water to equalise pressure and hear sounds with better definition. When a Zanturn emerges onto land, the pockets will open open, draining of water and filling with air, thereby allowig it to hear both in and out of the water with eloquence. Sometime between first contact and gained sentience, though probably closer to the former, the Zanturans became space-faring, and used this skill to hollow out a massive sphereical cavity between the surface and the core of both Phobos and Deinmos, leaving it half-filled with sea water, to form two space stations, of sorts.

[edit] Saturn
The planet Saturn is little more than a massive sphere of gas at first glance. Though, being mostly Hydrogen, all the heavy elements sank to the center. The heaviest element found in Saturn, originally, is carbon, thereby forming a massive sphere of carbon-a diamond really. In this timeline, much of the atmosphere has been deatomized by the solar wind sent out by Jupiter. This deatomization reduced three-fourths of the atmosphere to subatomic particles, which then re-formed into the many elements required for life. Saturn, having much more deatomization than Uranus or Neptune, had a vast sea of mostly water covoring its solid diamond surface. It had millions of substances floating around, one of which formed life. The planet-wide ocean was roughly a mile deep. In our timeline Saturn had dozens of moons. In this timeline, all of the lighter moons were either flung out ot the system (About sixtey percent), others collided with planets or Jupiter (About thirty percent), and the remainder combined with other moons. The four Galilean moons orbit the remaining gas giants now, with Ganymede circling Saturn.

[edit] Alayans
[Rewrite pending. Hint, they look a bit like the Zerg hydralisks from starcraft, or that is what I had in mind.]

[edit] Uranus
The story of Uranus is much like that of Saturn, both being gas giants. Uranus however, is made mostly of methane, and is farther away from Jupiter. Therefore, the solar wind is not strong enough to shatter the atoms of methane present in the atmosphere, only so to ionize and break apart molecules. The methane was broken up by the solar wind, with the carbon sinking below, and the hydrogen remaining high up in the atmoshphere. A solar flare, however, deatomized the hydrogen and caused it to re-form into the many elements required for life. Uranus has a smooth, diamond surface, coated with a swamp of ooze, containing every stable element on the Periodic Table, and many a combination of. Io, one of the four Galilean moons in our timeline, orbits Uranus in this one.

[edit] Huraise
[See Alayans]

[edit] Neptune
The story of Neptune is almost exactly the same as that of Uranus, though less of its methane atmosphere was ionized/deatomized because it was further away. Only about forty five percent was ionized/deatomized. Rather than an ocean like Saturn, Neptune had more of an ooze formed when the heavy elements mixed with the lighter elements on their way down, eventually forming life. The surface of Neptune, like Uranus or Saturn, is a very smooth diamond sphere, with aforementioned ooze forming a waist-high soup of substances. Callisto and Europa, two of the Galilean moons in our timeline, orbit Neptune in this one.

[edit] Tivers
[See Alayans]

[edit] Pluto
The planet Pluto is not a gas giant, but rather a miniscule icy ball of rock. In this timeline, Jupiter's increased gravitational pull pulled nearly all the objects in the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud closer, thereby greatly increasing pluto's mass, and water content. Now with more surface area to warm it, internal heat and a magnetosphere coming from within, an atmosphere to keep the heat, and plenty of water and other substances, Pluto was life-worthy.

[edit] Xurlans
[Rewrite Pending]