TIMELINE

This article takes place in the 26th century of Distant Worlds.

Modern rewritten version of this page can be found in Vela here.

Pantaleon is the fourth and last planet lying in the system of Kalista, in the Edelweiss. Pantaleon is a minor world, and is primarily used for mining out large quantities of resources. It has absolutely no atmosphere, and is composed of primarily rock, metal, and water-ice.

Pantaleon orbits Kalista at the distance of approximately 2.2 AU, thus giving the world a frigid temperature of -168 °C, and the orbital period of 56 Standard Days. It's rotational period is constantly being significantly slowed down, and of today, the planet completes a single rotational period in about 84 hours. Pantaleon is one of the smallest planets in the Kalista system, only having the diameter of 1560 km, and the mass of 0.008M⊕. It is due to these properties that the world has the small gravity of 0.15G, requiring gravity generators to be used in settlements for human-habitation.

The planet used to once have subsurface oceans filled with life, but as the core gradually cooled down, so did the subsurface oceans. Now the only evidence remaining of it's ancient ecosystem are massive fossils frozen in water-ice, possibly cause Edelweiss Plague, littered across what was once the seabed. One such fossil is known as the "Gargantuan Fossil", and is the fossil of a possible apex predator of the ancient ecosystem, as even the teeth on the fossil are each 6 meters long. On account of the low gravity, the life would evolve to be much larger than usual.

The planet has suffered from many major impact events, as seen by the numerous enormous crater rays dotting it's light brown and beige surface. Many of these major impacts played a huge role in cooling down the core of the planet.

Major Settlements

Euclid Mining Site

The Euclid Mining Site, also known as Site-E is the largest one of mining sites, housing dozens of deep caverns, and advanced mining vehicles. Most of the work in Site-E is done by humans, however automatised vehicles are a big part of it too, with an average of over 25 vehicle operators being stationed in the site at once.