Glanadi

Template:InfoboxPlanetGlanadi is a cold ice planet orbiting the red dwarf Glajidon in the Flower Galaxy. It is under the monitoring of CBRPD (Celestial Biosphere Research and Protection Department), a mysterious but well-meaning research organization, whose drones are under directive to find any planet supplying multicellular life.

Overview

Glanadi is both smaller and lighter than Earth, also having very little gravitational pull. It has no moon, nor water, yet it's underglacial biomes manage to ensure development of lifeforms. It's small axial tilt ensures no seasons, yet it doesn't have sufficient surface biomes to benefit from anything like that.

Glanadi atmosphere has 91.9% of CO₂; 7.76 % or Ar and 0.295 % of H₂S. The trace gases are, from the most common to the least common: Kr, C₃H₈ and Xe.

Civilization

Glanadi is home to a strange wormlike species which seems to be developing tools, and the civilizations of the Flower Galaxy have sent many small drones beneath the ice shell to study them and attempt to learn how they communicate. However, the drones' sound detectors have failed to detect any form of communication, although the worms seem to emit light patterns, and this is hypothesized to be their communication method.

Life

Glanadi's lifeforms are not as sluggish as one may conclude. They can be very fast and can skillfully dash and maneuver through the differently sized tunnels and rooms. Meanwhile the immobile organisms don't linger behind - the seeds may have forms that allow them to be discarded quite far and some plants will even trap some of the animals that fly into them. Due to the very low gravitational pull, lots of creatures will rather "swim" through the tunnels, however some still manage to scuttle as if they were walking due to having a kind of an exoskeleton to them.

Gallery

The map of Glanadi.
Although the environment is cool, Glajidon provers a decent amount of light to surface.
Smooth terrain transforms into ragged hills fairly quickly.
Crater walls are important as lifeforms prefer tunnels that are more elevated from planet's surface.
The planet's frigid surface doesn't allow much fragmental erosion (rocks,lodestones) to happen.