-Zirhon, Xinschi-uual Home World (Milky Way Galaxy)-
Zirhon is a hot-climate planet located within the Yla Galaxy. It has an unusual orbit, being a rare Figure 8 formation due to being pulled by the two suns known as Cryion - a yellow dwarf - and Kyaxeng - a blue giant. Some Karitzuian astronomers insist that because of the distance between the suns, where they sit in each others' orbits without tearing Zirhon apart, they do not form a proper binary system and instead call it "pseudobinary". The native Xinschi-uual acknowledge this with their calender which designates a full path in orbit as a "full loop", or 2 seasonal years, with Cryion's seasons being the hottest.
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Atmosphere
Zirhon's atmosphere consists primarily of carbon dioxide, secondly nitrogen, and thirdly oxygen along with trace gases. This gives its sky a dusty yellow-grey hue. Cryion's light is more white than yellow; during its sunrise and sunset the landscape becomes insanely yellow, fading through oranges and reds before finishing on a very dark green. Kyaxeng's light is more blue-biased, turning the landscape predominately blue, cyan, and sometimes greens and purples, before also terminating into a dark green. Combined, Zirhon's sky fluctuates through many colors of the rainbow for its entire orbit.
Biomes
Zirhon is regularly beat upon by its two suns day and night except for two rare equinoxes where one sun eclipses the other. As a result it is unsurprisingly a hot and dry planet. As a whole it is mostly land with small oceans and few lakes. Most of its water is groundwater or is an underwater spring. Due to this and the carbon dioxide atmosphere, Zirhon's water is largely chlorinated and highly saline. This means that Zirhon's terrestrial buildup thanks to evaporation, geothermal activity, and other effects is rather rapid compared to Earth's, and its lifeforms are rather used to the natural toxicity.
Along the searingly-hot equator, Zirhon is populated by dustbowls, sandy deserts, and cracked wastelands. Because of this deadly heat and the lack of moisture overall on the planet, this has dropped its T Rating to 4. Many storms tend to originate from here due to the rapid heating of the crust spiraling hot air up into the cooler upper atmosphere.
Zirhon's poles are mostly ice, including dry ice. Very little moisture travels up here as well, making snow such an extremely rare sight that many natives don't know it exists. Instead, the wind whips up what loose ice shards there are, creating icestorms as vicious as the sandstorms in the deserts.
The rest of Zirhon's hemispheres are populated by grasslands, steppes, deserts of all varieties, plains and savannas, brushland and scrubland, and scanty forests. Zirhon also has some subterranean and aquatic life, particularly in the deeper, cooler areas. The pride of Zirhon's topography are its impressive rock formations within its badlands, substantial crystal growths in volcanic caves, and ancient geothermal buildup.
Zirhon also has some unusual biomes as a result of its mineral-favoring climate. As mentioned above it has extensive tracks of land sculpted by the wind and volcanic activity. It also has surreal prairies, mountains that look as though chunks were taken out of them thanks to erosion, massive spires of raw crystallized stone, ancient petrified forest graveyards, and glittering lithium and salt flats. The planet's crust is largely yellow, silver, and brown with touches of pink from all of these raw minerals being exposed. It's no wonder its natives, the Xinschi-uual included, have geovoric diets rather than organic ones.
Along the searingly-hot equator, Zirhon is populated by dustbowls, sandy deserts, and cracked wastelands. Because of this deadly heat and the lack of moisture overall on the planet, this has dropped its T Rating to 4. Many storms tend to originate from here due to the rapid heating of the crust spiraling hot air up into the cooler upper atmosphere.
Zirhon's poles are mostly ice, including dry ice. Very little moisture travels up here as well, making snow such an extremely rare sight that many natives don't know it exists. Instead, the wind whips up what loose ice shards there are, creating icestorms as vicious as the sandstorms in the deserts.
The rest of Zirhon's hemispheres are populated by grasslands, steppes, deserts of all varieties, plains and savannas, brushland and scrubland, and scanty forests. Zirhon also has some subterranean and aquatic life, particularly in the deeper, cooler areas. The pride of Zirhon's topography are its impressive rock formations within its badlands, substantial crystal growths in volcanic caves, and ancient geothermal buildup.
Zirhon also has some unusual biomes as a result of its mineral-favoring climate. As mentioned above it has extensive tracks of land sculpted by the wind and volcanic activity. It also has surreal prairies, mountains that look as though chunks were taken out of them thanks to erosion, massive spires of raw crystallized stone, ancient petrified forest graveyards, and glittering lithium and salt flats. The planet's crust is largely yellow, silver, and brown with touches of pink from all of these raw minerals being exposed. It's no wonder its natives, the Xinschi-uual included, have geovoric diets rather than organic ones.
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