Zeraphus

Zair - a - phis

"Hellish place for piracy"

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Date of Discovery: 2192

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Class:

Warm Desertic Sub Terra Moon

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Statistics:

Mass: 0.0248 mE

Radius: 0.264 rE

Density: 7.38 g/cm^3

Average Temperature: 194F/363K

Rotational Period: Tidally Locked

Age: 3.85 billion years

Surface Air Pressure: 26.5 kPa

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1st moon of Andreas

Very hot and inhospitable

Has raging sandstorms and large smog clouds

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Major Cities and Colonies

Hades Magmaworks

Population: 933 million - The largest source of employment. This large factory boasts large pipes and drills to extract the metals and ores from the mantle. Although quite lethal (41% mortality rate), Hades does give some decent payment, despite the conditions.

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Lore

Zeraphus is quite an odd moon. Zeraphus has an extremely large iron-nickel core with a small mantle. Because of the heavy industries like mining and refining, it heavily polluted the thin atmosphere. Even if the atmosphere were breathable, you would die of asphyxia. If that did not kill you, the gases would.

Zeraphus is also known for it's pretty yet dangerously polluted clouds. They are fast and wispy, mostly driven by the flow of heat due to the strong tidal force with Andreas. It has large craters which the meteors that caused the craters literally "punched" a hole through the Zeraphan (possessive pronoun) sky. Because of this, there are numerous "donut" clouds, but most of the "donut" clouds are formed by the direction of heat flow across the moon.

There are many Aid Shelters and Pit-Stops for travelers, but not many stay here long because this moon is a great hotspot for pirates and criminal dens.

Zeraphus is known to have an incredibly high density. This could explain why it has such a very thin mantle and a large core. Though Andreas does not have a large core, Zeraphus could have gotten it from the rings while it was forming since there are a lot of metals in the inner Arkkanian system.