Kafto

Kafto--the Ember World

Orbiting precariously just beyond the Roche limit of its massive L-type brown dwarf parent, Kafto is a planetary anomaly that has defied every known astrophysical model. Barely 538 km in diameter Kafto shines almost as bright as its proto-stellar primary, earning it the nickname The Ember-World.

Despite its modest size and lack of atmosphere, the planet radiates at an astonishing 5,600 K, hotter than many main-sequence stars. This temperature is inexplicable: tidal stresses, stellar irradiation, and residual core heat fall far short of accounting for such luminosity. Kafto’s “natural” baseline should rest around 2,500 K, yet it blazes far beyond that, as if powered by an internal stellar furnace no probe or model has yet uncovered.

Even stranger is its perfect thermal uniformity. Across its molten landscape, the temperature varies by no more than ±5 K. From its tidally locked dayface to its eternal nightside, every square kilometer burns at nearly the same incandescent temperature, as though some unknown process distributes heat flawlessly across its surface.

Scattered above its hellish plains drift enigmatic islands of metallic alloys, some kilometers wide, composed of materials resistant to heat and radiation far beyond anything naturally occurring.

To astronomers and explorers alike, Kafto represents a paradox: a planet too hot to exist, too stable to unravel, and too precise in its equilibrium to be random. Whether Kafto is a failed star caught in a strange liminal state, a relic of alien design, or something entirely outside current physics, remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of its system.

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Every object since Synergatis were made completely from scratch and I honestly didn't know there were tutorials on how to make custom planets.