Thra

Thra

Type: Terrestrial
Temperature: Temperate
Atmosphere: Type I (breathable)
Hydrosphere: Moderate
Gravity: Standard
Terrain: Plains, Mountains, Forest, Jungle, Swamp, Barren, etc.
Length of Day: 57,3 standard hours¹⁾
Length of Year: ? local days
Physical Diameter: 9740 m
Sapient Species: UrRu (10), Skek(100+), Human(5%), Twi'lek(3%), Balosar(2%), Rodian(2%), slaves & "zombies" of various species (88%)
Other Species: Garthim, Landstriders, Crystal Bats, etc. - a plethora of creatures and plants, not all readily identifyable for what they are.
Starport: Lem, a space station connected to it's ground based twin Bah through a space elevator
Points of Interest: Valey of Standing Stones, Swamp of the Black River, Gelfling Ruins(?), the Teeth of the Skreesh, Bah-Lem Valley with the Twin Cities Bah and Lem that are connected through a space elevator
Population: Less than 1 million
Planet Function: Home world of Skek and UrRu
Official Language: Multilingual
Government: a council of 9 Skek directly serving and catering to the Skek Emperor
Major Cities: the Twin Cities Bah and Lem that are connected through a space elevator; Refugee Town in the Valey of the Standing Stones
Tech Level: var.
Major Exports: Crystech (crystal-based technology), bioengineered creatures
Major Imports: Slaves
Affiliation: none?
System: Thra system
Suns: actually 1: Ordva, but from the planet 3 are visible: Ordva, Gniveld (actually a moon), and Jaheen (a gas giant)
Moons: 1: Gniveld which looks and radiates like a small, dark red sun
Sector: -
Region of Space: Wild Space

Notes:

The Thra system actually has only one sun which is also the center of the system, but Thra's only moon (Gniveld) is so much affected by the gravitational pulls of the sun, Thra itself and the gas giant that it never cooled down and is still molten hot magma that radiates like a small dark sun. Jaheen, the gas giant, radiates stongly in the non-visible spectrum, but because of a curious interaction with some rare elements of Thra's atmosphere becomes visible as an additional sun from the plantet. Additionally, due to a lensing effect it looks smallest when Thra is nearest to the gas giant's position while when they are on opposite sides of the sun, Jaheen looks even larger than Ordva.

¹⁾ The day period is based on the rotation of Thra in relation to the main sun. The actual day/night durations are highly variable and depend on the other two "suns" Gniveld and Jaheen. On average the "days" last half of the cycle time, but most of the "night" is a rather bright twilight, sometimes as bright as the days.

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created for the character UrYōma; inspired by The Dark Crystal