So, after a hiatus of sorts (working on some map commissions and trying to get some work done on my gigantic stereographic world map) I'm back with what might possibly be my most boring post,a bout aphelions, eccentricities (not the interesting sort) and orbits.
The following is a small excerpt from about 10,000 words-worth of details that will be included in the stereographic map (amazingly, most of the surface of the image is actually a map, despite all those words!) and I thought I'd include them here to show I'm still alive. Most of the information below was slowly cultivated over my many years of working on the world, updated, replaced, changed, tinkered with, until slowly it became something believable.
Regarding the Sphere
of Elyden
Elyden.
She is our home, hanging in the Æther, product of the divine shaping of the
Two-and-Twenty beings known as the Demiurges – shaper-gods whose literal hands
were (and are, in some cases) responsible for the creation and evolution of
this terraqueous globe that is called home by us and so many other peoples and
races.
Elyden is the third of seven known
Ætheric bodies, sometimes known as planets, to have been discovered by
observers (astronomers, astrologers, orrerists, Penumbrists, et al) within the system known as Sorchar; the others being, in successive
order moving outwards from our star Sor: Hael, Algol, Elyden, Liviad, Gnihlas, Cykranosh,
and Nihav. Others have been postulated by mortal observers, though the evidence
given by otherworlders and those with abilities beyond the ken of ‘mere
mortals’, suggest that the Sorchar
system is complete with one star and seven planets. Many of those stars are
themselves orbited by one or more satellites, with Liviad and Gnihlas each
known to possess seven and three, respectively. Elyden herself is orbited by
two satellites – Arakhamé the Red and Siella the White (Details on the two
satellites may be found elsewhere on this treatise).
Elyden orbits Sor at a mean speed of ~65,000-miles per hour in a
counteclockwise direction when observed from above the northern pole of Kholamor. She orbits Sor at a mean
distance of 92,000,000 miles, with a periapsis of ~90,500,000-miles
and an apoapsis of
~93,500,000-miles. She has an equatorial radius of ~6,028-miles, with an
equatorial circumference of ~37,880-miles and a polar circumference of
~37,815-miles and an estimated total surface area of 455,957,666-miles.
Elyden is a rocky planet, with a metallic
core, rocky shell and earthen crust in the depressions of which collect oceans
of water; giving the term terraqueous globe (Elyden is thought to be the only
terraqueous globe in Sorchar, with the other planets thought to be either
terraous or gaseous in nature). Above this is an atmosphere that retains gasses
due to the sphere’s gravity. It is this atmosphere that largely protects us
from Ætheric cauterity, severe effects of the elementae vitale
originating without Elyden and also regulates temperature extremes between
night and day.
Of the seven Sorchari planets, Elyden is thought to be the only one with an
atmosphere and liquid water, both believed to be vital components in the
propagation of mortal life, though it has not been entirely discounted that
other forms of life might exist on extraterraqueous globes or even in the
Penumbra of the Firmament themselves (indeed, the number of creatures whose
existence relies on one of the two elementae
vitale, as they are called, would
lend credence to the belief in extraterraqueous life, though little solid
evidence exists to support it yet). Some claim the very existence of isawhani (Otherworlders) is direct proof
of the ability of either the Firmament or the Penumbra of spawning and
sustaining ‘life’, though given their detached and, for want of another term,
alien personalities, first-hand evidence has been difficult to glean.
Despite this mystery, Elyden has had no
shortage of what naturalists classify as life (described as Vitalism – the
fundamental difference between organic and inorganic matter, and the belief
inherent that life can only be derived from organic matter), even in these dark
days that bear witness to her death throes.
If one disregards the corruption of the
natural world and goes back, even as little as one millennia, one can find a
plethora of examples of life in almost all conditions imaginable – the is
little-to-no terrain or climate catalogued by our brave explorers that have
been unequivocally bereft of life. In some form, minute as it may be, some manner
of life exists. Be it microscopic organisms that subsist on the oxidisation of
metal, or the gigantic behemoths that lurk in the abysms of our oceans, life
has, since the appearance and hubris of the Demiurges, proliferated, and there
is little reason to doubt that it will disappear any-time soon.
Characteristics
of Elyden
Age: ~1,000,000,000 years
Epoch: Sixth Age of Mortal life
Physical
characteristics
Mean radius: 6,023-miles
Equatorial
radius:
6,028-miles
Polar radius: 6,018-miles
Flattening: 1.0016616
Mean circumference: 37,845.5-miles
Equatorial
Circumference:
37,880-miles 37880 /
1436 minutes
Meridional
Circumference:
37,815-miles
Surface
area: 455,957,666-miles2
Land area: 235,274,155.656 (51.6%)
Sea area: 220683510.344 (48.4%)
Volume: 915,504,739,986.3-miles3
Mass: 2.9739x1025 pounds
Equatorial
gravity: 32.06
Ft/s2
Sidereal
rotation period:
0.9972 d (23h56m4s)
Equatorial
rotation velocity:
1,582 m/h
Axial tilt: 28O46’23”
Minimum
surface Temperature:
-103.4 oC
Maximum
surface Temperature:
71.9 oC
Firmamental
pericentre: 1.02~/O/∞1.08
Firmamental
apocentre: 0.82~/O/∞1.01
Penumbral
pericentre: 1.21~/O/∞1.32
Penumbral
apocentre: 1.33~/O/∞1.57
Orbital
characteristics
Mean distance
from Sor:
92,000,000 miles
Periapsis: 90,500,000-miles
Apoapsis: 93,500,000-miles
Eccentricity: 0.02564275
Orbital
Period: 365.8572
days
Average
Orbital Speed:
~65,000 mph
Satellites: 2
Atmosphere
Surface
Pressure:
Composition: 76.2% N, 19.64% O, 0.87% Ar,
0.042% CO2, 1.624% Fir, 1.624% Pen
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