The Géineas System, The Life that dwells on Eile today, and the History of It.

In this entry, we are going to covering a good amount of stuff, so we will have 3 sections, The Géineas System itself, the History of Eile , and the life that dwells on it today. Feel free to read this on the SE forum if you please.

The Géineas System

The Géineas System has 9 planets, 4 of them are terrestrial planets, 2 of them gas giants,2 of them ice giants and 1 of them a boiling hycean planet. Below is a diagram of the planets, please note that this is a diagram and the planet's actual sizes and distances between eachother aren't depicted very well, along with other smaller stuff. Their natural satellites aren't depicted here either .

A diagram of the planets. A higher quality version can be found here.

It would be worth to cover the planets as well, so let's just do that .

Géineas - Géineas(meaning Genesis in Irish) is the star of Géineas solar system , it is considered to be a G6V star because in the previous entry, Géineas was stated to be star with temperature of 5600K  ,however it doesn't exactly conform to this G6V designation in terms of radius,having a 1.1 solar radius . Eile is depicted white, because most G-type main-sequence stars(Like the Sun for example) are actually white . Though of course Géineas appears yellow when viewed from Eile's Surface because of Rayleigh scattering. Géineas can be referred to as "the Géineas " or just "Géineas".

Aigeanfuchta - A violent hycean planet,if translated from Irish, means Boiling Ocean , it is called it constantly boils and rains , the planet appears a lighter colour than in the diagram, it has a distance of 0.4 AU from it's star, it's surface temperature on average reaches hundreds and hundreds of degrees. It is depicted as the first planet from it's star in the diagram, Early in its history, it might have been a failed "greedy" super Earth that got more and more massive until it had an atmosphere comparable to that of a gas giant. It's diameter is 60,032km. It's satellites include, Pyotr, A small moon, being 2000km in diameter, it has a hydrogen dominated atmosphere and is very small, however very hot, Yana is an 800km captured asteroid which is the biggest asteroid that orbits the planet out of the Aigeanfuchtan captured Asteroid System and the The Aigeanfuchtan Asteroid system, contains about 590 asteroids, all of which the numbers fluctuate daily due to the Sun, they are less then 400 km. 

Liath - Liath,and literally "Grey" if translated from Irish , also being nicknamed the "Gray mars"  and seems to have a rather thin atmosphere , but one that doesn't seem to go away due to the influence of the neighbouring hycean planet. It is a hot yet barren low-gravity world , being described as a "lovechild of Mercury and Venus" . It is a unique bizzare case of a planet within the Géineas System. It's diameter is 8,970km diameter and it is a distance of 0.69 AU from the Géineas. It has 3 Asteroid satellites, named Gertrude, Barto, and Neumann, each being 400km in diameter. It is depicted as the second planet in the system.

Oráisteach - Literally, Orange, if translated from Irish, is a hot Super-Earth type planet which is uninhabitable. It is a carbon-world and has been described as a "Super-Venus" , due to being much bigger then Venus and how similar it looks like to Venus. Both planets have similar atmospheric composition and intense greenhouse effect. However, Oráisteach was always considered biologically sterile through out it's history.The planet has a distance of 1 AU, as well as a diameter of 15,067 km. It has 2 full moons, Damian, which is a biologically sterile moon and has a diameter of 3,907km with a toxic atmosphere, and Bethany , a 1,789km diameter "atmosphere-less" world, not too dissimilar to our Moon on Earth.It is depicted as the third planet in the system.

Eile - Although having covered Eile in the previous entry, it hasn't been stated the exact diameter of the planet.  Eile's diameter is 10,102km(which was what was being meant by in "around 10,100km" diameter). Eile is the only habitable planet within the Géineas System, and possesses lush, complex multicellular life, Eile has more information on the previous entry. It is depicted as the 4th planet in the system.

Fásach - If translated from Irish, it is desert, or uninhabited. The world can be described as a bizzare "Super-Mars" that is covered within more than twice as much oxide dust, but less than twice as less dust storms. The entire world is a barren, biologically sterile, desert world. It 's diameter from the Géineas is 2 AU and is 20,087km in diameter. It's satellites are Rosenqvist, a 2,300km in diameter moon that is full of rock and dirt, 

Anderson, a 2,100km diameter moon which seems to be an icy cold desert world, and Robertsson, a 1,498km diameter moon which is again, not too dissimilar to our own in what it's features are.  It is depicted as the 5th planet of the system.

Maithpatar - A portmanteau of the Irish words maith(meaning good) and Iopatar (Jupiter), Maithpatar is a "good Jupiter" type of planet to Eile, being a jovian type of Gas giant. It's distance from the Géineas is 6 AU and it's diameter is 100,546km. The Jovian gas giant has a lot more moons then Jupiter, around 125 moons, however, over half of them are actually really small captured asteroid moons, bringing the actual moon numbers to around 45 . These 45 moons are often larger than than our moon and contribute to protecting Eile, being essentially like Good moons, tolerating hundreds of asteroid soon to turn into meteorites into their icy or rocky barren dead plains. It is depicted as the 6th planet of the system.

Megaseriy - Another Jovian type of planet, It is the planet with largest diameter,with the diameter being 159,867km and being the most massive planet in the Géineas System. It is the only planet whose name isn't derived from Irish, but from russian with the "seriy" part meaning grey. It has around 100 moons. The planet isn't really "grey" , in actuality since it's a jovian planet, with a layer of  very concentrated helium gas at the top, it looks like a weird diluted greyish green in our diagram in order to emphasize this,but it's actually a "saturn" colour with a slight greyish tint . The planet early on in its history seems to have somehow parasitized on Maithpatar's helium( or collided with another gas giant), however, the helium eventually risen to the top and now the planet looks grey, it is predicted that Megaseriy will lose its concentrated helium layers in about 200 million years. It(the planet) seems to also provide an extra layer of protection against asteroids, therefore functioning as a "Good Jupiter" to Eile, though to a lesser extent. It's distance from the Géineas is around 9 AU. It is depicted as the 7th planet of the system.

Gásoighreata - A typical Neptunian Gas-giant, it is around 24.67 AU away from Géineas , filled to the brim with volatile elements. It is a cold icy, gassy world. With Gásoighreata meaning Icy gas, or Gas Ice. The planet's diameter is 125,765km and the planet has  45 natural satellites. There is nothing particularly unique to this planet, however, earlier in it's history it may have been a transitional gas giant that accumulated way more volatile metals .It is depicted as the second last planet of the system.

Turcaid - Another Ice giant, in actuality, is not really turquoise, The turquoise colour is meant to emphasise the fact that the planet has a lot of more atmospheric methane and therefore if you were to look at it with human eyes, you would instead see a blue with a slight turquoisy tint. The diameter of the planet is 137,654km and it's distance from the Géineas is about 48.896 AU. It is depicted as the last planet of the system.

Life That Dwells on Eile Today 

Eilen(anything that is native to Eile) life is carbon-based, and use water as a medium, requiring elements like hydrogen, sulphur, oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus being organised. We are going to over the main groups of life that is on Eile.

Domain Propogatorae: This is a domain of self-replicating simple proteins that seem to be most abundant at rich volcanic slews of the Volcanic habitats.Too simple to be life yet too complex to be a molecule.

Domain Nanoa: Simplest beings which are complex enough to be counted as Organisms on Eile, they often are more akin in complex to the simplest prokaryotes on Earth, maybe a domain of complex proteins who try to be prokaryote analogues but at the same time require symbiotic relationship to live would be a role more fitting to these weird organisms. 

Domain Euvira: These are Eile's domain of "true" viruses and are most akin to them, which are basically pieces of DNA in protein coats trying to parasitise on cells.

Domain Apodiokaryota: Prokaryote analogues, they are interesting in the fact that there are colonial species who have specialised so much that there are clades of "large" colonial apodiokaryotic marine organisms which developed spherical symmetry, all of which are not too dissimilar in look to all of which look like the earthen species, Caulerpa Taxifolia and are in the same sizes of 5 to 12 inches.

Domain Anapnoikaryota : The Anapnoikaryotes are the Eukaryote analogues, they possess a Nuclearate(Nucleus analogue) and an anapnoiate ( Mitochondria analogue), which differ in almost nothing. Anapnoikaryotes were able to achieve multicellularity just as with our Eukaryotes with Anapnoikaryotes developing into several multicellular kingdoms such as the Photosessilids, Anapnoizoa, Euheterosessilida, as well as other unicellular kingdoms, such as the Nucleovaktirida(Unicellular organisms, which can be multi-nuclearate and clades which specialise in either heterotrophy or autotrophy) .

Kingdom Photosessilida: These are the true "plants" of Eile, a specimen/specimens of the kingdom Photosessilida are called Photosessilids , the photosessilids taking the niche of primary producers of the planet,being autotrophic sessile organisms, capable of making their own food through photosynthesis, hence the name photosessilida. Being detectable from space itself by their green colouration and sometimes red in tundra habitats, having a wider range of photosynthetic pigments, they can also be a brownish yellow(xanthophyll) , especially aquatic photosessilids, though some really small land photosessilids have been observed using this pigment to photosynthesise. They are found in aquatic habitats to denseforest habitats to the coldest of the pole habitats and have a wider range of photosynthetic pigments , though, most tend to use chlorophyll pigments, especially in the more hospitable regions of Eile. Photosessilids can be found in every nook, cranny and fold on the surface of Eile. Photosessilids are exclusively multicellular. The Photosessilids are able to use root-esque structures, branched holdfast structures , or hyphae-like structures to root themselves in place.

Kingdom Euheterosessilida: This kingdom is exclusively sessile heterotrophs, which use a variety of ways to get their energy, they also are found in both terrestrial and aquatic habitats. They seem to be a strange mixture of possessing features which are akin to fungi,and features which are akin to animals. Having the ability to filter feed using basic digestive systems, but as well some clades being able to take the niche decomposers on land and feed on hummus and decaying matter via mycelium-like threads. The Euheterosessilids usually reproduce asexually. These organisms especially aquatic clades, are not be confused with aquatic sessile anapnoizoans. 

Kingdom Anapnoizoa: The metazoan analogue on Eile, they are the higher organisms of Eile, a member of the Anapnoizoa is called an Anapnoil. Anapnoils are the highest organisms on Eile, with the most complex systems and structures known on Eile. They are found from Aquatic habitats to polar habitats, having unique adaptations and specialisations in many areas. There are many phylums, but for the purposes of this entry. We will name and briefly describe the main phylums.

-Articulusida: These are unique organisms, evolving motile joints from armoured chitinous segments . These evolved from slug-like creatures. Mainly microfaunal and possess cartiliginous mesoskeletons, in contrast possessing flesh similiar in structure to earthen molluscs .

-Eumollisida: The eumollisids are true "mollusc analogues", however, some clades possess segmented internal shells which help them to get larger than earthen molluscs, even developing a sort of iron pseudo-skeleton in some specialised, more higher and evolved clades. Strange clades of aquatic "pseudo-snakes" and "pseudo-eels" belong to this phylum. Despite this evolution, they are still mainly microfaunal and part of the larger invertebrate super-phylum on Eile. Wierdly enough, some have de-evolved into worm-like forms in this phylum.

-Bibulusida: An exclusively aquatic phylum of mainly sessile sponge-like creatures, they take the niches of sessile filter feeders in the aquatic habitats, most interestingly, there are also specialised clades of sessile bibulusids widespread in freshwater habitats. Some classes however have become mobile, albeit microscopic, perhaps descending from microscopic bibulusids that decided to stay microscopic and motile.

-Eubrachida: A mainly worm-like phylum quite important to many ecosystems of Eile , being decomposers, parasites, and filter feeders. 

-Gelataida: This phylum is made up of transparent, and opaque organisms as well, they are one of the simplest fauna along with Bibulusids, with some Gelataida having jellyfish-sized representatives of the phylum in freshwater habitats.

-Superphylum Apothemaasvestiouida: This super-phylum is made of organisms who have evolved to have some form of calcium/ hydroxyapatite+ collagen bone in their body. A member of this super-phylum is called an apothemaite. The dominant land-dwelling and marine megafauna classes Appendixaforma, Dyopodia, Caputicentralisida, as well as others who are considered "invertebrate-like" such as Quadrachordates and Apotheamischosites belong to this Superphylum. 

These phylums, kingdoms, domains and classes will be explored further in upcoming entries as we will venture and explore the ecosystems of the regions of the planet.

The History of Eile

5.12 billion years ago: the planet begins formation. Planetary collisions with a planet at the time causes a 170°(10°) axial tilt and a result a capturing of 2 large asteroid moons , Vera and Nadyezhda, both being 700km in diameter as stated in the previous entry.

5.0 billion years ago: Eile would fully consolidate.

4.512 billion years ago: first undisputable evidence of Eile's life would be found. 

3.56 billion years ago: eukaryote-analogues form. 

1 billion years ago: first multicellular life evolves. 

 700 million years ago: a period of mass extinctions and and conditions caused by the unpredictable tides caused by the captured asteroids forces the multicellular life to diversify and speciate. As well as this, small photosessilids begin coming on to land and the apothemaites form and rapidly diversify underwater,  with the Caputicentralisid, appendixaform, and Duopeda classes rising rapidly. 

600- 450 million years ago: Vertebrate forms begin transition onto  land, descending from basal mesoskeletal  and exoskeletal(more similiar to crocodilian hide than classic exoskeletons) mobile bilaterian apothemaites(Caputicentralisids, Appendixaforms, and dyopodia) , during this stronger tides which are reminiscent of the strength of our modern moon takes place, albeit still unpredictable, this unpredictability is what brought these basal small mesoskeletal and "exoskeletal" clades onto land, as with weaker and yet more unpredictable tidal pools, you were most likely stuck in them for longer, needing to evolve lungs to carry out atmospheric respiration and if a tidal pool completely wiped out, you needed evolve legs. This process took over dozens of millions years, with only a full vertebrate-form transition onto land finally taking place around 450 millions years ago, with all the invertebrate-forms having been on land way longer and way earlier.

450 -350 million years ago: The Caputicentralisid clades dominate the land and diversify and speciate into various advanced herbivorous and predatory forms. However this also causes an extinction of the large invertebrate forms at the end of this era. In this era, a transition of ectothermic Caputicentralisida into endothermic Caputicentralisida begins, as well as the major groups of terrestrial bilaterian Apothemaites (Caputicentralisida, Dyopodia, Appendixaforma) develop true endoskeletons and lose exoskeletons/mesoskeletons. 

As you can see, tidal movements have rather slowed down the development of terrestrial vertebrate forms on Eile, as they are not as strong as seen on Earth.

350- 250 millions years ago: The titan era of Anapazoan life , largest Anapnoils develop on Eile, mainly from the Caputicentralisid clade.

249 million years ago: A meteor hits Eile causing a mass extinction of dominant caputicentralisid clades. 

200 million years ago: Modern caputicentralisid, Appendixaform, and Duopod clades arise. 

Today: You are reading Eile, The appendixaform and Dyopod clades are the dominant land and marine clades, specialising further and further each day, whilst the Caputicentralisid would be limited to places such as denseforests, or aquatic habitats. 

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Eile - The planet

 

Eile, simply, Other, if translated from Irish, is a planet located within the Géineas System, around 200.4 light years away from Earth. Géineas is a G-type main sequence star which is around 1.1 solar radiuses, and has a temperature of 5600 K, being somewhat cooler than the Sun. Eile itself is somewhat smaller than Earth, being around 10,100 in diameter. Eile's gravity is 79% of that of Earth, being 0.79 g. Lush, complex, multicellular carbon-based life, using water as a medium, exist on this planet. Most life on this planet is not too dissimilar to Earth in size , however, with a few photosynthesizing analogues being an exception and of course oceanic organisms.

An illustration of Eile, it seems to depict it during calmer and dormant volcanic times

Eile distances about 1.15 AU from it's star,Géineas , and has an axial tilt of 10 degrees with the North being tilted towards Géineas, this means that the actual tilt may be 170 degrees ,The average surface temperature of the planet is not too dissimilar to Earth, being 15° Celsius due to a greenhouse effect.  It's atmospheric composition is 78% nitrogen and 20% oxygen, as well 2% others, mostly being Carbon Dioxide. 

Seasons on Eile still exist but are much less pronounced due to the reduced axial tilt and not much of orbital eccentricity. This doesn't make the planet any less with possessing lush , dense habitats such as rainforests which need rain, instead, huge lakes and volcanoes rather take place in making huge, lush rainforest analogues , supplying them with nutrients and water, known as denseforests. Such huge quantities of water is sourced from high mountains whose ice caps fall into streams of  huge water. Nutrients are sourced from the active volcanoes which bring molecules carried by wind, water, and whatever else in order to reach the inward rich lakes and soils to some denseforests due to the wind direction. Though, rain still exists and is vital in supporting the volume of the lakes as well as nourishing the habitat of the Denseforests, as well as transferring molecules into the soil of denseforests.

Eile has two captured asteroids, Vera and Nadyezhda, each being 700 km in diameter. Both have formed in different parts of Eile's planetary history. Whilst tidal forces may be weaker, they are more unpredictable on Eile, with each wave weak, but unknown in their direction. Vera has 0.7 distance from Eile( 1 in this context means Moon's distance from Earth) and Nadyezhda has 1.2 distance from Eile. 

A day on eile lasts about 26 hours, however a full year on Eile is 455 days due to the distance from it's sun, making the year longer than on Earth, as well as the less prounced but still existing seasons.

Region and Continent name map of Eile

A biome map of Eile, below is a key of colours for the habitats. The only things not pictured in the key is the mountain habitats, which are grey. And the volcano habitats, which are red dots if you look closely. Please note it's simplified and doesn't include sub-biomes.

A key for the biome map above ,please note that volcanoes habitats, as well as aqueous habitats are not shown in the key.

As stated before, here is a biome map and key for it above. It would be worth to go over the habitats however. Please note that the biome map is simplified and doesn't include many sub-biomes . The map also doesn't include smaller lakes as such. 

Mountain Habitats  - Obvious for their coloration, these habitats have more vegetation sorrounding them however they have differences which makes them alien enough. Often there is a lot of flat areas and plains at higher areas of these mountains, and often vegetation can create low ,forest-esque micro habitats with organisms specialising and living in them.

Volcano habitats - Made a striking colour in order to easily define, these are much like earth's analogous volcano habitats though rich with ancient organisms, which can range from unicellular to classic multicellular life.

Temperate plains - A widespread biome, it is rich within a colonial grass-like photosessilids (plant-analogues to Earth) known as plategrass, reason for its name being that it produces a plate structure that further grows photosynthesising  grass -like organic structures. Some of these can grow a metre tall. Megafauna and other organisms can grow large here. Many flora other than the colonial plategrass find it hard to grow due to the plategrass, hard plate structure . However, other flora managed to adapt and overcome this difficulty and as a result occasional megaflora, such as Tree- analogues, grow. In the way in how these plain ecosystems work will be explored in upcoming entries.

T.D.T.L.F - Short for transitional dense temperate- level forest, it is simply a fancy name for a forest habitat continuing after the range of the denseforest. Sometimes, there is plains and shrublands within these, but there is no plategrass, rather, classic grass-analogues grow here, however, it is mostly forest habitats that are most prevalent in these biomes, not too dissimilar to the many typical forests we see on Earth. Sometimes island habitats may have these types biomes as well due to the small internal lakes and rivers. They also may appear because of small lakes on river on bigger continents, such as the forests of Alto region. 

Dense Forest Temperate - And here is the denseforest we have been mentioning before, this one of less denser denseforest, however it is still dense thanks to the great lake on the continent it resides, which is called Tuaisceart. Denseforests have sprawling vegetation and high amount of biological diversity and specie-level specialisation, making them analogous to a rainforest in that of their features. Each Denseforest has their own species and their own specialisations acutely aligned with their native denseforest, meaning that denseforests are a group of biomes with common features. 

Sub-tropical Denseforest - This resides on the continent Notiodytikia, which a play on words of the words "South-west" from Greek. This is one of the closest habitats and biomes to rainforest and have the most biodiversity and species native to it,due to clouds of nutrient and mineral-rich molecules which pour into the soil as a result of Volcanic erupting.As well water supported by rain. This has resulted in a delicate ecosystem comparable to the Amazons and such. Sub-tropical Denseforests on Megalonotosia  do not reach such biodiversity but they are still classified as Denseforests due to their biodiversity. 

Sub- tropical plains - Similar to Tuaisceartian plains , these also feature great plains of plategrass but certain specialised species have resided on Notiodytikia, as well as grazers and burrowers which are able to pierce through the plate-hard structure structure of the plate grass , like said before, this things will be explored in more detail in upcoming entries.

Transitional Steppe-plains - Steppe here refers to completely unforested, without any occasional tree-analogues or any other photosessilids, curiously, classic grass-esque photosessilids have taken place here, creating a biome that is convergent in manner to Earth's steppes of course with alien additions that will be explored in another time. 

Sub-Tropical Savannah - Savannah in this case refers to a transitional biome between the megalonotosian steppes or plains and the desert habitats, these biomes feature completely different flora and fauna which convergently perform a savannah biome. 

Desert - The desert region is the analogue to the desert habitats found on earth, with extreme variations of temperature between light day and all things which make the desert, along with sparse, extremist flora and fauna.

Post-mountainous Savannah - The 'Savannah ' here is a misnomer , this is a bizzare biomes filled by colonial sponge-like Photosessilid plategrass cousins , which may form reefs of photosynthesising organisms in stark contrast to the grass-like photosessilids which aslo inhabit these plains. There are many species specialised in these reef-like forested micro habitats along with the more open plain grass-type sub-biomes in the Post-Mountainous Savannah. The "Post" is also a misnomer, as the biome forms before the orieverticalan mountains.

Boreal Steppe - The boreal steppe seems to come in transitions between boreal forest and the steppe-plains, they are not too dissimilar to Earthly steppes, however being a lot colder, and the inclusion of again, strange sponge-like reefbuilding colonial photosessilids which provide micro-habitats for many specialised organisms. This, along with the Post-Mountainous savannah, will be explored in later entries. 

Psevdotaiga - A psevdotaiga is the Taiga analogue biome, they are contrasted with reef-building land photosessilids and forested landscapes, making a bizzare biome being rather unique and analogous at the same time. 

Tundra - Similar to Tundras on Earth, they rather interestingly, are dominated by red photosessilids, which seem to have adapted to the  cold environments, here , will be seen red bizzare landscape and truly alien organisms adapted to the cold tundras. 

 Pole Habitats - Whilst similarly enough habitats, these pole caps have increased in size as the planet Eile got older( Eile is about 6 billion years old) , these also feature organisms which inhabit the same niches as Earth organisms do but are completely different.

Habitats and biomes not included in the map:

Cave habitats - Large and spacious cave networks often reside underground, with the gaps of the mountains as their entrances, in which many organisms have adapted to life there, including ancient clades and many unique specialised clades of organisms. 

 

Oceans -Far and wide, they are a place of far more biodiversity, and many species of organisms are found all over the seas repeatedly. They are alien yet familiar at the same time . The oceans have far more organisms and have the far majority of organisms on Eile, not too dissimilar how most life is in the water on earth. 

Lakes and rivers - Lakes and rivers have far more biodiversity and specialisation, since each lake and river has organisms unique to them, making them very peculiar and interesting, grabbing many who live here with intrigue and of course specialisation .

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