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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