Junthor

	Junthor ; Milky Way / Armstrong Nebula / Gagarin
	Planet View
Orbital Distance:	N/A
Orbital Period:	0.2 Earth Years
Keplerian Ratio:	N/A
Radius:	10,480 km
Day Length:	56.7 Earth Hours
Atm. Pressure:	0.96 atm
Surface Temp:	-49 °C
Surface Gravity:	0.98 g
Mass:	2.626 Earth Masses
Satellites:	N/A

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Location: Milky Way / Armstrong Nebula / Gagarin System / First planet

[edit] Description

Junthor is a large terrestrial planet with a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide and chlorine. The surface is mainly composed of aluminum with deposits of nickel.

Surveyors found the ruins of a technical civilization near the equator – evidently the colony of an ancient spacefaring race. The ruins had subsided to almost nothing – merely wind hollowed husks of arcologies and other megastructures. In the center of the ruins was a single column whose inscriptions defied translation for several centuries.

When asari linguists finally managed a translation, the elaborate relief carvings said merely, "Walk among these works, and know our greatness." The crude scratches on the base of the reverse side said, "Monsters from the id."

[edit] Survey Text

Scans revealed a wrecked freighter orbiting one of Junthor's moons. A recon team found no signs of life, but they did recover one of Matriarch Dilinaga's writings.

[edit] Assignments

Collection: UNC: Asari Writings: Matriarch's Writings ×1

[edit] Properties

Junthor has at least three moons of varying sizes, all likely smaller than Luna.

Junthor is about half the distance from its sun as Mercury is from ours. The ice giant Pressha orbits at 2.3 times the distance of Junthor from its sun. Beyond that is the Rayingri / Vahtz double system. If Rayingri is temperate, for Junthor to have a stable orbit Junthor would have to be tidally locked to the sun and be very close to it; added to the carbon dioxide greenhouse, the temperature of this planet is unrealistic.

Also, chlorine is so reactive that there has to be something replenishing it in the atmosphere, either some kind of exotic flora or else a malfunctioning factory.

[edit] Trivia

The relief carvings on the column carry an echo of Percy Bysshe Shelly's poem Ozymandias:

And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

The phrase "Monsters from the id" may be a reference to the classic sci-fi film, Forbidden Planet, where a scientist's darker impulses, despite his genius, threaten everyone around him. It may also be a homage to id Software, the creators of Doom.