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| Gelo seen from space |
The planet has a somewhat similar internal structure and composition Earth has, being only 1.1 Earth's mass.
Both inhabited planets show characteristics of terraformed planets, as the age of the system is barely one and a half billion years old, and the stars are yet in the process of heating as it gets to its mature age, although at a very slow pace to the point of being almost unoticeable during a 10 thousand years timespan.
Since it was a completely barren planet at first, the Captors brought a great variety of plants and plant-eating animals, thus creating a small copy of Earth's ecosystem. Grass and small plants were also brought by the Captors, and they covered a very big part of the continents and thrives to this day, and it is unknown to any researcher if this was their original intent.
PLANETARY HISTORY
The planet was formed around 1.5 billion years ago by the coalescence of smaller pieces in the protoplanetary disk that formed the star. The surface then cooled to form a thin crust of silicates, in a process that took nearly 450 million years. The atmosphere was formed with too much toxic gases, as they were being emitted by the volcanos that erupted by the early stages. However, most of the gases that were trapped inside rocks are argon and neon, and it is unclear what caused this massive buildup of noble gases in the planet's atmosphere.
Over the next 800 million years, the surface and the atmosphere cooled a lot and liquid water acumulated to form the large ocean that now covers 96% of its surface, and the excess of neon was blown away from the planet's atmosphere by the stellar radiation, however retaining most of the argon. By 1.25 billion years after the planet's formation, the atmosphere of the planet begun forming aminoacids and other basic biochemicals, but no lifeform of any kind - not even a virus-analog - came to form, but the surface became plenty of these materials, which made the soil rich for the plants and cianobacteria that were eventually brought by the Captors in the terraforming process.
It is estimated that the terraforming process that the Captors developed was fast, lasting not more than 400 years to complete. Not much is known of how the process was made, but many scientists from around the planet have found traces of nanorobots capable of producing oxygen by breaking down chemicals on the surface that were rich in oxygen - so far they seem to be deactivated. Also, phytoplankton with high oxygen productivity have been found, and they are spread over the entire ocean, resisting even to cold temperatures near the polar seas.
The planet's moon is dense, mostly made of metals such as iron, nickel, lead and gold in its core. It is still volcanically active to this day, and sometimes beautiful plumes can be seen from the planet.
PLANET'S CHARACTERISTICS
Mass: 6.57 x 10^24 kg (1.1 Earth)
Average density: 6.23g/cm³
Diametre: 13,888 km
Composition: 38.1% iron, 21.3% silicon, 14.9% nickel, 25.7% other elements
Gravity: 1.24G
Rotational period: 21.14 Earth hours
Orbital Period: 822.814 days (724.762 Earth days)
Semimajor axis: 239.36 million km
Eccentricity: 0.093 (217.1mi km periapsis, 261.6mi km apoapsis)
Rotational tilt: 26.6°
Surface: 93.08% water, 6.92% land; ~30% polar caps; total area is 605,939,533 km², land area is 41,931,015km².
Atmosphere: 1.26atm (63.6% argon, 22.1% oxygen, 10.1% nitrogen, 1.4% neon, 0.8% carbon dioxide, 2% other gases)
PLANETARY HISTORY
Over the next 800 million years, the surface and the atmosphere cooled a lot and liquid water acumulated to form the large ocean that now covers 96% of its surface, and the excess of neon was blown away from the planet's atmosphere by the stellar radiation, however retaining most of the argon. By 1.25 billion years after the planet's formation, the atmosphere of the planet begun forming aminoacids and other basic biochemicals, but no lifeform of any kind - not even a virus-analog - came to form, but the surface became plenty of these materials, which made the soil rich for the plants and cianobacteria that were eventually brought by the Captors in the terraforming process.
It is estimated that the terraforming process that the Captors developed was fast, lasting not more than 400 years to complete. Not much is known of how the process was made, but many scientists from around the planet have found traces of nanorobots capable of producing oxygen by breaking down chemicals on the surface that were rich in oxygen - so far they seem to be deactivated. Also, phytoplankton with high oxygen productivity have been found, and they are spread over the entire ocean, resisting even to cold temperatures near the polar seas.
The planet's moon is dense, mostly made of metals such as iron, nickel, lead and gold in its core. It is still volcanically active to this day, and sometimes beautiful plumes can be seen from the planet.
PLANET'S CHARACTERISTICS
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| Sunset on Gelo seen from space |
Average density: 6.23g/cm³
Diametre: 13,888 km
Composition: 38.1% iron, 21.3% silicon, 14.9% nickel, 25.7% other elements
Gravity: 1.24G
Rotational period: 21.14 Earth hours
Orbital Period: 822.814 days (724.762 Earth days)
Semimajor axis: 239.36 million km
Eccentricity: 0.093 (217.1mi km periapsis, 261.6mi km apoapsis)
Rotational tilt: 26.6°
Surface: 93.08% water, 6.92% land; ~30% polar caps; total area is 605,939,533 km², land area is 41,931,015km².
Atmosphere: 1.26atm (63.6% argon, 22.1% oxygen, 10.1% nitrogen, 1.4% neon, 0.8% carbon dioxide, 2% other gases)
Albedo: 0.326
Greenhouse effect: 106% of Earth
Temperatures: 291.5K (18.5°C/65.3°F average); 256K (-17°C/1.5°F min.) to 334K (61°C/141.8°F max.)
The planet has only 7% of its surface above the water, being the remaining 93% covered with oceans. Land area covers aproximately 41.9 million km² of the planet's surface, a bit smaller than Asia on Earth; the ocean's surface area is over 564 million km².
There are two large mountains in the planet, known as the Tomim (Twin) Mountains, located at the border between Meshola Yisrel and Saphonat. The biggest is Toma Zarahi (Eastern Twin), being 6,784m high, while Toma Arabi (Western Twin) is 6,439m high.
There are also four large plateaus on the planet, all of them located at the Middle Desert (spanning from Meshola Yisrel, Ekronas and Saphonat and Confederation of Aha'im). The biggest is Rombadet Dekanas (Dagon's Plateau) or Ram Golana (Golan Heights), which is located on the border between Meshola Yisrel and Ekronas, and is 3,490m high, with little variations.
The biggest volcano still active is Volcano Etanat, located at the mountain of the same name in the are of the United Cities Alliance in the Northern continent. It is 2,209m high and becomes active on average twice every decade, releasing molten lava, that usually flows towards the east, increasing the continental landmass little by little.
The planet's moon, Libana (Yisrelit)/Selan (Ekroneké), is half the size of Earth's moon, but orbits four times closer. This allows for beautiful, long duration total solar and lunar eclipses that happen twice every year. In several occasions, there have been major eruptions during an eclipse, mesmerizing the observers with colourful displays above the moon's surface.
LIBANA/SELAN (planet's moon)
Mass: 3.58 x 10^22 kg (48.7% of Earth's Moon)
Average density: 7.35g/cm³
Diametre: 2,103 km
Greenhouse effect: 106% of Earth
Temperatures: 291.5K (18.5°C/65.3°F average); 256K (-17°C/1.5°F min.) to 334K (61°C/141.8°F max.)
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| Surface features. Note the twin mountains marked as white |
There are two large mountains in the planet, known as the Tomim (Twin) Mountains, located at the border between Meshola Yisrel and Saphonat. The biggest is Toma Zarahi (Eastern Twin), being 6,784m high, while Toma Arabi (Western Twin) is 6,439m high.
There are also four large plateaus on the planet, all of them located at the Middle Desert (spanning from Meshola Yisrel, Ekronas and Saphonat and Confederation of Aha'im). The biggest is Rombadet Dekanas (Dagon's Plateau) or Ram Golana (Golan Heights), which is located on the border between Meshola Yisrel and Ekronas, and is 3,490m high, with little variations.
The biggest volcano still active is Volcano Etanat, located at the mountain of the same name in the are of the United Cities Alliance in the Northern continent. It is 2,209m high and becomes active on average twice every decade, releasing molten lava, that usually flows towards the east, increasing the continental landmass little by little.
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| Gelo, Mercator projection |
LIBANA/SELAN (planet's moon)
Mass: 3.58 x 10^22 kg (48.7% of Earth's Moon)
Average density: 7.35g/cm³
Diametre: 2,103 km
Angular diametre (from Gelo): 0.75° (45 arcminutes)
Composition: 69% silicates, 11% oxygen, 9% iron, 7% gold, 4% other elements
Gravity: 0.22G
Rotational period: 3.69 Earth days (4.17 Geloan days, half orbital period)
Orbital period: 7 days, 9 hours and 11 minutes (Earth time); 8 days, 8 hours and 223.7328 parts (Geloan time).
Semimajor axis: 165,624.864 km.
Eccentricity: 0.01 (163,968km periapsis, 167,281km apoapsis).
Atmosphere: 0.013atm (38% sulfur dioxide, 16% hydrogen sulfide, 11% water vapour, 8% carbon dioxide, 3% oxygen, 1% hydrogen, 23% other volcanic gases); atmosphere slowly leaking into space, but being replenished by volcanic gases.
Temperatures: 338K (64.85°C/148.7°F average); 196K (-77.1°C/-106.8°F min.) to 480K (206.8°C/404.3°F max.).
This moon is aproximately half the mass of Earth's moon, but it has more than the double of its density, and as a result the gravity on its surface is aproximately 30% stronger than our Moon's. Although the moon has a slow rotation, it still has a considerable magnetic field protecting it, being nearly 10% that of the planet.
Since it is still in its first billion and a half years, it still has several active volcanos on its surface, that emits dust and gases on the surface. Due to this process, the moon has a very thin atmosphere that is gradually leaking into space, but being replenished by the volcanic gases. Even though all of the countries in Gelo have been space faring to some degree for at least three centuries, no nation ever attempted a landing on the moon because of the dangers posed by the toxic gases and impredictable volcanism.
The ever changing face of the moon has made its way into the cultures of the many people who live on Gelo. For the Ekroneans, Saphoneans and the Canaanite City-States, the moon goddess Ba'alat Anat and her husband Dagon (Be'lat Selan and her husband Dekanas in Ekronean religion) is the responsible for the removal of the humans from their home soil for not being properly worshipped, and since then she's been burning with anger at humans. For the Yisrelite religion, it was a sign made on the sky by G-d to remind them of His anger at His people for going astray and for "looking into the intimacy of G-d's Face without permission" (looking into the Holy Ark). According to an Israelite legend, the moon's cycle lasts exactly a quarter of the time that "the old Moon" (Earth's Moon) took to do a complete cycle.
COUNTRIES
There are ten countries in this planet:
• Yisrel
• Ekronas
• Kingdom of Moab
• Saphonat
Composition: 69% silicates, 11% oxygen, 9% iron, 7% gold, 4% other elements
Gravity: 0.22G
Rotational period: 3.69 Earth days (4.17 Geloan days, half orbital period)
Orbital period: 7 days, 9 hours and 11 minutes (Earth time); 8 days, 8 hours and 223.7328 parts (Geloan time).
Semimajor axis: 165,624.864 km.
Eccentricity: 0.01 (163,968km periapsis, 167,281km apoapsis).
Atmosphere: 0.013atm (38% sulfur dioxide, 16% hydrogen sulfide, 11% water vapour, 8% carbon dioxide, 3% oxygen, 1% hydrogen, 23% other volcanic gases); atmosphere slowly leaking into space, but being replenished by volcanic gases.
Temperatures: 338K (64.85°C/148.7°F average); 196K (-77.1°C/-106.8°F min.) to 480K (206.8°C/404.3°F max.).
This moon is aproximately half the mass of Earth's moon, but it has more than the double of its density, and as a result the gravity on its surface is aproximately 30% stronger than our Moon's. Although the moon has a slow rotation, it still has a considerable magnetic field protecting it, being nearly 10% that of the planet.
Since it is still in its first billion and a half years, it still has several active volcanos on its surface, that emits dust and gases on the surface. Due to this process, the moon has a very thin atmosphere that is gradually leaking into space, but being replenished by the volcanic gases. Even though all of the countries in Gelo have been space faring to some degree for at least three centuries, no nation ever attempted a landing on the moon because of the dangers posed by the toxic gases and impredictable volcanism.
The ever changing face of the moon has made its way into the cultures of the many people who live on Gelo. For the Ekroneans, Saphoneans and the Canaanite City-States, the moon goddess Ba'alat Anat and her husband Dagon (Be'lat Selan and her husband Dekanas in Ekronean religion) is the responsible for the removal of the humans from their home soil for not being properly worshipped, and since then she's been burning with anger at humans. For the Yisrelite religion, it was a sign made on the sky by G-d to remind them of His anger at His people for going astray and for "looking into the intimacy of G-d's Face without permission" (looking into the Holy Ark). According to an Israelite legend, the moon's cycle lasts exactly a quarter of the time that "the old Moon" (Earth's Moon) took to do a complete cycle.
COUNTRIES
• Yisrel
• Ekronas
• Kingdom of Moab
• Saphonat
• People's Republic of Moab
• Timan
• Kingdom of Qedar
• Confederation of the Aha'im
• State of Canaan
• United Canaan
Even though there is a level of unified decisions made by a council for the United Cities Alliance, they are actually independent City-States with their own government but under an alliance similar to the European Union on Earth. Talks have been made in order to turn the UCA into a full-fledged country - if this happens, it will be the second largest economy in the planet, and the strongest military force, a position now held by Ekronas and, from time to time, Meshola Yisrel. Both the coutries of State of Canaan and United Canaan once were independent Phoenician city-states, but they later unified and formed States.
Even though there is a level of unified decisions made by a council for the United Cities Alliance, they are actually independent City-States with their own government but under an alliance similar to the European Union on Earth. Talks have been made in order to turn the UCA into a full-fledged country - if this happens, it will be the second largest economy in the planet, and the strongest military force, a position now held by Ekronas and, from time to time, Meshola Yisrel. Both the coutries of State of Canaan and United Canaan once were independent Phoenician city-states, but they later unified and formed States.
MEASUREMENT UNITS
- Years, months and weeks: On Gelo, the year lasts about 822.8 days. Due to the religious customs, the Israelites divided the year in regular, secondary and final months; first there are 12 regular months, alternating between 29 and 30 days, then there are 12 secondary months mirroring the regular ones, and then the two final months with 31 and 32 days each - also, each month has an additional "initial" and "final" day that are not counted as the rest of the days, thus leaving months with actual 31 and 32 (regulars and secondaries), 33 and 34 days (finals). So, the initial day (which is not counted) tends to be called, for example, "the opening day of the first reguar month" or "the closing day of the third secondary month". This calendar was readily accepted, substituting several more complex methods. See Geloan calendar for more information.
- Day, hours and its subdivisions: The day is divided in 24 hours, now equally distributed throughout the day; each Geloan hour lasts for 53.1 Earth minutes. The Geloan hour is divided in 1080 parts, called [ħa.la.k'in] (Canaanite and Moabite), [ħa.la.k'im] (Israelite) or [xe.la.k'em] (Ekronean), and as such, a Geloan day lasts 25,920 parts; if the Geloans used minutes and seconds, it would be equivalent to 3.33 Geloan seconds (2.95 Earth seconds).
- Sizes and distances: Distances are measured mainly in "cubit" (called [a.m'at]), equivalent to Earth's 0.499 meter; large distances are measured in thousand cubits (equivalent to Earth's 0.499 kilometer). A cubid is divided in 5 "fists" (called [t'a.faħ]; equivalent to 9.98 Earth's centimeters), and each "fist" is divided in 5 "fingers" (called ['et.ba]; equivalent to Earth's 19.96 milimeters), and each "finger" is divided in 10 "seeds" (called [d'e.ra]). There are unofficial measurements units used, such as day's walk (/y'o.ma e.to.ha.le.x'a/ in Ekronean or /y'o.ma de.ha.li.x'a/ in all other languages), equivalent to 50 thousand cubits (nearly 25km), but usually scientists don't use this.
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HISTORY (main article)
The Geloan History is divided in four ages that are marked by important events in Geloan history. The first one, called Ancient Age (1 to 88 A.C: after captivity), begins with the arrival of the human populations on the planet. It was marked by the estabilishment of their identities as separated people and the first cities. It ends when the capital city of the Moabites is fully destroyed and burnt down with its population within, by the hands of the Ekroneans. The world population has barely reached 6 million.
The second, called War Age (89 to 449 A.C), is marked initially by several wars between the nations and civil wars. Also, the first technological race happens during this period due to war efforts. It ends nearly 360 years later, with the first manned spaceflight and the division of the Ekronean nation. The technological level on the planet now is similar to that of the beginning of the 20th century on Earth. The world population has reached 120 million.
The Dark Age (__ to __ A.C) is marked initially by the fast pace of technological development and the rising of religious extremism and religious wars. It wears off around the second half of this age, with first contact between Geloans and Keléshtevadárans. By the end of this age the planet had already surpassed in almost three centuries the current technological level we have on Earth. It ends with the First Interplanetary War, fought between the Meshola Yisrel on Gelo and the the Nomaekelé Empire on Keléshtevadáran/Mezuhar. Population reached 1.8 thousand million.
The Modern Age (__ A.C to now) is marked by a further development of technologies and the first probes to leave the system. A new planet, also inhabited by humans, is discovered by one of these probes, but communications and travel is still hard due to long distances involved. Also, one stellar system is thought to be the homeworld of the population. Population is so far at 4 thousand million, and there are already large space stations that serve as orbital cities.
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ETHNICAL MAKEUP
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| Red: Phoenicians; Orange: Philistines; Blue: Israelites; Purple: Moabites; Green: Ishmaelites. |
There are five distinct ethnic groups living on Gelo: Israelites, Philistines, Phoenicians, Moabites and the Ishmaelites. Four of these groups originated on the Eastern Mediterranean coast region on Earth; the Ishmaelites, although originated from the Arabic Peninsula, were merchants who used to travel to the Mediterranean cities in order to trade, and possibly were taken by the Captors as a mistake – the reason for this theory is because they were not separated in their own group in the “original city” but were rather mixed among the Moabites and the Philistines.
The Phoenicians are originated from the coastal areas of modern Lebanon and southwest Syria, well before the domination of the Assyrians. They didn't comprise of a cental government, rather they were a group of several city-states with a loose sense of shared identity. Their influence, however, was very wtrong in the areas to the south, to the point of influencing the Philistine and Moabite religions and languages.
The Israelites are originated from Israel, well before the establishment of the monarchy. They live mostly in Yisrel and Saphonat, but there are Israelites living also in Kingdom of Qedar, United Canaan and State of Canaan. Israelites are prohibited from living in the Moabite countries and Ekronas. Although Yisrel and Saphonat separated due to religious reasons and even fought themselves at least five times, now they live in peace and are allies, mainly due to the ethnic origins.
The Philistines are originated from the five main cities of the Philistines on Earth. They don’t call themselves as Philistines, but rather as either Ekroneans or Aha’ites (relating to the countries of Ekronas and Confederation of the Aha’im, respectively) and, before the Philistine nations were established, they called themselves according to the name of the city they were born, without a name that included their entire ethnic group. The Israelites and the Phoenicians call them “palishtim” (invaders) since the time of the Sea People invasions on Earth.
The Moabites are originated from the southern region of the Levant, and on Earth they were at the southern Israelite border. It is believed that some Amalekites were among the first Moabites on Gelo, but this theory was never confirmed. Initially, they lived under a single nation, called Kingdom of Moab. Then it split in two, forming the People’s Republic of Moab to the east. Later, these two countries fought a war over the provinces that were between them, which resulted in the eastern provinces of the Kingdom of Moab uniting with the PRM’s Western State and forming the State of Timan, an independent nation. Both the KOM and PRM tried to attack and regain control over Timan, leading to an alliance with both Yisrel and the Kingdom of Qedar, which forced the KOM to recognise Timan’s borders, ending the war on the western front; the PRM signed a ceasefire, but the war never officially ended.
The Ishmaelites are the smallest ethnic group on the planet. They were left among the Moabites and the Philistines, but inevitably they were assimilated to some extent because all the first Ishmaelites on Gelo were males only. They lived mixed among the other people until the end of the first Israelite War of Independence, when they migrated to the newly formed Memshal Yisrael, being accepted on the account of their origin being from the common patriarch Abraham. Lately, the Israelites helped their cousins to establish a country in the south, forming the Kingdom of Qedar (which is the oldest country on the planet to retain its sovereignty).
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