Planet Nauru: A Chronicle [WIP]

[The Core]

II - Geography

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DIAMETER: 9,145 km.
MASS: 5.05 x 10e24 kg.
TERRAIN: Terrestrial
TEMPERATURE: 18°C to 52°C
ESCAPE VELOCITY: 9.1 km/sec

Through strenuous effort the vast majority of the hydrogen sulphide was neutralised from the Planet's atmosphere. Ironically however, whilst the concentration of hydrogen sulphide stood flat at 0.0051pm throughout the entire Planet's atmosphere, the further meddling with the Planet's atmosphere in an attempt to remove it fully resulted in extremely toxic, yet small, pockets forming at various points across the Planet's surface. Currently none of these are near any Core settlements and via combined efforts with the Canaan Zoner Group The Core hopes to eventually eliminate them in the next several years.

Via building upon the efforts done by the Corsair, Order and Zoner settlers before them, The Core has currently been able to develop across 48% of the Planet's surface. This 48% is composed of human settlements and cities, as well as a very large network of solar panels used to gather and store light from Delta's three suns and convert it to energy later. The remaining 52% is either desert wilderness, or populated with alien ruins.

Nauru lacks any sort of rivers, oceans or lakes, however underneath the Planet's crust lies many underground lakes. Via this, throughout The Core settlements artificial lakes and rivers may be found. Around the lakes The Core has begun to establish artificial beaches in preparation for a potential tourism industry on Nauru.

Much of the Nauru terrain is composed of sand dunes and sandy hills. Spread across its surface are mountains composed of sandstone and iridium. The highest point on Planet Nauru is Mt. Caesar. The Core has established mining bases across the mountain to extract iridium from the crust.

Climate

The vast majority of Planet Nauru's climate is dry, arid and full of sunshine. Temperatures sit at around 36 degrees Celsius, at lowest have been 22 degrees Celsius and have been known to rise to 60 degrees Celsius in areas where the Delta suns focus onto. Although clouds do form, precipitation is extremely rare. Last recorded rainfall was in 818 A.S, which lasted for approximately 2 hours. Prevailing desert winds sweep across the Planet's surface - reaching speeds of up to 74 MPH. Winter is non-existent on the Planet and snow has never been recorded by any generation of settlers.

Weather is pretty much static across the Planet. However during expeditions some parties have reported intense sandstorm; composed of sand twisters, grains of iridium and glass, dangerous winds and most impressive but oddly of all, lightning. If such a storm occurs nearby personnel are advised to seek shelter immediately. It has been recorded that upon areas where the storm-bound lightning strikes, patches of glass are formed at the impact site.

Administrative Sectors

The entirety of Planet Nauru is overseen by the Omicronis military Government based at Athenia City. Within the Government, branches oversee each section of the Core settlements. Currently, there exist 4 branches that control roughly 25% of the settlements each as sectors. These are Sector Alpha, Sector Beta, Sector Gamma and Sector Delta.

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