Out of the night, a mysterious ship filled with people from a different universe comes to Mobius. A shocked princess is intrigued by these people and decides to learn as much as she can about them. History has been changed, and she's along for the ride.
Journal of Sally Acorn Date: October 18, 3234 Entry Made 1832 (6:32 PM)
Dear Journal,
Well, I'm convinced that Hell has a piece of Eden orbiting it. We're at Deneb, a massive white giant three hundred times the mass of Sol. I just can't wrap my head around it. I've seen Arcturus. Arcturus was big, no doubt. This though, this is unfathomable. Now, when I say Eden, I mean the only habitable planet in this system, and that is barely habitable.
Brunaji is a world lucky to be in one piece given this planet's history. Its atmosphere contains the bare limit of oxygen needed to support Human life. It's a tidally locked planet, meaning that only one side gets sunlight and the other doesn't. The side we are not on is an inferno of bubbling tectonic material, a liquefied crust, and sunblasted winds. The heat that we are feeling comes directly from the sunward side. Since this sun is so big, Brunaji is actually in a state of constant twilight with sunlight we can get from the other side of the planet.
The capital planet on this city is called Luka. It has a population of 114,000 people who specialize in farming and scientific study of Deneb. The main source of vegetation on this rock is the naturally growing Denebia plant, which looks somewhat like lettuce, except it glows a bit in strong UV light due to a chemical in it. It tastes great in soups too!
Brunaji's main terrain, even in this environment, is rolling hills. A unique plant on this world called the Tulipa Denebus reacts in the UV light that leaks around the world's horizon. It glows in lavender light which is beautiful to look at. I found myself at a balcony of the hotel I was at just staring into the wilderness trying to count the waving lights for as far as I could see. It was breathtaking. Everything was perfect. The sunlight, the environment, the air temperature.
I wish Sonic was here. He could see all that this place had to offer.
If only he didn't dislike Humans so much. He probably doesn't see what they're capable of yet. I have to say that I didn't think he was this big of a nitpicker when it came to aliens. I guess it makes sense once you consider that nobody on our planet has ever seen an alien aside from Chao.
And I don't think anybody ever thought THOSE were threatening.
Luka is laid out just like any other city with suburbs and a city center which is connected by walkways and monorails. There are also peculiar spots in the city called D-Chargers. I learned from reading an informative information panel that these were places where people paid to visit areas that charged one's Vitamin D so that people remained cheery when I talked to them. Come to think of it, I wonder what the lack of sunlight would do to people. I know that if it were that much of a problem, people would move closer to the terminator and just suck up the sun there. Nah, but even then they could be exposing themselves to extremely high temperature.
I'm in one of the city's recreational areas, a park where a fountain is behaving most curiously. Apparently, there is an anti-gravity generator that blasts a short wave of water from one side of a seemingly flat panel to the other. Turns out, there panels are actually water that have been forced to one side by alternate gravity directions!
Damn, I got to get one of those.
Tomorrow... I guess, we head out into the forests to see if we can reach what the locals think of as a spiritual spot. Five hundred years ago, a group of Jesuits left the city to build a church in the middle of the forest. According to legend, the tree they built it around was a gigantic thing that glowes entirely! The trees, the trunk, and even the branches! I don't know how such a thing is possible, but the legend stated that the tree was in a natural clearing, as if God had swept away the forest just for them!
I don't know about God tilling away at the land like that, but I think I have to see for myself if this legend is real or not. They can put it on Sobel's tab for all I care! Ha!
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