https://avalikin.wiki/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges Track the most recent changes to the wiki in this feed. en MediaWiki 1.45.3 Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:11:30 GMT https://avalikin.wiki/w/index.php?title=Magnus&diff=342&oldid=339 https://avalikin.wiki/w/index.php?title=Magnus&diff=342&oldid=339 <p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:51, 8 September 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="diff-multi" lang="en">(One intermediate revision by the same user not shown)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l53">Line 53:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 53:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Near side ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Near side ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Magnus is tidally locked to Solakku, with the day side receiving an average of 97.7kW/m² of solar flux, heating it to up to 1200K, the point of minerals with lower melting points softening or melting entirely. The molten mineral naturally flows to fill depressions in the terrain, most prominently impact craters, creating a distinctive appearance of liquid mineral filled lakes and oceans, colloquially referred to as "lava oceans". This is technically a misnomer as the liquid stems from melting by solar radiation, rather than volcanic activity, which does occur on Magnus.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Magnus is tidally locked to Solakku, with the day side receiving an average of 97.7kW/m² of solar flux, heating it to up to 1200K, the point of minerals with lower melting points softening or melting entirely. The molten mineral naturally flows to fill depressions in the terrain, most prominently impact craters, creating a distinctive appearance of liquid mineral filled lakes and oceans, colloquially referred to as "lava oceans". This is technically a misnomer as the liquid stems from melting by solar radiation, rather than volcanic activity, which does <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">not </ins>occur on Magnus.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Minerals with a higher melting point still soften under the intense heat, making the surface of Magnus relatively smooth on the Solakku-facing side, as any steep terrain features would shrink or collapse under their own weight. This process gradually erases all impact craters as well, with even smaller craters smoothing over in just a few years.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Minerals with a higher melting point still soften under the intense heat, making the surface of Magnus relatively smooth on the Solakku-facing side, as any steep terrain features would shrink or collapse under their own weight. This process gradually erases all impact craters as well, with even smaller craters smoothing over in just a few years.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l61">Line 61:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 61:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Far side ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Far side ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Magnus’ far side is in perpetual darkness, allowing it to cool and solidify. Larger structures such as mountains can theoretically exist here, but very few examples of such terrain features can be found, with most having been created by impactors, as their craters are not erased by heat on this side. Further surface analysis also <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">showed </del>large basins of solid igneous rock surrounded by cool but porous metamorphic rock, which suggests that the surface on this side was also once subjected to intense heat and melted in the same manner as the Solakku-facing side.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Magnus’ far side is in perpetual darkness, allowing it to cool and solidify. Larger structures such as mountains can theoretically exist here, but very few examples of such terrain features can be found, with most having been created by impactors, as their craters are not erased by heat on this side. Further surface analysis also <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shows </ins>large basins of solid igneous rock surrounded by cool but porous metamorphic rock, which suggests that the surface on this side was also once subjected to intense heat and melted in the same manner as the Solakku-facing side.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This appears impossible at first glance due to the tidally-locked nature of Magnus, however, a particularly large basin surrounded by displaced material found on the northern hemisphere on this side was determined to be the result of a particularly large impact. It is thus hypothesized that this impact imparted enough energy onto Magnus laterally to slightly impact its angular velocity. Tidal forces would have synchronized the planet’s rotation period to its orbital period again within a few hundred years, re-establishing the tidal lock, but would’ve induced a small drift of the the planet’s orientation relative to Solakku by at least 180°, flipping the day and night sides.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This appears impossible at first glance due to the tidally-locked nature of Magnus, however, a particularly large basin surrounded by displaced material found on the northern hemisphere on this side was determined to be the result of a particularly large impact. It is thus hypothesized that this impact imparted enough energy onto Magnus laterally to slightly impact its angular velocity. Tidal forces would have synchronized the planet’s rotation period to its orbital period again within a few hundred years, re-establishing the tidal lock, but would’ve induced a small drift of the the planet’s orientation relative to Solakku by at least 180°, flipping the day and night sides.</div></td></tr> </table> Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:51:45 GMT Tholin https://avalikin.wiki/w/index.php?title=Talk:Magnus https://avalikin.wiki/w/index.php?title=Avalon&diff=340&oldid=337 https://avalikin.wiki/w/index.php?title=Avalon&diff=340&oldid=337 <p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:39, 8 September 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l56">Line 56:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 56:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Natural History ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Natural History ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Avalon formed approximately 2.31 billion years ago, shortly after its parent planet. Similarly to the planets, it coalesced out of a disk of gas and dust, though it formed inside a smaller disk orbiting Valaya, rather than the larger protoplanetary disk surrounding Solakku, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">though </del>the material composing the former <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">would have </del>been captured from the latter.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Avalon formed approximately 2.31 billion years ago, shortly after its parent planet. Similarly to the planets, it coalesced out of a disk of gas and dust, though it formed inside a smaller disk orbiting Valaya, rather than the larger protoplanetary disk surrounding Solakku, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with </ins>the material composing the former <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">having </ins>been captured from the latter.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The atmosphere of Avalon would’ve formed later from volcanic activity and outgassing, though its initial thickness <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">would’ve been </del>thinner than it is today. After formation, Avalon’s surface rapidly cooled, causing volatile ices, including water and ammonia, to freeze solid. However, pockets of water, having condensed out of the atmosphere during this cooling process, formed underground, where they were kept liquid by tidal heating and geothermal heat.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The atmosphere of Avalon would’ve formed later from volcanic activity and outgassing, though its initial thickness <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was </ins>thinner than it is today. After formation, Avalon’s surface rapidly cooled, causing volatile ices, including water and ammonia, to freeze solid. However, pockets of water, having condensed out of the atmosphere during this cooling process, formed underground, where they were kept liquid by tidal heating and geothermal heat.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>These underground oceans were left isolated until 1.6 billion years ago, during which time the first Prokaryotic cells would’ve developed around geothermal vents and spread out from there. At the same time, Solakku’s luminosity had been slowly increasing, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">together with </del>volcanic activity <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">enriching </del>the atmosphere <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">above </del>with greenhouse gases, leading to temperatures rising to above the melting point of ammonia. Eventually, geological activity caused the forming ammonia surface oceans to make contact with the underground water oceans, causing them to mix. This process is known as The Great Nitrification event and lasted until 1.3 billion years ago, when Avalon’s surface temperature largely stabelized and the two sets of oceans became fully mixed with each other.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>These underground oceans were left isolated until 1.6 billion years ago, during which time the first Prokaryotic cells would’ve developed around geothermal vents and spread out from there. At the same time, Solakku’s luminosity had been slowly increasing, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">all the while </ins>volcanic activity <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">enriched </ins>the atmosphere <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of Avalon </ins>with greenhouse gases, leading to temperatures rising to above the melting point of ammonia. Eventually, geological activity caused the forming ammonia surface oceans to make contact with the underground water oceans, causing them to mix. This process is known as The Great Nitrification event and lasted until 1.3 billion years ago, when Avalon’s surface temperature largely stabelized and the two sets of oceans became fully mixed with each other.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At the time, the average composition of the oceans would’ve been more skewed towards a higher ammonia content than today, with geological evidence suggesting a ammonia content as high as 80%. The early, water-based life would’ve been forced to adapt to the sudden presence of Ammonia, a toxic substance for those early cells, causing a mass-extinction event out of which the first ammonia-based single-celled organisms emerged. These Prokaryotes would then go on to become the common ancestor to all modern life on Avalon.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At the time, the average composition of the oceans would’ve been more skewed towards a higher ammonia content than today, with geological evidence suggesting a ammonia content as high as 80%. The early, water-based life would’ve been forced to adapt to the sudden presence of Ammonia, a toxic substance for those early cells, causing a mass-extinction event out of which the first ammonia-based single-celled organisms emerged. These Prokaryotes would then go on to become the common ancestor to all modern life on Avalon.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l66">Line 66:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 66:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is believed that a number of these cells left their natural environment, floating upwards through the tunnels connecting the oceans until reaching the surface, where they quickly adapted to make use of starlight from Solakku as an energy source. These photosynthetic cells produced oxygen as a byproduct, initiating the Great Oxygenation Event, lasting 600 million years, during which carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was converted to oxygen. This, combined with the outgassing and evaporation caused by the rise in surface temperature, eventually transformed Avalon’s atmosphere towards the composition and thickness it has today.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is believed that a number of these cells left their natural environment, floating upwards through the tunnels connecting the oceans until reaching the surface, where they quickly adapted to make use of starlight from Solakku as an energy source. These photosynthetic cells produced oxygen as a byproduct, initiating the Great Oxygenation Event, lasting 600 million years, during which carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was converted to oxygen. This, combined with the outgassing and evaporation caused by the rise in surface temperature, eventually transformed Avalon’s atmosphere towards the composition and thickness it has today.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>About 1.3 billion years ago, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">about </del>halfway through the Great Oxygenation Event, the first Eukaryotic cells developed and filled the oceans. The first multi-cellular life developed much later, about 900 million years ago.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>About 1.3 billion years ago, halfway through the Great Oxygenation Event, the first Eukaryotic cells developed and filled the oceans. The first multi-cellular life developed much later, about 900 million years ago.</div></td></tr> </table> Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:39:48 GMT Tholin https://avalikin.wiki/w/index.php?title=Talk:Avalon