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Description
Sector: Abyssal Wall
System: Thyris
Star: Zeus
Gravity: 5.711 m/s²
Satellites:
Tallia - Moon
Revolution: 198 Earth Days
Rotation: 19 Earth Hours
The map is more from a human point of view, rather than a Nalariid one. That isn't to say that Nalariids don't have maps of their planet, being a highly advanced race they of course do, but they aren't simple for Humans to understand. So the E.A.M.R took the liberty of creating a Human friendly version, with help of course.
This sadly means there's a lot of rich information missing from it as of yet, but as the away teams continue to explore, the map will always be updated.
Preliminary scans show that the planet is almost 3x the size of Earth, and boasts features that dwarf any known to humans, such as the Hildi Volcano that makes Mt Everest like a hill by comparison. In spite of Thereias size the planet has quite a low gravitational pull, allowing for such features to spring up, it also allows for its inhabitants to grow far larger than life on Earth.
There is also very little tectonic plate boundaries upon the large continent mass, making it somewhat flat, aside from craters or the occasional giant cliff or lake. This, coupled with the planets high Axial Precession (which always keeps the equator aligned with the sun), makes the mainland a vast desert, with land towards the poles being cool enough to support plant life. This sadly means there is also very little change in seasons.
The planet also enjoys a shorter day/night cycle due to its slow rotation speed, and a much shorter year from its slower orbital speed.
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Obviously its a pretty basic geographic map of Thereia, I might put a political map up soon to show more information on the Scathis and Nelem territories, but as is I think this is enough for now. More information on the cities and areas to follow.
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Your description is a little confusing. You say two different things:
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Revolution: 198 Earth Days
Rotation: 19 Earth Hours
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The planet also enjoys a longer day/night cycle due to its slow rotation speed, and a much longer year from its slower orbital speed.
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Rotation is the day/night cycle. One rotation is a single day (including the night). So a 19 earth hr day would mean that the days are shorter (and for a planet that size, it would have to be spinning rather quickly as well, thus possibly affecting the weather to some degree, like stronger winds in upper atmosphere). Revolution is the time it takes to make a complete cycle around their sun/star. And if it takes 198 earth days to make a year/revolution on Thereia, then that is much shorter than the 365 days in an earth year.
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Woops! Thanks for catching that, its meant to have a shorter day night cycle but I guess my mind was elsewhere. 
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LOL No problem, I am a little bit of a geek when it comes to the planets and space and things like that, because I love that stuff and also having planned to actually become an astronomer when I was in high school (but changed my mind for various reasons). But I still love that stuff and tend to get a little nerdy when people post stats on planets they share on dA. I read your description and saw that and was like "whuuuuuut?"
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Sorry, I noticed the same thing.
"The planet also enjoys a shorter day/night cycle due to its slow rotation speed, and a much shorter year from its slower orbital speed."
should probably be
"The planet also enjoys a shorter day/night cycle due to its QUICK rotation speed, and a much shorter year from its FASTER orbital speed."
Unless it's orbiting counter to the spin.
A couple problems arise with the faster spin cycle and multiple moons. Those features would help generate stresses inside the planet, which means a high level of tectonic activity, even if the planet is far away from its star. With such a large planet and high spin, a strong central bulge around the equator is likely, but with all those tectonic stresses the geography should be more variegated.
The features on your map show a geological history where stellar collisions created the most fantastical features, similar to the Hellenic Basin and Olympus Mons, and where tectonic plate movements are confined to specific areas, such as the Valles Marineris; in other words, a world with a geologic history much like Mars. That suggests a cooler, smaller planet.
Is their a reason the planet has to be larger than earth? I think if you made the planet somewhat smaller, orbiting farther away from Zeus, then you'd solve the problems caused by the size and moon-induced stresses.
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I think the moons probably orbit quite far away from the planet, or have more elliptical orbital patterns, so they aren't always exerting forces on the surface. Hell, I don't know though, I'm not into planetary sciences and just looked a bunch of stuff up on wikipedia. 
Sorry for the late reply, your message didn't show up in my inbox.
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