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Gaia is the planet that humans were seeking when they sent the first expeditions to deep space. It’s a super-Earth, a rocky planet three times Earth and with full support to human life. No breathing masks are needed for humans, no protection devices or controlled environments, it’s a planet were humanity could start again.

Scientists say that a planet like that is almost impossible to find, so the Ghast got a jackpot. And ERCC is there to claim it and secure for all humans, struggling on Mars, a safe heaven were they can live again. For a price.

Technically speaking, Gaia is a very new planet, in a stage analog to Earth in the Cambrian period. It has most of the surface covered by a shallow sea and a single continent, called Pangea. The atmosphere is thick and mostly oxygen, so any earth animal can breathe easily. Water vapor is also common in the atmosphere, allowing the formation of mist, clouds and fog.

Seismologically, the planet is very stabile, with rare tremors or quakes. It has just two tectonic plates, and they almost don’t move, allowing the magma to flow freely in a series of volcanoes near the equatorial area.

The planet has two moons, Nyx and Erebus. They were once smaller planets, captured by Gaia’s weak gravitational field and held in geostationary orbit. Nyx is almost the size of Mercury, and Erebus is a bit smaller, and both are barren dead planets, with a cold mantle and stationary core. Their surface is mostly carbon and metals, mostly in form of a thin dust. The solar winds of Persephone reflects on the dust and moves it within the thin atmosphere of both moons, creating a beautiful glowing effect that can be seen from Gaia’s surface.

As Gaia, Nyx and Erebus have weak gravity (Nyx have 0,3g and Erebus 0,22g), they are sometime taken out of their orbit by Charon. When Charon (or Draco) is in the sky, the planet and its moons deviate some kilometers from their standard orbit, the temperature rises and the pressure falls. Nothing so drastic that can cause much harm, but it’s comparable to a “summer season” in Earth. When the nearby planet goes away, Gaia backs to its orbit and the temperatures fall.

This movement, together with the moons influence, makes the ocean to have violent tidal waves. In most part, it’s a shallow ocean, with less than 500m deep in most of its extension, and the water have high carbon concentration, that makes it “gaseous” and with a strange taste. Salt is rare in the planet, as sodium is also rare, so the ocean isn’t really salty like Earth’s oceans were once.

The soil is mostly formed by soft wet black sand, made of silica and carbon (mostly from the moons). Metals are also uncommon, and most of the planet underground is just carbon and silica in various combinations. Diamonds can be found at deep pits, and graffiti is common at the ground level. Mountain chains are common, and most of times the valleys are ancient craters, made billion of years ago by a meteor impact. The shape of Pangea allows the sea to “enter” inside the continent, making the entire planet very wet, with common occurrence of clouds, mist and rain.

The hot and wet air makes it good for vegetable grown. Most of edible vegetables needs fertilizers because of the poor ground of Gaia, but lot of trees and small vegetables were successfully introduced to the planet’s wilderness. Most of Pangea is a huge dense rainforest, with big areas of plantation and cattle farming. The ocean is also a good source of cianobacteria, and other algae and fish were successfully introduced there too.

Description
Gaia is the planet that humans were seeking when they sent the first expeditions to deep space. It’s a super-Earth, a rocky planet three times Earth and with full support to human life. No breathing masks are needed for humans, no protection devices or controlled environments, it’s a planet were humanity could start again.

Scientists say that a planet like that is almost impossible to find, so the Ghast got a jackpot. And ERCC is there to claim it and secure for all humans, struggling on Mars, a safe heaven were they can live again. For a price.

Technically speaking, Gaia is a very new planet, in a stage analog to Earth in the Cambrian period. It has most of the surface covered by a shallow sea and a single continent, called Pangea. The atmosphere is thick and mostly oxygen, so any earth animal can breathe easily. Water vapor is also common in the atmosphere, allowing the formation of mist, clouds and fog.

Seismologically, the planet is very stabile, with rare tremors or quakes. It has just two tectonic plates, and they almost don’t move, allowing the magma to flow freely in a series of volcanoes near the equatorial area.

The planet has two moons, Nyx and Erebus. They were once smaller planets, captured by Gaia’s weak gravitational field and held in geostationary orbit. Nyx is almost the size of Mercury, and Erebus is a bit smaller, and both are barren dead planets, with a cold mantle and stationary core. Their surface is mostly carbon and metals, mostly in form of a thin dust. The solar winds of Persephone reflects on the dust and moves it within the thin atmosphere of both moons, creating a beautiful glowing effect that can be seen from Gaia’s surface.

As Gaia, Nyx and Erebus have weak gravity (Nyx have 0,3g and Erebus 0,22g), they are sometime taken out of their orbit by Charon. When Charon (or Draco) is in the sky, the planet and its moons deviate some kilometers from their standard orbit, the temperature rises and the pressure falls. Nothing so drastic that can cause much harm, but it’s comparable to a “summer season” in Earth. When the nearby planet goes away, Gaia backs to its orbit and the temperatures fall.

This movement, together with the moons influence, makes the ocean to have violent tidal waves. In most part, it’s a shallow ocean, with less than 500m deep in most of its extension, and the water have high carbon concentration, that makes it “gaseous” and with a strange taste. Salt is rare in the planet, as sodium is also rare, so the ocean isn’t really salty like Earth’s oceans were once.

The soil is mostly formed by soft wet black sand, made of silica and carbon (mostly from the moons). Metals are also uncommon, and most of the planet underground is just carbon and silica in various combinations. Diamonds can be found at deep pits, and graffiti is common at the ground level. Mountain chains are common, and most of times the valleys are ancient craters, made billion of years ago by a meteor impact. The shape of Pangea allows the sea to “enter” inside the continent, making the entire planet very wet, with common occurrence of clouds, mist and rain.

The hot and wet air makes it good for vegetable grown. Most of edible vegetables needs fertilizers because of the poor ground of Gaia, but lot of trees and small vegetables were successfully introduced to the planet’s wilderness. Most of Pangea is a huge dense rainforest, with big areas of plantation and cattle farming. The ocean is also a good source of cianobacteria, and other algae and fish were successfully introduced there too.