Lexicon
Lexicon was the first planet in the Lexicon system. The harsh, inhospitable, rocky, dim, ringed, and high-gravity homeworld of the Lexiconians, the planet was known as Lekcaekon in the Lexiconian language, Lehkcia. It had an highly unusual planetary rotation, in which the planet spun three times for every two years, making the day and night cycle extremely long.
It was at the junction of a major commercial lane, making it an ancient, important, and wealthy commerce, trading, and economic center of the galaxy with major political influence and sway over many star systems and the entire sector (of which it was the capitol), as a result heavily involved in galactic politics and affairs for centuries. It was also best known and famous as a renowned major university, education, and research center.
The world was blanketed in cold, harsh tundras and plains, several mountain ranges with short heights, and numerous domed cities. It was also the only known world in the galaxy to possess the unique, nearly indestructible ore known as Lexiconian Steel, or Narsil in Lehkcia, an ore capable of withstanding direct blows from a blaster shot or energy weapon and was one of the very few things that could pierce a Lexiconian's skin and draw blood even if they were charged.
Description
A large, dim, and cold planet that orbited a cool and old red dwarf named Roalas, it hugged the star extremely close, for its orbit was only twenty-seven standard days, and was the first planet in orbit. Lexicon possessed a thick and dense atmosphere, which was somewhat uncomfortable, but breathable. The thick and dense atmosphere, which was due to the high gravity, circulated heat around the planet, making it possible for liquid water, therefore life, to exist, retained and held on to important gases, and also blocked some of the radiation from Roalas. The distance from its star was 0. AU, which. Its mass was. It had a small, narrow, two ring planetary ring system, which was called gi'Waad Ycano that was composed of rock and dust and also was orbited by one small moon, Wordadun. It had an artic, arid climate, with the average temperatures -40°C to -33.3°C in the night and 2.8°C to 12.2°C when Roalas is at full height and fixed in position. The lowest ever temperature recorded on Lexicon is −50°C, whereas the highest ever temperature was 15.5°C. The tundra received approximately 15 to 25 centimeters of precipitation each solar day, which includes both rainfall/snowfall and melting snow and ice. Lexicon was a world covered in vast expanses of frigid, inhospitable, and harsh tundra and plains, which was by largely flat. The expanses were interrupted by several mountain ranges, which were short in height and more leveled out, around 914.4 - 1219.2 meters due to the higher gravity. The valleys were the more hospitable places. During the twenty-seven days Roalas is in the sky, temperatures rise somewhat, and the top layer of yearly frozen soil melts, leaving the ground very soggy and also leaving vast portions of the tundra covered in marshes, lakes, bogs, and streams during that time period. Other than that, there was little to no surface water on the planet. Lexicon was classified as high-gravity world as its surface gravity was 1.8 g. 1.8 g though was almost the uppermost threshold that a human could handle when it came to high gravity planets, which earned the planet the nickname of 'High-Grav Hell'. Additionaly, there were no flying and gliding animals, like birds, that evolved on Lexicon because.Lexicon's Unusual Orbit
Lexicon has an extremely unusual and extremely odd orbit. Basically Lexicon is permenantly locked into a 2:3 orbit resonance with Roalas. In other words, Lexicon spins three times for every two orbits around Roalas. Because of this, if you were on the surface of Lexicon, Roalas would pass overhead once every two orbits around Roalas, or Earth days. A solar day (day to night cycle or noon to noon) on Lexicon takes two Lexiconian years, which is fifty-four Earth days. It takes Lexicon about eighteen Earth days to spin once on its axis (the rotation period), and about twenty-seven Earth days to complete one orbit about Roalas (one Lexiconian year). Due to the unusual day and night rotation period, their days and nights are extremely long and there are long, long periods where Roalas simply isn’t in the sky. For almost one standard month (Earth time), Roalas does not appear in the sky. Also, Roalas does not move across the sky at a consistent rate. It stops moving for long periods of time and gets stuck in a fixed position. It then would start moving again, signaling that night is coming. As a result of the extremely long days and nights, Lexiconians, as well as the rest of Lexiconian life, have developed the ability to absorb and store solar energy and thus charge, resulting in their legendary charging abilities.Geologic Activity and Geology
Lexicon is a moderately geologically active world, but with slow, sluggish, highly predictable movements occuring very slowly. The planet has stagnant-lid tectonics, as it has no tectonic plates at all, for the even though the mantle is molten and hot. In it's formation and earliest years, Lexicon had heat-pipe tectonics - basically plumes of hot magma rising through the mantle and bursting through the crust here and there across the surface. Magma will flow up through the punctures—“heat pipes”—for a time, flooding over the surface and forming volcanic highlands for a while, until the mantle is locally cooled and so the flow stops and the heat pipes are filled in with solid rock. However since Lexicon is a high-gravity world, the ridges and plains are highly flattened and leveled off, leading to very little altitude gains and an overall level of same height except for the mountain ranges. Currently, Lexicon has drip-and-plume tectonics, but is generally slower and less mobile. A mantle plume may rise in one region of the planet and then continue a slow rate of volcanism there for billions of years.Lexicon
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