Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1301 - 494: Eternal Night and Eternal Day (Part 2)

However, this cunning division chief concealed a crucial piece of information: this strange planet barely rotates, much like the Moon.

It is not a standard sphere, but rather resembles a slightly flattened pancake.

A peculiar tidal locking phenomenon has formed between South Nine C and the South Nine Star.

One side of South Nine C is completely fixed, facing the gigantic star of South Nine with total lock.

This characteristic creates extremely unique natural landscapes on South Nine C.

The illuminated side experiences perpetual daytime, while the side hidden behind is in eternal night.

There is a massive temperature difference between the two sides, with the temperature in the central focal point of the illuminated side reaching thousands of degrees Celsius, and the surface melting into a perpetually boiling lava structure.

Sustained high temperatures over such a long period cause these regions to continually generate an astonishing amount of plasma, with brilliant auroras rising skyward, fueling energetic atmospheric updrafts. These move upward beyond a hundred thousand kilometers from the planet’s surface, only to cool down slowly as the temperature drops and then fall back due to gravity, spreading out in all directions like a fountain.

This atmosphere, shifting repeatedly between high and low temperatures, disperses with the airflow, spreading continuously along the upper atmosphere of the planet, moving towards the areas facing away from the star.

By the time these warmer gases reach the focal point on the reverse side, the temperature has already dropped to a frightening degree.

These cold air masses descend from the sky, violently striking the land and the burgeoning glaciers, sweeping over the planet’s surface at a terrifying speed, rushing past the border of light and dark, heading towards the magma region of the illuminated focal point, and in the process continuously heating up.

Expanding outward from the focal point on the sunny side is a vast lava-scoured plain where the ground temperature gradually decreases, all the way to high-latitude regions where the angle of sunlight incidence is less than 30 degrees. In this region, the direct heating of the atmosphere by starlight and the extremely cold air from the dark side manage to reach a delicate balance, bringing the overall temperature slowly down to 40 degrees, barely livable for humans.

As one continues towards even higher latitudes, the overall temperature plummets sharply, rapidly dropping below zero.

Along the polar line at the junction of perpetual day and night, the overall temperature is already below minus one hundred degrees.

At the focal point entirely in the dark, the overall temperature is even as low as minus two hundred degrees.

All of this means that, on the entire South Nine C, the only region suitable for human habitation is an extremely narrow, awkward annular zone, which also has to endure constant gale-force winds all year round.

Moreover, this annular zone is not necessarily stable because South Nine C’s orbit around the South Nine Star is not a standard circle but a great ellipse.

When South Nine C is at its closest point to the star, the annular zone expands outward. When South Nine C is at its farthest point from the star, the annular zone retracts inward.

Additionally, the planet’s atmosphere occasionally undergoes abrupt changes due to glacier collapses or intense volcanic eruptions.

Furthermore, owing to the intense high temperatures on the sunlit side, a vast majority of the ocean, occupying 60% of the planet’s surface, remains in a state of perpetual boiling, continuously sending massive amounts of water vapor into the atmosphere.

These water vapors cool off on the dark side, forming incredibly tall glaciers. Yet these glaciers collapse violently at intervals, with massive ice shards descending with tremendous kinetic energy.

Some of these ice shards shatter into fragments after countless collisions, but others traverse a distance exceeding a quarter of the planet’s circumference to appear on the opposite side of the light-dark boundary.

A few even cross the habitable zone and crash directly into the boiling oceans on the sunlit side.

On this radically twisted planet, the primary means of water circulation is not gentle rain or snowfall but giant ice shards.

Before seeing this detailed information, humans from the Source Star had never imagined a planet with such harsh living conditions in the cosmos, truly awe-inspiring.

No wonder, despite the advanced technology of the Mechanical Empire, this solid planet in the habitable zone remains desolate.

It is conceivable that the original Planet Transformer spent a fortune to create an atmosphere on the planet’s surface, only to helplessly discover that the environment was still too harsh for habitation, abandoning this semi-finished product.

Earl Ren Zhong, dignified and grand, has been assigned such a planet, and most of the people in the Throne Hall are indignant, expressing their inability to accept it.