Planet Name: Aurelion Theta
Distance from Vorthar IX: 3.7 light-years across the Veiled Drift
System: Cyrixos Halo Cluster, Star VY-9D
Type: Bioluminescent Oceanic-Crust World
Moons: 2 (Lirven and Mahr)
Atmosphere: Dense and rich in xenon, methane, and trace lumora gas
Aurelion Theta is a unique world veined with rivers of bioluminescent plasma-waters that glow teal under the darkened atmosphere. Instead of traditional oceans, its liquid flows through cavernous faults in a cracked obsidian crust, creating glowing fault lines seen from orbit. There is no sun in the system—illumination is instead provided by a stable blue-white gas giant it orbits, reflecting back from the twin moons.
Surface terrain is mostly jagged plateaus, pitted valleys, and crystalline forest clusters known to hum harmonically with seismic activity.
Millions of years ago, Aurelion Theta was a thriving bio-computational seed world created by the **Varn—**a vanished silicon-based race that mastered planetary-scale computing. The glowing rivers are remnants of their living data streams, still believed to store immense genetic libraries and war records encoded in fluidic fractal pulses.
Forbidden Archives: Myth tells of a submerged temple known as the “Core Whisper Chamber” where only those with psionic resonance may retrieve encoded memories.
Xenomorphic Scars: Evidence of an ancient outbreak is marked by fossilized queen-ridges along the crust’s surface—warning glyphs etched deep into obsidian bedrock.
Predator Pilgrimage: Yautja rarely visit, but when they do, it’s to recover ancient lost relics rumored to predate even the First Hunts.
Fluid storms erupt from the glowing channels, discharging energy pulses capable of disabling orbiting tech.
Indigenous light-shade predators—Cavarisks—hunt by absorbing light, making them almost invisible in bioluminescent zones.
Reality shifts near the poles, where time-loop anomalies have been recorded by ghost ships.