Lawa

Lawa is a Earth-like planet in low orbit of Ku. It is the homeplanet of the njetra.

Properties
Lawa is an Earth-like planet in orbit of Ku. It's colder than Earth, at an average temperature of 280K (7C), and is more similar to an ice-age Earth than to a modern day Earth. Temeprature drops planetwide when Lawa passes behind Ku. It has a mass of 1.28 M🜨, a radius of 1.076🜨, and an average density of 1.03 D🜨. Its surface gravity is 1.105g. It is tidally locked to Ku.

Orbit
Lawa orbits Ku at around 275,000km. Its orbit has an eccentricity of around 0.04, and an inclination of -4 degrees from Ku's orbital plane. It takes Lawa 18.79 hours (0.783 Earth days) to orbit Ku. Because it is tidally locked to Ku, this is also the length of a day. Its orbit brings it behind Ku daily for an eclipse lasting roughly 40 minutes.

Atmosphere
Lawa's atmosphere has a pressure of about 0.87atm. The atmosphere is composed of 69% nitrogen, 28% oxygen, and the final 3% is a mix of trace gases, water vapor, volcanic pollutants, and greenhouse gases.

Oceans and icecaps
Lawa's surface is covered by 76% seawater, 11% icecap, and 13% solid land. Seawater contains various salts and minerals, as well as microorganisms.

Geological activity
Due to tidal forces from Ku, Lawa has a very geologically active core, with volcanic eruptions and earthquakes capable of leveling cities commonplace. Pollutants from volcanoes make up a noticeable portion of the atmosphere composition. More than one poorly placed ancient Njetra civilization has ended via volcano.

Lawa has multiple dormant supervolcanoes.

Life
Lawa is home to many different varieties of lifeforms.

Flora
The flora of Lawa is bluish in color in order to optimize light gain from Rexau. Flora varies from location to location, including prarie grasses, forest trees, aquatic plants, and desert shrubbery. There are no plants on or near the icecaps, and deep ocean floors are relatively barren.

Fauna
Several fauna species reside on Lawa. There is more biodiversity in the ocean than on land, and fish-like aquatic animals, zooplankton, and shallow water aquatic biomes make up a majority of the unique species in Lawa's biosphere.

Lawa is one of many planets to contain cats.

Njetra
The njetra are the only known sapient species on Lawa, and originated from Lawa.

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Locations on Lawa
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