Eaurp Guz's Blob

Eaurp Guz spent about a month and a half as my headmate. Getting on antidepressants had the unintended side effect of reintegrating my system back together as far as I can tell, and that means that Guz has gone home, into, from my perspective, fiction.

But that doesn't mean she doesn't remember any of what happened while she was a headmate. Even though the specifics are fading, like a dream, as she feels more and more at home on the Cerritos, in the world of a Star Trek Lower Decks fan comic, she still remembers being me. But she's more than glad to be herself again.

Yeah, you do. You either have bones or you don't. Either way, you go here.

Yeah, you do. You either have bones or you don't. Either way, you go here.

Telescopic view of Omen's satellite Rival, as seen during the peak of the Omen apparition.

Rival is the most distant Ominous Planet. It's named Rival since, during Omen apparitions, its brightness and ruddy color rivals that of the brilliant red giant star Rodocer*. It's smaller than Oldsky and Gymnome, but its apparently rocky composition indicates it's most likely a captured Primary Planet like Oldsky, although it does orbit prograde. The gentle capture of not just one but two major primary planets raises questions about whether Rival really is a captured satellite, or if it was formed around Omen and somehow survived the capture of Oldsky. Rival appears to be a dry desert planet with a very thin atmosphere, but glints of sunlight reflecting off of dark flat regions indicate that some of its craters might have liquid water.

*this is continuity with KSP mod whirligig world. In the 'real' mellanus/gymnome worldbuilding, the star is probably called something else!

up-close shots: (spoilers for the mod!)

Me and @eaurpguz are working on Goobal Slime World, a KSP mod replicating the Zwo-Nmu system that Eaurp calls home.

The Schwilca-4 rocket from my Star Trek Lower Decks fic Surviving Schwil. It shares a propulsion bus in common with the several cargo rockets which travelled in constellation with it, but it's the only one that also has to be able to return to the Ocean after the mission is done.