#helyne

THEY ARE GONNA BE HAPPY AND MAKE TINY BLUE BABIES OKAY

Helyne and her Daanin, everyone! Her eyes are kinda wonky but I like the way the colors turned out. 

Helyme is a post-garden world located in the Zelene system, Crescent nebula. Its statistics are the following:

Orbital Distance     1.2 AU Orbital Period     1.5 Earth Years Keplerian Ratio     0.768 Radius     5,522 km Day Length     44.4 Earth Hours Atm. Pressure     0.84 atm Surface Temp     −15 °C Surface Gravity     0.87 g Mass     0.647 Earth Masses Satellites     N/A

The codex states it is a known homeworld of a past civilization known as the arthenn who lived some 300 000 years ago. The world is bare, its flora mostly eradicated by rampaging wildfires ignited by over-oxygenated atmosphere and lightning bolts, a result from all higher oxygen-breathing lifeforms than plankton dying out in a mass extinction event.

The accepted reason for Helyne's demise is an out-of-control bioweapon which has led to Illium corporations enforcing a quarantine over the planet, in fears of looters bringing whatever killed the arthenn onto the trade hub. (Not that it dissuaded Eclipse from looting the place)

However, the arthenn had colonies on third planet Epho and around the system's gas giant Gaelon, which also had remnants of helium-3 harvesting equipment comparable to 2185's standards. The true culprits are clear here: Epho's cities are nothing but craters connected by collapsed maglev tracks, and Gaelon's he-3 infrastructure is derelict wreckage. Fringe theorists speculate the gas giant's rings were formed by debris from destroyed moons. Xenoarchaeologists dispute this, citing destroying entire moons as mindless exercise.