Ice cap, water, land, breathable atmosphere… My first Earth-like world discovery.
I’d been waiting for this moment, and two weeks into my slow journey towards the galactic core, it finally happened… While scanning a binary system, i found myself looking at a number of very blue-looking planets. Two around the primary A class star, locked to each other in orbital embrace, and one more around the distant second star. A short cruise later and the surface scanner results were in: i was facing my first Earth-like world, yet undiscovered. Oceans, land, ice, breathable atmosphere, human-friendly surface gravity and temperature (though on the cold side), everything checked… Even more beautiful was how it was orbitally locked with a companion water world of equivalent size which qualified as a terraforming candidate. Twin blue worlds.
Closeup, watching the orbital companion water world in the distance.
I spent a while cruising above the surface, wishing i could land. Atmospheric landing can’t come soon enough… Failing that then, i went to drift above the dark side, and watch the sun rise above the surface of my new world.
Sunrise on the new world.
Then glided further to watch the gradually illuminated oceans.
Drifting to the day side.
Finally, i went to see what the new world was like seen from its twin.
The companion water world, with the Earth-like world visible in the distance.
The third blue planet, around the second star, turned out to be another water world, to add to the two high-metal content planets qualifying as terraforming candidates. This is a gorgeous system. And only some ~10k light years from civilisation! 🙂
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