planet with index 11 at 4173200, 4174602, -869194
DISCOVERED BY SHADOWSTAR ON 6011:850.529 USED THIS AS A KIND OF HOMEWORLD DURING MY EXPLORATION OF SURROUNDING SPACE. AT 173:031, I FOUND A HUGE WHITE CATLIKE CREATURE. IT MUST HAVE BEEN TWICE MY SIZE AT LEAST. IT WASN'T AS FAST AS ME THOUGH. IT LOOKED AT ME AND BOUNDED AWAY. I RAN AROUND IT A FEW TIMES BUT IT DID NOT REACT. I THEN CAUGHT A SMALL BIRD. THE PLANET IS NOT AS LUSH AS FELYSIA, AND HAS A STRANGE GREENISH ATMOSPHERE WITH LITTLE WATER. THE SURFACE APPEARS TO BE LARGELY ROCKY, WITH LITTLE VEGETATION. GRAVITY IS NEARLY EQUAL TO FELYSIA, WITH A NEARLY ARCTIC TEMPERATURE EVEN AT THE EQUATOR. AT 130:062, THE AREA IS FAIRLY FLAT WITH BRIGHT BLUE DIRT THROUGHOUT THE REGION AND SMALL ANIMALS THAT ARE AS BLUE AS THE GROUND, ALLOWING THEM TO BLEND IN QUITE WELL, AS THIER SMALL SIZE PUTS THEM BELOW MY LEVEL OF VISION. HUNTING HERE IS DIFFICULT. AS USUAL, THE THICK, VAPOROUS ATMOSPHERE GIVES THE SKY A SURREAL APPEARANCE EVERYWHERE. AT 123:022, I FOUND ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE BIG WHITE CATS, BUT THIS ONE WAS NOT QUITE AS BIG AS THE LAST ONE, STILL LARGER THAN ME. ALSO SAW WHAT APPEARED TO BE HUGE SNOW HILLS IN THE DISTANCE. IT WAS QUITE COLD THERE, WELL BELOW FREEZING. I THINK THESE CATS MAY BE A KIND OF POLAR CAT, LIKE A POLAR BEAR, LARGE AND PREDATORY, ADAPTED TO THE COLD CLIMATE. I HAVE NOT SEEN THEM IN THE WARMER REGIONS WHERE THE TEMPERATURE CAN REACH ABOVE FREEZING. AT 145:033, LANDED IN AN OCEAN WHICH WAS REMARKABLY HOT CONSIDERING THAT THE REST OF THE PLANET WAS NEARLY ARCTIC. HERE, THE TEMPERATURE WAS NEARLY 30C. ALSO THE WATER WAS BRIGHT ORANGE AND I WAS CAUGHT IN A POWERFUL CURRENT FOR A FEW MOMENTS THAT CARRIED ME A FEW METRES AWAY FROM MY POD WHILE SWIMMING BACK. FORTUNATELY, IT WAS SHORT LIVED AND I WAS ABLE TO RETURN. AT 243:059, FOUND AN AREA OF BLUE MOUNTAINS. THEY AREN'T AS BIG OR SPECTACULAR AS ON SOME PLANETS, BUT THEY SEEM FAIRLY UNCOMMON ON THIS PLANET, BEING MOSTLY LOW PLAINS AND SHALLOW HILLS. AT 89:60, -3.82, I CAME ACROSS A SERIES OF SILVER LAKES, ALMOST FROZEN FROM THE NEARLY 0C TEMPERATURE, REFLECTING THE GREEN SKY AND THE DARK LANDSCAPE BELOW. VERY SURREAL. AT 87.62, I LANDED IN THE MIDDLE OF WHAT I EXPECTED TO BE A RAINSTORM BUT THERE WAS NO RAIN. THE LIGHTNING WAS FIERCE, HOWEVER. THIS PLANET IS VERY DRY, EVIDENCED BY THE FACT THAT THE ONLY WATER ON THE PLANET IS LOCKED AWAY IN TINY FROZEN POOLS AND BODIES OF WATER NO LARGER THAN SMALL SEAS. THIS COULD ALSO ACCOUNT FOR THE LACK OF VEGETATION. IT SEEMS THE LIFEFORMS ON THE PLANET ARE ENTIRELY ANIMAL BASED AND CARNIVORES, FROM LARGE CATS AND HOPPERS TO TINY SCAVENGER BIRDS. STILL, THERE MUST BE SOME VEGETATION SOMEWHERE. ONE WOULD SURMISE IT NECESSARY TO SUPPORT ANY FORM OF ANIMAL LIFE. FINALLY! I'VE FOUND WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR: PLANTS, BUT EVEN MORE, I MAY HAVE DISCOVERED SOME KIND OF TERRAFORMING PROJECT. AT 86,49, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF PERFECTLY SQUARE AND RECTANGULAR LAKES, AMIDST A VARIETY OF BUSHES, GRASS, AND MOSSY ROCKS. THE ENVIRONMENT OF THIS AREA IS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THAN THE REST OF THE PLANET. THIS IS WHY I THINK IT MAY BE OR HAVE BEEN SOME KIND OF TERRAFORMING PROJECT. ALSO, THE ARTIFICIAL LAKES IN THIS AREA APPEAR TO HAVE CAUSED THE TEMPERATURE TO RISE TO FELYSIAN NORMS. IN THE NEARBY SEA, AT 87.51, I FOUND A RAINSTORM, ALONG WITH WHAT APPEARS TO BE AN AQUATIC FELINE. THE CREATURE WAS DARK GREY IN COLOR AND SWAM UP TO MY POD AFTER I LANDED. IT SEEMED TO BE TRYING TO GET INSIDE.SMALLER AND MORE NIMBLE THAN THE WHITE ARCTIC CATS FOUND ELSEWHERE ON THE PLANET, THIS CREATURE SEEMED TO BE AT HOME IN THE WATER, EVEN IN THE RAIN, AND WAS MORE CURIOUS ABOUT ME THAN THE OTHER CREATURES. NEXT TO THE TERRAFORMING PROJECT, I FOUND MORE, IN 87.49. THERE ARE TREES HERE AS WELL, AND WHAT APPEAR TO BE BLACK CROWS THAT FLY AROUND. I ALSO NOTICED ONE OF THE TREES HAD AN ODD BLUISH WEB IN THE BRANCHES. THIS PLANET HAS BECOME TRULY FASCINATING. NOTES BY SHADOWSTAR, 6011:850.587