SIDDAK

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Planet Siddaq in the Tansifer system is an "eyeball planet": it's tidally locked to Tansifer. The bright pink end faces its sun. The other end is covered in a mixture of water-ice and methane-ice.

Over hundreds of millions of years, this end of Siddaq has attracted and collected matter from the debris disk. It is more rounded, with craters.

Its core is slightly sunwards. The solar wind drives a current of matter away from the sun-end. Below this, however, are currents that go towards the sun. A ring like an enormous perpetual warm front exists at the sunwards edge of this ice cap.

There are huge liquid rivers in the stormy "twilight" region. Below a deep and dense atmosphere, there are canyons that flow towards the sun. They start wider, and taper as they go.

The sunwards end, conversely, has been polished by solar winds. It has a very, very slight pointed shape. Underneath the atmosphere here, there is a relatively hot "greenhouse belt".

The end result of all of this is an unusually colorful and exotic-looking planet. Is there life on Siddaq...?