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"We'd have most of what we predicted of the conquest of space, if we hadn't ignored parasite control."
- Larry Niven
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| Habitable Exoplanet Moon | ||
| An Earthlike moon that orbits a gas giant. |
The earliest science fiction often gave small asteroids or moons an atmosphere and biosphere - just like a "regular" planet. Eventually, it was realized that this wasn't possible.
But, there was another way.
| Yavin was not a habitable world. The huge gas giant was patterned with pastel high-altitude cloud formations. Here and there the softly lambent atmosphere was molded by cyclonic storms composed of six-hundred-kilometer-per-hour winds which boiled roiling gases up from the Yavinesque troposphere. It was a world of lingering beauty and quick death for any who might try to penetrate to its comparatively small core of frozen liquids.
Several of the giant planet's numerous moons, however, were planet-sized themselves, and of these, three could support humanoid life. Particularly inviting was the satellite designated by the system's discoverers as number four. It shone like an emerald in Yavin's necklace of moons, rich with plant and animal life. But it was not listed among those worlds supporting human settlement. Yavin was located too far from the settled regions of the galaxy... |
| From Star Wars,
by George Lucas. Published by Del Rey in 1976 Additional resources -
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