Mulkor

Mulkor, the lone world of Laxorat, is an extremely hot Jovian world, orbiting so close to its star that it will likely be completely torn apart within the next ten million years. Its calamitous migration inwards during the system's formation likely destroyed or ejected any other planets in the system. 
== Physical Characteristics ==
Mulkor, other than its extremely dangerous location in the system, is a fairly standard, if overheated, gas giant. Due to its very low orbit around Laxorat, Mulkor's structure is slightly stretched into a prolate spheroid, with gases slowly being leeched away from the atmosphere by the star's solar wind and gravity. The subsolar point reaches temperatures as high as 3,900 K, and this temperature is distributed quite well around the planet by the extraordinarily powerful hemispheric winds that the differential produces. Mulkor also possesses a faint tail of gases, stripped from the planet by its parent star and clearly visible in the near-infrared. 
== Rotation and Orbit ==
Due to its distance from Laxorat, Mulkor is tidally locked to its star. As the planet orbits once every 22 hours, it also rotates once in this period. This is an extraordinarily quick orbit, placing it in the top rankings of fastest moving solar system objects. 
== Civilization ==
Mulkor, as a superjovian world, swept away the vast majority of the system's solid material in its calamitous migration towards the star. As such, there is very little for the Laxorat System to offer any civilization in the vicinity, resulting in the system remaining mostly empty. Laxorat itself doesn't even have enough metals to make it worth assembling a starlifting assembly. 
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