Salidar

Salidar is the largest minor moon of Jevethra and the largest member of the Salidar Collisional Group.
==Physical Characteristics==
Salidar is on the edge between a major and minor moon. Though most consider it minor due to its lack of hydrostatic equilibrium, it is almost a sphere, so everyone's a little confused. Salidar is very dense for a moon if its size, being composed of almost 37 percent iron and other heavy metals. Due to its history, said heavy metals are scattered all over the moon at all depths, with some rich deposits exposed on the surface until they were mined out of existence. 
Salidar's surface is mired with pits, cracks, and craters after eons of cataclysmic impacts. Due to this, it is very ill-suited for habitation. Similar to Praxis, its sole purpose is mining huge amounts of resources as fast as possible. Unlike Praxis however, most of its easily accessible resources are long gone as it was colonized much further into the past.
==History==
Salidar is the smallest of the three remaining original moons of Jevethra. As Jevethra migrated inwards after its formation, the orbit of one of the other moons destabilized and impacted Salidar. This caused all of its ice and a large fraction of its silicate mantle to fragment away into space. The ice all evaporated by the time Jevethra reached its current position, some of the other fragments remained in orbit, forming the Salidar Collisional Group. 
After eons of impacts from other members of the SCG as well as random asteroids drawn in by Jevethra's gravity, Salidar was discovered by Keyla Kellelai, an inhabitant of neighboring Teralla, who catalogued its orbit and unfortunately chalked up the larger members of the SGC as lensflare. 300 years later, in 491 BC, the Epicco Trek sent several probes to map Salidar for potential resource extraction. However, it was focused on the much more interesting Okoro, Shirus, and Sulpha, and thus did not do much else. As the Terallans began to expand into the system, Salidar was colonized alongside the rest of the Jevethran moons, although it was primarily used for mining purposes rather than habitation. This state of affairs has continued until the present day. 
==Orbital Neighborhood==
Salidar has a very densely packed orbital neighborhood, with 6 objects at least 5 kilometers in size sharing its orbit and many thousands of smaller bodies. This formation is called the Salidar Collisional Group. 
As Jevethra migrated inwards, one of its moons was struck by a very large asteroid shortly after formation. This impact caused roughly half of the moon's material to be blasted off the surface. Although most of this material was rapidly accreted or ejected from the Jevethra system, some of it achieved stable orbits in resonance with the moon's remaining core. This core would be named Salidar, and today the region's resources are a key economic factor for the prosperity of Jevethra. 
==Biomes==
Salidar has biomes.
*Lowlands
*Midlands
*Highlands
*Pits
*Cracks
*Elchras Fossa
*Craters
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