Trantin

Trantin is the second farthest and largest moon from Nerella. It is unique in that it has a retrograde orbit.
== Physical Characteristics ==
Trantin is the largest moon of Nerella, making up the bulk of the mass orbiting the planet. It is a rather "two-faced" body, with one side very mountainous and covered in geysers, ridges, and hills, and the other side mainly flat plains.
== Atmosphere ==
Trantin has a thin atmosphere, which made mainly of nitrogen and is rather useful for aerobraking. The Explorer, the first manned mission to the outer solar system beyond Glau, used it to aerobrake into orbit around the moon. It is thought to have formed from evaporation of nitrogen ice from the surface.
== Orbit ==
Trantin is a very large captured moon. How do Terallan scientists know that? One major red flag is that Trantin orbits Nerella retrograde compared to all other moons in the Verda System. Another is that while Trantin's orbital eccentricity is practically zero, other moons of Nerella have very eccentric orbits, as if they've been disrupted by its high gravity. 
Trantin was likely once part of a dwarf planet binary before it was pulled into the Sphere of Influence of Nerella. The fact that Trantin was moving backwards in its orbit around the binary relative to the binary's motion through the Verda System allowed it to go slow enough to be captured into orbit when it got close enough for Nerella's gravity to dominate.
Due to its retrograde orbit, Trantin will eventually deorbit itself into Nerella, adding even more material to its rings, if left to itself. However, it WON'T BE! The Verdan Federation is working on a way to reverse its orbit without prematurely deorbiting it or melting it and allowing resources to escape into space. New news stories on this (Terallan) yearly.
== Life ==
Trantin is confirmed to have life in its subsurface ocean, but it is not intelligent. As yet, it is only microbial.
== Biomes ==
* Kavanik Crater
* Craters
* Lowlands
* Midlands
* Highlands
* Subpolar Region
* Cantaloupe Terrain
* Fractures
* Cryovolcanic Terrain
== Trivia ==
* Trantin is the largest retrograde-orbiting moon in the Verda System.
* It is the first planet to be attempted to be moved by the Verdan Federation.
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