Eoros

Eoros is the innermost major moon of Glau, and is the second smallest major moon as well. Eoros experiences intense stresses from changing tidal forces from Glau caused by it's elliptical orbit, often causing the crust to rise and fall up to a kilometer from the reference level! This has led to it being referred to colloquially as the "yellow rubber ball".
== Physical Characteristics ==
Eoros has been described as looking rather like a three-dimensional pizza. Others say that Eoros is characteristic of a massive pollen grain from some interstellar flower or whatever. This latter group has been mostly labeled quacks by everyone, because Eoros is actually a moon partially covered in lava and sulfur deposits. 
Eoros is the most volcanically active object in the Verda system. This is because of the ludicrous tidal forces from it's parent planet Glau. Unlike Teralla's volcanoes, which are primarily silicon-based, Eo's lava flows are made of molten sulfur. As a result, it has a yellow appearance, with the more yellow terrain being newer than the older white and black highlands.
== Atmosphere Exosphere ==
Like most moons, Eoros has a thin and tenuous exosphere made of volcanic gases, which often gets stripped off and made into a toroidal belt of particles near Eoros' orbit, magnifying Glau's radiation belts in that area.
== Orbit & Rotation ==
Eoros orbits Glau just outside its rings, causing relatively large amounts of bombardment from ring particles. It has a relatively high eccentricity compared to most major moons, at 0.1. This is kept up by gravitational interactions between Eoros and its neighboring moons. Eoros also orbits within the strongest portion of Glau's radiation belts, making colony construction here much more expensive than for many other worlds.
== Biomes ==
Eoros has seven biomes.
* Lava Lakes
* Young Volcanic Terrain
* Volcanic Basin
* Lowlands
* Midlands
* Highlands
* Mines (extra science bonuses)
== Trivia ==
* Eoros is based off the real life moon, Io, hence the similar name.
* Eoros is one of many objects in The Silky Way to have lava on its surface, along with Moa and Emethas. In this case, it is in the form of large lakes.
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