Volarus

Volarus is Nerella's largest stable quasisatellite, appearing to "orbit" beyond Nerella's hill sphere at roughly the same average distance from Verda. It has two moons and a rather pretty ring system.
== Physical Characteristics ==
Volarus is a massive planet, at 1.6317 Earth masses. It is very mountainous, having a great plateaus covering significant fractions of the planet, poking above the atmosphere, leaving only the lower-lying regions within the atmosphere. It has also collected very little ice, for a body of its size. This has led some Terallan astronomers to believe that Volarus formed in the inner Verda System, before being ejected into the outer system and captured into its present orbit by Nerella. It does, however, have some ice covering the low-lying regions, giving them a higher albedo than the plateaus, and these may be frozen oceans and atmosphere. 
== Atmosphere ==
Volarus has an unusually thin atmosphere, for its size, and this is made mostly of nitrogen. The layer of ice covering some of the low-lying regions is hypothesized to be the rest of the atmosphere, which snowed onto the frozen oceans. It is made mainly of nitrogen.
== Life ==
Volarus used to be a Subhabitable Primordial (Sp type) planet, before it got ejected from the habitable zone and sent into the outer solar system. All life is extinct, giving the planet a habitability classification of Organic Extinct (Oe type). 
== Rings ==
Volarus has a small set of rings that has been voted "Cutest set of rings in the Verda System" by the Verdan Federation. There is a large gap, cleared by Rhua's gravity.
== Terraforming ==
There are plans to terraform Volarus with a complicated series of mirrors and stuff to warm up the planet and liberate the frozen atmosphere.
== Biomes ==
Volarus, having such a varied surface and being annoyingly hard to land on, has a lot of biomes.
* Low Plateaus
* Mid Plateaus
* High Plateaus
* Mountains
* Lowlands
* Midlands
* Craters
* Frozen Ocean
* Icy Plains
== Moons ==
Volarus has 2 moons.
=== Rhua ===
Rhua is Volarus' only major moon. It is a small moon, but large enough to maintain hydrostatic equilibrium.
=== Lansuag ===
Lansuag is Volarus' minor moon, and is useful for refueling after a fuel-intensive landing on Volarus' surface.
=== Other Moons ===
Volarus has three other minor moons.
== Trivia ==
* Volarus is the second largest known terrestrial planet, just beaten by Violis.
* Volarus used to have life, which may have gotten into the multicellular stage, but it went extinct.
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