Arshiem

== Planetary Characteristics ==
Arshiem is a planet located 12 million light years away from Earth, in the galaxy M82. It's a rocky planet about 1.09 times the size of Earth, but with one and a half times the gravity. The biggest difference however, is that Arshiem orbits a red dwarf star much smaller and cooler than the sun, with only 36% of its mass. Any planet orbiting in its habitable zone would probably be tidally locked, but Arshiem isn't - likely due to its moon, which is very large and orbits extremely close to its parent planet. The extreme tidal forces created between these two massive objects helps keeps Arshiem's day and night cycle, which only lasts 11 hours.
But the moon's close proximity has the side effect of creating giant waves on the planet's surface, which are much larger than the waves on Earth. The oceans themselves are even much deeper than our own world's, and have a complicated system of cuurents.
== Life ==
Arshiem has existed for 7.5 billion years, much longer than Earth, so life has had plenty of time to evolve and thrive on its surface and in the oceans. The plants evolved to have a purple pigment in them, because of their red dwarf star - its radiation peaks in the infrared reigon, and is very low in the violet reigon, so in order to get the energy they need from photosynthesis they reflected the violet light and absorbed every other color. These ancient purple plants are the basis for ecosystems on Arshiem, and many herbivores have evolved to eat them with carnivores having evolved to eat the herbivores.
Interestingly, there are many ancient ruins of temples and other structures on Arshiem, evidence of an extinct civlization. What happened to them is unclear, but they must not have achieved space travel since there is no evidence of them on any other planets besides their own. Many of these archaic temples depict an alien God. Its possible that such a God may have come down to Arshiem, but proved to not be a benevolent diety, and instead destroyed the very people that worhsipped them...
== Images ==
Better quality images can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1G6YBNkH3JKYBMI-gkWoYiu3PTGBhk4cn?usp=sharing
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File:Arshiemsky.jpg|The sky view of Arshiem's moon and rings from the planet's surface.
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