Velierna

The innermost planet of Zavar, Velierna is the second largest and most inhospitable world in the Zavar System. Due to its extremely low orbit, Velierna is so completely inhospitable that not even the permanent night side can maintain an ice cap, and the Krask Hegemony has very little to do with this planet.
== Physical Characteristics ==
Velierna is a fairly standard rocky world in all respects except its extraordinary temperature. This combined with the tidal forces wrought upon it by Zavar results in a tortured, scorched world, almost torn apart with every passing orbit. Its surface is the youngest of the system, with constant rifting repeatedly dumping enormous amounts of magma onto the still-solid night side, and the day side is never actually solid anyway. 
== Rotation and Orbit ==
Like all planets orbiting this close to their stars, Velierna is tidally locked. Thus, it rotates once for each 1.01 day orbit, keeping one face fixed to the star and letting it melt. It has a very circular orbit, preventing variant tidal forces from completely shredding the planet, and it completes an orbit around Zavar once every 24.2 hours. This gives the planet an impressive pace of 172 kilometers per second on its orbit, making it one of the fastest orbiting objects in local space. 
== Population ==
Velierna is very difficult to colonize, even to the advanced civilizations of the modern day. The Krask Hegemony, which controls the system, has found it extremely hard to exploit the resources of the planet in any reasonable way. As such, Velierna's population is mostly limited to heavily shielded habitats in tight orbits, sometimes controlling mining drones on the surface. 
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