Xyris

Xyris is a planet that orbits the star Deseda, in the Triangulum Galaxy. It is home to the Sikhean Brotherhood.
==Characteristics==
A desert, terrestrial planet, Xyris orbits 0.71AUs from its star.
===Size===
Xyris has a diameter of 15,100 km and a mass of 1.45 Earths. It has a density of 4807 kg/m^3 and a surface gravity of 1.03g.
===Dynamics===
The planet takes 19.5 hours to rotate. Its axial tilt is 15.3 degrees, but is unstable. A year on Xyris is 269 Earth days.
===Composition===
The crust of Xyris is 44.5% oxygen, 29.1% silicon, 8.7% aluminium, 4.1% iron, 4.0% calcium, and the remainder other elements.
===Surface===
43% of the planet's surface is water. It has two ice caps and a number of ice-tipped mountains around its poles. The average global temperature is 11 degrees centigrade.
===Atmosphere===
Xyris' atmosphere is 75.4% nitrogen, 23.1% oxygen, 1.5% argon, and the remainder other gases.
==Satellites==
This planet has no natural satellites.
==Ecosphere==
The barren surface of Xyris is mainly cold desert. Some temperate forest lies around the seas, and there are large expanses of 'grass'-land, though the grass is yellow and has leaves wrapped around like a cylinder. Animals survive here, mainly in the forests.
==Inhabitants==
The Sikhean Brotherhood have built a number of cities and fortresses near the planet's Southern mountains, as well as a few spaceports and defence batteries. They have large refineries and factories that carve into the rock, and quarried caverns are converted into nuclear reactors for power.
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