Bothic Sphere

The Bothic Sphere is a moon of the gas giant 14 Arietis 7.

## Geography

The Bothic Sphere is a dusty world with some tiny lakes near the North Pole of the moon. A giant set of rings orbit around the planet.

The atmosphere of the Bothic Sphere is mostly made of carbon dioxide with some ammonia gas. The average temperature is 150 degrees F. The gravity is 7/10ths that of Earth's gravity.

## Native species

the Bothic Sphere is home to the Bothar, a species of sentient plants that live near its likes. The Bothar survive by creating a constant loop of sustenance by performing cellular respiration, then using the byproducts to perform photosynthesis, then using those products to perform cellular respiration, ad infinitum.

The Bothar have large, red bodies, with green vine-like appendages ranging in number from 5 to 15 sprouting out of the bottom. These appendages allow them to move around. They do not have eyes, instead relying on sensory organs all over their bodies to help them map their surroundings. They have proboscises that allow them to suck nutrients from the ground to perform photosynthesis.

Bothar are highly social creatures, roaming around in massive colonies. This is largely due to the fact that due to their nature their bodies function better when in large groups. Their colonies range from 300 to 450 members. Larger colonies dig incredibly deep burrows to hide from the sun in. They have chambers for each individual Bothar, so that they do not get warmed up beyond tolerable amounts by the other Bothar near them. They spend most of their time like this, but at night they come out to drink water and wander about.

## History

The Bothic Sphere was once completely devoid of life, nothing more than a barren wasteland. However, an intrepid (and rather stupid) space explorer from Diplos stumbled upon this planet and decided to plant a seed there, to see what would happen to the planet years after he left. This seed eventually grew into a plant, which blew its seeds over a several yard radius, carried by the wind. These plants eventually evolved to survive the barren wastes, developing brains and a means of locomotion to escape the sun. These were the predecessors to the Bothar.

Eventually, the spaceman returned to see what his seed had done. Much to his surprise, he saw plants walking around on the surface. Confused by this, he called the manager of the company he bought the seed from and demanded to know what he had purchased. He photographed the walking plants and brought the pictures back to the company. The executives of the company did not know what had happened either, and decided to let the creatures be to see what would happen.

Sure enough, the creatures evolved further and became the Bothar. The spaceman was given a medal for (inadvertently) creating a new species, and lived in fame for the rest of his life until he was tortured and beaten to death by an angry gang member. The company got nothing, and sued the medal committee for not giving them credit in the creation of the species. The CEO, however, did not realize the medal committee was part of the (extremely fascist) government of Kaitos, and died of a "heart attack" the following day. Civilians questioned how a heart attack made his head explode, but did not act on their bewilderment due to not wanting to die.