Siskruo

**Siskruo** (Minor Body Catalog Number 113176) is the largest dwarf planet around Verda and the largest object beyond Nerella. It has one dwarf moon, nicknamed Dysanoma.

## **Physical Characteristics**

Siskruo itself is nothing like the largest dwarf planet of it's system, called Vaned, both in terms of surface features and composition. Having no large moon to drive geologic activity, its surface features are overall more uniform. However, it does seem to have subglacial life, likely because of an abundance of radioactive materials in its core.

Most of Siskruo's surface is covered in water, methane, and ammonia ices, with cracks and craters dotting its surface. Mountains and ridges can also be found, but they aren't nearly as varied as on Vaned. Due to a lack of tholins, Siskruo does not have a reddish hue, and is one of the only Trans-Nerellan objects to not display this.

## **Atmosphere**

Siskruo has a very thin and cold atmosphere, mainly composed of nitrogen (N₂) and methane (CH4). During the global "winter" of the dwarf planet's year, much of the methane in the atmosphere can actually freeze and sublime onto its surface, causing the atmosphere to become thinner.

Many scientists believe if Siskruo's atmosphere was just a little bit thicker, the environment on the dwarf planet would be much different, with features such as lakes of liquid nitrogen and methane filling the cracks on the dwarf planet's surface.

## **Life**

Siskruo has a fairly deep subglacial ocean, but its rather patchy, and sterile. However, many believe the in the deepest parts of the subglacial ocean there is multicellular life. There is enough evidence to essentially confirm it, however it has not been proven.

## **Civilization on Siskruo**

Siskruo is home to the the largest telescope ever constructed by the Verdan Federation, composed a massive girder structure fifty kilometers in diameter supporting thousands of already massive mirrors, arranged to focus light onto an independent detector hovering above the assembly. This telescope is capable of making out <10 km size detail on planets as far as 250 light-years away, and can make out the vague shapes of continents on extremely distant planets as far as 2,000 light-years away.

This telescope is not the only thing at Siskruo however, as the surface of it and its moon Dysanoma are quite highly populated, as the "capital of the Kipper Belt", with thousands upon thousands of ships stopping off here to venture out into the Kipper Belt and Verdan Oort Cloud, to mine ice. Ice is very rare in the inner system, and it is often easier to get ice from distant asteroids spinning around in the outer reaches of the system than to get water from the surfaces of terraformed planets due to the restriction of use of high-power but high-radiation engines commonly used in interplanetary travel.

## **Trivia**

* Siskruo is the second largest dwarf planet in the Verda System, after Vaned, just beating Cerea.
* Siskruo is the whitest planet in the Verda System.
* Siskruo is the most populous dwarf planet in the Verda System.

## **Gallery**

Dysanoma, Siskruo's only moonSiskruo from the surface of DysanomaTomboy Crater, the largest crater on the surface
## **Credits**

* **Kexitt** for the texture used in the celestia addon where the infobox picture came from.