🌌 2 - Numa
Though life stubbornly persists on Numa, it remains to be seen whether true independent emergence or panspermia was its source.
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Luxar System Orbital Diagram
2 - Numa
Numa was spared the frenzied land-rush Surface endured in the early days of expansion, primarily because it contained no detectable deposits of nullsteel. To the great joy and fortune of natural biologists throughout the Luxar System, the massive region known as “Great Caldera Lake” is a legally protected nature preserve dedicated to the study of life on Numa.
Great Caldera Lake
This staggeringly huge geological formation is surprisingly not the result of any kind of impact event—quite the opposite. Before life developed on Numa, this was the planet’s biggest supervolcano… until it erupted, collapsed, and left behind this incredible place.
Great Caldera Lake formed over millions of years as deep groundwater channels filled it with water protected from the nearby sun. The lake, or perhaps the microclimate created within the entire caldera, is speculated to be the origin of life on Numa, and it certainly is the center of it now.
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