Vedere

Introduction

Vedere is a moon in orbit around the planet Gardato, out beyond Tyberius. The Vedere system is located about 300 lightyears from Romulus and is unique in that the only sentient life in the system exists on the moon and not on any of the planets proper.

Gardato

Gardato is a ringed gas giant planet orbiting about 3 AU from its parent star, Gardato prime, a class A star. Gardato's ring system consists of densely-populated iron particles, along with trace amounts of ice crystals, causing its edges to shimmer. The planet's EM field, combined with radio emissions coming from its core, have made it difficult for life to evolve on Vedere. Indeed, were it not for the moon's bizarre polar orbit, life would not have evolved there at all.

Vedere

Vedere orbits Gardato on an orbital plane that is exactly perpendicular to that of the planet. Furthermore, its north pole is tidally locked with Gardato. Thus, throughout its 36-day orbit, the sun follows a bizarre ecliptic in which the sun rises and sets at a different location each day and follows a slightly more curved path along the sky, owing to a paralax introduced by Vedere's orbit. Finally, Vedere follows an orbit that keeps the moon at a constant distance from Gardato Prime.

Climate

The Vederan mean equatorial temperature is a cool 15 degrees celcius. Dustings of snow are not uncommon throughout the year and the moon has no seasons. Because of Gardato's radiation and because of its great distance from the sun, Vedere's effective habitable zone extends from just below the equator to around 30 degrees to the south.