Arçælo

Arçælo, home of the Vondunke species, largest tide of Glanorth, and cultural capital of the Orchid, is a massive satellite, filled with economic, historical, military, cultural, and religious importance, surrounded by megastructures and covered in floating cities, submarine arcologies, and some of the most diverse aquatic life in the known universe.

= Physical =

Physical Characteristics & Orbit
Arçælo orbits Glanorth at an astonishing speed of 58.7654 km/s, however this was once much slower. It has an albedo of 0.39 ± 0.02, and an atmosphere 9 times weaker than earth. The planet as a whole is covered in oceans dotted with icebergs and floating cities, beneath the waves lie vast submarine arcologies and the ocean floor.

It has a volume of 2.0480e+11 km3 and a density of 5.1001 g/c3, a circumference of 22,975 km, a surface area of 168,020,000 km2. and an escape velocity of 6.17 km/s. Gravitational Binding Energy 1.1952e+30 Joules.

The Arçæloρ Oceans extend down anywhere from five hundred meters to ten kilometers in places.

= Political =

Political Geography
The World is under the jurisdiction of the VSE, The Glanorth Federate, and the Arçælo Tide Council. It is divided amongst a number of "Orders", subdivided into a handful of megapods. The two most important of these Orders are "Rælmudu Arçæloüv u'Atun^Order" or "The New Great Order of Arçælo" also referred to as "Rælmud Arçælo", and "Çekańnæv Atun^Orderüv" or "The Order of Paradigm" often called Çekańnæ.

Arcaelo's most populated city is Gamçtheg with over a billion people across an area of 1,000 square kilometers, located within the order of Rælmud Arçælo.

The capital of Çekańnæ is Ç^th, a city on the equator with a Space Elevator class transportation system leading to the Habitat Conglomeration ("Onglo") of Aek Çeggan. Ç^th hosts a prominent headquarter of the Siorrop College, a society lead by old tacticians and retired war admirals.

Government
Arçælo Tide Council is the government of Arçælo, It's capital is located on the orbital habitat of Rathoç which orbits the equator once per Arçæloρ year. Because the tide is by far the most significant under the complete jurisdiction of Glanorth the council often acts as a sort of farming league for the Glanorth Federate Council.

Culture
Arçælo is home of three "protected" spoken languages of the Vondunke, these are referred to as the "Arçæloρu u'Velmuv ÆvTr" or the "Three Arçælo Sounds".

An important historical berg on Arçælo is the Convention of The Written Paradigm a site which established the United Orders of the Entity Vondunke (UOV) a predecessor to the VSE. Arçælo's

As the innermost moon, the Arçæloρ orbit sets the most basic division in the VSE calendar.

= Biosphere = Arçælo is subdivided into a series of aquatic, artic, and aerial biomes.

Oceans
By far the largest biome is the chill/thaw oceanic biome. This is home to many fish, algal, floating oysters, and "Kræniodç" (a cephalopod like class). Early spring algal, monera, and protazoan blooms would cause a sudden surge in biological activity as the ices thawed. During the early Vondunke history the Krakkens remained the top predator of the oceans before being driven to extinction.

A species of colossal fish named the "Valiok" inhabit many of the deeper parts of the ocean biome. Valiok can grow up to forty feet long and are the sixth most massive life form on Arçælo.

Vents
The vents are home to diverse micro ecology from chemotrophic multicellular bacteria to cytoplasmic parasitic prions. The moon is very active tectonically especially in the past and was able to support even large macroscopic organisms such both Içvolen, Kræniodç and Atrelvolen.

Caves
Clam caves are areas filled with rich soil produced by anaerobic Monera. Near the top of the food chain are "Ruçtrædra" organisms which are a hydra cross oyster and their competitors. The ancient Siodunke used to feed on these before their extinction.

Skies
Perhaps the newest biosphere belongs to Arçælo's atmosphere home to small clouds of extremophile microbial life that sits above the geysers in Glanorth's Twilight, a region of the world formerly in a state of total eclipse every noon so that it remained much colder than the rest of the surface.

Bergs
Berg hunters known as "Ængen" often attach themselves to the bottoms of ice bergs and wait for unsuspecting prey to swim by. Ængen are themselves preyed upon by the Geyeg a small species of Kræniodç.

Abyss
The Abyss is the deepest regions of Arçælo and house some of its more exotic wildlife, often more extremophile than those of even the Vents.