Rochefort has crash-landed on an island in an archipelago which, it will soon be confirmed, is Oronesia whose home guard includes the business partners, Tabitha Falkayn and Draun, both of Highsky Choth. Rochefort is already well-informed concerning the core, rotation, magnetic field, atmosphere, vegetation etc of Avalon but is also able to sense and deduce some further details.
Lower gravity causes exuberance. Although the Avalonian diameter is only 11,308 kilometers, the horizon does not seem closer than the Terrestrial or Esperancian. The sky is bluer, the sun sinks twice as fast and Morgana looks larger than Luna. It is smaller but closer and causes twice the tides. He thinks that the dense ground-cover helps to explain why the hexapodal animals have remained reptiloid and are no match for mammalians or avians.
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Kaor, Paul!
I'm reminded of how, centuries later, the ancient planet Nike outgassed an atmosphere and the beginnings of life only very late in its history, in "A Tragedy of Errors." In fact, its sun was starting to leave the main sequence. Hence, when life started to evolve on Nike, it was still so primitive that it was no match to the more highly evolved fauna and flora introduced from Earth by Terran colonists.
Anyhow, that's what I thought with that mention of how the hexapodal animals of Avalon were no match for mammalians or avians.
Ad astra! Sean
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