On Mirkheim

"Lodestar."

Coya imagines the Mirkheim environment:

not a smooth sphere;

gloomy, gold-flecked cliffs;

glimmering glaciers of mercury;

internal heat;

shuddering steel soil;

volcanoes with radioactive ash;

"...eternally barren...;" (p. 668)

but mumbling "...with a life of its own." (ibid.)

 

But elsewhere there is a Mirkheim with life. See An Inhabited Mirkheim!

 

For how Mirkheim got to be the way it is, see The Unusual Supernova.