This chapter will contain pictures and songs as they come up in the story, as well as trivia about different areas in the story. If you have a request to see something, comment it on here. This is official information from the story, and will contain minor spoilers, but only for chapters that have been posted. 

Size Comparison! If you ever wanted to see how the different size of the characters stacked up, look below! 

Below you'll see the orthography of Kameng, an actual language I'm created. Below the sounds are there associated IPA sounds, which you can hear by visiting ipachart.com. 

Romanization is basically how you would write the language with the roman alphabet, so it's easier to type. Orthography is how the language is typed in the Libran galaxy, so those are the symbols Sjon has to learn. 

ABOUT THE DELPHI SOLAR SYSTEM

  Delphi is the first planet that Sjon finds himself on. It's a small solar system with a fairly new star. In the center of the solar system is the star, Delphi. Delphi has a luminosity of 274% of our sun, it's radius is around 890496km, 6818K surface temperture, and it's lifetime is 4.3 billion years. It's currently 1.4 billion years old. It's habitable zone is 1.56 - 2.26AU. 

Surrounding the star are five planets. 

  The closest one to the star is Delphi Oon, where Sjon winds up. It's roughly 1.6 AU away from it's star, and is 1.2 Earth masses, 1.8 Earth radii, and has 37% of Earth's gravity. It doesn't have an atmosphere due to it's extremely light gravity, but that doesn't stop people from living there. People on Delphi Oon either use artificial gravity machines, or take daily trips to a gym with one to make sure their muscles don't atrophy and all that bad stuff. People only live there if they don't want to be around others. The population is meager for a planet of this size, in that's it's only around 3 billion people. It contains a small amount of life. There are three types of plants, all of which artificially created and brought from other planets. 

  The first plant is called Coelus Alga, or Colloquially as white seaweed. It is the plant described by Sjon. It's all over the surface of Delphi Oon, and it's the most common life form. It survives by taking nutrients from deep in the soil, and getting solar energy from the sun.

  Because of the sun's large size and the lack of an atmosphere, solar radiation is very dangerous to exposed life forms. To combat this, the plant leaves reflect nearly all forms of light, except a small amount of blue light. If you look closely, the leaves are actually a slight yellow hue, not completely white as Sjon claims. The leaves are very large, and stand in the air at around 8-9 feet tall. At the bottom, they are attached to a large bulb, around the size of a basketball. This stores many nutrients for dry periods in the life of the plant. 

  It does not require water to survive, and instead uses gas to transport nutrients. It gets the gas from breaking down Olivine and Ilmenite minerals, taking the oxygen from there. It also takes in calcium carbonate, for a different reason. The pod acts as a compression chamber as well as storage. In the middle of the pod is a gaseous chamber filled with nutrients, and on the outside is a thin chamber surrounding it. The outer chamber can contract and pressurize air to send nutrients to where they need to go. Due to the gaseous nature of the plant, it has to have a very tough skin to protect from microscopic meteors. The skin is made from a thick carbon fiber, and is very difficult to cut. The carbon comes from the calcium carbonate deep in Delphi Oon's surface. 

  The plant breeds by growing roots far out into the ground, and growing a smaller orb above ground like the one it has on it's own. The plant then deposits enough minerals for the orb to sustain it's own life, and then severs the connection between the main plant and the child. 

  Another plant is called Lux Discus, and is colloquially known as a satellite plant. It's named that way for it's satellite shape. It's almost identical to the white seaweed, with a few differences. One is that it stores minerals in several small orbs connected to the main stem underground. The other is it's size. Although it's only 6 feet off of the ground, it's diameter can reach up to 36 feet. They often are seen in large fields together, where there is little area to walk below them, as the edges only reach 3-4 feet off of the ground. It's common for people to walk on top of them if they walk at all. Because they are made of the same carbon material as the white seaweed, they are not likely to break, and are very strong. Some people like to have picnics on top of them, although it's hard to say how enjoyable a picnic would be if you're in a space suit.

  The final plant is similar to a shrub. It consists of a bundle of thick leaves, all of which around 1 foot tall, three inches wide, and 1 foot long. It contains a nutrient ball around the size of the plant underground. It works basically identically to the seaweed, except that the leaves gather light in smaller amounts. It's called a shrub by locals, but it's scientific name is bushus densissima.

There is one other planet inside the inhabitable area, around 2.1 AU from Delphi. It's called Delphi Dur. It is only 20% the mass of Earth, and it's mostly made of water. It's about half the radius of Earth. The ocean is composed of Hydrogen and Oxygen (H2O) and Chlorine. It supplies most of Delphi Oon's water. It's gravity is 80% of Earth's.

The three other planets in the solar system are called Delphi Tran, Delphi Fur, and Delphi Fi. They are all gas giants. (To be continued!)

NUMBERING SYSTEM

The numbering system in Libran is in hexadecimal form, base 16. Our numbering system here on Earth is decimal, or base 10. You also may have heard of binary, or base 2. 

In preschool, you probably learned about the one's place, the ten's place, the hundred's place and so on. As a small recap, the rightmost number in a digit show how many ones there are, the next on the left shows how many tens, again, and one hundreds.

There is a similar concept in hexadecimal. The first slot is how many ones, but the next digit to the left show how many 16s, and then the next shows how many 256s. It's confusing to people who haven't learned it before, but I'll try and explain it to you. 

First, decimal, base 10, uses ten symbols to represent the numbers. (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) Similarly, hexadecimal (base 16) uses 16 symbols. (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F)

So, a hexadecimal number might look like this: 1A2. (That's 418 in decimal!)

To figure this out, you can use an online translator (like lazy me lol) or you can figure it out with math!

Using the example from before, you would take the digit in the ones place (2) and that tells you how many ones there are. So there's 2! Next you take the digit in the 16s place, (A) and you know how many 16s are in the number. A is similar to the decimal number 10. So with 10 16s, that's 160. Finally, we have a one (1) in the 256s place, so that's 256. Add all of them together and you have 418! 

It's a little complicated if you're not used to it, but it helps with storing large numbers, and with a society that's lasted two billion years, they really need the help storing big numbers. 

AGING AND NUMBERS

So in Libran, they have a different numbering system, so you may think, "Wow! So that's why the ages are all funky in that one chapter!" Well you're wrong. The years in Libran are measured by the capitol planet Urbus, which is, for all intents and purposes here, exactly the same as Earth. So, the years they use to measure are the same. 

"But Sjon must hear the numbers in hexadecimal and think they're weird!" Wrong again. Actually, I took the time to translate all the numbers into decimal for your reading convenience, so all the number systems are the same. 

So why the weird ages? It's simple. People have evolved to age more slowly, providing babies with more brain elasticity and people with more time not being old and gross. There is some sense to it. If you want to know how old a character would be if they had our lifespans, simply divide by 1.5. That should give you a rough estimate of how old they look. Also, if you want to know how old you'd be considered, just multiply your age by 1.5, and you're golden!