Lophator began its long life as a rocky planet of a yellow star in a crowded arm
of the galaxy Messier 81. Rich in heavy metals, gases, and especially water, Lophator bloomed with
life in deep oceans, mountainous lands, wide valleys, and grassy plains above its molten internally heated
spinning core. As volcanic outlets blasted fumes and debris, kingdoms and empires rose and fell,
creatures great and small appeared and lived their long and powerful lives. Civilizations
strove to develop but were stunted by wars among the races, technology progressed but never
peaked, ideas were born but were hidden away and all but lost. The forces of good strove against
the forces of evil and the advancement of technology and industrialism was never acheived. This
went on for a couple of billion years.
Two stars came too close, a story all too common in this arm of this crowded galaxy, and
Lophator was ejected out into the cosmos. Lophator might have been a wandering rouge planet
for the rest of the age of the universe but for providence. Wandering for hundreds of millions of years,
with everything frozen under a thick layer of ice, Lophator drifted into the outer arms of the galaxy Diaphalatos
where she was captured by Neyarvus, a rogue frozen gas giant that was also doomed to wander the emptiness. The
birth of Peotor, a blue star of immense brightness, changed all that by capturing both wandering planets. Within
the first million years of its birth, Peotor captured the gas giant Neyarvus in an orbit 752 million miles away, perfectly
within its habitable zone. Lophator was too close too Neyarvus and though the covering ice melted away, the planet
was facelocked to the great gas giant.
The myths and legends of the god Lophator are not all that different. Her story is the same in that she wanders
alone in the emptiness for a long time. She was cast out from the abode of the gods because of her vanity and conceit.
She flees from all she encounters until she is captured by Neyarvus.
That was not all, for three moons, greatly upset by the arrival of Neyarvus, joined the planetary establishment,
coming inward far too fast and far too close, they pulled Lophator away from Neyarvus into a comfortable
spot protected within the giant magnetic field but far enough away from the dangerous plasma. Lophator was
caught in a 36 hour face locked revolution around Neyarvus, but the moons were caught in orbits around Lophator.
The resulting chaos had a curious effect on magnetic fields for nearly 40 thousand years. On Lophator,
highly energetic waves of ultraviolet light tore through the carbon dioxide rich atmosphere and split molecules
into oxygen and carbon. The carbon drifted down to the land and water and the oxygen
level rose well above 20 percent. Which was very fortunate and well, because Il'wairl
Corecor would soon open a gate that would portal in abundant life.
As shown before, Neyarvus is a ball of metallic hyrdorgen spinning at a high rate, which gives
Neyarvus a mighty magnetosphere.
Well inside the protection of Neyarvus, Lophator is shielded from the worst of Peotor.
Lophator is uniquely embeded in Neyarvus' protective bubble.
The shape of Lophator's magnetosphere was bent and warped and channeled by globs of plasma.
Plasma from Neyarvus spins with the planet, pushing Lophator's magnetosphere like a tailwind and sculpting
its distinctive shape, as shown below:
Lophator rotating around Neyarvus with Crasp, Yeesha, and Ponus close behind. In the begining, Lophator was not only a water world,
with a ring of mountains from north to south pole, and only a small scattering of islands, but also was facelocked to Neyarvus.
This all changed with the coming of the water eater. Lophator was still facelocked to Neyarvus, but the outer hemisphere was drained of
all its water.
Lophator's inner face is covered by the great unending ocean, which gets a spectacular view of the gas giant Neyarvus,
but the waves there are far too numerous and large for any boat of man to traverse.
Lophator is the third moon of Neyarvus, but its most unusual aspect is that it
has three sattellites of its own: Crasp, Yeesha, and Ponus. Early in its
formation, Lophator became face locked to Neyarvus so that anyone wandering anywhere
on the outer hemisphere of Lophator would never see the gas giant Neyarvus.
For in only one small place did the land wrap around the globe so that one could
travel to see the wonder that is Neyarvus.
Lophator had become tidally locked to Neyarvus since its early formation. The three moons
of Lophator threatened to break this sychronized rotational revolution but would not succeed for several billion
years. Lophator had the water side locked towards
Neyarvus, therefore, very few got to see the great gas giant floating in the colored sky. Those that made
the dangerous journey to the far north east where the land wrapped around the globe were treated to quite the
celestial event.
