Planet:Veriya

Veriya is a searing molten planet orbiting the K2 star Leryngia, the home system of the Leryngian Federation. The planet orbits the star very closely, and has a relatively high eccentricity of 0.32. The planet orbits the star 10 times closer than the next closest, Sorus. Because of this close distance from its star, is tidally locked, meaning that the same side of the planet always faces towards the star. The planet has an atmosphere more than 3 times as thikh as Earths, composed mostly of sulfur dioxide from eruptions of the 50+ volcanoes on the planet.

The planet's leading side, because it is tidally locked, has slightly more craters than the other side. However, because the surface is partially molten, craters are often destroyed by new surfaces of lava within a few hundred years of the craters' creation.

Colonization
The planet's only permanent settlement, on the equator of the planet's trailing side's twilight zone. The facility studies the behavior of tectonic plates on these hot planets.