Planet:Sheol

Sheol is the second planet from the yellow star Chuanis, homeworld of the Garganz. It is a world of wine-dark seas and crimson skies; the cones of massive volcanoes loom over dry plains, emitting occasional belches from their summits. The wide savannahs are covered with olive-colored grass and dotted with spice geysers and rock formations (the basalt cores of even more ancient volcanoes, exposed by erosion) as well as stands of orange, lavender, and green trees.

Sheol's climate is on the cool and dry side of T3, slowly returning to warm and dry as the planet recovers from a nuclear winter (which drove it to the edge of T2 classification). Some of its cities still lie in radioactive ruins and have been abandoned to the elements.

There are three major continents: north, south, and equatorial, with the last being slightly larger. It was on this continent that the Garganz first evolved, spreading later to the other two.

Sheol once had a single moon, which had obviously been planet-sculpted long before the Garganz rose to sapience; it resembled a giant cube, with circular seas emerging from the squared-off faces. The Zealot sects of the species believed it to be the unblinking eye of their creator, always watching. The Garganz used this moon as the test site for their first Planet Buster, giving Spode a good sharp poke in that eye - a crowning achievement in a long history of "**** You and all of Your 'chosen people'." The molten debris eventually cooled and formed a ring around Sheol.