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Narrated by Garrett Kiesel https://kieselkreative.com

[13 | 4.5 Billion Years BCE]

Stuck within Jupiter and Mars’s gravitational pull, the orbiting planet Phaeton is reaching an inevitable end to its fruitful rain. 

Phaeton has been orbiting just outside of the habitable zone within Orion’s spur of the Milky Way since the solar system formed. Usually, a planet could not support surface life more intricate than a microscopic organism at this distance from the sun. However, the massive amounts of energy Jupiter produces, combined with the sun’s light waves, creates a unique atmosphere for the planet. This atmosphere has sustained intelligent life for billions of years. 

The surface of planet Phaeton maintains a steady temperature of 22-degrees Celsius at all geographical locations outside of the north and south poles. This even temperature results from a constant spin while staying within Jupiter’s grasp. Jupiter keeps Phaeton within close proximity while Mars prevents it from sliding into the gassy ball. Mars’s trips around the Sun then reinitiate Phaeton’s spin on each round. The movement of Mars acts like the force of a hand slapping a basketball on the tip of one’s finger to keep it in uniform rotational motion. The combination of forces allows Phaeton to piggyback Jupiter about the Sun while staying within the protection of the giant planet’s warping of spacetime.  

Phaetons even spin, and near moon orbit to Jupiter allows for steady temperatures along the surface, just as a whole chicken on a rotisserie would while rotating over a fire. At first glance, the planet appears to be a moon of Jupiter, but it does not orbit Jupiter; it is stuck in place orbiting the Sun with Jupiter. 

The distant Sun helps to illuminate the land, the energy from Jupiter provides an endless paradise amidst the drylands. 

Phaeton’s minute amount of sunlight helps to produce a visible spectrum. This spectrum is generated when the Sun amplifies the radioactive waves of Jupiter, creating a rich glow. The nuclear energies combine with the surrounding plant life energy to form a vivid emerald-green atmosphere with a hazed orange troposphere. The formed light then allows for animals to have various types of vision.

Since the planet was fashioned from the local stardust and locked within Jupiter’s gravitational pull, it didn’t take long for life to evolve. The conditions were immediately perfect, and the consistent smashing of asteroids into Jupiter spewed off all sorts of strange and foreign life forms that floated in from galaxies far-far away.

These odd life forms hitchhiked on different materials that helped Jupiter become the gas giant it is today. Jupiter wasn’t always gaseous; it was once a solid sphere of mixed metallics. An intermingling only possible under the extreme pressures of planetary creation. 

At first, penetrating objects simply broke to pieces upon collision with the planet. Then, a moon-sized comet with a core of frozen acid cracked Jupiter like an egg. The two bodies blended together, leading the impacting object to become the yolk of Jupiter. The heat from the friction melted the acid, which in turn melted the assortment of metals and the chemical reactions began expelling various forms of gas. The gasses kept coming and coming – for hundreds of years – until finally, the planet formed into the ball of freely floating molecules it is today.

Along with the many collisions, expelled debris formed all of Jupiter’s moons. During this formation, Phaeton was on its own orbit, zigzagging between the preformed Mars and Jupiter. It zipped about the sun crossing Mars’s path, feeding into Jupiter’s then back across Mars’s. 

Once Jupiter became fully formed, as well as Mars, one of Phaeton’s passes got warped. As it headed out on its trajectory, it was slung backward like the aftereffects of a slingshot. The planet then bobbed back and