Azmaveth

Azmaveth is the planet orbiting closest to the star Judah, at a distance of nearly 35 million kilometers, and is the most massive rocky world in the Judah system. The small planet is protected by a thin atmosphere ⎯ composed primarily of helium and oxygen ⎯ and a weak magnetic field, but both combined are still not enough to keep Judah's oppressive heat at bay. The rock burns at over 214 degrees celsius even at the furthest point in its orbit.

The large world is orbited by an equally lifeless moon, Joash. The moon orbits at a distance of about 170,000 kilometers.

The planet Azmaveth is tidally locked with the star Judah, given its close proximity, meaning that one hemisphere is eternally blasted by the harsh rays of the planet's parent star while the other hemisphere is hidden in eternal darkness.

However, the tidal stress put on Azmaveth by its moon Joash keeps it's core moving and molten even though the planet's spin is relatively slow. This means that Azmaveth's surface is continually renewed by tectonic activity erasing the impact craters of the planet's youth and replacing them with long, cavernous cracks and fissures. Azmaveth's hard, aluminum-fluorine crust keeps much of the geological activity below nearer the mantle, but several large volcanoes and geysers have cropped up on the surface, mostly on the planet's sunward side. Periodically these volcanoes and geysers will build pressure and explode with tremendous force, spewing liquid topaz high into Azmaveth's upper atmosphere.

Surface
Azmaveth's surface is primarily made of aluminum and fluorine giving the crust an overall silver-gray color with swatches of blues, greens, and purples. Topaz crystals grow regularly on the surface ranging in size from small, 10 centimeter tall clusters to enormous, 60 meter tall outcroppings. These crystals range in color from bright green, to light purple, to deep blue.

The surface features vary widely from sprawling, crystal covered plains, to snaking mountain chains, to gaping canyons. The largest mountain, Mount Bahurim, is actually a dormant volcano right on the planet's terminator in the northern hemisphere. It stand over 9,000 meters tall.

The atmosphere of Azmaveth is a light blue color and is almost thick enough to block out the stars, but only for a few degrees above the horizon, the rest of the sky is an expansive star field, day or night. The atmosphere is not thick enough for clouds to form, but ash and silicate particles are dispersed by light winds near volcanic areas.

Joash
Azmaveth's solitary moon, Joash, is a lifeless, airless rock. The small moon does seem to have a small amount of geologic activity churning beneath its surface though. It would seem that Joash formed relatively recently when a large planetoid impacted Azmaveth. The heat beneath Joash's surface is the remnant of that impact, prolonged by the gravitational stresses of the sun Judah and Joash's parent planet Azmaveth.