The Planet Nrutas

The Planet Nrutas [The Lyrist and the Princess] Reedited/2006
By Dennis Siluk

The Planet Nrutas [The Lyrist and the Princess]

Advance: this is a very strange planet indeed, it is just outside our solar system, beyond it, that is, beyond even the planet known as Moiromma, and Ice Cap—(an Asteroid planet) and beyond Cilara: going towards the planet SSARG, but not quite that distance. Nrutas is ruled by an Archking named Htadd—but I will get to that later, first I want to make sure you know the makeup of this area: before I get into describing the planet that is, here is a poem to acclimate you into the right mood for the story:

The Great Tentacles [Of Planet Nrutas’ Giant Squid]

Death reeks in the green sea waters; Deep in her darkness the creature creeps With squid foam and eyes that never sleep.

In Nrutas’ Volcano.

The mighty monster has eyes, eyes like snakes In her watery graveyard she grips the spine With her mighty tentacles from all she finds.

In Nrutas’ Volcano.

The planet is larger than the planet Jupiter, and with light-rings double the width of the rings that circle the planet Saturn. It is most likely a newer planet because the rings have not darkened with the decay of time. Within these rings resides a mini solar system onto itself, where asteroids and meteorites circle within the rings; particles made up of ice, iron and rock, most of them without gravity, others with little gravity but not much to speak of: circling the rings, of which there are very few in this category, and the exception within these rings is Nrutas Minor, with excessive gravity.

Within these light rings, there are more than a thousand of these large island like stones, or asteroids, some even looking like comets, or planetoids. Of these thousand-or so, they range between six-miles in circumference to one hundred miles. N-Minor [Nrutas Minor], is one of those with a circumference of one hundred miles, and perhaps a ting larger. N-Minor is on the edge of the rings—the last part of the rings, looking at times more like a comet than a rounded asteroid. This large Asteroid—moon type planet, has a history, and we shall now look at it.

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