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Appears in: Descent

Rubra Fulgur is the red dwarf star of the system that Calima belongs to. Rubra Fulgur I, Calima's host planet, is tidally locked to it, and the whole system is stable for hundreds of billions of cycles.

In Descent (2258)

In the story

Spoilers for Descent

From the surface of Calima the star is only a faint crimson shape behind the fog, which turns reddish by day. Its light is too weak at ground level to be a useful source of energy for the survivors.

Quotes

However, since it had been discovered nearly 5000 cycles ago, Calima had stood out as an excellent candidate for a perfectly habitable planet: a satellite tidally locked to the metal-rich rocky planet Rubra Fulgur I, in turn tidally locked to the red dwarf Rubra Fulgur, all of them in a stable configuration for hundreds of billions of cycles.^[1]

Sources

↑ Descent, Part 1

[1] Descent, Part 1

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+Rubra Fulgur is the red dwarf star of the system that [[Calima|Calima]] belongs to. [[Rubra Fulgur I|Rubra Fulgur I]], Calima's host planet, is tidally locked to it, and the whole system is stable for hundreds of billions of cycles.
 == In Descent (2258) ==
-=== In the book's words ===
+=== In the story ===
-* ''«However, since it had been discovered nearly 5000 cycles ago, Calima had stood out as an excellent candidate for a perfectly habitable planet: a satellite tidally locked to the metal-rich rocky planet Rubra Fulgur I, in turn tidally locked to the red dwarf Rubra Fulgur, all of them in a stable configuration for hundreds of billions of cycles.»''{{Source|Descent|Part 1}}
+{{Spoiler|Descent}}
+From the surface of Calima the star is only a faint crimson shape behind the fog, which turns reddish by day. Its light is too weak at ground level to be a useful source of energy for the survivors.
+{{Spoiler end}}
+=== Quotes ===
+<div class="calima-quote">However, since it had been discovered nearly 5000 cycles ago, Calima had stood out as an excellent candidate for a perfectly habitable planet: a satellite tidally locked to the metal-rich rocky planet Rubra Fulgur I, in turn tidally locked to the red dwarf Rubra Fulgur, all of them in a stable configuration for hundreds of billions of cycles.{{Source|Descent|Part 1}}</div>
 == Sources ==
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