Shrouded Planet

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Nidor.

Nidor, one of two continents on a water-covered planet.

Nidor, a planet, a people, a nation. Nidor, a religion.

The primary was a B class star, a huge, blue-white stellar engine, pouring out its radiation at a rate that made Earth's yellow Sol look picayune by comparison. The planet Nidor swung round its sun at a distance so great that it took nearly three thousand years for the world to complete one revolution—and even so, the planet was hot. The continents, on the Eastern hemisphere just south of the equator, had a mean temperature of 110° Fahrenheit, and continually sweltered beneath the eternal cloud layer that swathed the planet.

Of solid land there was little; more than eighty-five percent of the planet's surface was covered by the shallow sea.

It had not always been so. Geological evidence indicated that the planet had recently gone through a period of upheaval, during which whole continents had sunk beneath the waters.

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