Kronos of Wax is one of the most complex hydrocarbon worlds found by human exploration. It is atypical of such worlds in multiple fashions. One being how much more ethane heavy in solution. The world is in a similar mass range to Mars, but the geochemistry of Kronos and being even colder have led to a complex biosphere emerging. Tidal pressures from a large captured moon in an elliptical orbit have caused a metastable situation that has persisted for hundreds of millions of years. The captured moon is an icy world, even more frigid than Kronos of Wax. Other smaller minor moons also can be found orbiting far from Kronos. The hill sphere radius is abnormally huge for a world of its mass, with inner worlds that otherwise would have constrained it being strangely absent for reasons not fully understood by current human research. Migration theories are the mainstream theory. But less coherent claims of other entities out in the void altering the system continue to be a conspiracy held about the system. Much unease exists about the system in general due to there also being USO sighting reports in the system. The waxy lipid substrate of the oily ethane seas of Kronos came together in membranes, unified and altered throughout the system. Congealing and melting together, the creatures of wax built themselves in embedded ices and lithotrophy where embedded substances within the ices help act as protein metabolism. The tholins raining from the sun give a continuous source of methane and ethane to metabolize. Quite a few waxy creatures on the world of Kronos as a clade is deeply sweltered out. Over time they stratified, differentiated and made themselves more elaborate. The flora resembles biogenic candles more than anything on earth, with congregated pools of oily substances to act as reserves to absorb or trap other motile organisms in... to also absorb. Usual nature functions. The more motile organisms are very much organisms who have gained sharper, more scrappier and bonier appearances. A shared trait which has been noticed between the most widespread fauna is that their gamete analogs have no convenient earthly parallel outside of fungi. There are around two dozen biological sexes in their gametes. They even affect the actual morphology and cause different appearances in their genders. The ratio of 'layer' sexes, 'neuter' sexes and 'fertilizer' sexes various from clade to clade, with there usually being 3-7 'fertilizer' genders, 10-12 'layer' genders and 0-3 'neuter' genders. Neuter genders appear to have a vessel-like role in many species, where they may find an egg purse or offspring and take on the role of caretaker for it. Some seek a fertilizer to reproduce with after finding an egg, others do not. As for the organisms themselves, it is distinctive. The situation is one of organic crab beings walking to feed off the spores and wax . Wax grazers are often very spindly due to the gravity being Martian at beast. Many more have adapted to gliding. There is an ecology of flying motile organisms everywhere, perched on the waxy candles with their trilateral forms shifting and ebbing to the situation. The Wax World is unlike the world the [[Glinnvyr]] were from, as the wax colonies and dominance of flying megafauna never happened on [[Clipsan]]. It is unclear if this is due to the Wax World being more/less developed or if that is a fair assessment of the biogenic waxes of the Wax World and the niches of life that have grown and reefed over time from it. ### Specimens ![[Wax Gliders]] ![[Wax Grazers]] #biosphere #hydrocarbon #lithic #biosphere #biosphere/chronian #biochemistry/Silica/Hydrocarbon/Ethane-Heavy #Star/M-Class #Galactic-Region/plexus