Chapter 4: A Rose from Eclipsiascus
Eclipsiascus is nine–tenths covered with water, with only one land mass large enough to be called a continent. The planet earned its human name for the unique placement of its single moon, which moves in an almost perfectly circular orbit around its primary, precisely within the ecliptic plane. There are invariably two eclipses every month—an eclipse of the sun at every “new moon,” and an eclipse of the moon at every “full moon.” The solar eclipses are annular rather than total because of the moon’s size and distance from its primary, but nevertheless the planet is famous for the perfection of its satellite’s orbit…
The two intelligent races developed independently. The Lithuw live in the planet’s vast oceans. Though an underwater race is normally hand
