TOI-700 D Orbital Survey

Logged by: [[Colonial Survey Division]]

Reference: TOI-700 System Archive

Planetary Body: TOI-700 d

Stellar Class: M dwarf

Orbit: Habitable Zone, tidally locked (suspected)

General Planetary Profile

- Atmosphere: Oxygen-sulfur mix (breathable with filtration units)

- Gravity: 1.05G

- Hydrosphere: 65 percent water

- Surface Conditions: Five major continents with one covered by a southern ice cap. No northern tundra.

- Climate: Sulfuric acid rain; approximately 30 Earth days equal one solar day

- Geology: Major volcanism globally, tidally locked with "Ember"

Biosphere Overview

- Evolutionary Anchors: Cambrian to Devonian analogues

- Dominant Body Plans: Anomolocarid, trilobitoid, placoderm variants

- Key Material Trait: Malachitin (chitin-mineral hybrid, typically formed from copper)

- Known Faunal Hazards: Large two-meter-long ambush predators

Surveyor's Commentary

"Polaris_d is alive in ways the manuals don’t prepare you for. The ground hums, the sea boils with carapace, and every mineral seam seems ready to bite back. Industrial-organic, that’s the phrase—our machines rust into their shells, and their shells rust into our machines."