User blog comment:Aghostintheboat/The Official Roleplay Room/@comment-11135771-20141229202948

Announcement from the SAA:

Aside from our continuing duty to protect the interests of Skywatch Incorporated, one of our main missions here at the SAA is exploration and making new discoveries which we can share with the world. Today, we are here to announce that we have had a great success in this mission.

In the past month, we have discovered two new planets in the Neo-Solar star system, and have commenced basic explorations of both. We are now ready to inform the rest of the world about these, so that others might also be able to explore these new worlds. We will describe the first of the two in this announcement, and the second later today.

The first of the new planets we have discovered has been named Tenelapis. Outwardly, it is a rocky, barren world with little of value, a little larger than Earth and with 15% higher gravity. However, we noticed cracks in the stone surface of the planet, from which large amounts of steam issued. Upon further investigation by ships entering through these "steam vents", it appears that below the thick crust of the planet there is a vast underground ocean of warm water. Additionally, non-sentient alien life has been discovered in large quantities below the surface and in the stone near the vents. Be warned, it has become apparent that many of these organisms are highly dangerous, some even to ships.

The ocean of this planet is dark away from the vents, but the seabed is rich in resources and teeming with strange life. Pillars of stone stretch the kilometre of distance between the seabed and the stone roof. Geothermal sources are common here, and highly visible due to their distinctive orange-red glow from below the surface in the complete darkness of Tenelapis' oceans.

We will continue to keep you all updated on new discoveries that we make, and will later be releasing a report on the second planet we found; a waterworld with a strange sky called Caelmare.

-SAA Official News

OOC: Map of Tenelapis is as follows. Keep in mind that nobody has access to this map IC; it's to be used only as OOC reference. The location and size of the various vents is all that anyone knows (since they can be seen from orbit). The SAA expedition landed at Vent Alpha.