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| | Hollow Moon Planetology: Blue Moon -- Crystalbarrens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | They are the HM setting's answer to both desert and tundra: cold, dry, wind-swept expanses of bare, level crystal, dotted with islands of sand-crust or basalt cones, and lit from beneath by a deep blue light, in the darker portion of the lunar "day". |
 | | Temperatures are a steady -30 degrees F at ground level -- the same as the outer moon's surface beneath 3' of depth -- but increase by a whopping 5 degrees per foot of elevation, as the wider, volcano-heated atmosphere of the Hollow Moon supplants the chill that clings to the crystalline surface. |
 | | The appearance of the green light underfoot, and associated change in temperature, also generates a thick, ground-hugging mist that condenses on the crops, islands and cryion villages, providing the mnelds with a monthly ration of precious moisture in an environment where springs and rivers are unknown. |
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