User:Chris1138/Thyris II

Description
Thyris II is a cold ice ball which circles the red dwarf star Thyris Eta-B2011A. The entire surface is buried under a thick layer of ice a mile and a half thick. Topographic scans are sketchy at best but some planetologists believe that there are solid continents under the ice, a remnant of what may have been underneath her surface perhaps millions of years ago.

Ice storms constantly ravish the surface adding even more layers of ice to the snow. The sun almost never shines except on a few occasions. The only fauna known to inhabit the planet are penguin-like creatures called Ehlfin and their chief prey, Thyris flying krill.

Settlements
As insane as the weather is on Thyris II, there actually is a research outpost on the planet which conducts core sample analyisis which aids the UNSC in understanding exoplanet geography and scale of time. The outpost is staffed by 300 scientists that are rotated out every "summer" on the planet where the temperature gets as high as -10 degrees.