Uoke

amart29 (68)in #esteem • 5 years ago

Greetings to everyone, the following story was inspired by the digital art of @xpilar, I invite you to visit his blog. The picture that motivated this story is the following.

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Uoke

Embraced by the inclement glow of a white star, Uoke continues his eternal comings and goings along an eccentric orbit that passes him from the most terrible winter of five hundred and twenty-two days to a terribly hot summer of just thirty-three days.

In this cruel and ruthless world, in the middle of a desert valley, surrounded by steep vertical walls of iron-rich red rock, lies the last vestige of a failed attempt to make humans prosper in one of the wildest environments in which a colony was thought to be founded.

Hiva, a small town of barely two hundred thousand inhabitants, is the only thing left of the old colony, hidden in a gigantic cavern excavated in the hard rock of one of the walls of the canyon, its population, formed mainly by miners, resists abandoning what has been their home for almost thirteen thousand years.

The mantle of Uoke is formed mainly by molten metals with acaza presence of silicates, which makes it a kind of large metal melting furnace, convective forces drive iron, copper and molten magnesium to the surface, and expel it by giant boilers where it spills to form extensive plains of solid metals, which were previously exploited in open-pit mines.

With the creation of the Corporation and the intensification of asteroid mining methods, they could even be transported to the region where the materials were required to exploit them in situ. Uoke's activity was diminished, to the point of almost disappearing, which together with the conditions of life of the planet, were the reason that the settlers migrated to other more promising worlds. Today there are only a few inhabitants left in their only city, Hiva.

Text of @amart29 Barcelona, Venezuela, July 2019

Uoke

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