Hmm... I haven't played AO in a while, I had forgotten that one of the stockyard escape celestial features was a gas giant. This would seem to support my theory a lot, actually. If a jovian planet is close enough to actually have visable features from the planet surface, it most likely is a moon. On Earth, we still feel minor tugs from Jupiter, and it's only a pinpoint in the sky. Curiouser and curiouser. Astronomers are actually always more interested in the jovian planets around stars in that life-supporting region of distance, what's called the "Goldilocks" region- not too hot, not too cold, just right. Terranian planets are usually still molten or frozen solid, but Jovian moons are always so varied that they're probably our best bet for finding more life out there. But that's science, and this is fiction, so who knows?
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