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Around the time of the discovery of Pluto, the the astronomers of the world ended up in a bit of a race to see who could discover the tenth "Planet X" first. Miskatonic University ended also up in this international contest of prestige.
it's both saddening and comforting we won without being able to tell.
in 1950, One of our astronomers, Proffessor Nielsen, discovered a unknown object far beyond Pluto and Neptune's orbit. normally something like this would be announed and published in a heartbeat, but Nielsen insisted that more studying and research of the planet should be done, believing if more data and calculations of it's trajectory is done, it will be easier to prove he discovered it first.
probably sounds odd, but we agreed; probably better to actually prove it's a planet before saying it's a planet. but this is where the dark turn is taken.
Nielsen became obsessed with the planet. he spent many nights watching it, several hours nonstop, and spent whatever daytime he couldn't look at the planet analyzing whatever data that could be recieved at the time.
What made us believe this was more than just a planet was the fact that the spectroscopy of it never made sense. every few hours it seemed to change composition in a way that couldn't be scientifically explained. not only that, but in later stages of our research it seemed to emitt heat. too faint to be a star, but still. no rhyme or reason.
Nielsen himself started to lose his sanity when researching it. eventually he stopped talking about it alltogether. the board decided to pull him out of the research, but it was too late. he dissapeared with no trace.
The planet, like the ones beyond Saturn's orbit, is too faint to be seen by the naked eye. it can be seen with binoculars or a telescope, but it's not allowed, since looking at the star with high focus can cause insanity, and one to worship the star like a diety. all studies of the star are done automatically with digital tools.
the planet became named Xoth.
The whereabouts of Nielsen would forever be unknown, alltrought one theory is that he founded "the church of Planet X".
it's both saddening and comforting we won without being able to tell.
in 1950, One of our astronomers, Proffessor Nielsen, discovered a unknown object far beyond Pluto and Neptune's orbit. normally something like this would be announed and published in a heartbeat, but Nielsen insisted that more studying and research of the planet should be done, believing if more data and calculations of it's trajectory is done, it will be easier to prove he discovered it first.
probably sounds odd, but we agreed; probably better to actually prove it's a planet before saying it's a planet. but this is where the dark turn is taken.
Nielsen became obsessed with the planet. he spent many nights watching it, several hours nonstop, and spent whatever daytime he couldn't look at the planet analyzing whatever data that could be recieved at the time.
What made us believe this was more than just a planet was the fact that the spectroscopy of it never made sense. every few hours it seemed to change composition in a way that couldn't be scientifically explained. not only that, but in later stages of our research it seemed to emitt heat. too faint to be a star, but still. no rhyme or reason.
Nielsen himself started to lose his sanity when researching it. eventually he stopped talking about it alltogether. the board decided to pull him out of the research, but it was too late. he dissapeared with no trace.
The planet, like the ones beyond Saturn's orbit, is too faint to be seen by the naked eye. it can be seen with binoculars or a telescope, but it's not allowed, since looking at the star with high focus can cause insanity, and one to worship the star like a diety. all studies of the star are done automatically with digital tools.
the planet became named Xoth.
The whereabouts of Nielsen would forever be unknown, alltrought one theory is that he founded "the church of Planet X".
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