A world with a crack and two gunships rising. Messing with planetary materials. Thanks for looking and commenting. --- Fomalhaut is a young bright star. Its planetary system is a mess, still settling down from its birth pangs. Dust and debris litter the system, crossing the barely stable orbits of immature worlds. The fifth planet is massive, dense and battered. It has just a thin sheen of atmosphere. Most of the surface is desolate, pounded by meteors and riddled with volcanoes that reach into a cold vacuum sky. But in certain places, great rifts crack the surface. Gases, noxious to be sure, fill these deep canyons. Clouds, mists and even rain obscure the deep fissures. Down in those depths, few sensors can penetrate. There, the Easterners built forward bases, havens for carriers that launched their Samurai gunships on some of the first raids of the war. There, the M