One final note: To avoid cluttering the forum with too many Lera Solar System topics, all new posts on Lera System subjects will be posted here for your conveniance.
Yes, sorry to keep you waiting but The Lera Solar System, Part One and Part Two, are finally available in one zip file to avoid confusion thanks to the help of ftp!
The only catch is that you have to delete any other previous Lera Solar System files, as they are all available in the new Lera1.zip. Which can be found here:
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/creators/kilderry/
If the Lera1.zip file is only said to be 1.4MB, don't download it. The new version hasn't reached the directory yet. That version is about 3MB.
The last file there is Lera2.zip, ignore this file, all the stuff it contains is available in the updated Lera1.zip.
You can vote for your favourite Lera System planet at these places:
http://celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5960
http://celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6010
Another Lera-related topic:
http://celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5940
Here is information about each of the original 14 Lera worlds as copied form the Lera1.zip readme, I will be updating these as I find (well, make up) more information:
JOVALERA, Lera's Oceania (Last Updated Nov 04, 2004)
This is the most beautiful and only habitable world in this system. It's surface is mostly made up of water with a few continents. You'll see that the continents look like they have experienced higher water levels by the way they have eroded. This is true. The planet's orbit is a bit eccentric for a Gaian world and so when ity is closest to it's Sun the polar glaciers melt and flood these lands. The planet also has a large moon in a close orbit, creating big tides which also flood the lowlands. It is interesting to note that Jovalera hasn't got much of an axial tilt, so the eccentricity of it's orbit creates the seasons as it gets closer and farther away from it's star. In Celestia you will see how the planet looks in autumn and global low tide.
It is interesting to note that Jovalera doesn't seem to have had any major tectonic activity on it's surface for a long time, as the continents don't fit together like a puzzle any more because they have eroded so much. The water level seems to have dropped sometime in the recent past as well, the water is now contained in Jovalera's atmosphere, this is because of a recent impact that has scarred one of the continents with three craters. Lately Jovalera's plate tectonics seems to have come back again, with the coming of hot spot islands and increasingly volcanic continents
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RINGLES: This darkly coloured (but very easy to spot from orbit around Jovalera) shepperd moon is small and irregularly shaped. It, like other shepperd moons, keeps planetary rings in order with it's gravity. These planetary rings belong to Jovalera.
MARBLES: This moon really does resemble a marble! It is a close orbiting large moon of Jovalera that alters the tides and rings of the planet. It's large and close orbiting characteristics make it look spectacular in Jovalera's sky. Although obvious surface evidence has disappeared long ago, this moon has had a big collision somewhere in it's lifetime. One of the telltale signs is it's tilted axis. It's a lunar Uranus!
KITHEREA: The closest planet to the sun in the Lera system, This planet is Venusian world. It has a suffocatingly thick cloud layer that traps heat below creating a runaway greenhouse effect. It has no moons and also has a relatively slow rotation with very little axial tilt. There are two things a bit mysterious about this planet. Firstly the pink spots on it's surface. It is not known whether these are impact craters or volcanoes. The dark clouds in it's atmosphere are of unknown composition.
PRAMARR: This outermost planet is probably the most intersting world in the solar system. It has a few thin water vapour clouds like Mars and Earth, and has a red surface like Mars, but this isn't a Marsian world. This world is electrified, you can see the glowing circles that resemble crater rims on it's surface from outer space. Other electrical features include glowing features that resemble cracks on the planet. The most spectacular feature of them all is the Big Green Lighting Bolt a surface feature spanning from the north pole to the south pole. It is unknown why this planet has so much electricity.
THE I LIKE EGGS COMET: An odd name for an odd comet. The comet's surface is nearly rainbow in colour with a green speckley feature on one side. This comet would have come from a more distant place in this star system and probably got into the current short-period orbit by Kitherea's gravitational pull. Even today this planet is liable to go dangerously close to Kitherea, it's orbit will probably be changed again.
THE VOMIT COMET: An appropriate name considering the colour of the comet. This comet has an orbit similar to the I Like Eggs Comet, except it doesn't have a very close approach to Kitherea, which makes this comet mysterious as it is not known how it could get into such an orbit. If it started off in this orbit the comet would have exhausted the dust and ice that supply it's comet tail and would be a dead comet nucleus.
QUOFFLE is an unusual, speckled, mostly bluish coloured object that resides between the planets Jovalera and Pramarr. It also has darker patches on it's surface made up of red and green speckles and the peculiarities don't stop there. Quoffle also has an extremely fast rotation.
MINSAKA is another asteroid. Unlike Quoffle, it is round in shape and sits between Pramarr and the double giant system in orbit around the Lera Star. Another thing unusual about this asteroid is that it has rings, although they are not as thick as Jovalera's. It's surface features are bizarre to say the least, with an unusual candy-striped pattern and several large black spots. These features also glow in the dark.
AKITEN is actually a man-made gas giant. You can tell this by the unusual patterns on it's cloud top. It's nightside also glows like Minsaka's and, thanks to lack of funds to complete the planet, a big black hole on it's surface exists because of virtually no atmosphere being in that region. This feature glows in the dark very brightly.
JUMWIY is the other giant in this system. It has a bluish tinge to it with a few reddish patches of cloud. It is not man-made and has a bluish upper atmosphere similar to Jovalera's. Like Uranus in our solar system, it axial tilt is so great that the planet rolls on it's side. Akiten and Jumwiy often go in front of one another and create great eclipses.
SEIAN is an unusual moon that orbits around the barycenter of the gas giants but closer than they actually do. In the real universe Seian's orbit would be completely unstable, but since this is a fictional solar system, I have left the world's orbit as is. It's surface has a porridgy appearance with very few craters.
SYKRIA is a minature gas giant, a type called a gas dwarf. Gas dwarfs are like small versions of normal gas giants except have much larger cores. It is a strange orangy world that is believed to have an active core with volcanic eruptions due to the gravitational pull of the two nearby giants which squeeze at this moon.
LECYUIA is a moon that is that is covered with brittle surface ice like Europa except it is believed not to have a huge underground ocean that may spawn life. It could have a few underground lakes though, with possible algae lifeforms. What makes this world weirder is that it orbits around Sykria (which is already a moon) making it a moon's moon.
That's about all,
Michael Kilderry
What caused the surface to crack off?
). But don't get too excited about that, because I still am not a fan of your previous work so far. 
. At this time, I do plan to keep the Proxima Centauri solar system realistic - well, to an extent.
