In the globular cluster after the sixth jump:
a planet that is a deeper blue than either Earth or Demeter;
white clouds that are also slightly amber;
rusty continents;
gleaming snow on peaks and altiplanos;
vivid sunrise and sunset;
no polar caps;
three moons;
gravity a fifth again as Earth's;
thick oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere, too concentrated at sea level for human beings;
greenhouse effect making high latitudes hot and the equator unbearable;
only the uppermost plateaus habitable;
life similar to Earth's everywhere but no sign of intelligence;
possibly chlorophyl but also something else in the vegetation;
very little chance of survival without seeds or synthesizers.
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