Encircling Sea

The Encircling Sea was the name applied to the circumferential ocean of the planet Mure that pooled around its. Due to the sheer amount of liquid water content present at the equator due to the planet's rate of axial rotation and the resultant effects of, the region was notoriously misty and prone to year-round rain, with only a few small s capable of colonization.

Description
Due to the planet's lack of any of sufficient gravitational pull apart from the Monolith, Mure's day was historically 18 s long. Due to the planet's resultant increased rate of axial rotation, much of its endemic liquid water content was pulled from places of low at the poles down to places of high centrifugal force at the equator. This resulted in a circumferential ocean that drowned the extant landmasses at the equator and ensured that only the tallest mountain peaks remained unsubmerged.

Another result of the increased centrifugal force felt at the equator was the year-round rainfall that saturated the region. Due to the significant axial speeds at the equator, the Encircling Sea's water content had an easier time combating the effects of gravity than was traditionally the case on terrestrial worlds of more common rotational speeds. As a result, the air was often heavily saturated with moisture, shrouding the equator in a perpetual mist that gave rise to protracted periods of increased rainfall and cloud coverage.

Behind the scenes
The Encircling Sea was named in reference to from the, a body of water similarly referred to as the Encircling Sea in some works.