Oro

Oro or Orohu (Maichun: "The Great One", "The Great") is a bright planet that has historically been one of the most important celestial bodies in Kalami culture. It is given great significance in Makaism and many other Kalami religions who were known to practice astrology.

Etymology

It was named The Great One for its brightness, Kalami writers dating back centuries calculated its cycles to predict when it would be brightest, as it was thought to bring good fortune and favors. It also had the epithet of the "Morning Sun" (Hauhak) in many religious codices and was therein represented with the symbol of a sun inside a sun and described using male pronouns.

Before the Kalami conquests it had many other names In Tsaju was called "Keju-Ju", meaning 7th Dog, as their astronomers organized celestial bodies numerically and with animal symbols.

Characteristics

Modern analysis of the object suggests it may not be a star at all, but an extremely bright and hot planet. It's surface is estimated to reach about 600°C at its yearly peak.

Theories as to why it is so bright and hot are most prevalently possible nuclear fusion upon its surface, and/or some kind of phosphoric film covering a massively pressurized core.

Cycles

The object has a mostly predictable set of cycles but the reason for why they are this way is yet unknown.

For centuries, its appearance is calculated in kinds of leap years, where every 4 years of the Kalami calendar its light dims as to be nearly unseeable and slowly increases back to normal in a timespan of about 7 months plus 1 and ¼ days less than its last cycle. This implies it will be constantly bright (or even brighter) in a few more centuries.