The Milky Way's Most Horrifying Planets

Otonan is currently ranked 153rd on the most dangerous planets in the Milky Way, and for good reason. Want to seek refuge from the literal boiling oceans? Well you can't find that on land, unless you want volcanic eruptions and gases to choke you to death. That, or get eaten by menacing insectoid creatures, tens of metres in length.

— The Milky Way's Most Horrifying Planets, Vol. 1

The Milky Way's Most Horrifying Planets is a five-part magazine published by Planet Wanderer Publishers, a magazine company based in the Galanti Cluster. The magazine is a comedic list of the Milky Way's most dangerous, shocking, terrifying planets, all based on popular opinion and online voting.

Vol. 1 of this series gained immediate traction, resulting in five more volumes made over the next five years. The magazine comes in physical and digital versions, accessible in most shops and fuel stations across the Milky Way.

Vol. 1 contains 160 planets, Vol. 2 contains 140, and Vol. 3 - 5 all contain 50 planets each. Nalmaria, Suveisa and Ozuhei are the only three planets to be featured in all three volumes.

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The Milky Way's Most Horrifying Planets

This snippet features text from the top ten most horrifying planets from Vol. 1. This list is not a definitive ranking of the most horrifying planets in the Milky Way, and is subject to opinion.

10. Amerea

Lining this rogue planet's dusty grey surface are a series of monolithic towers. The planet has been dead for thousands of years - it was hurled out of orbit by a severe gravity storm, and never recovered.
Despite this, whatever people that once called Amerea home didn't leave a single trace, aside from the monuments. These towers are the only proof a civilisation once existed, and the mystery is yet to be uncovered...
All the life that is left on Amerea come in the form of scuttling rodents, chirping insects, and fleshy masses hellbent on swallowing up anything that lands on the planet. I'd avoid this one, if I were you.

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9. Hell

Lava River on Hell by Mochi

The No. 9 spot is going to none other than the real-life version of the torturous afterlife seen in so many mythologies across the Yonderverse. Hell has a very bad reputation, and for good reason. Its wildlife are out to get you - if you can somehow avoid the bubbling lava ponds, lakes, and oceans, good luck running from vicious monsters awaiting their next meal.
What is even more horrifying is that people from other planets saw Hell and thought it would make a fantastic holiday retreat. That's right, you can actually have your honeymoon in Hell. Who thought that was a good idea?

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8. Rabalhar

Our 8th spot belongs to none other than Rabalhar. It is advised not to visit Rabalhar; people who land on the planet seldom leave, and when they do they are never the same. Even though it's discouraged, many feel compelled to see what's truly going on deep below the planet's surface.
A scan of the planet shows that 90% of its crust is artificial, digging into the mantle with wires extending all the way into the core of the planet. The worldwide city of Rabalhar is powered by the planet's core, infested with various forms of magic that work harmoniously with the advanced technology crafted by its robot inhabitants.
Unless you want to be picked apart and replaced with machinery, stay away.

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7. Nalmaria

Our No. 7 spot goes to one of the creepiest planets out there. If Nalmaria's toxic atmosphere doesn't send you running, then its inhabitants sure will. Firstly, the only safe place on the planet is the Habitable Zone - everywhere else is the domain of the hostilins, mile-wide arachnids.
The planet is one wrong move away from crumbling apart, held together by the spider hivemind's Queen in the very core of the planet. Her webs hold Nalmaria together; without them, the fractured planet would literally collapse.
Nalmaria has been off limits for tens of millions of years, as hostilins thwart any attempt for spacecrafts to land on the planet's surface. Everyone has given up and stayed away!

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6. Atalas

Atalas is tricky to navigate. In just the span of a few hours, entire mountain ranges can shift to the complete opposite side of the planet. Nothing moves if you stare at it - while you're not looking, landscapes morph and shift in an attempt to trick its wanderers.
Atalas is believed to be a single malevolent entity. The extent of this creature is unknown, but the planet can be seen "breathing", as seen with its tides despite the lack of any satellites.
Strangers on this planet seem to disappear, too. Entire spacecrafts have crash landed on the planet, and within a few days vanished without a single trace.

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5. Eyzonme

There is a near-complete absence of light on Eyzonme. The planet's atmosphere is coated in a black shimmer which blocks out 99% of light from Primordi, the star in the Galanti Cluster.
The people of Eyzonme are perfectly adapted to this lightless environment. They navigate using echolocation, communicate using shrill whistles and screams, and so do other creatures on the planet. Eyzonme is never anyone's holiday destination.
Some believe the planet lost the light in its atmosphere due to a catastrophic event involving a malfunctioned Space Gate. Space Gates create rips in time and space, allowing people to move from one place to another instantaneously. Use it wrong and they can have horrendous consequences.

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4. Govelis

The atmosphere on Govelis gives the planet its creepy reputation. The atmosphere is incredibly dense, so much so that you can hear sounds from miles away, but can never be sure as to how far away anything is happening. Next time you hear someone whisper, they could be a mile away. Or right behind you. Don't turn your back on anything.

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3. Cvorvatis

Cvorvatian Forest by Mochi

All Cvorvatis has been left with is rampant disease and polluted landscapes. The once thriving planet suffered an attack from Karkhala, wiping out thirty million people and displacing billions more. Those left are nomads, wandering the haunted forests, traversing the oil-spilled seas, and navigating the sun-bleached wastelands.
The reason Cvorvatis made the No. 3 spot is due to a little bug. The Cvorvatian Brainworm, to be specific. This creepy crawly wriggles its way to the brain of its victims, consuming the brain matter in its entirety. If there is no brain matter to be found, then it forms its own neural networks and creates an artificial one. How horrifying.

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Vermina

The aptly named Vermina is a breeding ground for intergalactic parasites. This planet has no atmosphere, is covered in stillwater lakes, and for that reason trillions of different pathogens reproduce at shocking rates. Every time Vermina experiences a gravity storm, pretty much every other week, these pathogens are released into outer space to run rampant.
The planet is off limits, for obvious reasons. It would have been annihilated but virologists and bacteriologists throughout the Milky Way have begged and pleaded to keep the planet quarantined for research purposes, to study for and invent cures.

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1. Khanaa

Shrimptail by Mochi

Khanaa's Tendrils by Mochi

The Blood Planet sits at the No. 1 spot. Khanaa's great tendrils reach out into space, grasping at anything floating past. They snatch up any megafauna, dragging them to their blood-boiled demise.
Khanaa's average temperature sits at a comfortable 2,500 degrees Celsius. Practically room temperature. The planet is mostly made of blood vapour as well as a handful of other metals in their gas form, from being boiled at such ridiculous temperatures.
All of Khanaa's wildlife can utilise blood magic. It's best not to mess with anything from the Blood Planet, as intimidating a shrimptail can lead to your blood solidifying and tearing you from the inside out.

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