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this moon was best-known as the location of the Wellspring. Much of the planet's core was riddled with aquifers and subterranean passageways, through which the planet's water supply was constantly bubbling. The external outpouring of this water was the Wellspring, the source of all Lamus' surface water. In addition to this surface oddity, Lamus also experienced one day every thirty years when the sun didn't shine in the sky. This was due to an orbital anomaly during which Lamus precisely matches the orbit of its primary planet, thereby keeping the planet directly between it and the sun. The only thing visible in the dark sky was the coronal ring of fire surrounding the planet. Lamus was settled some ten generations before the onset of the Galactic Civil War, by a group of human colonists who came to call themselves the A'Mar. Their experience with this celestial event led to the near-religious adoration of the Wellspring, as well as the creation of The Vigil. The moon itself remained a pastoral world even after ten generations of colonization, with only a few large settlements dotting the ancient, forested landscape. The polar regions were covered with frigid deserts which were riddled with sinkholes, making travel across the poles treacherous.