Odros
Odros is a fictional planet featured in the science fiction novel "The Mote in God's Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It is the homeworld of the Moties, an alien species encountered by humanity. Odros is a tidally locked planet orbiting a red dwarf star, meaning one side perpetually faces the star while the other is in eternal darkness. This results in extreme temperature variations across the planet's surface, with a habitable band existing between the scorching "sunward" side and the frozen "darkward" side.
The Moties have developed a complex and often desperate civilization on Odros, shaped by the planet's harsh