One possibility I'd like to add that I haven't seen mentioned yet; the sun of Atys could be a periodic star. There are stars that vary hugely in brightness in a periodic manner. Though a period of 24 hours would be the fastest variable star ever.
Perhaps the fast pulsing of the star is a warning sign of the star's instability, and that it's about to explode into a red giant star
The Karavan did always hint Atys would soon be destroyed in a blaze of fire...
pr0ger wrote:The biggest and scariest fact is, if this observation is true, it means Atys makes a revolution around the sun in 24 hours and rotating on itself in 24 hours... wow how fast does atys moves then ??
If Atys revolves around the sun in 24 hours, all 4 seasons would pass in those 24 hours. Assuming ofcourse the seasons are caused the same way as on Earth, by the non-zero angle between the Earth's rotation around the sun and the rotation around it's own axis. But since the time that all 4 seasons pass is called a "cycle", it has to be about something revolving around something.
Speaking of, does the number of hours of daylight vary between the seasons? That'd be a pretty clear indication if they're caused by Atys' rotation around the sun or not.
kibsword wrote:3 - The planet rotates around Atys, personally I have my doubts about this, but I can't rule it out either. However, if Atys was the main planetry body, and the sun was a real star, Atys would have to have a very eliptical and fast orbit.
Have you seen how big that thing is? Our own moon is one-third the diameter of Earth, and is only a little tiny dot in our sky. If we assume this planet is at comparable distance, it has to be huge to cover that much of the Atys sky. At least 100 times the diameter of our moon. Definitely larger than Atys. For it to be smaller than Atys, it'd have to be so close it would've long ago been pulled apart by Atys' gravity.
Actually, I think for anything to appear as such a huge object in the sky, its gravity would pull Atys apart anyway. So we could conclude it's not a real planet. Or that Atys' branches and roots just keep the planet together much sturdier than a normal ball of rock like Earth. Still, we'd have to be experiencing huge tidal forces.
petej wrote:If Atys is indeed round and isnt growing straight "up" towards the light it would suggest it was illuminated equally on all sides , could it be that Atys sits at the mid point of more than one sun ?
Hmmm, Atys right in the center of a double-star system with both stars lighting up one side of the planet... That would explain the stationary sun. But any planet right in the middle of two stars would either be pulled apart by their gravity, be pulled into one of the stars, or be slingshotted into space.
acridiel wrote:Slightly Off topic, but guys...
If Atys is a plant... Growing up from a "normal" planet Core.
Where does it get it´s nutrients? Is it a plant-perpetuum-mobile?
Is it completely self sufficient?
And if we, Karavan or Kami, continue to deplete these ressources by digging deep into the Plant, then don´t we destroy our own world?
No Plant can feed on Light alone.
A closed ecology doesn't need any additional nutrients, just energy. Earth's life ultimately gets all their energy from the sun. Then Atys also has that big gas planet in the sky, apparently pretty close. Jupiter's moon Io, being very close to the planet, has vulcanic activity as a result of the energy delivered to it by Jupiter's tidal forces. Thirdly, look up at the sky of Atys, and it looks like a meteor shower rages every day there, probably coming from the gas planet's ring. So I think Atys receives plenty of energy.
Come to think of it, wouldn't those meteors deposit minerals on Atys?
And the Karavan are so to say, Micronauts. 
