Tora

Tora is a volcanic moon of the planet Manta in the Odjoran system, Its best known for its exotic life and Methanol seas.

It's of extremely alien environment that's considerably hostile to organic life.

Surface
Tora's surface is very hot for it's distance from Odjor, due to Tidal heating and it's dense atmospheric composition it has warmed up to 61 °C under a greenhouse blanket. 92% of the surface is dry mainland in the form of either mountainous or plains, the other 8% of the surface is covered with liquid Methanol. The crust of Tora is rather thin, no thicker then 2 kilometers at best creating much volcanic activity.

Lithosphere
Unlike other bodies in the Axel system Tora's lithosphere is very poor of oxygen making it hard for Organic life to arise under these conditions. The Toran lithosphere does however contain large amounts of silicon, chlorine and smaller hydrocarbons such as methane. While carbon is present in the Toran lithosphere the scarcity of Oxygen prevents it from forming complex organic molecules. The absence of oxygen is partially because of the amounts of silicon, nearly all Oxygen has bounded with Silicon to form silicon dioxide ages ago resulting in the disappearance of free O2. Noted must be that the amounts of O2 on Tora must have been low from the beginning since the amount of Silicon dioxide in the lithosphere is relatively trace, the dominant presence of Silicon is therefore not a direct cause for the scarcity of Oxygen on Tora. But with the atmosphere completely ridden of Oxygen any further reaction between Silicon and Oxygen to form SiO2 was prevented.

The Toran crust is very thin in comparison to other planets and moons, creating much volcanic activity. Inside Volcanic vents and underground caves close to a magma chamber this provides enough heat for Silicon based life to arise.

Life
Life on Tora is fundamentally different from life on most other planets, which are mostly Carbon based life on Tora is Silicon based and has therefore not become multicellular as such chemistry has trouble building more complex compounds. The result is that there are only unicellular Silicis Torana. Which thrive in extreme hyperthermal conditions such as volcanic active area's or underground caves.