When Humans encountered the trinary system of Triceros Omega they discovered a new sort of system. Logic and physics dictated that no planet could hold together under the rigorous gravitic forces of such a system. And yet Triceros, the planet who took its name from the system itself, in all it's grandeaur, floated in peaceful serenity at the very heart of the trinary star system. Spinning calmly with bands of gold, purple, green and brown, the great gas giant seemed the lord of the star system. For indeed, though not precisely, the planet was close enough to the center of gravity of the entire system that unlike all other systems ever before encountered, this system had the stars circling the planet, and not the other way around. A slight wobble in it's fixed point in space was the only obvious effect of the three stars whirling around it's place.

The three stars were notable for their own strengths. One was a white star, larger by several factors than Earth's own humble yellow star. This star shared it's orbit around Triceros with the other two stars. Those stars, one a dim yellow star, the other a smaller, dimmer red star, rotated around a common point, and together as they swirled endlessly about each other, did they rotate around Triceros.

Triceros as a planet was of course, having no surface, not likely to give rise to any intelligence which could be awed and inspired by the antics of three stars rotating in solemn splendour around that fixed point in space. However though Triceros did not bother to yield up sentience and life, it did harbour a rich system of moons each grand themselves compared with a lowly blue and white globe circling that far distant nursery of mankind.

The largest moon of all was Mihok, who held in its secrets under an icy mantle. In the distant past Mihok had been a more fertile world, teeming with life as many of the other moons now do. The life which it raised, in it's distant orbit around Triceros, was one which grew up in a short space of time. Conquering the distance between Mihok and the fertile yet sterile other moons, the people of Mihok seeded those planets, planning expansion. Their plans were never reached, however, in that they were themselves conquered by some internal strife. Their uncaring attitude about their own planet of origin, hte moon of Mihok, in the end was their undoing. And with the destruction of that ecosphere, the people of Mihok saw the death of their home. Life was only barely starting on the seeded moons, not yet enough to sustain the people of Mihok. And so, seeing no future in their destroyed and denuded homeland, the explorers left the fertile moons and returned home to die with their planet. The winter which came became eternal, covering over the planet and burying the signs of civilization beneath the ice. Only small ice dwelling creatures lived upon the denuded planet, silent witness to the life which once teemed on those shores.

A million years later the life so carefully seeded on ten of Triceros' moons was teeming. Having come from the same seed, the life was similar and compatible on each moon. From the small sea worlds to the second largest moon called Arat, life flourished and grew.

Upon the planet of Arat great plains soon teemed with hooved beasts of many varieties. The light gravity compared to the extreme gravity on Mihok, caused the creatures to grow up long limbed and slender. The dimness of the three stars, far enough away to keep the planet and his moons safe from destruction, brought about large eyes, the better to see in the perpetual gloom that was the planets phases. And compared to the simple night and day of earth, the moons of Triceros were immersed in an endless rhythm of varying shades of light and dark.

Half night, the most abundant time for the dwellers of Arok, was the time when the face of the moon was turned from the mother planet of Triceros, but the two battling stars, as they were known, Delgat and Yamin, were in the heavens. Half day was that time when Triceros was again absent from the skies, as were the dueling distant stars, and only the nearer star called Omega was in the sky. Full day was when Triceros itself shone down on the circling moon. Bright and warm, it was only through the light and warmth of the planet that the moons succeeded in being paradisaical. Full night was for those times when neither the battling stars, nor the larger brighter Omega, nor even the planet which held the leash to each moon was in the sky.

With such incredible celestial objects it was no wonder that the sentience which was bound to arise at some point should fixate upon them and create legends both great and minor. To the beings of Arat, sentience came swiftly and easily and in a way which had never before, like the star system itself, been seen. Handless, and incapable of creating anything or making anything, nevertheless the four-hooved creatures of Arat's great plains developed great sentience and later great legends regarding their place in the cosmos, and the reasons behind the swirling ever changing maelstrom that was their star system.