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Cryoplasmosis Star System

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This took FOREVER. I hope you enjoy. Anyways, here's the description.
-BlueMarble/Anonymoose and Cryoraptor.

Description: This is the Cryoplasmosis System, in a galaxy far far away. Okay, enough of the Star Wars references, it's located in the Whirlpool Galaxy, far out of our reach. It is around 5.8 billion years old, roughly 1.2 billon years older than the Solar System. In this system, life has emerged in a very similar way to life in our own system, but it has failed on many planets that are now dead hellholes or deserts. One such planet, Vafi, is in the last stages of it's habitable period, and a runaway greenhouse effect is ensuing. Within the next 100 million years, it will be no different to the other terrestrial hellholes of this system. All terrestrial planets apart from Atychovrachos have supported life at some stage, but have succumbed to the ageing of their star, and have aged with it. The last planet in this system to support life is Vafi, with only a few lakes containing prokaryotes left. At one point, this planet's life was much like Earth's, but unfortunately things change. The scariest thing about this, is that this system is a glimpse of what our Solar System might look like in 1.2 billion years. When this system was our age, Vafi supported vast communities of life. It never evolved highly intelligent life but some may consider this mercy on the planet and other life there. Earth is doomed to follow the same path as Vafi, as in 600 million years, the temperature on Earth would have increased so much that photosynthesis will become harder. By 800 million years in the future, most if not all plants would have died off, and with it any animal life that is still alive, presuming another event doesn't destroy it beforehand. By 1.2 billion years, the last multicellular and eukaryotic life will be dying off and the Earth may look very similar to Vafi. The other terrestrial planets have followed this fate: Kolasi, Enkavma and Xafnikazesto have followed what happened to Venus. When this system was young, they much like Venus supported vast oceans. However, things went wrong and they all entered a runaway greenhouse effect. Skouria followed the fate of Mars: It geologically died, lost it's water and permanently rusted. It hasn't changed at all in billions of years. Don't be deluded though; it may seem like Vafi and Earth were in just the right place for them to avoid these fates, but this is wrong. Habitability is a temporary state; it will never last. Just like how it didn't last on the other planets, it won't last on Vafi or Earth. What happened to either Mars and Skouria or Venus and the others will eventually happen to both Vafi and Earth too. In 1.2 billion years, Earth will be undergoing the same process as Vafi. Cryoplasmosis is an ageing and dying system, going through the second part of it's lifetime. What you see in this system now is what will happen to the Solar System.
Credits to Cryoraptor for the idea, and Credit to Anonymoose for making the system and modding the objects.