Let's try this exoplanet on for size...or plotbunnies. Plotbunnies that are on fire.
LP 791-18 D is about the same size as Earth and in the habitable zone. Because of the type of star it is, its tidally locked. It's also being constantly tugged on by LP 791-18C.
What does this mean?
Volcanoes.
Lots of volcanos.
And tidally locked. The suspicion is that there may be liquid water on the night side.
Oh, and it may have an atmosphere.
Lots of volcanos + liquid water + atmosphere like equals...
...life.
But probably not complex life like us and certainly it would be hard to sustain a technological civilization on a world like that.
We're probably talking, I don't know, sponges here.
But all the ingredients are there. Let's find a starship and go take a look!
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