Menehune for Universe Sandbox

Menehune is a small dwarf planet that features in both Camelorum Adventures and Stationery Voyagers, albeit under different conditions. Its first ever time being rendered, was in 2018, using Universe Sandbox.

DeviantArt description
Menehune is a terraformed Gonggong, moved closer to the sun by Xomians intending to use it as a military base. After a Xomian civil war, the base was reclaimed away from Xironooti loyalists, so other Xomians could help the Camelry defend Dromedia's Earth.

The military installations on Menehune also served as a base for the Percolation Warriors - heroes from the entire Dozerfleet Megaverse.

It comes with a moon titled Nightmarcher and an artificial satellite named Nu'u.

Simulation notes
While the equator is still able to retain a quasi-tropical climate on par with southern Georgia or northern Florida, Menehune used to be entirely tropical. In theory, being under a glass-like canopy to preserve an Earth-like atmosphere should result in a sufficient greenhouse effect to ensure global tropical climates. However, the dome is not possible in the simulation. Patches made to Universe Sandbox since 2018 have made climate distribution more realistic. As such, Menehune has less consistency. Instead of the balmy 80-degree weather of before, the equator manages about 75 degrees F in current versions of the game. The geographic poles of Menehune are stuck at around 25-34 degrees F, making it a very mild permanent winter zone.

Nightmarcher
Since the moon was dubbed "Nightmarcher" to keep with the Hawaiian theme, it was based on the moon of 2007 OR10 before said body was renamed Gonggong. Therefore, in the Dromedeverse, the moon to Gonggong is dubbed "Nightmarcher." It has since in real life been named "Xiangliu," after the nine-headed evil snake from Chinese mythology. It's debatable if the Gerosha universe can properly explain, given Halal Affadidah's wreaking havoc, how the body and its moon acquired this set of Chinese names. What is known, is that the Dromedeverse turned Gonggong into Menehune, and turned Xiangliu into Nightmarcher.

Either the name Menehune or Gonggong would make sense in Gerosha mythos, since the Orient volume in The Gerosha Chronicles focuses on mostly Chinese heroes plus two lesser Japanese heroines. Meanwhile, Gerosha mythos has its own version of Kamohoalii, who is not (outside of the Percolation Warriors Saga) a major presence in the Dromedeverse. So Gerosha has equal parts Chinese and Hawaiian influence, whereas the Dromedeverse would lean more toward Hawaiian (in spite Xiang of the Killer Hiccups existing in the Dromedeverse.) If not for Gonggong being named Menehune in the Dromedeverse, then Nightmarcher would have been named Xiangliu as well.

Nu'u
The satellite Nu'u is portrayed by a stand-in model based on New Horizons. Since some versions of the tale of Gonggong in Chinese mythology make him partially responsible for the flood, naming the satellite "Nuo-a" after the Chinese for Noah instead of Nu'u in reference to Hawaiian is feasible for Gerosha mythos, if such a satellite were to exist around a terraformed Gonggong. At present, only distant images exist of either Gonggong or Xiangliu, as it is located even further away than Neptune. Until this changes, then a Gerosha equivalent of Menehune (and therefore, Nightmarcher and Nu'u) is unlikely to be canonized.

Distribution
Menehune was first released in this solar system simulation for Camelorum Adventures on April 17th of 2018. The file got a re-release on October 26th of 2019. In April of 2020, the 2019 version was reuploaded to the Dozerfleet Labs blog. Meanwhile, the Hoth-like frozen version of Menehune is part of the Inktacto System simulation.

Reception
As of 2021, the upload has received very little attention. It is listed as having received a total of 169 views on DeviantArt, with 3 favorites and no downloads.