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Lava World Adapted Civilizations

Lava world adapted civilizations are one of the most extreme models in alien-civilization theory: societies associated with rocky planets so hot that parts of their surfaces are molten. Drawing on the study of scorched exoplanets such as Kepler-10b, 55 Cancri e, and other ultra-short-period worlds, the concept explores how intelligence might survive, adapt, or relocate on planets where geology itself behaves like a hostile ocean of fire.