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Onyx had an Oxygen-Nitrogen gas atmosphere of suitable pressure for Human life with a moderate weather cycle. It ... has a surprising abundance of Indigenous Flora and Fauna, some of which are edible species and pose no danger. The transplanting of Earth species was possible.
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Onyx is a powerful stack-based, multi-threaded, interpreted, general purpose programming language similar to PostScript and Forth. It can be embedded as an extension language into other applications, and was designed to have a small memory footprint. It is among the smallest embeddable interpreters available.
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Onyx is a cryptocrystalline form of quartz. The colors of its bands range from white to almost every color (save some shades, such as Purple or Blue.) Commonly, specimens of onyx available contain bands of colors of white, tan, and brown. Sardonyx is a variant in which the colored bands are sard (shades of red) rather than black. Pure black Onyx is common, and perhaps the most famous variety, but not as common as Onyx with banded colors.
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Onyx which is reddish brown and white is known as sardonyx. Sardonyx was highly valued in Rome, especially for seals, because it was said never to stick to the wax. The Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio was known for wearing it a good deal.
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Onyx contains frank descriptions of sexual acts. Many of the actions in Onyx describe unusual forms of sexual play, particularly at higher spice levels, including bondage, power exchange, and combinations of food and sex.
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Onyx was discovered by the UNSC Engineering Corps sometime around May, 2491. In ENGCORP Field Report A76344, Captain D. F. Lambert said "XF-063 is a rare jewel of a find" and recommended colonization.
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