"Right, so, I expect that the way it worked in Eldrida as a whole long ago, as opposed to whatever goes on with your planet recently, is that the Dread Emperor decided there'd be lightlines and he made some, and he realized they needed to stay charged and didn't want to spend a day out of every decade doing that himself; and also he needed a prison; and he made those two problems solve each other.  Possibly somebody ran numbers on which planets needed how many lightlines, but I'd guess the Dread Emperor just went by relative surface area or did some other math in his head or told somebody else to do it."

"Right, so, I expect that the way it worked in Eldrida long ago, as opposed to whatever goes on with your planet recently, is that the Dread Emperor decided there'd be lightlines and he made some, and he realized they needed to stay charged and didn't want to spend a day out of every decade doing that himself; and also he needed a prison; and he made those two problems solve each other.  Possibly somebody ran numbers on which planets needed how many lightlines, but I'd guess the Dread Emperor just went by relative surface area or did some other math in his head or told somebody else to do it."

"Right, so, I expect that the way it worked in Eldrida long ago, as opposed to whatever goes on with your planet recently, is that the Dread Emperor decided there'd be lightlines and he made some; and he realized they needed to stay charged, and didn't want to spend a day out of every decade doing that himself; and also he needed a prison; and he made those two problems solve each other.  Possibly somebody ran numbers on which planets needed how many lightlines, but I'd guess the Dread Emperor just went by relative surface area or did some other math in his head or told somebody else to do it."

"Right, so, I expect that the way it worked in Eldrida long ago, as opposed to whatever goes on with your planet recently, is that the Dread Emperor decided there'd be lightlines and he made some; and he realized they needed to stay charged, and didn't want to spend a day out of every year doing that himself; and also he needed a prison; and he made those two problems solve each other.  Possibly somebody ran numbers on which planets needed how many lightlines, but I'd guess the Dread Emperor just went by relative surface area or did some other math in his head or told somebody else to do it."

"Right, so, I expect that the way it worked in Eldrida long ago, as opposed to whatever goes on with your planet recently, is that the Dread Emperor decided there'd be lightlines and he made some.  And he realized they needed to stay charged, and didn't want to spend a day out of every year doing that himself; and also he needed a prison; and he made those two problems solve each other.  Possibly somebody ran numbers on which planets needed how many lightlines, but I'd guess the Dread Emperor just went by relative surface area or did some other math in his head or told somebody else to do it."