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====== Guide to Planets ====== | ====== Guide to Planets ====== | ||
- | This is a guide to help people better understand how to create planets, but also, what they can add to a planet to ' | + | This is a guide to help people better understand how to create planets, but also, what they can add to a planet to ' |
===== Creation Process ===== | ===== Creation Process ===== | ||
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We also have some public domain images (from NASA) available here: [[http:// | We also have some public domain images (from NASA) available here: [[http:// | ||
- | {{public_domain_images: | + | {{public_domain_images:nasa: |
== Other Useful Images === | == Other Useful Images === | ||
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===== Planetary Classifications ===== | ===== Planetary Classifications ===== | ||
- | A classification is a type of anomaly that a planet | + | A classification is a type of anomaly that a world might have, this can range from being a perfect pearl world where the climate is great for habitation, or, more likely, |
- | + | ==== Desert World ==== | |
- | There are multiple | + | A desert planet resembles |
- | + | ==== Ice world ==== | |
- | ==== Hollow | + | In most cases, ice worlds are literally made of ice, having formed far from their star; though not so far that their atmosphere has frozen on as well. Sometimes an ice world is an ocean world that is simply going through an ice age. |
- | + | ==== Water World ==== | |
- | A hollow | + | A water world is a terrestrial planet with so much water it has almost no (or even absolutely no) land area. In extreme cases, its oceans may be miles deep. These worlds may have life, but usually do not produce complex life, as life on land is considerably more challenging. The most likely worlds |
+ | ==== Hollow | ||
+ | A hollow | ||
==== Eden World ==== | ==== Eden World ==== | ||
- | + | An Eden World is ideal for colonization, | |
- | An Eden World is essentially | + | |
==== Electromagnetic Storms ==== | ==== Electromagnetic Storms ==== | ||
- | + | An anomaly that can be found on some worlds, EM storms | |
- | An anomaly that can be found on some worlds, EM Storms are storms | + | |
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- | EM Storms also make sensor | + | |
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- | ==== Font ==== | + | |
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- | A font is a planet that is constantly shifting in terms of its land masses, this results in constant earthquakes each and every day of that planets life. This makes habitation excessively difficult. | + | |
===== Planetary Special Conditions ====== | ===== Planetary Special Conditions ====== | ||
- | The following are planetary conditions that take the place of the specials tag when creating planets. These conditions are optional when creating planets, they are mainly there to add a bit more depth to a planet, such as bonuses, positives and negatives. | + | The following are planetary conditions that take the place of the specials tag when creating planets. These conditions are optional when creating planets, they are mainly there to add a bit more depth to a planet. |
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- | Ideally a planet can either | + | |
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- | Planets can also have both a ground and space based condition. | + | |
==== Ground Based Conditions ==== | ==== Ground Based Conditions ==== | ||
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Ground Based Conditions refers to conditions that are found below its cloud cover. | Ground Based Conditions refers to conditions that are found below its cloud cover. | ||
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=== Dense Cloud Cover === | === Dense Cloud Cover === | ||
- | + | Planets with dense atmospheres, | |
- | Dense Cloud Cover is the result of either a reoccurring storm on the planet or due to constant volcanic action. This type of cloud cover makes it very difficult to see the surface, | + | === Extreme Tectonic Activity |
- | + | An unstable | |
- | === Cavernous System === | + | |
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- | A system of caverns that reside under the planets surface, these caverns are very wide and dense in numbers, making them ideal for the construction of underground cities. This system also adds to the difficulty of sieging a planet, because most of the population might not even be located on the surface but rather underground, | + | |
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- | === Unstable Planetoid | + | |
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- | An unstable | + | |
=== Noxious Atmosphere === | === Noxious Atmosphere === | ||
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A Noxious atmosphere is one where the planet is not suitable by any lengths for colonization without the use of highly advanced life support systems, but this is depending on what makes up the atmosphere; some of these atmospheres might actually be dangerous to buildings. | A Noxious atmosphere is one where the planet is not suitable by any lengths for colonization without the use of highly advanced life support systems, but this is depending on what makes up the atmosphere; some of these atmospheres might actually be dangerous to buildings. | ||
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While similar to moons, they differ in that they are not located in a stable orbit, these particular types of moons are dangerous because of how close they orbit their parent planet. Most planets that possess these types of moons may in fact not have a stable atmosphere or no atmosphere at all. | While similar to moons, they differ in that they are not located in a stable orbit, these particular types of moons are dangerous because of how close they orbit their parent planet. Most planets that possess these types of moons may in fact not have a stable atmosphere or no atmosphere at all. | ||
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====== Star Army Guide to Types of Planets ====== | ====== Star Army Guide to Types of Planets ====== | ||
| :!: **The following article is currently NOT APPROVED for in-character usage.** | | | :!: **The following article is currently NOT APPROVED for in-character usage.** | | ||
- | As anyone can see from SARP's [[http:// | + | As seen on SARP's [[http:// |
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+ | The broadest way to classify planets is by their overall size. While size alone doesn' | ||
- | Although it may seem strange, | + | Since helium and hydrogen are the two most common elements in the universe, worlds that are large enough |
- | // | + | Gas giants themselves come in many sizes, from ten times the mass of a standard world to thousands of times that. Their moons are more likely |
=== Units === | === Units === | ||
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- [[wp> | - [[wp> | ||
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- | + | Some planets | |
- | Generally this category is a place holder for artifical | + | |
==== Artificial Planets ==== | ==== Artificial Planets ==== | ||
- | -Ancient giant artifact Terrestrial Planet that are immediately noticable due to their odd non-spherical shape. | + | -Constructed worlds from an ancient era of much higher technology, |
- | -Ask Wes about any notable ones still left in star army | + | |
==== Pulsar Planets ==== | ==== Pulsar Planets ==== | ||
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==== Rogue Planet ==== | ==== Rogue Planet ==== | ||
- | -Cold Desolate planets cores that where kicked off during | + | -A rogue planet is a planet |
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