#fictional exo-planet

[clock-onyx]

Stellaris

First and closest planet in the Stellular Solar System, the only habitable one in it aswell. Situated perfectly above the South Star, and perfectly under the North Star

I DONT EVEN REMEMBER IF I EVER WROTE SOMETHING IN DETAIL ABOUT THE PLANET ITSELF??? Well now i am LMFAOOOOO

I may or may not have changed some things, if i talked about Stellaris before i am so sorry i genuienly do not recall

AND some things may change and i will write more detailed stuff in the future idk im tired LMFAOOOO

An infamous planet, known now for the fact it was forcefully terraformed into something completly unrecognizable from how it used to look by Stars, causing plently of fauna and flora going extinct because of it, and many more adapting to the changes.

Orbiting around a young red dwarf and accompanied by its artifical moon, Octavian, its a super earth-like planet, 4x the size of earth, or simply around the same size as Uranus.

NORTH

The north is a region of the planet that has been the most affected by the Stars, having a permanent purple sky that always shows the stars, it is the region with the least amount of gravity. People and creatures who lived there evolved to large sizes, yet fragile and hollow bones to be able to walk around the region safely.

It is also home to the Crystilized Castle, where the gods lived in before an incident accoured, causing them to split up. It sits abandoned now, just a haunting reminder of who lived there.

EQUATOR

The Equator is the most similar to Earth, with its almost identical gravity, level of oxigen, soil, sky etc, it is the most habitable region out of all of them and most studied.

Many famous people, cities, amd even wars have happened in the Equator. Almost all people born on the Equator have stronger bones and muscles, aswell as being a lot shorter than the one in the North.

SOUTH

The South is the least studied and unknown. It has the strongest gravity out of all the planet and is also the least affected by the Stars. Not much is known about it, due to no one having the right equipment to explore the Region.

No known native species or flora, sentient or not, have been discoverd that originated purely from the south.

BEFORE THE STARS

Before the Stars, the planet was originally a habitable tidally locked planet. Most species lived on the dark side of it, and some went out to love between the line of darkness and light, to thrive without dying from the heat.

Lots of the sentient species lived in harmony, amd even created community villages to live in togheter, but that all changes when they sae the lights in the sky

The tidal lock was broken when the stars crashed into the North with force, creating a large crater and energy so violent that the planet began spinning, causing mass extinctions all over the planet with only a few lucky ones surviving.

Trivia

Inhabitants of Stellaris do not have countries. They live in whatever region they wish, not having much political conflict, as theyre all driven by religion insted.

The planet is essencially on the brink of exploding due to the energy being too much, if the stars leave, there may be a slight chance of it healing slowly, but not fully.

The most common enviorment on Stellaris are grassy places like meadows and fields. The rarest is any sort of icy enviorment

Stellaris is a fairly hot planet, avreaging a 25° ~ 30° C at day all year, and 4° ~ 9° at night

Stellaris most common season is Spring

[youare-number6]

Vertical Revisits - Exoplanets

I'm revisiting some old prompts and creating the vertical versions that I failed to create the first time around.

[wakingdreamworld]

Alien Worlds - Apple Cinnamon

These images started out as a picture of a baked apple cinnamon desert. And it was a good desert but ugly.

[honourablejester]

Lighthouse Stars

You know sometimes you have a fact or a concept about the universe that you’d sort of vaguely brushed past a time or two but it never actually caught your brain in a way that sparked something before, until abruptly it does?

I was watching a Spacedock youtube video about pulsars in science fiction, and … I’ve heard of pulsars before, and this is the standard language around them, but I still never fully grasped until now the awesome concept that pulsars are lighthouse stars.

Pulsars are neutron stars, the superdense, compact remnants of supernovas, and they are super magnetised, and because they’re so tiny and so magnetic and rotating at such ridiculous speeds, that electromagnetic radiation is beaming out from their poles like twin lighthouse beams of radiation, causing the pulsar to appear to, well, pulse when the beam sweeps in our direction. They’re also so regular and so precise that they can and have been used as space navigation aids. Including on the Voyager Golden Disc map showing Earth’s position relative to 14 pulsars:

And. Look. You all know me and lighthouses from a standing start. The tangled ball of imagery around a beam of light in the darkness showing safe passage through the deadly chaos of the ocean. And. That, but in space. A star that is a lighthouse.

I don’t know why this never clicked for me before, but oh my god that is an image and a half.

And. So. For bonus points, because I love space horror so very, very much? There is a star system called PSR B1257+12 which was the first pulsar to have confirmed planets orbiting it. There’s three planets that have been confirmed so far. And in the mid-2010s during the Name Exo Worlds event, the public named this pulsar and its planets Lich, Draugr, Poltergeist and Phobetor. The star is named after an undead wizard, and its planets are named after various spirits, undead and nightmare creatures. So. Again. Just by the naming conventions, not any properties of the star itself (although pulsars, like all neutron stars, can be argued as undead given that they’re the remnants of supernovas), this is an undead lighthouse star. A ghostly stellar lighthouse, its twin beams sweeping the void, surrounded by three silent, undead worlds.

Please god tell me somebody’s written a space horror story with that concept? Because. *flails madly*

I think pulsars may be my new favourite type of star. And yes, I should have twigged this imagery years ago, pulsars have always been described as lighthouses, but still.

Lighthouse stars. Undead lighthouse stars. What a spectacular concept.

[soleilceirinen]

Wind in my hair | Oh Sehun x fem!Reader AU

Summary: you're trying to study for your last exam but Sehun has other ideas. He uses his powers to distract you.

A/N: this is an EXO AU where Sehun has powers, as if he's some sort of alien. This is completely fictional, not based in real life.

Warning: nothing.

Also, English isn't my first language, sorry if there are mistakes and thanks for reading!

EXO Masterlist

The soft wind moved the curtain in front of you, delicately brushing your arm in a tender caress. Without taking your eyes off your notes, you moved your arm and slapped the fabric away as you tried not to lose track of what you were studying. Only one more exam and you would be free, that’s what you repeated in your mind to keep yourself motivated. 

Suddenly, the curtain hit you in the face, blinding you for a moment, all the previous tenderness of its movements gone. With a sigh, you pushed it aside and stared at the window to check if it was open. But no, it was still closed, just like you had left it before starting with your study session. 

Then, you turned around in your chair and faced your boyfriend Sehun. He was lying on your bed, smiling at you. Clearly, he was having a great time as he messed with your patience. 

“Stop it, Sehun. You’re not letting me study,” you complained. 

He put a hand over his chest and feigned surprise. “Me?” he asked innocently, although he seemed to be fighting a smile back. “I’m not letting you study?”

You nodded. 

It was him who had been moving the curtain all along, thanks to his wind controlling powers, whatever they were. You still didn’t fully understand the nature of his powers or his own existence, he came from another planet. So, technically, Sehun wasn’t human, and he wasn’t the only one. 

You didn’t care about him being an alien, as you liked to call it. What worried you was the fact that he and the others were the good guys, at least in theory, but there were also bad ones. Sehun refused to talk about them and you tried not to think about it most of the time. More than once he had promised you that he would keep you safe and you trusted him, you knew that he could be really powerful. 

It was a pity that right now he was using his power to piss you off. 

“Sehun, I need to pass this exam.”

“And? What am I supposed to be doing?” 

His faked innocence was starting to be replaced by a mischievous smile. It made you roll your eyes. Without any more words, you turned back to the desk and focused again on your notes. 

“You know exactly what you’re doing,” you murmured after a while. “Just leave me alone for a couple hours, I’m not asking for anything more than that,” you said, resting your face on one hand. 

He seemed to accept it, little did you know that he wasn’t going to stop that easily. 

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You had lost count of how many deep breaths you had been taking in order to stay calm. It was impossible to tell by now. You were quite proud of yourself though, considering that you hadn’t stabbed him with a pencil yet, with the constant wind ruffling your hair, blowing it into your face and moving your notes around, of course not allowing you to study.

With a deep sigh, you took the elastic band that you always wore on your wrist and tied your hair up in a messy bun. It didn’t solve the problem because then, the wind increased, causing your notes to fall all over the floor. 

Sehun’s laugh could be heard behind you. 

Since you were so fed up already, you grabbed the first pen that you could find and turned around fast, throwing it at Sehun’s head. The pen hit him in the face. Under normal circumstances, he would have been able to avoid it without any difficulty, he was an alien after all, but he was so distracted laughing at you that he didn’t move away in time. Well deserved, you thought. 

He covered his face with his hands as he let out a soft cry. “Ouch,” he said, rolling onto his side.

After a few seconds, you got up and approached him. It wasn’t your intention to hurt him, you were just tired and frustrated. 

“Sehun, let me see,” you murmured softly, sitting next to him on the bed. You placed a hand on his shoulder, trying to make him turn so you could see his face. “I didn’t mean to hit you hard but I have a really good aim, what can I do?” you joked. 

He didn’t seem to find the joke funny. Instead, he made a sound that sounded like a hurt little puppy. This made you frown, what if you had hurt him for real?

"Sehun, take your hands away, let me see."

He removed his hands slowly but you couldn’t see anything because suddenly he moved so fast. Before you could realize, you were lying on the bed, with Sehun on top of you. A big smile was present on his face as his hands pressed your wrists against the mattress.

"You're an idiot, you know that? I was really worried."

Sehun laughed and brought his face closer to yours to kiss you but in the last moment you turned your face to the side, so his lips connected to your jaw instead of your mouth. 

“What’s wrong?” He asked in a low voice, nuzzling your neck with the tip of his nose before starting to leave a trail of small kisses that made you shiver under him.

"Oh really? What’s wrong?" You asked back, mocking his words and raising an eyebrow as you looked at him. As much as you wanted him right now, you had other priorities. "Now is not the time. Let me finish studying and then we can do whatever we want, or continue this. Alright?”

He released your wrists but didn’t let you go, still laying on top of you, now resting his head on your chest where he could feel your heart beating fast. After a few minutes in which your breathing became one, you started stroking his hair. It felt very soft between your fingers and smelled like your favourite shampoo from the last time he showered at your place. 

“You’ve been studying all day, I’m bored of waiting. You don’t let me talk, or make the slightest noise, or play video games, or listen to music…” he listed, mumbling.

You could feel the vibrations of his vocal chords against your chest, it was kind of calming.

“This exam is important to me, Sehun. Also, you can do all those things out of here, you don’t have to stay in the same room as me.”

He raised his head and looked at you with a frown. “But I want to be with you,” he confessed. 

This time, when he leaned in searching for your mouth, you didn’t turn your face away. The kiss was long and slow, without rushing. When your lips parted, you took the opportunity to take Sehun’s face in your hands, stroking his cheekbones with your thumbs. He stared at you, mesmerised. 

"An hour," you said. "That's all I need. Stop acting like a brat for an hour and when I'm done we'll do something together."

He seemed to hesitate, but finally he dropped to his side, freeing you from his weight. “Fine, an hour.”

You stood up from the bed, feeling cold without his warmth, and stared at the mess of notes scattered all over the floor with your hands on your hips. From the corner of your eye, you saw Sehun lying back on the bed with his hands behind his head and his legs crossed at the ankles. He looked as relaxed as always.

A gust of air made the papers move until they were arranged in a small pile at your feet. You bent down to pick them up and smiled at him. Sehun winked at you. He could be a pain in the ass sometimes but you couldn’t deny that since he came into your life nothing had been the same. 

You loved him like no one else, and couldn’t help but dread the day he’d be gone. After all, he didn’t belong on this Earth.

[lotsadeer]

Hello I'm Izze Span or theshawnDeer!

I'm an illustrator, writer, podcaster, game designer, voice actor, and wearer of many hats.

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Hope's Hearth

indie ttrpg actual play podcast set in a solar hopepunk sci-fantasy universe. We play a wide variety of different indie ttrpgs, ranging from high fantasy to horror, single player to 5 or 6 players, one pagers to massive novels of games. I'm one of the main cast of players and make much of the promotional material and artwork for it!

Abbey Archives

a Redwall reread podcast where one pagan and one Christian see what's aged like fine strawberry wine, and what's aged like milk. I'm one half of the duo that makes up this podcast (my other half being @kitsiinabox)

SCP Research Archives

What happens when I get tired of hearing a specific kind of voice read SCPs and I decide I wanna do it. It's just an SCP reading podcast. A nonbinary archivist is reading the scps for accessibility accommodations and has to deal with their air headed Director leaving them voice mails. I'm the voice actor and primary audio editor for this podcast.

Colchis

currently unreleased fiction podcast that is in production. A scifi audio drama about two queer trans lesbian xenobiologists and their onboard AI on an exo-planet cataloguing new life and looking to make first contact with any sapient race that may inhabit the planet. Their journey will bring them closer together, but what will they discover along the way? Dr. Vela Remnant, alone on the planet's surface. Dr. Elizabeth Pace, watching from the orbiting station. LUCIDITY, the AI trying to understand. And something watching from the shadows, learning. I am one of three authors, voice actors, and editors for this show. I voice Dr. Vela Remnant.

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[ettawritesnstudies]

This post is brought to you by your local space nerd who spends way too much time thinking about speculative biology and the development of civilizations. Today I'm going over some of my favorite exo planets and talking about how to use them as an inspiration for your own speculative fiction worldbuilding!

[chaoskirin]

Book Review--Wool by Hugh Howey

It's unfortunate that I have to edit this review even before I post it. I am not changing my star rating because this is a review on the book, not on the author. But please see the end of this review for a very important warning.

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Hard science fiction is a lot of fun. It helps us examine the world we live in and can teach a lot of lessons about the dangerous sides of science and technology. Wool takes up the challenge of shining a spotlight upon one of the possible terrible trajectories of modern civilization.

The book takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, although it's not originally stated how the world might have become ruined. The air is toxic and hot, able to chemically destroy exo suits in less than an hour, meaning no one can go outside. To solve this problem, it seems some part of civilization built what's called a "silo." This is a deep 140-some-floor bunker that holds the last bastions of humankind within.

So the silo contains everything the population needs to live. It's completely self-contained, including farms which grow the necessary materials for textile production and food, hospitals, entire floors dedicated to shops, waste processing and water treatment plants, and a mine for oil and other raw materials. The world is well-built and plausible, although a few liberties are taken here and there. It all still falls within my ability to suspend any disbelief.

Wool started out as a short story, which now makes up the beginning of the longer-format novel. It sets up expectations, defies those expectations, and then ruins everything in a deliciously heartbreaking fashion. Even though I kind of saw the end of the short story coming, it was still amazing to see it all play out, and left me excited for the rest of the book.

The book originally presented as a sort of whodunnit murder mystery where the victim was the planet itself. I looked forward to seeing how various clues and reveals would play out through the narrative, and over time, more and more was revealed. Good guys and bad guys come into the story organically, and sometimes they aren't always exactly what they seem. Although not written in an omniscient third person perspective, there are enough points of view where sometimes the reader becomes privy to information that other important characters lack.

I really wanted this book to maintain that mystery vibe throughout, where the characters would slowly pick apart the horrors of their past and eventually learn the truth of what happened and why the silo came into existence. But, unfortunately, I reached a point in the book where the hard turn into action/adventure territory hit me like a semi truck, and I realized a lot of the narrative was missing a pretty critical logic component that made some of the story confusing. I'm getting a little ahead of myself, though, so let me go back just a little.

To be clear, up until this point, Wool was a five-star read for me. Although not character-driven, the characters were likeable, and their side-stories added life and warmth to the otherwise cold world. The promise of solving the mystery kept me turning the pages, and I really felt like each time I got a little more information, it was a rewarding experience. There is some talk about a past uprising (and indeed, the possibility of MULTIPLE past uprisings), but the population of the silo does seem happy.

At no point are the residents presented as being unhappy, distressed, poor, diseased, hungry, thirsty, or destitute. There are no homeless or impoverished. While there are some bad actors, there's no widespread abuse of the population. It seems (although the worldbuilding didn't go into this much) that everyone is paid fairly, the children are well-educated, and class mobility is as easy as requesting to go elsewhere. This isn't a dictatorship where the people are crushed under the boot of a tyrannical despot, and it's established very early on that the world is, indeed, very toxic and a mass exodus from the silo would be suicide.

Talk of what happened outside, or even talk of going outside, is forbidden. It's the one thing that causes you to immediately be sentenced to death if you do it. If you talk about the outside world, you are sent to "cleaning," which means you're forced to go outside wearing a not-so-durable exo suit where you will clean the sensors providing an image of the outside, then you will be forced to wait for the seals on the suit to break down, at which point you'll die. Everyone sent to cleaning says they won't clean the cameras, but they all do.

Minor spoiler (I say minor, because the reason behind this is revealed early in the book) but when people are sent to cleaning, an images of a beautiful world with blue skies and sun is projected onto a screen located inside the helmet of their suit. They believe the sensor images they see inside to be false. So these people clean the sensors as a sort of "fuck you" to the people who cast them out.

There's just enough time to do this. As soon as they start to walk away, the heat tape on the suit fails, the screen shuts off, and they rip off their helmets only to find that the world is, indeed, grey and dead.

This is a GREAT premise for the short story. It doesn't work with a longer story as written, though. And I began to realize why when the silo's population started a new uprising.

This broke me out of the mystery and forced me to think about why this might have been happening. As I thought about the questions this proposed (and then as I continued reading to the end of the book) I realized there simply was no reason at all to keep this entire population in the dark about why they were in the silo. Yes, even when--no spoilers here--I reached the end of the book. The secretive nature of the... I guess I'll call it the "ruling class" made no sense, except as a club of some sort. Further, the threat of "cleaning" is used as a punishment to keep the people from talking about the outside world, but there's absolutely no reason that people who are sent to clean couldn't potentially just... come back. It never had to be a punishment.

The threat of cleaning did work in the context of the short story, but expanding from there just made it a little unbelievable.

Then there's the uprising itself. I found it pointless.

With no need to fight for better class conditions and with it being impossible to leave the silo, there was nothing to rebel against. The air outside was poison, and clearly the people within the silo were living decent lives despite it. For a while I wondered if this was a thinkpiece about how sometimes people prefer the illusion of freedom at the cost of their own well-being, but it never presented as that, or resolved in that manner, either.

The people revolted knowing that lives would be lost, and yet there was no goal. They started fighting for what I consider to be a non-reason, where a ton of leaps of logic would have to be made to get them to that point.

Again, I was so happy with the mystery being solved through environmental storytelling. I found myself hoping for the discovery that some uprising in the past when people went outside nearly killed the entire remaining population of the world. I hoped for the main characters to find a forgotten treasure trove of information, which maybe could have been found by following clues left in the past my long-dead residents of the silo.

But Wool pivoted into action/adventure territory, and the book lost the charm for me for a long stretch in the middle. And I could never put together the pieces of this uprising puzzle to make it all make sense. The rebellion had no end game. It didn't hope to achieve anything.

If the point WAS to be a social commentary, then Wool does a piss-poor job of pacing it, because by the time the revolt happens, it's not what I want. I found myself skimming through all scenes depicting this uprising to get back to the characters who were unraveling the silo's mystery. I cared about the world itself as a character, and I wanted to know how it all got that way.

For a while, I thought I was going to be leaving a three-star review on this book. That would have been tragic, because it started so well. To the entire uprising plot-point I say: If the point of the book was to be about gaining independence from the ruling class, it should have been set up that way from the start, not dropped on the reader in the middle. It almost became a completely different sub-genre.

I am glad to say things improved, though, and questions did eventually get answered. The narrative soon shied away from the uprising and back to the characters, who were once again deciphering the mystery. And I won't want to give anything away here, but I can say that the answers and the end of the book were very satisfying, to the point where I added a star back onto my rating. Even so, even the reveal on why the world became so toxic does not justify why it was a huge secret from the people who lived in the silo. If they knew, I don't think it would have affected their day-to-day lives. I'm sure people would have had some pretty strong feelings about it, but there are generations of people living in the silo so far removed from the original inhabitants and their world at the time that there's no one to direct those feelings toward.

Like I said, making it so no one really knew the answers (IE: no one was "hiding" them to "keep the peace) would have been a much better way to go. Taking out the uprising and placing that exclusively in the past would have made the pacing better. Then, having someone from the past plant clues so someone in the future could know the truth would have tied everything together so well. The uprising just added too much unnecessary drama.

In the end, though, Wool is still a great story. I'd love to read more books like this, where the world might be in shambles, but the surviving people are generally pretty happy and taken care of. It's a nice take on the post-apoc genre, which is usually filled with people fighting to survive. Anyway, would recommend. Go read Wool now.

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After reading and writing the review for this book, I did discover that Howey does support generative AI. Over the past two years, I have watched this technology destroy careers and ruin almost all motivation for artists and writers to work in their field. This isn't just hypothetical... It's a very real problem that has been plaguing our community since tech companies decided to push it.

Not only does it take from artists, though, it is extremely detrimental to the environment, using four to six times the amount of water used by a developed country like Denmark in a single year. It also uses so much energy that we're still trying to figure out the waste, but suffice it to say, it's a lot.

I am not here to tell you whether or not you should purchase Wool, but it would be a failure on my part if I didn't disclose this about the author. Use your best judgement.

[lollo-sw-br]

Who is YUM1E?

YUM1E (유미에) is a rookie group from a very small company called MAX1M Entertainment, Consists of 10 members: Brighie (브리기), Vicky (비키), Aria (아리아), Cherie (쉐리), Akira (아키라), Sophie (소피), Lollo (롤로), Flora (플로라), Ivieh (이비에) and Violet (제비꽃) (added formation), officially debuting on 06/10/2023 with the single Dream World.

DreamLand (꿈나라): The Home of the YUM1E

DreamLand (꿈나라) is the group's conceptual universe (a kind of Kwangya in æspa, threatened by the Black Mamba and EXO Planet in EXO threatened by the Red Force), a planet in the fantasy galaxy that is being threatened with destruction by the villainous Mystia, who wants to destroy any kind of magic and imagination present there, in addition to making the YLUD1Es (fictional versions of the members), your writings for all your life.

The Dream Rose, is YUM1E's secret weapon against Mystia, because that pink makes her weak and easier to defeat.

YUM1E General Data

Name: YUM1E

Debut date: 10/06/2023

Fandom: DREM1E

Color: Light pink

Representative animal: Diamond Swan

Slogan: YUM1E is My Dream!

Concept: Fantasy

History of Lightstick (Dream Rose)

This is Dream Rose, with her plus YUM1E from DREAM1ES could fight by her side to defeat Mystia, together and with Dream Rose, DreamLand could live in peace.

[clock-onyx]

The North

"I didn't k-know the castle shines this much... It looks like a s-star!"

"Well, I know something else that shines much more brightly."

Awhhh awhhh awhh cuties theyre such cuties awhhh so in love awhh awh!!! This is funnier given the fact theyre one of the few actual wholesome couples I have LMFFAAAAOOOO

This is riggghhttt at the North! They better watch their step, unless they REALLY want to almost experience zero gravity, and be careful around that water!!! It's sizziling hot!

I also wanna give a note that this castle is fucking huge, thats barely a part of it. The Gods used to live in it, but in the higher floors, now it sits ambandoned, a part of history, per say. Jomei's never seen it in person until this moment, because well... I dont think Oculus would've let him get close to it after everything that happened in there in the past

OH btw the guy next to Jomei is verryyy important, his name is Cosmo say hi to Cosmo hiiii Cosmoooo

Heres an old drawing of him because i am lazy to doodle up a new one rn... whys your waist so small sir is it for other men to grab you? /JOKE

AND also I used like... one of those outfit suggestions for Jomei done a billion years ago, i did alter it a little to be a little more funky

OK THATS IT YAPPING'S OVER

[youare-number6]

Tag Prompt - World in a Bottle

The prompt was just tumblr tags

[wolfertenerisian]

Earth Republic Map

Continuing with the Last Post previously: Earth Republic Flag °˖✧✦─────••.. ˚｡˖✩★✩˖｡˚ ..••─────✦✧˖° Prologue: August, 1962

Ten years after the conclusion of the Terran-Valazarian War, Earth, alongside its new space allies, achieved victory over an empire that sought to dominate its nations. While the war is gradually fading into memory, a new threat has emerged from within the planet itself: the Republic. This internal menace aims to manipulate fear and ideology to rally support for President Linda's policies and initiatives, often without the consent of the populace. Since the mid-1950s, this internal strife has resulted in civilian casualties, fostering distrust between Earth citizens and non-Terran immigrants who have settled on the planet.

This group seeks to feel that the Supremacy of Civilizations they encountered that were earth allies they fought alongside with were better in all intelligence, social, and cultural aspects. This made the need of this group of fanatic supports of Non-terrans (Despite being Terran natives themselves) seek to destroy their own home countries because they felt their countries were "Sinful", "Degenerative" and for many Fanatic Orthos (Furries) & Exos (Xenos) in the US case very much needing their Ortho population to be "Unalive" & replaced with better stronger, intelligent Non-Terran "Settlers" (Sound Familiar if you get the idea). Yet, despite this group being called "KADZHLAKIST" with their radicalness infesting the C.T.A.F later renamed "E.R.A.F. [Earth Republican Armed Forces]" President Linda has vowed to keep the military Army in check and that any rebellious soldier will be dealt with Punishment wise and that she always condones as well her committee any action AWOL/Fanatic Soldiers while in the CTAF/ERAF do. As when Linda addressed after the CTAF Kadzhlakist Raleigh, North Carolina Soldier Munity of 1957:

"THE SOLDIERS OF THE CTAF must be ashamed to think I'd agree to such killing of civilians just because I'm a Non-Terran who thinks I'd go along with whatever they think is right. These radical soldiers need to learn as their Commander-in-Chief they are not above the law, even I'm not above the law. They do not represent my ideas and never will they, will be dealt with accordingly in perpetuity!"

But this doesn't stop the Kadzhlakist who keep pinning blame on people like Sexist, Anti-Lindanist, segregationists, National Socialist, Soviets, and Anti-Omnivitalist, etc., etc. as well as "Un-aliving" them for the simple fact of disagreeing with Linda. President Linda and her Military echelons will have a hard time nipping this radicalism in the Armed Forces the butt unless things don't hit the fan later down the line in...years to come. Maps ©️ Me   Unionverse ©️ Me   Other socials: Carrd Note: Any of the flags like the fascist flags you see on the Map I DO NOT ENDORSE FASCISM not even Communism so don't be like you a communist or fascist this is my lore taking place in an altered Universe 1950s/60s... it's FICTIONAL...

[ozma914]

book review: The Exo Project, by Andrew Dey

 The Earth is dying. Isn't it always, in today's YA dystopian novels?

The government has hatched a Hail Mary plan: They'll send small teams to various planets, to investigate whether those worlds can be used to resettle the human race. 17-year-old Matthew, in return for money to save his sick mother, agrees to join one of those teams for the Exo Project. It's pretty much a death sentence, since most will awaken a century later to planets that can't support life.

But Mathew's team gets lucky: They land on a world with a breathable atmosphere and life. Oh, and intelligent alien beings who are less than eager to find their home invaded. At least, not all of them are.

Kiva is the young girl who's just been picked to lead the matriarchal society of her people. She also has dreams, and she's seen Mathew's ship coming. While she tries to investigate the newcomers and keep peace between them, others on both side are determined to sabotage her efforts. It doesn't help that Kiva, as leader, cannot marry or have any romantic relationship, and you can just guess how that will go.

But while romantic complications might be inevitable in this YA science fiction, there are plenty of surprises to come in Andrew DeYoung's fast-paced exploration of culture clash. It turns out there are dark secrets behind both The Exo Project and Kiva's people, secrets threatening to destroy everything.

Certainly there are echos of Earth history in The Echo Project, but Andrew DeYoung mixes it up pretty well, giving us a rich culture on the alien planet as well as well-rounded characters on both sides. It's a fun read, and I'd recommend trying both this book and anything else Andrew DeYoung has written.

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Remember: Even space travelers need a good book or three.

[kesslersymbolic]

Neptune the Thirteenth Planet, aka Eris the Tenth Planet, aka a short history of why Pluto is not a Planet

Ceres, the Eighth Planet 1801

Mercury.Venus.Earth.Mars.Ceres.Pallas.Juno.Vesta.Jupiter.Saturn.Uranus

We start at the turn of the 19th century, with the discovery of Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta. They are uncontroversially considered planets.

Neptune, the Thirteenth Planet 1846

Mercury.Venus.Earth.Mars.Ceres.Pallas.Juno.Vesta.Jupiter.Saturn.Uranus.Neptune

In 1846 Neptune was discovered. a new planet in just fifty years.

The Asteroid Belt 1850

Mercury.Venus.Earth.Mars.Jupiter.Saturn.Uranus

+12 minor planets

Many more objects like Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta, were discovered in a flurry of new discoveries, made possible by new technology, with new objects previously too dim to be found being discovered at impressive rates, and so in 1850 the Royal Astronomical Society created a classification system for minor planets. Ceres, Pallus, Juno, and Vesta were the first four to be listed. (this became the minor-planet designation system)

Pluto, the Ninth Planet 1930

Mercury.Venus.Earth.Mars.Jupiter.Saturn.Uranus.Pluto

+1170 minor planets

Pluto was discovered in 1930, the 9th planet. the first new planet in nearly a century since the 13th was discovered!

Trans-Neptunian objects or Eris, the Tenth Planet 2005

Mercury.Venus.Earth.Mars.Jupiter.Saturn.Uranus.Pluto.Eris

+250k minor planets

Eris was discovered in 2005, the 10th planet. Eris was discovered during a flurry of new discoveries, made possible by new technology, dwarf planets previously too dim to see could be plucked from the sky, Eris was special in that it was larger than Pluto making it by anybody's judgement a planet.

The IAU Definition of a Planet 2006

Mercury.Venus.Earth.Mars.Jupiter.Saturn.Uranus

+300k minor planets

Eris opened the same argument that the astroid belt did, or more the discovery of just how many TNOs there are did.

Much like Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta before it Pluto and Eris became the prototype for Trans-Neputunian Objects. Ceres became the prototype dwarf planet.

Pluto is a Trans-Neptunian Object not a Planet because it fits better into that grouping, not because it doesn't fit with being a Planet.

FAQ:

"it's because they'd be too many, kids would start hating astronomy like they hate chemistry!": this is just a joke? it's actually because categories are useful in astronomy.

"it's because Eris would have to be a planet otherwise!": given Ceres, Pallus, Juno, and Vesta were planets before it's not like there's not historical precedent for defining planet that way.

"they should have a new term": major planet.

"i'm gonna call pluto a planet anyway you can't stop me!": I can't, but if I peer review your paper I'll reject it on that as it's a settled matter. but people who come out of the woodwork to decry that pluto is a planet are almost always responding to anybody saying it isn't.

"what about other solar systems?": we'll deal with them when we get to them. for now we have trouble finding exo-planets the size of our sun. it's unlikely we need to deal with subcategories of exoplanet for a while. if you want to figure out what to call bodies in sci-fi then that's fiction anyway, go hog wild.

"Are exo-planets planets?": no, they're exo-planets. planets is a term we use for objects orbiting the sun. this is likely to change but for the foreseeable future it's useful to clearly distinguish the two.

[c0ry-c0nvoluted]

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[ivaerleth]

Tell us about wip #3, i am intrigued 🤔

I SURE WILL!!! REALMS AU MY BELOVED

In short, Realms is a story/world I created about an artificial planet (not man made, but was created by Remnants of an elusive race, collectively called the Unseen Masters by the planets inhabitants.) During space travel in fictional space age 60s, some humans were caught up in interstellar transport and were brought to this planet (I don’t have a name for it yet lmfao). They have been living there since then.

The planet inhabitants are called Exos, and they’re a race of bio-synthetics who are all born fully formed, with amnesia, save some basic self identity (like a name) and are encouraged to find their own Path.

The Realm Forger is called Lucky, she’s a human in a fully build Exo suit (no one knows she’s human), who makes a living by forging spare parts and fixing injured/old Exos.