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Post by Ignite The Light on Nov 7, 2015 15:20:43 GMT
Cloudbank is a planet of a similar size and using similar physics to the 'standard Earth'. It has an extremely thick atmosphere divided into three distinct layers: The Deeps, which are extremely hot and poisonous, run from 0-70km. The habitable zone, friendly to (earth-origin) life runs from 70-150km. The hydrogen layer, which is >95% hydrogen, extends from 150km to about 300km. We almost certainly used to have powerful technology, but the most complex construction we can build in current times is a ceramic single-expansion steam engine. (I receive this forum via completely inexplicable carrier pigeon, electronics sound fascinating and useful) People live on 'islands' made of 'floatstone' which is a rock-like substance full of enough pockets of hydrogen to float in the nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere. Food and biological products are relatively abundant here, but a major problem on my world is the extreme scarcity of metal. Most people fly airships, farm, or make crafts for a living. Each human gets a weak magical ability during adolescence, which seems to be correlated with personality. Mine is a vague intuitive sense of how heavy things within about a 50-foot radius are. Some other examples include changing one's skin color, crating a small light from one's hand, momentarily doubling one's strength, unusually sharp eyesight, etc. Have you considered trying to use the forum to regain contact to your Earth?
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Post by scroungerkate on Nov 8, 2015 0:31:16 GMT
Breakdown kinda sucks. It's not an Earth as far as I can tell. Some time in the last 20 years or so (not sure exactly when, I was like 14 when it happened) all the tech more complicated than a diesel engine suddenly started dying. KTI terminals, the trash-sweeper robots, those doors that open by themselves when you get near a store, everything.
Things went to hell pretty quick, especially 'cause I happened to live in a place that is actually below ground. No more water pumps, no more ground. To make a long story short, my mom died a few years later and I moved away 'cause there was nothing good left to scavenge there.
Most folks nowadays either wander the ruins scavenging things, or try to get tech working again, or farm and fish, or make clothes or mix herbs or something, or sail ships around.
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Nick
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Post by Nick on Nov 8, 2015 20:16:16 GMT
Have you considered trying to use the forum to regain contact to your Earth? No. I'm trying to build an infrastructure in Cloudbank before doing anything like that.
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Post by Ignite The Light on Nov 8, 2015 23:21:50 GMT
Breakdown kinda sucks. It's not an Earth as far as I can tell. Some time in the last 20 years or so (not sure exactly when, I was like 14 when it happened) all the tech more complicated than a diesel engine suddenly started dying. KTI terminals, the trash-sweeper robots, those doors that open by themselves when you get near a store, everything. Things went to hell pretty quick, especially 'cause I happened to live in a place that is actually below ground. No more water pumps, no more ground. To make a long story short, my mom died a few years later and I moved away 'cause there was nothing good left to scavenge there. Most folks nowadays either wander the ruins scavenging things, or try to get tech working again, or farm and fish, or make clothes or mix herbs or something, or sail ships around. Wait... Any idea how the big breaking happened? It sounds almost supernatural to get all technology like that, maybe someone in the forum can help fix it. Have you considered trying to use the forum to regain contact to your Earth? No. I'm trying to build an infrastructure in Cloudbank before doing anything like that. Fair. How is that going? I hope is going well. If you ever get around discovering what happened to your Earth let me know.
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Post by arborist on Mar 20, 2016 0:22:30 GMT
My world is the Unknown, and there is magic in it. Lost souls from other worlds sometimes find themselves here. I do not know of a system for recording the number of days or seasons that have passed, but there have been many. There are towns and villages, but the woods of the Unknown are unending.
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Post by Journey to Knowledge on Sept 29, 2016 5:31:16 GMT
The year is 1976 A.D., and my world has magic. I don't know what distinguishes it yet, though, so I haven't picked a name. My world is an Earth but the map already here for Earths is very wrong. I will try to draw a correctly labeled map up later.
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Post by Journey to Knowledge on Oct 1, 2016 21:32:24 GMT
I have modified the map of Earth tonistark provided to reflect the political boundaries in my world: [ Map] I still don't know what to name my world. Some other worlds might not have Rusakov particles, but most of them probably do. I asked my friend from another world if he had a name for mine, and he said that the word for it in his language was incomprehensible to the human mind, and that usually people name worlds with letters and numbers in order of when they're found.
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Post by jasmine on Oct 2, 2016 2:14:54 GMT
Journey to Knowledge,
My world does not have Rusakov particles, but what I mean when I say "my world" is a collection of hundreds of connected dimensions. They contain demons of various species, and amazing landscapes found nowhere on Earth, the dimension that ties them all together. I believe I would like to call my world Hyperion.
*Jasmine*
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Post by redshirtandpants on Oct 4, 2016 5:27:11 GMT
I'm pretty sure Earth looked like tonistark's map around 2000. Is this board really that old?
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Post by Journey to Knowledge on Oct 4, 2016 18:54:50 GMT
From the index, it looks like the worlds with Earths are between the 20th and 23rd centuries A.D., mostly near the year 2000, yes. When is it for you? Is your Earth different?
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Post by redshirtandpants on Oct 4, 2016 19:56:27 GMT
I think it's like 2260-something on Earth now? We don't keep Earth time this far out, we'd just get out of sync anyway.
Earth is the right shape but who'd bother with so many borders and labels?
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Post by Journey to Knowledge on Oct 4, 2016 20:15:38 GMT
Why would you lose sync with Earth-time? Do your ships travel at a noticeable fraction of the speed of light? Why are you so far from Earth, are there other inhabited worlds or are there faraway cosmic phenomena you can safely observe more closely there?
I can't speak for anyone else's Earth, but mine has many borders and labels because there are many different governments with claims on areas of land. Is your Earth united under one government?
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Post by redshirtandpants on Oct 4, 2016 21:43:51 GMT
Why would you lose sync with Earth-time? Do your ships travel at a noticeable fraction of the speed of light? Why are you so far from Earth, are there other inhabited worlds or are there faraway cosmic phenomena you can safely observe more closely there? I can't speak for anyone else's Earth, but mine has many borders and labels because there are many different governments with claims on areas of land. Is your Earth united under one government? You have to go faster than light to get anywhere quickly, and then everything takes a different amount of time from on Earth. We go out into the galaxy to find new inhabited planets, and interesting stars and wormholes and stuff, yeah. And yeah, Earth's been united for a couple hundred years. I think human borders just seemed pointless with aliens around.
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Post by Journey to Knowledge on Oct 4, 2016 23:25:36 GMT
You have faster than light travel? That's incredible, do you know how it works? (Although, it seems a bit off-topic, perhaps we should start a Technology section in News and Information? I don't see a more relevant existing section. If you want to discuss it further.)
It's nice that your world's reached unity, and (I hope peacefully?) found extraterrestrial life. Do you know what you'll name it?
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Post by Ahrotahn on Oct 20, 2016 19:17:53 GMT
We go out into the galaxy to find new inhabited pantsI assume this is a typo, but "pants" is also in your username...
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