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The Shee and their planet, Albia
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Jul 9 2009, 09:38 PM
They sound like a very interesting species can you give any other info on them? They also sound like aztec equivilents with the whole wheel part.


This topic is for spec-hitting the shee of the creatuers games with our own veiwpoints. Have fun... :D
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I can't say much about them besides the fact they sound interesting and have the above mentioned Aztec feel to them selves.

Also thanks for responding with a post and a topic.

Oh and you forgot the A in the topic name.
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you forgot the A in the topic name.
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It's alright every body makes mistakes. Also you can fix that by editing the 1st post.

Alright if they are so good at genetic engineering maybe they have a way to domesticate and breed Viruses which they then use for GMing tasks?

Also is there any common traits that they give their creations?
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is there any common traits that they give their creations?
To note, all of their creations that are capable of breeding lay eggs. Apart from that, not much.
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I got more:

The world of Albia is, bizzarely, a disc rather than the usual sphere. This coin-shaped world spins rapidly on its axis (a day being only a couple of hours long), and produces such a strong centrifugal force that life has been unable to colonise the broad 'faces' of the planet, and instead has been confined to its edge. The inhabitants thus live on a narrow rim, where 'east' and 'west' are the dominant directions, and 'north' and 'south' correspond to the very much smaller (and largely irrelevant) distance from one face to the other.

Living on Albia is therefore rather like being in a narrow corridor: travel is possible to east and west, but there is only space to north and south for limited storage, etc. Most attempts at development have therefore chosen 'down' as the most fruitful direction in which to proceed, and so the inhabitants of Albia tend to live in burrows (there being a little more space below ground for walls and such, due to the lenticular shape of the tiny planet).

Liquid water exists on the surface, but has been bunched up by the centrifugal force until it too rides on the edge of the planet, forming narrow 'seas', trapped by higher ground to east and west. The tension between the centrifugal force, which tries to fling everything outwards, and the force of gravity, which tries to hold them in again, is a major influence in dictating the oddities of Albian existence.

Gravity is clearly strongest where the thickest amount of rock exists, ie. acting towards the centre through the radius of the disc, thus objects on the rim of the disc do not fly off into space, but remain firmly, if gently, attached. On the faces of the disc, gravity acts more weakly, and also at an angle of less than 180° to the centrifugal force. The resultant of these two forces is thus planetwards and outwards, making the faces untenable for anything not firmly fixed to the ground. This interaction of gravity and spin causes important groundwater and atmospheric circulation patterns.

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Albia has a single sun, which moves across the sky from west to east. Because the plane of Albia's rotation coincides with its plane of orbit, the sun appears to slide directly overhead. This means the sun will never be visible, but the colours of the sky, etc. will change from dawn through to dusk. At night, stars will be visible. Because Albia is merely a thin disc, sunlight is scattered easily from the edges of the atmosphere, partially illuminating the night side of the planet. Nights are therefore never totally black, and Albians have never needed to develop lighting. Two discoid planets could not orbit each other without crashing, and close proximity between Albia and a conventional, spherical planet would have prevented Albia forming as a disc in the first place. Therefore, Albia has no moons. Incidentally, the inhabitants of Albia have always assumed (incorrectly) that the sun and other planets in that solar system are discs too, and they have often marvelled at how all of the other heavenly bodies are aligned so that their 'faces' are turned towards Albia (one never sees a planet edge-on). They cite this as conclusive proof that Albia is the most important world in the Universe.
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The world of Albia is, bizzarely, a disc rather than the usual sphere. This coin-shaped world spins rapidly on its axis (a day being only a couple of hours long), and produces such a strong centrifugal force that life has been unable to colonise the broad 'faces' of the planet, and instead has been confined to its edge. The inhabitants thus live on a narrow rim, where 'east' and 'west' are the dominant directions, and 'north' and 'south' correspond to the very much smaller (and largely irrelevant) distance from one face to the other.


I'm not sure if you said anywhere, but was Albia artificially constucted?
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Gravity couldn't have achieved a disc-planet.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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That's why I'm thinking artificial, but I'm waiting to see how serious he actually is with this (see the living ship thread, I didn't until after I asked).
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That sounds like an interesting Planet, except they have a point about the Disc shape of the planet being very unlikely.

Also thanks for the info on their features.

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If it is artificial, it should have no shortage of resources.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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True if artificial it would have materials for civilisation the question is are they usable for early civilisation with out causing structural damage?
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Or, more importantly, they could actually use or recognize?
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What does every body think of my idea of domesticated Viruses for GMing? Does any body think it's possible?
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Hear's my idea of how the disk-shaped planet formed;

1. Small normel planet
2. Huge impact on planet along the side melting much of it and increaceing it's spin to the point where G-force pulls the molten rock into a disk shape
3. Disk cools and life forms in it's seas
4. Life on a disk-planet is here ;-)
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