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Designing the Islands; I need your sweet, sweet ideas.
Topic Started: Sep 29 2014, 04:26 PM (2,032 Views)
Troll Man
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READ THIS WHOLE THING.


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This is what the islands currently look like, there are three main ones with the largest on top and two smaller ones underneath. A healthy sprinkling of much smaller islands surround them.

This the thread where we shall:

- Decide the placement of the biomes and overall climate of the archipelago (within reason).

- The exact appearance of the islands (their shape, position and number of them).

- Points of interest for the islands.

- Their names (the three (or more depending on what we decide) main ones require names now, smaller ones can be maintained on a need-to-know basis). One word names are strongly suggested.

- Anything else you want to suggest.




Currently what has been strongly suggested for the islands:

- A subtropical climate from the top to a temperate climate at the bottom (an average cold of -10c was suggested by me).

- A maximum of 4 main islands (main island on top).

- A combined area just over Hateg Island (I'm thinking of raising the total area to 85 000 square kilometres to maybe allow for animals reaching 1.5 tonnes).

Please comment on as much as you can below.
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well, I did another comparison to see if it fits, take what are have said
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Someone spoiler that for the love of god.
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Myotragus
Oct 3 2014, 09:10 PM
Someone spoiler that for the love of god.
Done.

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I thought that Ireland was a little big bigger and more robust than that... Don't know if that's how you want it to be, tho..
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Oct 3 2014, 09:29 PM
Myotragus
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Someone spoiler that for the love of god.
Done.

(What browser doesn't automatically resize pictures?).
I think that's either Internet explorer or firefox.
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Chrome master race!The island looks pretty cool btw!
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Ireland isn't much bigger (if not a llittle smaller).
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Ireland is as big as Tasmania, to have an idea to compare.
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The Future is Far
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The SE giants project
Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer

Coming one day
Age of Mankind
Humanity fate and its possible finals.

The Long Cosmic Journey
The history outside our world.

The alternative paths
The multiverse, the final frontier...

Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again!
Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past.
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That sounds alright (I'm going to need to remember these names, hmmm so there was an Island of Giant Orchids, and now Ahi and Mura...).
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Crud, I accidentally deleted that post, and so, I'll requote it.

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"Can I name the two volcanic islands off the coast of Telu, Ahi and Mura? Ahi is the northern island, while Mura is south of Ahi. Ahi comes from the Maori word for fire, while Mura comes from the Maori word for something glowing or ablaze."
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Sorry if I missed this but what country(countries?) claims the archipelago? I'm thinking it would be the UK and/or France...
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France probably, they owned most of Polynesia amd the totality of Madagascar. Although England had the Seychelles, Australia and NZ.
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How about it becomes something like Antarctica, a biological preserve?
Projects and concepts that I have stewing around
Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
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Oct 14 2014, 01:03 PM
How about it becomes something like Antarctica, a biological preserve?
Or the Galapagos
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