Planets


 * "A planet can be described as a single seed, a living creature with a skeleton of stone and a heart of molten rock. The species that inhabit a planet, plant and animal alike, from microbe to gigantic beasts, are the planet-creature's organs, internal symbionts, and parasites."

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A planet, often called a world, was a celestial body that was inorbit around a star, was neither a binary star nor a moon, and had cleared out the area around its orbit as it formed by causing all other smaller bodies in its orbit to accrete with it. As a consequence, it would not share its orbital region with any other bodies of significant size, except for moons or those collected later under its gravitationalinfluence.

Two types of planets existed in the galaxy: gas giants and terrestrial rocky worlds. Moons orbiting gas giants and other rocky worlds are usually not considered as planets, even though it may be larger or more populated than other planets, although Bánshearán was considered to be both at different time periods due to its unique mobile nature.

Depending on the tilt of the planet's axis, planets also had varied seasons with ranging temperatures and weather, affecting the habitability of one. Planets were extremely varied in terms of environmental conditions and landscape, ranging from completely oceanic (such as.....) to thick arboreal rainforests (such as Nephesh). Some planets, such as Daetharoth, were completely frozen, while other were experiencing an ice age. Some planets, like Pandaemoniya were completely volcanic, barren and desolate, covered in little more than rock and sand; while others (such as Yggdraloth) became an ecumenopolis, in which the entire planetary surface was covered by one gigantic city. Many planets, like Ayurna, contained a mix of landscapes, with various continents, oceans, and mountains.

Most life-bearing planets had primarily nitrogen and oxygen-based Type I atmospheres; though some had unique atmospheres to which their native life forms had adapted. Gas giants, planets made up of primarily gaseous layers, were rarely inhabited, though they were sometimes used for resource collection.