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Boreas
Saturday 16 March, 2013

Planet Profile: Boreas

This FICTIONAL planet has extremely large polar regions. Human habitation is restricted to a thin band of temperate climate around the planet’s equator.


Brunhild surface
Thursday 06 December, 2012

Planet Profile: Brunhild

Brunhild is a FICTIONAL world famed for its mineral wealth and its spectacular and unusual glass-volcanoes. It is a moon of the gas giant Odin.


Owen's World
Sunday 26 August, 2012

Planet Profile: Owen’s World

Owen’s World is home a huge diversity of strange and intriguing native lifeforms. So diverse is life on Owen’s World, in fact, that some biologists refer to it as “the liveliest place in the galaxy”.


planet Larunda
Monday 12 March, 2012

Planet Profile: Quicksilver (The Red World)

Quicksilver life forms can sequester or expel mercury from their bodies in various ways. Many plant life forms can transport and expel mercury as an ionic vapor, others channel it in special lipid nodules that can be excreted or dropped.


fictional planet Aegir
Wednesday 22 February, 2012

Planet Profile: Aegir

Aegir is a FICTIONAL planet with cold brackish seas and comparatively small continents. While very few complex organisms live on dry land, the Aegirean seas are home to an abundance of marine life, including one intelligent species.


Green planet arethusa
Monday 08 August, 2011

Planet Profile: Arethusa

Arethusa is a FICTIONAL planet dominated by large shallow seas and small island continents. Its seas appear green because of the large concerntrations of plant-life they support.