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Lolololol imagine using an action to create villains by a different name. Fantastic idea too, ignoring everything that was laid out by the team up until now. Literally everything has been about sneakin around and staying out of the public eye. What a waste of an action. We already have a recruitment method to work on (MURDER), and it’s firmly rooted in shit we’ve already done as opposed to being based on throwing money, an actual resource that already has enough uses, at people. I cannot stress how much of a wasted action this is.

Hell, the way Feng and, ugh, CALM, was played up until now was as that neighborhood charitable business with a hidden dark side. We’ve been building up to pull off a heckin heist for the whole game, some tools for that would have been nice. Shame I thought this game was dead or I’d have argued against literally the entire last phase.

Nautica Fria had experienced it's fair share of asteroid and meteor impacts during it's early millennia, but nothing that the planet experienced would quite measure up to the "Annual" Tripolar Transplanal Fissure.

At some point in it's existence, the planet managed to align it's orbital path with a "Transplanar Fissure". This undetectable fissure fell into an orbit opposite of Nautica Fria's, resulting in them crossing paths twice a year, on the apex of the Light seasons for the positive and negative magnetic poles. As the fissure and planet pass through one another they trade a significant amount of energy. The energy pouring out of the fissure during the brief moments of contact is tripolar, and as it cannot physically exist in this universe, rapidly and devastatingly breaks down at the particle level. Three points on the planet simultaneously experience the results of the interaction - the pole experiencing the Light Season, and two other locations in 120 degree opposition of the pole.

The particular breakdown creates extremely explosive reactions of subatomic energy until the foreign material rips itself apart until it "makes sense" in this reality. These reactions occur just a few hundred meters above the water's surface, and the disturbances in the sky and sea cause massive storms once the explosions subside. The two regions that experience the fissure opposite the pole can be anywhere along the "line of opposition" for the pole, and in opposition of one another, but their locations are completely randomized for every event.

The constant interdimensional energy bombardment increased the temperature of Nautica Fria, melting the polar caps somewhat and causing the sea level to rise significantly. Devastating storms are extremely common in the regions around the lines of opposition. Ripping currents formed along the lines of opposition and effectively divided the polar and equatorial regions.

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While a massive and unique event on it's own, this "Biannual Tripolar Transplanal Fissure" was not unique in the sense of cataclysmic events. The most extreme things become more common on a long enough timeline, after all. Create a second major event to shape the environment of your planet. As with before, it is probably acceptable so long as it is not a system altering event. This is the last turn before abiogenesis, so keep that in mind when crafting your proposals. The planet and it's surroundings may be altered in later prompts, but this is the last guaranteed opportunity to do so.

Burp and laugh.

First updates have been posted in the team threads, but we're still in need of some players. There's no close or deadline for joining a team, so don't be shy. Or else.

Glass is a planet that formed during the early days of the system's life. It rests in a stable orbit around a yellow star as the fifth of six planets, the middle of the three gas giants, and the largest planet in the system. A dense metal core is surrounded by 50000 kilometers of various gaseous elements it's captured over the ages. The elements are, somehow, sorted into very clear strata based on their density. Hydrogen and Helium largely make up the thin upper atmosphere, followed by an Oxygen-majority layer, then the Methane layer. These layers form the "Outer Planet", and are full of materials captured by Glass' gravity well and settled there. Over time these materials smashed together to form single "continents" for each layer. While the majority of solid materials are light enough to drift along their plane, there are small numbers of heavier elements sprinkled throughout them. The Outer Planet experiences 25-hour days and 600-day years, and thanks to it's tilted axis, experiences a variety of relatively temperate seasons.

Beneath the Outer Planet is the Water Membrane. A dense layer of steam acts as a barrier that denser elements smash into, usually to no avail. This results in "floating" deposits of denser and rarer materials along this membrane layer. The Water Membrane divides the Outer Planet from the "Inner Planet".

The Inner Planet is full of denser gases, with the larger notable layers being the Chlorine and Neon layers, and beneath them are the heavier metal-based gas layers that surround the solid core. While a number of objects have pierced the Water Membrane over the ages (though none are undamaged), they are unable to form larger continents as seen in the Outer Planet thanks to incredibly savage ionic storms that devastate the Inner Planet. These intense plasma storms are a frequent if not everpresent occurrence in the Inner Planet, leaving the largest solid chunks of floating matter with a couple kilometers of area at most.

On the unusual occasion where an object penetrates the Water Membrane, a violent reaction between the Inner and Outer layers occurs, often with explosive force, and creating a massive disturbance in the atmosphere. Ionic storms can "leak out" of the ruptured membrane before the breach is collapsed, and while devastating, are short-lived after being cut off from the Inner Planet. The turbulence and storms can wildly alter the Outer Planet's floating geography during these small windows of instability. The Inner Planet experiences one season, and one time of day, at all times: ionic storms.

Glass was able to exist in a state of undisturbed peace for an extended period, quietly orbiting it's star, until one day...

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Your planet is about to undergo a dramatic event that will forever leave it's mark. What event occurs? It can be something celestial in origin or result, such as our own moon theory of the asteroid collision, or something "terrestrial" (gaseous?), like a cataclysmic eruption. If an idea is, ah, too creative, I will let you all know.

You've been around since the dawn of time watching and waiting. Worlds form and crumble often without ever doing anything of note. Not this time, not under your eye. A star system in a tucked-away corner of some galaxy has a planet that has drawn your eye, one that holds the capabilities to create and sustain life. As long as you're there to offer a guiding hand. But what is it about this planet that has attracted you?

Describe your planet in it's earlier stages. Include information like it's makeup - is it a rocky planet? A gas giant? Is it made of sapphire? Is it actually a moon? How far is it from the system's star? Is there an atmosphere other than what we'd expect here on Earth? What is it's size relative to Earth? This will largely define all the species you burn through create going forward and is probably the most important decision to work together on to figure out. Don't worry about specific environments, just provide a general description of your home planet, specifics will come in following turns.

Magic, you say?

Do the ritual! Do it!

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