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[Man of Paper]

Ah, so you are one of The Uplifters.

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.

[ConscriptFive]

How about a frigid waterworld?

Nautica Fria
A frigid ocean planet on a circular orbit, but with a dramatic axial tilt.  The surface is covered in liquid water, with massive glaciers on the polar caps.  (While there is currently no above-surface 'land' other than the glacial ice caps, sub-surface volcanic activity and active plate tectonics may alter this on a geologic timescale.)

Nautica Fria rotates every 25 hours, and completes a full orbit every 400 days.  Due to the axial tilt, seasons are dramatic, especially on the poles.  For example, during peak summer, most of the planet gets a full 25 hours of daylight.  On the converse, this also results in 25 hours of darkness during the winter.

[Fluffe9911]

Sounds fine to me!

[ConscriptFive]

(2) Nautical Fria: ConscriptFive, Fluff

[Man of Paper]

Nautica Fria started off as a large rock orbiting a bright yellow star, the second of six planets and the middle of the three terrestrial planets. Conditions at the creation of the system left Nautica Fria as a large rocky ball with a dense atmosphere made up of a cocktail of elements. As time went on, the elements began to condense and rain from the skies, ultimately covering the cooling planet in a cloak of liquid water. The planet's ocean is generally a kilometer or six deep, although there are some locations where the planet's rocky crust is but centimeters beneath the surface.

The rotational axis of Nautica Fria is nearly aligned with it's orbital plane with a bit of a wobble, and results in four 100-day seasons with three distinct effects: The Light and Dark seasons occur when the part of the planet you are on is pointed toward the system's star or away from it, respectively. The Light Season has long days, with a 30 day stretch of endless 25-hour day sunlight, while the Dark Season sees the opposite occur, with a 30 day stretch of endless night. The Transitional Seasons separate the Light and Dark seasons as day and night reach near-equilibrium for a total of (wait for it...) 30 days.   

The low overall temperature of the planet and the extended periods of darkness have led to extensive ice cap coverage, leaving 20% of the planet covered in massive ice sheets kilometers thick. Some melting occurs during the Light Seasons, but not enough to significantly damage the polar caps. The crust of the planet is made up of a wide variety of elements and is somewhat porous thanks to a high level of submarine volcanic activity leaving old magma vents behind. The core is made up of metals, and rests 7000 kilometers beneath the surface of the planet's ocean.

Rain, snow, and high winds are common weather on the planet, broken up by the occasional clear streak.

Nautica Fria 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, like a cataclysmic eruption. If an idea is, ah, too creative, I will let you all know.

Spoiler: Nautica Fria (click to show/hide)

A water-covered planet with a 7000km radius, the second of six planets, with polar ice caps. It has a 400-day year divided into the 100-day Light, Transitional, Dark, and again Transitional seasons. Each season has 30 days of near-absolute light, darkness, or equilibrium depending on the season. The rocky planet beneath the ocean is geologically active and contains a large number of old tunnels left isolated from the outside world. Largely deals with rain, snow, and high winds.

[Fluffe9911]

Sugarfication
Threw some wacky and completely unexplainable chemical reactions the vast majority of water molecules have slowly been replaced with sugar molecules. This has had many adverse effects on the planet from boiling sugar rain to devastating sugar crystalizing hurricanes this planet truly will never be the same again.

[ConscriptFive]

So y'all want something "interesting" now?

Annual Tripolar Transplanal Fissure

As any true immortal quickly discovers, this physical realm merely one of an infinite number of "planes" superimposed upon each other.  Thus, any defined point in space time in a sense becomes home to an infinite quantity and variety of matter and energy.  Thus at any given point, there's a holocaust, wedding, and gangbang all going on simultaneously.  As mindblowing as some "intelligent" mortals may find this, this proves a mostly philosophic discovery of no practical consequence: the superimposed planes don't interact with each other.

Except the rare cases when they do.

As fascinating as Nautica Fria may be, that's not the real reason why it's caught your immortal eye.  Once a year, the orbit of Nautica Fria passes through a "one-way transplanar fissure."  This actually isn't that unusual.  Like 99 percent of other fissures, it merely originates from unoccupied deep space.  What is truly unique is that another planetary body is on the identical periodic orbit in the originating plane.  Every 400 days, Nautica Fria is exposed to matter and energy from another plane.

But it gets better.

This originating plane has completely alien fundamental laws, mostly originating from "tripolar" electromagnetism.  (Whereas this physical world's electromagnetism is defined by bipolar "positive" and "negative" charges in 180 degree opposition, this plane's electromagnetism is defined by three charges in 120 degree opposition.)  Matter and energy from the "Tripolar Plane" cannot exist in this physical world.  Upon arrival, it catastrophically decays into compatible bipolar analogs in a process similar to nuclear fission.

Of course even "intelligent" mortals will likely find this phenomenon completely inscrutable.  Every 400 days, there are spontaneous nuclear explosions across the planet.  Locations will be random on all three axis, and some years are worse than others.  But like clockwork, this all occurs only on this one specific calendar day, and never anytime else.  "Must be the doing of an angry God!"

[ConscriptFive]

Let's keep this moving then...

(0) Sugarfication:
(1) Annual Tripolar Transplanal Fissure: ConscriptFive

[Fluffe9911]

(1) Sugarfication: Fluffe9911
(2) Annual Tripolar Transplanal Fissure: ConscriptFive, Fluffe9911

Some would argue that voting for both is the same as not voting at all but meh

[Man of Paper]

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.

Spoiler: Nautica Fria (click to show/hide)

A water-covered planet with a 7000km radius, the second of six planets, with polar ice caps. It has a 400-day year divided into the 100-day Light, Transitional, Dark, and again Transitional seasons. Each season has 30 days of near-absolute light, darkness, or equilibrium depending on the season. The rocky planet beneath the ocean is geologically active and contains a large number of old tunnels left isolated from the outside world. Largely deals with rain, snow, and high winds. Currents along "lines of opposition" relative to the planet's poles divide the equatorial and polar regions.

Spoiler: Notable Information (click to show/hide)

Biannual Tripolar Transplanar Fissure: A twice-yearly event that occurs during the peak of each pole's Light Season. The planet and an interdimensional rift interact and exchange basic matter briefly. The foreign matter is incompatible with our reality and rapidly and explosively degrades. These high-energy explosions cause dramatic disturbances that result in terrible storms. [science]

[Maximum Spin]

The Day Several Dozen Mystical Portals Opened Releasing A Bunch Of Small Objects From God Knows Where Into Orbit Around The Planet

TDSDMPORABOSOFGKWIOATP: Maximum Spin, 1

[IronyOwl]

Catastrophic and disturbingly focused core eruptions drive metallic spikes up through the planet's surface.

TDSDMPORABOSOFGKWIOATP: Maximum Spin, 1
Metal Spikes: IronyOwl, 1

[ConscriptFive]

The Great Eruption

For eons beneath the waters of Nautica Fria, the crust lie dormant and unchange.  Then in one spectacular day, nearly every fault line ruptured.  Horrific pyroclastic explosions arose from the seas.  The skies were darkened with ash and exotic tephra were spewed from deep within planet's mantle.  From some of the most prodigious volcanoes, islands arose from the depths.

Beyond the addition of scattered land, the minerals available on the surface of the planet radically changed.  The seas were enriched with phosphates and iron.  Settling ash also formed soft and easily carved tuffaceous rock across the world.  Lava cooled into black glass-like obsidian.  Explosively scattered tephra brought exotic minerals from deep within the lithosphere, most notably, diamonds.  Other spectacular (but less industrially usefu)l gemstones such as opal also become common.

TDSDMPORABOSOFGKWIOATP: Maximum Spin, 1
Metal Spikes: IronyOwl, 1
The Great Eruption: ConscriptFive, 1

[Fluffe9911]

TDSDMPORABOSOFGKWIOATP: Maximum Spin, 1
Metal Spikes: IronyOwl, 1
The Great Eruption: ConscriptFive, Fluffe9911 2

[Maximum Spin]

For the record, I know about the quote label thing and have used it many times, I just didn't deign to do it.