Earth and Sky Worlds
Dec. 30th, 2018 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fibonacci_reminderHere is a rather half-baked world idea I had while chatting with friends on discord. The discussion was too brief and scattered to log directly, so instead I'll simply provide a summary.
The universe is composed of two spherical worlds on opposite ends of the surface of a hyper-sphere, which in practice means that when you are standing on the surface of one world, the surface of the other world appears stretched across the 'sky'.
One of these worlds is, familiar, if not exactly the same the as our world. It's populated with humans and the ordinary animals and plants, it has continents and oceans, nations and empires, which could be considered skewed echoes and parallels to the nations and empires of our own history. Efficient coal-burning engines are all the rage, but technology is somewhat estranged from similar periods of time in our history, in part because of simple divergence and in part because of the odd interactions between substances from this familiar world and the less familiar one.
If you go way, way up, the air gets thinner, and eventually it gets pretty close to vacuum. The gravity also gets weaker, and eventually you're at the point where the gravity between the two world's balances out. Then, you're in the grip of the other world, the Sky.
The world of the Sky is rocky and jagged, made mostly of black stone, stone so dark that it has no shine, not even underneath the brightest lights. Beyond the rocky ground, I also know that there are great, metal spheres that are bright and hot, which form the sun, moon, and stars as seen from the Earth world. Most of those spheres are station, embedded in boiling pits produced by their own incredible heat, with their apparent movement across the sky just being a symptom of the two world's differing rotation. However, some do move, either in a simple straight line across the Sky world, like the Moon, or in smaller circles, like most 'planets'. Why these spheres are glowing hot, and why some roll seemingly without end, isn't something I've exactly figured out, but I do know that it is something inherent to their material. And that strangeness to the very substances of the Sky is what allows whatever amount of 'magic' you might say is part of the setting. The worlds on their own are semi-stable, but when you let materials from one mix with the other, especially in the context of biology and evolution, you can some interesting effects, the exact details of which I haven't actually managed to completely work out, but which I do know include things like various forms of weird weather.
The universe is composed of two spherical worlds on opposite ends of the surface of a hyper-sphere, which in practice means that when you are standing on the surface of one world, the surface of the other world appears stretched across the 'sky'.
One of these worlds is, familiar, if not exactly the same the as our world. It's populated with humans and the ordinary animals and plants, it has continents and oceans, nations and empires, which could be considered skewed echoes and parallels to the nations and empires of our own history. Efficient coal-burning engines are all the rage, but technology is somewhat estranged from similar periods of time in our history, in part because of simple divergence and in part because of the odd interactions between substances from this familiar world and the less familiar one.
If you go way, way up, the air gets thinner, and eventually it gets pretty close to vacuum. The gravity also gets weaker, and eventually you're at the point where the gravity between the two world's balances out. Then, you're in the grip of the other world, the Sky.
The world of the Sky is rocky and jagged, made mostly of black stone, stone so dark that it has no shine, not even underneath the brightest lights. Beyond the rocky ground, I also know that there are great, metal spheres that are bright and hot, which form the sun, moon, and stars as seen from the Earth world. Most of those spheres are station, embedded in boiling pits produced by their own incredible heat, with their apparent movement across the sky just being a symptom of the two world's differing rotation. However, some do move, either in a simple straight line across the Sky world, like the Moon, or in smaller circles, like most 'planets'. Why these spheres are glowing hot, and why some roll seemingly without end, isn't something I've exactly figured out, but I do know that it is something inherent to their material. And that strangeness to the very substances of the Sky is what allows whatever amount of 'magic' you might say is part of the setting. The worlds on their own are semi-stable, but when you let materials from one mix with the other, especially in the context of biology and evolution, you can some interesting effects, the exact details of which I haven't actually managed to completely work out, but which I do know include things like various forms of weird weather.
