Aztlantláca
Geography
A planet in the shape of a toroid possessed of two equators:
- A smaller inner equator exerts an outward force twice as strong as at the outer equator that maintains the hole at the center of the planet.
- The larger outer equator experiences most of its gravity like a pull of a tide originating from Pearl.
For a toroidal rotating mass to be stable with respect to a displacement and lead to the ring shaped mass. There must be a relatively massive central nuclei in equilibrium.Aztlan has the typical silicate-ferrous composition of rocky planets but its consistency behaves as a fluidic body, meaning that its tectonic plates are in constant flux. The surface is decently covered in water bordered between earth and glacial ice. Under the surface, and lacking a conventional planetary core, an arch-shaped molten mass moves along the toroidal shell with the turning of the plantet. As a result, the magnetic poles manifest as specific fluctuating lines on the torus (a magnetic north pole line and a correphase shifted magnetic south line) instead of at a single point.
Ecosystem
Planet Rings
The rings reflect so much sunlight that the planet is never fully plunged into nighttime darkness, but remains under a gentle twilight. Atmospheric drag can bring down any ring matter that descendes too low. Whereby, the rocky material would burn up like a shooting star in a fiery streak. The apparent shape of the rings depends on the latitude of the viewer. Settlements are built on the high altitude plains and mountains where the rings appear as different shapes. These glittering rings would neither rise nor set, and would always appear in the exact same place in the sky as a cosmic landmark visible at both day and night.Mountain Ranges
The rings look like a bright hump on the horizon or a sun that is perpetually setting or rising.Desert Plains
At the more temperate latitudes, the rings look like a giant arch crossing from one end of the sky to the other.High Altitude Valley
People in the valley see the rings from the inner edge on, so it looks like a thin line rising straight up from the horizon.Ecosystem Cycles
Red Cycle
The spherical red moon orbiting outside the rings and that pulls space debris towards itself. The reddishness comes from iron oxide layered on the surface. It displays a cycle broken into twelve moon phases that shift the shade just slightly from the light of the sun, the planet's shadow and the light being reflected from the rings.Localized Phenomena
Pearl Periods
Tenócha is the last system the transmigrants need to take hold of, in order to arrive at the pearl directive.The pearl is a singular point in space we were told to get to. And is within sight of even the atmosphere.In a contradiction of traditional gravity, the only inhabited planet moves in a elliptical loop at a planar angle from the Pearl's central gravitational anomaly. Given the toroidal planet's rotational tilt, each of the flat ends face the pearl at 50 year intervals that exerts greater stresses on both the land and the people.
Fauna & Flora
Fifth generation technology has long fallen out of the control of the lambians. It continues to spread and circulate and infect the ecos
The majority of 'living' organisms on the surface naturally propagate the artifical adaptions added to their genus that allow many plants and animals to maintain extra body abilities.
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