Old Earth
Not Inhabited
Geography
This planet was once a living and exquisite sight to see, with vase liquid water oceans and complex lands that rose and fell from the tallest mountains and alps to the flattest and quiet plains of dessert. When first born the land was one shelf, and over time the shelf separated into destinies places. Later, these would become countries and continents. The atmosphere was nitrogen and oxygen-rich, creating a beautiful red/orange starrise and starsets on their 24-hour day rotations.
Notable locations on Old Earth were the tallest mountain (Mount Everest), the biggest ocean (the Pacific Ocean), and the deepest ocean trench (The Mariana Trench). these places were explored with so much vigour with the developing technology the civilisation (Humans) created. Finding animals that could live in pure darkness and extremely hot environments, at the bottom of the Marina Trench. Some of the most extreme weather conditions atop Mount Everest, and seeing how far they could push their own bodies to withstand that weather system. Discovering, what felt like endless, species of marine life in the Pacific Ocean; attempting to record and understand all of them and their marine-ecosystems.
Ecosystem
The ecosystem is controlled by the life cycles of the species on the planet (flora and fauna), as well as weather patterns. Particular places on the planet are warmer/colder than others so different species exist there. The entire plant exists in one ecosystem depending on where the plant's orbit around its local star. The main population on the planet are Humans with their ever-developing technology and negative ecological footprint on their planet, this played an incredibly big part in the climate, which then had a devastating affected the micro-ecosystems between locations (forests, wetlands, deserts, and cities).
Ecosystem Cycles
As Human's continued on their negative ecological footprint and lack of care and respect for their planet, altered the natural climate and, as a result, the ecological systems making weather events more frequent and severe. Killing millions of flora and fauna species and slowing down evolution significantly.
Localized Phenomena
Aurora's: Also known as the pole lights, Borealis (North) and Australis (South), are lights that appear in the night sky as solar winds interact with the magnetosphere of the planet.
Aurora Australis (South) by Steven Graham
Arura Borealis (North) by Image Courtesy of Harald Albrigtsen
Climate
The climate shifts many times from stable to unstable across different species' domination on the planet. The most notable shift in the climate was during the area of Human domination. With their ability to create complex technology and systems, the climate suffered from less-than-ideal methods of running their era. Using coal and fossil fuel dominant machines for manufacturing and travel, started to create a global issue of rising temperatures and a greenhouse effect.
However, there was a great push throughout the 2020s to minimise the risk of furthering the planet's greenhouse gases and damaging the climate further, this wasn't as successful as set out to be. This led to a long and dark fight against the planet to keep the Human's alive, racing against the clock to either fix their mistakes (which were not reversible) or colonise other places within space.
Due to the orbit of the planet around its local star, there is four season that was determined by the civilisation: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Winter/Autumn is the colder months, depending on where you were on the planet this could just be a couple of degrees shift in temperature or it could be storms on huge scales accompanied by a significant change in the temperature. Summer/Sprint are the warmer months and reflect the opposite of the Winter/Autumn months, country-wide extreme wildfires and thunder/lightning storms are frequent. Places closer to the equator of the planet are naturally warmer than the poles, sustaining tropical flora and fauna.
Fauna & Flora
There were billions of life on this planet, and going through all of them here wouldn't be beneficial (please refer to other Old Earth documents specialised in these fields). The honourable mentions go to "dinosaurs" who lasted the longest as the dominant mammals of the planet's life-harbouring cycle. As for Flora, trees and grasses were the main plants that kept the planet clean and provided life-harbouring cycles for this planet (intake of CO2, output of O). The longest-standing plant, that lived over multiple eons was ferns. The ability to evolve and live in many types of climes and ecosystems is how it became so survivable through many periods of mammals' reign.
Natural Resources
Common natural resources found on this planet are light, air (Oxygen & Nitrogen), liquid water (H20), plants, stone, minerals, oils and soil.
For many millions of years, Human's used oil, stone and other non-renewable resources to power their existence, which lead to the death of the planet.
In the great push for better care for the atmosphere in the 2020s, "renewable" resources (light, water and air) became a huge source of solutions for some countries.
History
Geographic History
Assessing rock formations and layers, to determine geographical history. There were many periods of time through the ages of the planet.| Eon | Lasted | Important Evolutionary Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Hadean | 540,000,000 years | The planet was created, developing its core and magnetic field, and water on the surface. |
| Archean | 1,500 million years | The planet had cooled, and microbial life formed. |
| Proterozoic | 1,961.2 million years | Multicellular organisms and planets formed. |
| Phanerozoic | 2,500 million years | Evolution of planets, land animals and Homo sapiens. |
Species History
The information is correlated with research conducted by the inhabitants and The Archive. The cross-over period of Hadean and Archean eons was when the first sign of life started appearing, in the deep heated waters of the oceans near ocean floor vents pushing heart through the upper mantle from the Iron core of the planet. During the Archean eon, water was now warmed by the local star. Opening up to the possibilities of single-cell life forms (Prokaryotes) like bacteria and archaea and were able to develop photosynthesis (the process of turning starlight into energy). When photosynthesis started, was also the first detection of oxygen (assumed that plants helped the atmosphere become Oxygen rich over time, making it more suitable for other life forms). As more and more photosynthesis happened, producing more Oxygen, the Proterozoic eon started and with it two new life forms. Eukaryotes, are cells that have something called Nuclui (the brain of the cell) everything from animals, and plants to fungi and unicellular organisms fall under this classification; multicellular organisms are things that are made of many cells (like animals and plants). It was after these classifications evolved with their environment. Around 500-1,000 million years later four-legged animals (tetrapods) started to appear on land. And 100 million years from then Human's existed, being the final species to dominate and suffocate their planet.Tourism
No one bar The Archive visited this planet, the planet only just moved out of the off-limits age (over 3 billion years old) but was classified as non-interactive as the civilisation had not grown as quickly as predicted. The Archives visited once Human's that had spread to other places around their local solar system.
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