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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 4414057" data-attributes="member: 2205"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Everything on Kael is suffused with orange rather than golden light, for two reasons.<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The ancient and tired sun of Kael is swollen and orange. It is an orangish giant star, like our own sun will be in many billions of years, nearly at the end of its life.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">An aftereffect of the cometary impact is that dust microparticles are suspended high in the atmosphere, causing the sky to be a faded reflection of the rusted colored horizon rather than blue.</li> </ol><br /> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Like Mars, most of the surface is made of black soil and rock, relicts of ancient volcanic activity, but as the water evaporated, most of the surface has become covered with a thin layer of oxidized dust. All of this is somewhat technical, but the point is that the ground is reddish brown like rust, although just a few inches lower it's black as basalt. The sky is too. Fantasy Mars.<br /> <br /> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Kael is outside of the galaxy, but only just. Its tired sun migrates around the galaxy as a distant satellite. This makes for very peculiar nightime effects; when there are no moons in the sky to cause light pollution, the galaxy fills a huge portion of the sky, as a flocculent whirlpool. The mythology and belief systems of no culture can fail to account for this fascinating feature in the night sky. Most see it as either a piercing eye averting it's baleful gaze on the world, or a sucking maw biding its time before it devours the entire world.<br /> <br /> By the way, this idea was stuck in my head as a very young child by this image, which I saw in an astronomy book when I was young. I actually stumbled across a copy of the book at a used bookstore recently, which is long since out of print, scanned the image in question and posted it on my blog a few months ago.<br /> <br /> <img src="http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f158/jdyal/milkyway.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></li> </ul><p>Still more to come...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 4414057, member: 2205"] [list][*]Everything on Kael is suffused with orange rather than golden light, for two reasons. [list=1][*]The ancient and tired sun of Kael is swollen and orange. It is an orangish giant star, like our own sun will be in many billions of years, nearly at the end of its life. [*]An aftereffect of the cometary impact is that dust microparticles are suspended high in the atmosphere, causing the sky to be a faded reflection of the rusted colored horizon rather than blue.[/list] [*]Like Mars, most of the surface is made of black soil and rock, relicts of ancient volcanic activity, but as the water evaporated, most of the surface has become covered with a thin layer of oxidized dust. All of this is somewhat technical, but the point is that the ground is reddish brown like rust, although just a few inches lower it's black as basalt. The sky is too. Fantasy Mars. [*]Kael is outside of the galaxy, but only just. Its tired sun migrates around the galaxy as a distant satellite. This makes for very peculiar nightime effects; when there are no moons in the sky to cause light pollution, the galaxy fills a huge portion of the sky, as a flocculent whirlpool. The mythology and belief systems of no culture can fail to account for this fascinating feature in the night sky. Most see it as either a piercing eye averting it's baleful gaze on the world, or a sucking maw biding its time before it devours the entire world. By the way, this idea was stuck in my head as a very young child by this image, which I saw in an astronomy book when I was young. I actually stumbled across a copy of the book at a used bookstore recently, which is long since out of print, scanned the image in question and posted it on my blog a few months ago. [img]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f158/jdyal/milkyway.jpg[/img] [/list] Still more to come... [/QUOTE]
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