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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7307346" data-attributes="member: 6925649">Maybe a whole Solar System is a bit ambitious, maybe a version of our Solar System where Mars and Venus are habitable and inhabited, but the rest of the Solar System is as we know it to be, lets keep it in the back of our minds that the whole thing may be a computer simulation, this enables magic to exist. Heck, maybe we are living in computer simulation now and don't know it. A computer version of the multiverse might exist, that is multiple simulations of different worlds running at the same time. Lets suppose the World we live in Earth, is one computer simulation with 7 billion people in it. Venus is another Computer simulation, and Mars is yet another computer simulation. Venus all by itself is a non-standard Dungeons & Dragons simulation. I used 3rd Edition as it is compatible with D20 Modern that I am using for Earth. Mars uses D20 Future, most of the high tech stuff comes from Mars.So lets start with this, instead of the Gap, we go with the Change. We are living on Earth minding our own business and suddenly the Change happens, a ripple spreads to the fabric of reality. Astronomers notice some changes to the planets Mars and Venus. Venus is a fantasy world with all the Monsters from the D&D 3.5 Monster Manual living somewhere on its surface, it is a warmer planet, the planet is covered with clouds. From space it looks much like this picture only paler, and less yellowish.<img src="https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.tAvuf-rOtpBlHUyiz1hczQHaHa&w=218&h=218&c=7&o=5&pid=1.7" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Astronomers can detect the difference however, these clouds are now water clouds, not sulfuric acid, radar detects a much more rapid rotation rate, a probe send over to the vicinity of Venus detects a magnetic field around Venus with Magnetic North over the South Pole. The atmosphere is less dense, the clouds are lower and closer to the surface, some mountains in the northern continent of Ishtar break through the perpetual cloud layer. Underneath the could layer are swamps, forests, rivers, lakes and oceans. The wild life is similar to tropical and subtropical places on Earth, the northern most reaches of Ishtar has a climate similar to Florida, high on the Maxwell mountains, where the air is thinner and colder are glaciers. Some cities have been spotted by remote drones flying under the cloud layers, the most advanced technology is similar to that available in the Forgotten Realms setting. Climate models suggest that this perpetual cloud layer shouldn't be stable at the prevalent temperature of the planet's surface, yet it is. Magic is responsible for maintaining the water clouds. The Earthlings who visit the planet will learn about that later.<img src="http://www.worlddreambank.org/V/VENISHTA.GIF" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Here is a map of the most habitable continent on the planet. Venus keeps its axial tilt of 2.6 degrees so seasons are very slight, even I the polar regions. Unlike Earth, there is no six months of darkness during the winter. The Sun stays low on the horizon, but it sets and rises for about 12 hours of night followed by 12 hours of day. The perpetual cloud layer is less at these high latitudes, with sometimes a blue sky.Mars looks like this:<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0e/ab/40/0eab40a71dab9575350bf16d2a371f85--maps-maps-maps-the-map.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />A world of oceans, desert and canals distributing the water over the drier regions. Civilization on this planet has lasted for tens of thousands of years. Most of the clouds on Mars hover over the great northern ocean and to a lesser extent the Hellas Sea in the southern hemisphere. In this version of Mars, the canals are real, and not some optical illusion. Each canal is about 1 mile wide and is surrounded by a belt of vegetation 10 miles on each side, there is some local precipitation but mostly it is desert weather. The tec level varies from place to place. There are empires on the surface of Mars, many are ruled by a priesthood which carefully guards each city's technological secrets. Most common tech is swords, bows, and primitive powder guns. From Ancient times, and on Mars this is really ancient, there are some technological artifacts. Earth humans have exploited these artifacts to develop the technology to travel between the planets. A working fusion reactor was discovered by Earth scientists exploring the ruins of dried up cities, this has enabled mass migrations of Earth colonists to both Venus and Mars, though interplanetary travel is still a expensive prospect, it is affordable to most families in the United States and other places in the developed World.</blockquote>

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