What are some of the ramifications and consequences of this world's'"exoticness"?
For my Science-Fantasy WIP I am considering using a single artificial planet (roughly the size of a Dyson Sphere) and its moons (of which only three are large enough to exert any real influence) as my setting. While I loved the star-hopping feel of space opera, the logistics just proved to be a headache. So I'm going for something vast far beyond earth in scope, but still less than the infinity of the cosmos.
In addition to its size the world has "exotic" and perhaps supernatural geological process. All the land masses grow from and occasinaly collaps back into an alchemical sea. Deep inside the world there is a great perpetual power source, an energy to matter converter which produce the alchemicals and conduits that feed them to the surface. And an assembly process that forms the land masscess from the building blocks supplied by the core.
The world with a toxic sea was "inspired" by the planet Haruun Kal.
My Questions:
- What effect would the planet's size have on the weather and climate?
- How might having multiple moons effect the tides?
- What, if any, natural process could explain how the chemicals of the toxic sea separate from water? So that all rain isn't poisons and caustic,occasional acid rain is fine a natural hazard.
4.on a Dyson Sphere sized world what is the distance in miles from the equator to the Arctic circle.
5.Which is the "better" of two explanations for the formation land masses. Nano-assemblers building them out the material in the alchemical Sea. Or the land masses are not land as we know it at all. But massive leafless plants with rock like bark.
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