 December 14, 2012 - 6:34am | The Garden of Yazira, the lost planet of yazirian nativity, destroyed by a close pass of a wandering brown dwarf. What did the planet look like? What were its environments, ecosystems, etc? Why compile a planetary brief on a dead planet? 1. Well not everyone will use the fan cannon of the Star Exodus and the destruction of the yaz home world. 2. Adventures in history allow us to travel back to earlier times 3. It may be fun to explore what the yazirian home world. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
December 14, 2012 - 6:44am | So Item one Gravity. I think it should be less then the standard 1.0 g due to natural body structure and gliding ability. Of all the major yazirian colonies in the Frontier Hentz has the lowest gravity 0.7 (Histran is an outpost with 0.6 but I'm discounting that since its a science outpost of some sort). My point with the Hentz gravity is that the yazirians were looking for a planet to colonize to save their society from the wandering brown dwarf and would look for a planet that matched Yazira. Thus I think a 0.7 g is a good candidate for Yazira's gravity. Item 2: length of day: Hentz's is 25 hours and the possibility that they yaz scouts found a planet with the same length of day is very small but perhaps they found one that came close? So I'd go with something close to 25. Item 3: lunar bodies, Hentz has no moons, i think on this point the yazirians would be more willing to bend if all other factors matched but I think we could go with no moons for Yazira. No lunar bodies means no tides and can have an impact on weather I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
December 14, 2012 - 6:51am | I have to dig into iggy's legend of the first clan, I think he named the trees the yaz clans lived in. This suggests large areas of forest as native habitat. Sort of ewok or Elvish trees from Tolkien for clan territories. I blieve that clans spread out and that the urbanization process was more stunted on Yazira than on Earth. Eventually, clans that went in for industrial pursuits began building urban areas on the ground or perhaps clans that had no access to territory with the big trees did this and these areas became the natural locations for industry simply by default. Another location for yaz settlements would be mountian cities, cliff dwellings etc. Need to look into the effects of a lunar body on plate techtonics, if any, and describe the kinds of mountains on yazira. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 January 2, 2013 - 3:34pm | So Item one Gravity.
I think it should be less then the standard 1.0 g due to natural body structure and gliding ability. Thus I think a 0.7 g is a good candidate for Yazira's gravity. Item 2: length of day: 25 hours Item 3: lunar bodies Item 1 0.7 is the perfect gliding gravity. Thus they developed on a planet with that gravity. Easy one. Item 2 length is irrelevant. They pretty much took what they got as other factors would have been more important such as star light, length of daylight, daylight on planet Remember they developed on a planet that was either EXTREMELY cloudy or never got alot of solar light. Whatever world they settled on had to have very little light. Who wants to wear sungoggles on their new homeworld. Item 3 Back to eyes again. They can see in low light so their nights must have been fairly bright. Ask yourself would starlight alone provide enough light for their low light vision? Also they would only need night vision if they stayed up late probably night hunters. Every trait a race has comes from their evolution which comes from the environment they FIRST developed in. This is where we find the trait/environment connections. Humans may live in the Arctic now but would never develop there. Think about what the Crescent Valley for the Yazirians would be like based on their racial traits. Then expand to the rest of the planet. Thinking lots of trees but the fur suggests more temperate then tropical. Very overcast or more likely very tall trees with very thick canopies. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
 January 2, 2013 - 3:55pm | I have always envisioned the very tall trees with thick canopies to restrict the light. I also agree that the climate should be temperate to account for their fur. But, back to the trees, I do not imagine conifer trees. Conifers lack the big long branches to jump from, they are just too packed together with their branches. -iggy |
January 2, 2013 - 6:03pm | I have always envisioned the very tall trees with thick canopies to restrict the light. I also agree that the climate should be temperate to account for their fur. But, back to the trees, I do not imagine conifer trees. Conifers lack the big long branches to jump from, they are just too packed together with their branches. I suppose ont he canopy issue that would work to explain their eye structure but the whole planet is not likely to be covered with tree canopy. Instead I envisioned a lower light output star. Tree canopy of course is good with a lower light star- perhaps the trees blossom out their canopy in a strategy to collect as much light as possible which in turn chockes out the light from reaching anthing below which suggests other vegitation adopting non photosynthetic strategies for sustaining life. all the animals that live ont he ground will need some form of plant life as the base of the food pyramid. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
January 2, 2013 - 6:19pm | One thing you can always use is vines. Talking of the parasitic ones that live off the very tall trees. These vines could provide berries, fruit, water and various material products for a stone age Yazirian society to use. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
January 2, 2013 - 8:12pm | One thing you can always use is vines. Talking of the parasitic ones that live off the very tall trees. These vines could provide berries, fruit, water and various material products for a stone age Yazirian society to use. I like that and its along the lines of what I was thinking. I was also thinking some bioluminessence but not quite on the level we saw in Avatar or maybe we like that? Maybe some fungi. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
