Environment

The Environment are the factors associated with a specific location within Charted Space usually a planet or world through the study of planetology.

• Typically environments are associated with specific life-supporting factors on terrestrial worlds.

Library Data Referral Tree

Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:

• Planetology
  • Environmental Classifications
    • Ellipsoid World
    • Fluid World
    • Gas Giant
    • Hellworld
    • Iceworld
    • Locked World
    • Ocean World
    • Planetoid
    • Planetoid Belts (Asteroid Belts)
    • Radworld
    • Satellite World
    • Stormworld
    • Terran prime (Gaian or Garden) world
    • Terrestrial world
    • Twilight world
    • Vacuum world
    • Water world
  • Sociographic Classifications
    • Ancients world
    • Dieback world
    • Mainworld
  • UWP

Description (Specifications)

These various factors include:

• Physical factors: What is the surface of the world, if present, solids or liquids? Perhaps even gases?
  • Atmosphere
  • Gravity
  • Hydrographics
  • Size
• Biological factors: Does the environment support life?
  • Conventional Life AKA Wet Life (organic)
  • Unconventional Life AKA Dry Life (inorganic)
  • Exotic Life AKA Strange Life (Neither organic nor inorganic)
• Chemical factors: Does the environment support a beneficial biochemistry?
  • CHNOPS

Biotic vs. Abiotic

• Life-supporting environments are called biotic as in capable of supporting organic lifeforms.
• Environments which do not support conventional life are known as abiotic, or not capable of supporting organic lifeforms.

Terrain

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History & Background (Dossier)

The IISS typically classifies worlds with hostile environments as hellworlds.

Sophontigraphic Designators

• Barren world
• Data Repository
• Dyson sphere
• Ecumenopolis
• Ergopolis
• Homeworld
• Mainworld
• Ringworld
• Rosette
• Sphereworld
• Topopolis

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science