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| + | * In such cases, the climate of the world is often determined by mean distance from the local star. | ||
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| Frozen | | Frozen | ||
Revision as of 04:30, 22 June 2017
Climate is a descriptor used by the IISS to denote average planetary temperate ranges.
- It is not designated in the UWP, but it was semi-regulated by the time of the T5SS using trade codes.
Description / Specifications
No information yet available.
T5SS Climate Categories Table
The descriptors are as follows:
| Climate: | Temperature Range:
(Degrees Celsius) |
T5SS TC: | Remarks: |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vacuum (None) | Almost always cold or frozen. | Va (vacuum)
As (asteroid or planetoid) |
Usually associated with worlds without atmospheres.
|
| Frozen | Below -30 | Fr (frozen) | No comments yet. |
| Very Cold | -30 to -20 | Vc (very cold) | No comments yet. |
| Cold | -20 to -5 | Co (cold) | No comments yet. |
| Chilly | -5 to 5 | Ch (chilly) | No comments yet. |
| Cool | 5 to 15 | Tu (tundra) | No comments yet. |
| Normal | 15 to 25 | Tp (temperate) | Almost every garden world or Terra-prime world possess this climate. |
| Warm | 25 to 40 | Wa (warm) | No comments yet. |
| Tropical | 40 to 50 | Tr (tropical) | No comments yet. |
| Hot | 50 to 60 | Ho (hot) | No comments yet. |
| Very Hot | 60 to 70 | Vh (very hot) | No comments yet. |
| Infernal | 70+ | If (infernal) | Typical of hellworlds, insidious worlds, many radworlds, and worlds with too many greenhouse gases.
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| Variable | Variable | Lk (locked: mainworld)
Tz (twilight Zone: satellite) |
Often reserved for worlds that have large variations in temperature due to eccentric orbits or significant axial tilts. |
History & Background / Dossier
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- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science