Garden World

A Garden World is hospitable to most sophonts, with a size, atmosphere, and hydrographic rating that make it extremely attractive world. A Garden World has a safe environment, which does not require protective equipment for humans and other sophonts which share the planetary environment.

• They are also known as a Gaia Worlds or Terra-prime worlds, veritable paradises.
• It is a Main World or non-MW trade code. Almost always MW.
• It is a planet or world type.

Description (Specifications)

A Garden World is a planetological term for a lush ultra-hospitable world, almost ideally suited to conventional life of the type common to worlds like Terra.

Planetary Characteristics

A Terra-prime world is also known as a garden world, and is considered a paradise are highly desirable environment for most sophont species.

TC Bioplanetary World Series (Life) (IISS Scout Handbook, pgs. 490-491)

Type	Code	Size	Atm	Hyd	Pop	Gov	Law	Remarks
Barren World	Ba	--	--	--	0	0	0	Barren, lifeless world. Ba requires Starport E, X.
Die Back World	Di	--	--	--	0	0	0	Dieback (000-T). Extinct sophont. Ruins.
Garden World	Ga	678	568	567	Any	--	--	Paradise or Gaia world. Terra-prime or Terra-norm. Has Tp, Tr, or Tu climate code.
Home World	Hw	--	--	--	1+	Any	Any	Homeworld. Extant (currently existing) sophont.
Reserve World	Re	--	--	--	1234	--	45	Private reserve, preserve, park, zoo, etc.

• Terra-Prime: Siz 678, Atm 568 & Hyd 567.

Probably Planetary Orbit & Climate

A garden world is a veritable paradise, a gaia environment, conducive to most forms of conventional life.

World Placement by Zone (IISS Scout Handbook, pgs. 490-491)

(← starward) Habitable Zone / HZ] (staraway →)

TC	Inner (-)	HZ-2	HZ-1	HZ	HZ+1	HZ+2	Outer (+)	Remote & Far Systems	Remarks
Ag	No	Unlikely	Possible	Yes	Possible	Unlikely	No	No	Ag worlds work best within the HZ, but specialized crops may be possible in more extreme environments especially when of an unconventional life species. Fa, Pa, and the Agropolis Silver World TC’s are subsets of the agricultural world series. The Na TC represents worlds with little to no agricultural promise.
Ga	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Garden worlds are, by definition, limited to the Habitable Zone, which possesses a temperate climate.

History & Background (Dossier)

All garden worlds are considered precious commodities in a universe short of inhabitable worlds. They are lush paradises most suited to Terran-congruous (T-congruous) sophont life.

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• Marc Miller. Scouts (Game Designers Workshop, 1983), TBD.
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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science