With only one moon, the tidal effects of Spectoris would be pretty similar to our own, not grand on an Imperial scale. You should change the reference to Tsunami's when talking about giant waves (caused by volcanic erruptions, earthquakes and undersea slumps generally) as the tidal influence is caused by gravitational effects. That said, the quality is very high and the work very good, just a bugbear of mine.
Damnit, I want an edit function (the temporary one ... lacks)
MDMann said:
With only one moon, the tidal effects of Spectoris would be pretty similar to our own, not grand on an Imperial scale. You should change the reference to Tsunami's when talking about giant waves (caused by volcanic erruptions, earthquakes and undersea slumps generally) as the tidal influence is caused by gravitational effects. That said, the quality is very high and the work very good, just a bugbear of mine.
Damnit, I want an edit function (the temporary one ... lacks)
I like that the complete ocean is ... choppy. How might I give a (pseudo?)-scientific reason for that, short of more moons (which might impinge on the importance of the moon to Spectorites?
I like it too, which is hard because the lack of (much) landmass makes it hard too (with few convection currents as there's no temperature differential over the land/sea interface and altitudes - just the squeezing of the ocean from gravity) except at the (possible) polar caps. The only thing I can think of would be to make the moon dense as Hades, such as a nickle/iron or iron/cadmium core. Thing is, this would have consequences as such a ball of metal is really easilly mined. Of course it would be highly magnetic (which would increase weather events, particularly if Spectoris is magnetized). Perhaps give the moon a corrosive atmosphere, huge gravity and fluctuating field to make exploitation more difficult, perhaps just a hardened Mechanicus reasearch station and docks. Think of it as a ghiant haywire grenade in space, particularly nasty when other celestial bodies come into alignment. Of course this makes organics more attractive still and could explain the strange world ocean, perhaps.
I'd quite like to see some other cities (not hives) detailed too. Floating, mobile ones wouldn't contradict the fluff either. Together with some of the donimant groups on the world. Fishing communities, wreckers, pirates, smuglers, merchants, dredgers, scavengers, reclaimators etc. These would all have very different outlooks and communities to the hivebound. Oh, and the floating (massive) garbage islands (keeping relatively constant station) which the currents would generate. Perhaps other concerns attempts to break the Skaelan Har and/or Devayne Incorporation hegemony. With Devayne unpopular with the Administratum, Arbites and Ministorum (mainstream), there's oportunity. With Spectoris the greatest agri-world (potentially) in the Sector, and so near their heartlands, the (growing) Cestelle Alliance springs to mind.
MDMann said:
I like it too, which is hard because the lack of (much) landmass makes it hard too (with few convection currents as there's no temperature differential over the land/sea interface and altitudes - just the squeezing of the ocean from gravity) except at the (possible) polar caps. The only thing I can think of would be to make the moon dense as Hades, such as a nickle/iron or iron/cadmium core. Thing is, this would have consequences as such a ball of metal is really easilly mined. Of course it would be highly magnetic (which would increase weather events, particularly if Spectoris is magnetized). Perhaps give the moon a corrosive atmosphere, huge gravity and fluctuating field to make exploitation more difficult, perhaps just a hardened Mechanicus reasearch station and docks. Think of it as a ghiant haywire grenade in space, particularly nasty when other celestial bodies come into alignment. Of course this makes organics more attractive still and could explain the strange world ocean, perhaps.
I'd quite like to see some other cities (not hives) detailed too. Floating, mobile ones wouldn't contradict the fluff either. Together with some of the donimant groups on the world. Fishing communities, wreckers, pirates, smuglers, merchants, dredgers, scavengers, reclaimators etc. These would all have very different outlooks and communities to the hivebound. Oh, and the floating (massive) garbage islands (keeping relatively constant station) which the currents would generate. Perhaps other concerns attempts to break the Skaelan Har and/or Devayne Incorporation hegemony. With Devayne unpopular with the Administratum, Arbites and Ministorum (mainstream), there's oportunity. With Spectoris the greatest agri-world (potentially) in the Sector, and so near their heartlands, the (growing) Cestelle Alliance springs to mind.
Hm, quite like that moon idea, I may go with that, it would also add to the lunar supersticions of many Spectorites.
Not sure I personally like the idea of the complete ocean being too polluted, the Imperial exploitation of the planet started quite recently (half a millenia ago) and there are still only 2 million people living there so massive garbage islands seem a little too much too soon on that front to me. I agree though about the various smaller semi-nomadic aquacultural groups, I seem them as quite varied and inidividualistic. Many of them must live lives far from the Emperor's gaze (as it were).
Just put up some work I've done on a city on Percipre.
This is really good. I hope you don't mind if incorporate some of your version of the Expanse into mine. It'd be nice to compile a list of dynasties in a synergistic way.
An easy way to increase the tidal effect is to move the moon closer to the planet, although that will have an affect on the mantle tidal movement as well (ie, the planet may become slightly more geologically unstable). Of course that could be good if you want more tsunamis, because the oceanic ridges will be moving more and producing far more choppy effects.
Hellebore