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Post by vendile on Feb 2, 2007 0:43:58 GMT
This is a matter that can really be left alone for a bit longer before it needs to be properly faced and dealt with - but tonight i decided to do a quick minimap which focuses on our lone continent and the water/ocean directly around it. I my head the landmass is about the twice the size of France, Spain(+ Portugal) and Germany stuck together. Alternatively, we could say it is a wee bit bigger - more like the size of the Congo Rainforest (the one across the middle of africa). I do realise that considering the intended continent size, I have made the settlements a tad too big, but that was just to give an idea of proportians between the settlement sizes compaired to one another. As I have said, this is a first concept, and is in no way meant to be what the end result should be like.
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Post by vendile on Feb 2, 2007 0:46:31 GMT
already, looking at it again, it should really be more mountainous, lots of hills and valley with dense junlge covering them, though keeping it with only a few mountian peaks poking through.
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Post by Doug on Feb 2, 2007 0:47:46 GMT
That all looks quite nice to me - as you say, it's a concept that needs refining, but it's a decent start. Good work!
And i agree with the next bit on Mountains
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Post by vendile on Feb 2, 2007 0:50:21 GMT
geologically speaking its a nessesity to have more mountainoues terrain - afterall it is the single large habital landmass in a planet of Ocean
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Post by takaetun on Feb 2, 2007 1:59:58 GMT
It's not even the size of Western Australia! Ahem... Incendia Unda, I thought we'd agreed on (Well, at least Doug and I ) was to be somewhere, a massive constantly burning swathe of ocean... Maybe ringed with islands so the whole planet doesn't go up. The names are a bit... Chaoticy... Especially Daemon's Square and the Dark Current. I really like the Norrian Fields though...
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Post by Doug on Feb 2, 2007 6:17:51 GMT
Well, I'd got the impression Vendila had drawn that to represent simply the area around the island...Incenida Unda might be on the other side of the planet,or...
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Post by vendile on Feb 2, 2007 10:30:54 GMT
the trouble with doing the amp to a more appropriate scale is that the settlements then become rather hard to notice - i'm sure you've not noticed the grey islands on the left of the map - they are settlements.
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Post by thenephew on Feb 2, 2007 16:03:14 GMT
I really think that the burning ocean is a bad idea. It just wouldn't work. Even as an inland lake, it would burn itself out. If it was a natural feature, then the planet would have ended up looking like Mercury inside the first few centuries of the flame igniting. If it was a recent event, the Mechanicus, or emergency reaction forces, would have it out in a few weeks at most.
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Post by inquisitorarantel on Feb 2, 2007 17:33:08 GMT
An area of the ocean that, due to currents and chaotic wind patterns, cannot spread itself, but simply carries on burning.
Hey, this is the 40Kverse, where depleted deuterium exists and can be used to make weapons!
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Post by takaetun on Feb 2, 2007 20:08:09 GMT
Yay for (heavy) water pistols!
If this fuel substance is naturally occuring, maybe the area is directly on top of one of the largest producers of the substance. Hence, as there are no deposits around the area, it doesn't spread, because id DOES burn out, and because the area is directly on top of a self renewing resource, it doesn't go out.
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Post by vendile on Feb 3, 2007 14:07:32 GMT
perhaps a more sensible reasoning behind a burning patch of sea is a chain of seabed gas vents which vent a gas with ignites naturally on contact with the oxygen rich atmosphere.
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Post by mohauk on Feb 3, 2007 16:14:44 GMT
Superheated phosphorus, pour example. After all, we are working on a planet with earth-like tectonics and volcanics here, aren't we. And on earth, super-heated bubbles of phosphorus do exist in large areas or 'slugs' as they are commonly known of liquid iron ore in the upper mantle. They are occasionally released through vent-columns, on the sides of underwater volcanoes. this is very rare (sulphurous oxides do this more commonly) but it does happen.
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Post by Doug on Feb 3, 2007 17:25:08 GMT
So...we know it could be possible at least...good
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Post by vendile on Feb 3, 2007 20:10:06 GMT
You know, this is 38,000 years in the future - it is entirely probale that an entirely new gas exists on this planet, naturall occurs from the planets sea-floor volcanic activity, and ignites on contact with oxygen.
Of course its possible.
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Post by inquisitorarantel on Feb 4, 2007 12:10:05 GMT
Yeah, except any such gas would have to either be some new compound that no-one's ever thought of yet or a new element, and therefore extremely heavy and probably unstable...
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