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The association of the seasonal feasts with life stages may be a Hearthsider practice that spread system-wide after the war of dissolution. Hearthside itself may reckon the feasts based on perihelion and aphelion (and the midpoints between), as I don't think a...

Will post improvements if I feel like it. Here's a knight (Lodestar specifically) in the cockpit of his mech. Note the preference for a HUD visor rather than output displays

Yeaning is initiated when the womb-nest’s heart stops pumping. This isn't immediately sensed by the kits as their own hearts pick up some of the slack, but the increased load on their hearts tells them it's time to go. This doesn't happen to all the kits simul...

Glenn wrote: 2025-10-14T10:46:22+00:00 I have tried to picture this setup, and I wanted to ask how the inner capsule and outer chassis are arranged: is the chassis flush with the capsule, or is there a space between the two that parents and doctors can fit int...

The Ark of Sapience is a reliquary containing the earliest positive specimen of written language as well as the bones of the earliest known yinrih to have undergone funerary rites. The text and the bones within have changed over the millennia as earlier artifa...

Remember way back when I said I based some of Focus's features on outdated ideas about our solar system? That's why Hearthside is tidally locked, like Mercury was once thought to be, and why Sweetwater is so wet, like Venus was once depicted in pulp sci-fi sto...

It's a toroidal structure encircling an asteroid. The Torus is the main axis. There should be greebles on it as it's far from smooth. Remember, it's a refugee camp that turned into a city-state over time, so there's all sorts of ad hoc stuff bolted to the axi...

YoungConlanger wrote: 2025-10-11T16:39:06+00:00 Spoiler: Above is quite cool! Plus I think it give more "cool reference" bonus points because I at least was not aware of how we misconceptualized the Solar system. The only problem is that the if it's not 180 d...

More messing with universe sandbox. I put a copy of Earth in place of Yih and messed with the density and radius to match Yih. I was previously trying to do it from scratch. This is much easier since Yih is "like Earth unless nnoted". What I've discovered: Yih...

A bit of a retcon regarding Sunshine's clothing. She may have been given a hame as a parting gift by her mentor before departing Wayfarers' Haven on the Dewfall. This hame is the pelt of a healer saint who died while caring for victims of a certain epidemic on...

Here's the final update to my drawing of Lodestar in the cockpit of his mech. To the previous image is added a bank of tail-actuated switches at the base of his seat.

In honor of spoopy season, here's a shower thought I had regarding Firefly's current situation. I've established that neurogel acts as a bridge between a brain and a computer system. So far I've only explored how that looks from the suspended person's perspect...

One idea for the evolution of land animals: There are two clades of terrestrial vertebrates: the hexapoda and tetrapoda, distinguished by the number of legs. Most Yih fish have six lobe fins, suggesting that the hexapods derived from fish first. There are few ...

Rings are ephemeral on a geologic time scale. One figure I've seen is that they exist for around 100 thousand years if not shepherded by moons as with Saturn. So what if the event that formed the ring happened within a few millennia of the kindling? There's no...

OK, let's assume Yih's roche limit is 1.42 Yih radii (from the center of Yih). This represents the outer radius of the ring. Let's further say that the inner radius of the ring is 1.21 Yih radii (again measured from the center of Yih), making it half way betwe...

I'm just full of ideas today. What if caerulium came from the event that formed Yih's ring. I stated earlier that the ring was a captured asteroid whose orbit had decayed in the geologically recent past prior to the Kindling. In addition to forming the ring, m...

Yih may not have polar ice caps. If there are few continents, that means the ocean currents can freely flow between equator and poles, moderating the global climate. This means the south pole, which is part of Damsback, can be colonized. Keeping with my use of...

After playing with Blender's texture painting tool on a sphere, I got what I think is a good map of Yih. There are two large continents, one at each pole, and an Australia-like landmass between them to the West. I may relocate the northern polar continent to b...