Atlantica
The second planet settled by the American Union. Atlantic is an abyssal world that is mostly water broken up by scattered islands.
| Type: | Abyssal |
| System: | Atlantica |
| Stellar Radius: | 1.45 AU's from the star |
| Surface Gravity: | 0.95 g |
| Length of Day: | 32 hours |
| Length of Year: | 452 days |
| Population: | 192 million humans |
| Satellites: | none |
| Orbital Stations: | Few |
| Affiliations: | The Magnetic Assembly, American Union, Atlantica Colonial Administration |
Atlantica was colonized in 2131 as part of a major land rush from earth to claim habitable worlds as faster than light travel to worlds became safer, and return trips started to become possible do to the finding of the exotic materials needed to build SLE systems.
Despite the promise of finding such a world with only primitive life and an oxygen rich environment, the development of the colony's infrastructure was notoriously mismanaged with a focus placed on planetary infrastructure at the start, ignoring the critical space-infrastructure needed to develop the rest of the star system. Poor management practices have also extensively contaminated the natural biosphere with bacteria and life-forms from earth.
The world's strategic position as the crossroads between the Homeworld of Sol, the Magnetic Assembly in the Hawking system, and the Daqin's own home system would see Atlantica become a battleground after the New Years Revolution in 2320. Magnetic Assembly forces would destroy the American Union's facilities planetside, and take to the seas with submarines. They would avoid claiming territory on the planet, though groups sympathetic to their cause still shelter their machines. Following the Armistice of 2321, it is still unclear as to whom the various settlements on Atlantica belong.
Native Creatures and Planet Life
Atlantica appears to have undergone a great oxidization event only 20-30 million years ago. As such the lifeforms on the planet are rarely more complex than cyanobacteria and other algae like plants.
Precautions are in place to prevent earth-life from contaminating the biosphere but these are often insufficient to prevent contamination. Bacteria, Fish, and Plant life often leak out into the environment though without a supporting ecosystem they are usually quick to die off.
Earth-algae blooms near trash dumping sites are common.
Precautions are in place to prevent earth-life from contaminating the biosphere but these are often insufficient to prevent contamination. Bacteria, Fish, and Plant life often leak out into the environment though without a supporting ecosystem they are usually quick to die off.
Earth-algae blooms near trash dumping sites are common.
Weather
When compared to earth, Atlantica is a stormy planet. The large amount of water present on the surface provides storms ample opportunity to grow. Most of the planet experiences a stormy season, and a calm season. While the calm season can still be quite stormy by earth standards, rainstorms during the stormy season can last for weeks.
Cities
Charophyte Oasis
A populated island in the norther ice flows of Atlantica with lots of geothermal activity and relative safety from the equatorial storms of the planet. This had lead to a large growth of mossy plants that have covered most of the island, creating one of the most plant-dense areas of the planet.Gulfia
The Capitol city of Atlantica, a sprawling city that covers most of the island landmass that it sits ontop of. The city houses not only the government buildings, but also the shipyards for Atlantica Electromotive, and the major military base for the former American Union 6th fleet.Originally named "Newestyork" by the first wave survey team, this name was later changed by the Atlantica Colonial Administration on the grounds that 'We can't call it that'.