The Cosmic Civilization
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Planet Zorp
Home of the Zorpians, and the first world to awaken in a vast Cosmic Civilization.
The planet
A temperate ocean world
Far across the violet-lit reaches of the galaxy turns Zorp, a crystal-strewn ocean world and the cradle of the Grey race. Wrapped in soft violet auroras and crowned by two pale moons, it is one of the oldest and most peaceful planets in the known universe.
After thousands of years of harmony, Zorp shines as a beacon of science, art and exploration. A civilization that long ago traded conflict for discovery, and turned its gaze to the stars.
Characteristics
Planet data
- Crystalline super-world
- Class
- 29,600 km
- Diameter
- 1.7 g
- Gravity
- 41 hours
- Day length
- 2.4 Earth years
- Year length
- 2 · Vael & Orin
- Moons
- Violet auroras
- Skies
- Binary violet sun
- Star
Surface
Mostly water, richly alive
Deep oceans cover most of Zorp, feeding lush, glowing continents. What little land there is brims with bioluminescent forests and the crystal-lit cities of the Zorpians.
Resources
Commodities of Zorp
Lumen Crystal
A purple-pink bioluminescent crystal, and the reason so much of the surface glows in shades of violet. It powers every Zorpian city with clean, near-limitless energy.
Zorpian alloys
Light, resilient metals refined for their ships, domes and architecture.
Bioluminescent flora
Glowing plant life that lights the long nights of Zorp.
Pure oceans
Vast, clean seas that sustain the entire biosphere.
The population
The Zorpians
The Zorpians are the inhabitants of Zorp and the first beings to awaken in the Cosmic Civilization. They belong to the Grey race, the classic wide-eyed travelers of the cosmos, reimagined with warmth and a wicked sense of humor.
They are curious, clever and endlessly playful, a people who long ago traded conflict for discovery and never lost their love of a good joke. Their culture runs on games, pranks and good-natured mischief, brilliant and delightfully strange in equal measure.
Planet Zorp is one of the most advanced and peaceful worlds in the known universe. With no scarcity and no war, their energy flows into science, art, exploration and the next big laugh. They are not invaders. They are the friendly, funny first contact of a much larger story.
From the archive
Everything on file about one of them
Two documents, filed the same afternoon. One is a careful anatomical study. The other is a booking photo out of New York, the loudest district on Zorp and the one most likely to press charges.
Measurements taken
- Standing height
- 1.42 m
- Eyes
- 38% of the skull
- Fingers
- three, and a thumb that bends the wrong way
- Skin
- borrows the colour of the nearest Lumen
- Resting temperature
- 31 °C
- Sleep
- never more than forty minutes at a stretch
- Known weakness
- a good bit, told well
Every figure above was volunteered. He sat still for the whole thing and asked, twice, whether he could keep the drawing.
Booked in New York for a joke that landed
He set every crossing signal in the district to WALK at the same time and held them there for eleven minutes. Nobody was hurt. Traffic was less fortunate.
Asked to state his home district for the record, he panicked and named the entire planet. The officer wrote it down anyway.
