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Oct. 13th, 2004 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoThis is a request for advice from my science-smart friends. Please take a moment, help me get a reality check on the setting for my FireFly OryCon one-shot.
The planet is covered in water--about 15 meters deep, in general. I think this means an old planet. If so, what are the general qualifications of a planet of that age? I'm thinking high salinity in the water, and good sized waves that travel the surface of the planet. The installment on the planet is a mining colony, sunk into the ocean floor and surrounded by large metal breakwaters to protect it from the waves.
The social economy is standard Victorian Empire--there are the lower classes who work in the mines, on the docks, in the desalinization plants, eat the fish poisoned by the byproducts of the mining and live nasty, short brutish lives. The upper classes exploit the lower, live high above in the towers and eat kittens because they're so evil.
The planet is covered in water--about 15 meters deep, in general. I think this means an old planet. If so, what are the general qualifications of a planet of that age? I'm thinking high salinity in the water, and good sized waves that travel the surface of the planet. The installment on the planet is a mining colony, sunk into the ocean floor and surrounded by large metal breakwaters to protect it from the waves.
The social economy is standard Victorian Empire--there are the lower classes who work in the mines, on the docks, in the desalinization plants, eat the fish poisoned by the byproducts of the mining and live nasty, short brutish lives. The upper classes exploit the lower, live high above in the towers and eat kittens because they're so evil.