Modern-day Thet is comprised by a cloud of millions of floating islands called the archipelago. Despite the hardships of doing so, survivors of the Shattering were eager to maintain their stakes in one of the most culturally diverse systems in the known universe.
Generally one finds the radius at which one expects to find the island one is looking for, and then goes along that circumference until the island is found. Due to the nature of the Shattering, most islands are in a predictable orbit based on their distance from ground zero of the original incident itself. Obviously, flying transport is a must.
The air is thin in Thet, but omnipresent. A weak gravitational field keeps atmospheric gasses gathered around the plane of the solar equator, much of this having been converted from excess hydrogen ejected by the star when it shed its outer envelope during the Shattering. Storms are uncommon, but other phenomena, including wind and clouds, are extremely frequent.
For information on the arrangement of the islands in the archipelago, see this article.
The New Archipelago Geological Survey of 29 tgc classified islands in Thet according to the following five categories:
Colossal: large enough to build a small city on; as large in some cases as 80 km² of land. These sections are rare, as a consequence of the nature of the sundering, and so they tend to have been continuously inhabited where possible. They would be roughly evenly distributed.
Major: 4 km² - 10 km² of usable surface.
Minor: 0.25 km² to 4 km² of usable surface.
Tiny (or Personal): "large enough to fit a house on."
Debris: anything with less than 100 m² of usable surface area. Islands with no flat top are quite common; some larger ones might be hollowed out for inhabitants, but were still classified as debris in the initial survey; these rarely exceed any dimensions of 2 km because most were comprised of hot magma from Thessia Major's mantle and core. The Lyrisclensian settlement of Archiva, in Major Belt V, is a prominent example of this, being comprised of several Mohorovičić-discontinuity asteroids connected through bridges.
Getting around
Generally one finds the radius at which one expects to find the island one is looking for, and then goes along that circumference until the island is found. Due to the nature of the Shattering, most islands are in a predictable orbit based on their distance from ground zero of the original incident itself. Obviously, flying transport is a must.
Atmosphere
The air is thin in Thet, but omnipresent. A weak gravitational field keeps atmospheric gasses gathered around the plane of the solar equator, much of this having been converted from excess hydrogen ejected by the star when it shed its outer envelope during the Shattering. Storms are uncommon, but other phenomena, including wind and clouds, are extremely frequent.
Physical geography
For information on the arrangement of the islands in the archipelago, see this article.
The New Archipelago Geological Survey of 29 tgc classified islands in Thet according to the following five categories: