Heliospheric Lore
A few basic things to note about the universe of "Heliosphere: Under the Sky"!
These will include basic setting, how characters are handled, how the personifications work, etc.
As such, details could change as the series grows! As well as warnings. If there are any huge changes, I'll notify those who follow me.
Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy!
Stellar and Planetary Homes
This is a collection of entries for the lore of "Heliosphere: Under the Sky"!
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HOMES
Overall Structure: The star system may take on a governing structure depending on their leader. For example, the Solar System is a city under a pseudo-monarchy reign. Other star systems may prefer to call it a town, a metropolis, depending on the size of their occupied stellar "land".
Appearance: Their homes look like their houses, or whatever structure they live in, floating in space. It appears that these structures and the personified celestial bodies (Caelestis) can't be perceived by humans, and so all that humans see are the floating planets in space.
Size: Dependent on their real life counterpart's sizes.
Typical houses for each type:
Stars (including Neutron, White/Black Dwarfs, and Black Holes) - castles, empires, palaces, etc.
Smaller Planets (rocky, dwarf, and the like) - normal houses such as bungalows, cottages, etc.
Gas Giants - villas, mansions, etc.
Moons - condo units, apartments, etc. (Earth's Moon Luna may be an exception since she's a solo moon)
Comets - mobile homes, trailers, etc.
Asteroid and Kuiper Belt - the Asteroid/Kuiper Belt is presented as a Stanford torus that spans around the Sun in their respective places in the real Solar System. It's full of smaller houses like cottages where individual asteroids live (except for the smaller ones that may be considered non-humanoid creatures)
Oort Cloud - village full of houses and cottages; as some comets are said to originate from here, some of them also have mobile homes, trailers, etc. once they decide to become travelers
Nebulae and Star Clusters: Presented as stellar nurseries, schools, and universities; a star dies so that more stars can be born. Stars start to drift away from each other as they grow older to assume their own responsibilities in their own star systems.
Essentia:
Each of the homes houses an Essentia of their corresponding personified celestial body. (For example, Earth has an Essentia, a globe of his own planet sitting in his own house.)
These Essentia cannot be detached from where they reside, inside or outside of the house, and they hold the "souls" of each planet.
If anything were to happen to these Essentia, the personified celestial body will be affected.
More will be discussed about how Essentia and Personifications work in a different chapter. (terminologies may change in the future)
RESIDENCES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Sun + Main 8:
Sun - palace
Mercury - single-storey cottage
Venus - baroque, two-storey house
Earth - contemporary, two-storey house
Mars- modern, one-storey cottage
Jupiter - villa with a village of moons around him
Saturn - mansion with a village of moons around him. Has a prominent ring system that protect them, that also serves as a moon memorial.
Uranus - modern, two-storey house
Neptune - modern, two-storey house
Dwarf Planets:
Pluto - small castle
Ceres - contemporary cottage
Haumea - bungalow cottage
Makemake - bungalow cottage
Moons:
Luna (Earth's Moon) - contemporary, one-storey house
Phobos and Deimos - duplex house; one-storey with a balcony rooftop
Jupiterian Moons - village of cottages or similar houses, often one-storey
Saturnian Moons - village of cottages or similar houses, often one-storey
Uranian Moons - apartment complex; each moon has their own unit
Neptunian Moons - apartment complex; each moon has their own unit. Except for Triton. He demanded his own cottage.
Plutonian Moons - cottages around the small castle. Except for Charon. He lives in the castle with Pluto.