#khoros

Dark blue is tropical rainforest, light blue is savannah, medium blue is monsoon climates, red is hot desert, orange is hot steppe, yellow is for Mediterranean climates, pale green is humid subtropical, medium green is maritime, dark green is temparate rainforest, light turquoise is hunid continental, dark turquoise is subarctic continental (taiga), pink is cold desert, pale orange is cold steppe, and grey is arctic tundra. The black regions are high-altitude areas

So there is actually a substantial amount of deserts here, plus rainforests, savannahs, and steppes. The climate is more varied than just “rainforests and deserts” but that’s to be expected - Earth’s land biomes are mostly forests with grasslands in second place, but we still have a bunch of other climate types.

This isn’t the finished product, though. Khoros is probably hotter than Earth, so I’ll modify this when Artifexian makes a video about worlduilding climates on planets that aren’t like modern day Earth

Which reminds me, here are two videos I used to help me figure this map out that you may find useful if you plan to do worldbuilding of your own:

Gacha Closet Collection #1: Kim Variety Set

“What should ah’ wear today?” Kim asked. “Grey n’ black ‘n orange?”

Sybil groaned. “Ain’t those the only options? Jus’ get dressed! We got crimes n’ shit to commit.”

“Aye, aye!”

A quick collection of scraps and outfit tests for my super-lame OC, Kimberly Williams. Originally made in City of Heroes (so old...) and ported to The Secret World, she’s living life somewhere in between those two settings now. She dresses in three modes for different occasions, depending on the secret society activities she’s all about participating in.

Out-And-About Casuals: Glasses, White Button-Up, Orange Jeans, Grey Vest. Messy prepwear, for the flake on-the-go.

At Work Outfits: Monochrome goon outfits. Campus Uniform, Secret Society Bodyguard / Concierge, and Business Casual.

Faceless Hench Uniforms: For combat, saluting, and generally living the uniform #goonlyfestyle. Blank Uniform, KSG Proxy Uniform, and Test Subject Floatsuit.

Part Two!

Khoros is represented in the Ten Worlds’ Alliance by Clan Red Wind, the largest unified state on Khoros and one of the few with both a fixed capital and a largely nomadic population – which is their main advantage over other Khorosian countries. Technologically speaking, Clan Red Wind, like much of Khoros, is a patchwork of technology salvaged from before the Thousand Cities’ War and repaired with spare parts, reverse-engineered devices from other planets, and crude machines built during the planet’s post-war Dark Ages. Their ships, known as starcraft, reflect this, as many have a patchwork appearance, and are often welded together. Starcraft come in two main varieties: cloudcraft and warspheres

Warspheres are, as the name suggest, spherical. They are designed to remain in space and transport large armies from planet to planet, propelling themselves by expelling steam from vents in the surface of the sphere. More advanced warspheres have a ring surrounding them with warp nacelles mounted in the ring, as a way to compensate for the flattening of the warp bubble by increasing the nacelles’ total area of effect. These more advanced warp spheres also have a nuclear fission reactor for each nacelle. Computer technology was never developed on Khoros, so aside from some exceptions, warspheres tend to be operated manually. Their main form of combat is unleashing a massive kinetic bombardment in the general direction of the enemy, operating under the principle that with enough spread and enough projectiles, you’re bound to hit something. Not only does this work, it makes Tetramand war parties incredibly effective at wiping out enemy armies and laying siege to planets

As for cloudcraft, they are designed for combat both in space and in the atmosphere of a planet: they have a thick hull designed to withstand extremely high temperatures and pressures, an aerodynamic shape, independently moveable thrusters mounted on the wings, and retractable propellers on their wings, tail, nose, and roof. Unlike the steam or nuclear-powered warspheres, cloudcraft are largely powered by combustion engines of one form or another – sometimes diesel, sometimes petroleum, and sometimes hydrogen. Cloudcraft can fight by dropping a projectile or explosive on enemies on a planet’s surface, firing their guns at enemies in the air or in space, or simply ramming into their opponent (the last one is commonly used in space combat, as firing the guns would cause the Tetramand’s own ship to accelerate backwards, and would require engaging the thrusters to compensate)