#rtts scuds

The loneliest Bugferret

The loneliest bugferret is a story about a bugferret that committed a crime so heinous that they were banished to the loneliest corner of the universe. Legend has it that they are still out there. In some Modern interpretation of the story people have garnered a lot more sympathy for the ferret and are now searching the stars in hope of finding them and reuniting them with society. But some other interpretations saying that after an eternity of being alone the loneliest bugferret has gone insane and is running further and further away from society. 

Usually it's a cautionary Tale for children but in some regions The loneliest bugferret is treated as a minor God. Generally speaking the loneliest ferret has become more or less a symbol for outkast and mentally ill ferrets who are rejected by their communities. In some horror games the ferret has been interpreted as a vengeful monster who wants revenge for being banished.

The many formed god

The many formed god (in some regions known as Hulucha) said to be a a spirit that can reincarnate into any species and gender of avian. In some stories there are multiple reincarnations of Hulucha living at the same time. 

And some of the oldest versions they were conceived to be more of a trickster spirit that interrupted heroes in their Journeys to test their wits. In the modern era they have become a populer culturepop icon in the Tiiliitian colony on the Hotsuuv continent. In many gender positive communities they are especially popular. A vary infamous Tiiliitian TV programs have very famously and consistently mocked this figure together with a bunch of other hotsuuv mythos for decades now.

Cleaner roach scuds ( vary simplified translation)

Cleaner roaches souls that were reincarnated into the eggs of scuds. As kids they cas incredible mischief among their communities. And upon their 10th birthday If they're still acting mischievous and disobedient their shells will turn gray and get the pattern of a cleaner roach upon their backs. 

Another cautionary tale for young scuds to behave themselves or else they might be transformed into a monster that is going to have to be chased away.

The blue aye’d wanderers

The blue-eyed wanderer’s are Sun Chasers who were abandoned by their clans and were left to fend for themselves. If they choose to continue their Journey around the planet and died on the road they would reawaken as a blue eyed ghost. Some say that they are gardiens that protect the ones traveling the road others say that they are an omen of immanent death.

Before I show the first maps I made for this project, what you see below are the satellite-style maps for the Equinoxes and Solstices, in order of (Northern) Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter, the latter serving as the texture for the Blender object you saw in the video.

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With that matter covered, our next focus is this project's foundation: Geology. While I didn't spin as elaborate a tectonic history for this planet as I did for the Ayrum commission, I did work out as much detail as I could for the more recent geological activity, to set the stage for the elevation data - including a narrower focus on the coastal shallows that host the Scud populations.

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Once I could move on to climate, my first step was finding this planet's relative Insolation, which I managed thanks to @reversedumbrella's code and coaching. With an obliquity of only 16 degrees, this planet's yearly maximum Insolation levels stick close to the equator, compared to pole-to-pole oscillation we see on Earth

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Having a rough sense of where heat would concentrate seasonally and how the landmasses would deflect water in light of the planet's retrograde spin, I was able to set down the bi-annual ocean currents (Northern Summer above and Northern Winter below), then the monthly water temperatures pushed around by said currents, and finally -after factoring in many other considerations- the monthly land temperatures as well (combined in the second gif)

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Next came the seasonal air pressure maps and subsequent wind patterns (my first time creating those from scratch), which later factored into the precipitation maps. The incredible temperatures at the largest continent's interior make a desert of most of it, and the other interiors are fairly dry too, but all that heat on the equatorial ocean generates a *lot* of evaporation which ends up coming down elsewhere.

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With temperatures and precipitation mapped out for each month, I was able to find how the accumulation and melt of ice and snow played out, too. Given such a hot equator it's surprising to see freezing temperatures hold out in some places, but low obliquity and high elevation shield what areas they can, it seems.

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All this monthly data was then painstakingly combined and compared and plugged into equations to produce maps of discrete climate zones, using both the Köppen (left) and Trewartha (right) classification systems. The higher latitudes see some overlap with Earth's conditions, but the Tropics...

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I never really finished the map I wanted to make with my own loosely customized classification system, but I *did* get as far as this breakdown of the areas that sometimes surpass 56.7 degrees Celsius, Earth's record for highest surface temperature ever directly measured. And as you can see, that earthly record is broken by a *significant* fraction of this planet's surface, and far exceeded by the equatorial continent's deep interior

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The final phase of this project dealt with creating satellite maps of this planet's surface (which you saw at the top of this post), which started with a map of dry and submerged substrate, then a density map of the vegetation that sits atop it, then the colors of that vegetation under annual average conditions (demonstrating how they would appear in-person, rather than the area's appearance from orbit), and finally plant colors under seasonal conditions (same conceit as previous). In concert with the seasonal ice and snow maps, it was the four maps in the last sequence which were overlaid on the Substrate map, using the plant density map as raster masks, to produce the final Satellite-Style maps.

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This planet's sophonts being a marine species, it was then worth focusing on the conditions underwater, which included monthly seafloor temperatures (first gif), annual discharge of sediment from rivers (magenta in the 2nd gif), and seasonal upwelling of nutrients from deeper water (blue in the 2nd gif).