#sun power

I remembered one of my universes and drew the main character from there, yeah

525-Foot Superyacht Concept “Florida” 

Today’s #TechTuesday invention is a solar engine from the 1907 pamphlet The Direct Acting Solar Engine: The Prime Mover of the Immediate Future. 

When engineer Frank Shuman (1862-1918) built his first solar engine in 1897, he was already an accomplished inventor, having and secured patents related to the production of a wire-supported safety glass to make the skylights, popular in the architecture of his time, more secure. 

Following this achievement, Shuman’s uncle, Frank Schumann, president of the Tacony Iron & Metal Works in Philadelphia, brought his nephew to Philadelphia. Uncle Schumann’s company had been contracted to cast a 37-foot tall statue of William Penn to sit atop City Hall, and the younger Shuman was tasked with developing an electroplating process to coat the statue with coats of protective aluminium.

From his new laboratories in the city’s Tacony neighborhood, Shuman began making a small working model of a solar engine, which worked by filling small boxes with ether, a substance with a low boiling rate. Small pipes conveyed the resulting energy to a steam engine. The model powered a running a small toy train outside his home, which Shuman encouraged the press and potential investors to come view during sunny days.

In 1908, after the addition of a low-pressure steam turbine and mirrors to the model’s design allowed for water to replace ether, Shuman founded the Sun Shine Power Company. The company built a full-scale working solar engine and patented it in 1912. Shuman’s invention, and his advocacy for investment and research into solar power attracted substantial attention, and was profiled in a number of scientific and popular journals and newspapers. In one of these articles, a 1914 piece in Scientific American, Shuman declared his certainty that “the human race must finally utilize direct sun power or revert to barbarism” and encouraged further research into the field for “the eternal welfare of the human race.”

& Lunare, Where the Moon Meets the Sun

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p.s sorry for the weird color-coding (if you can even see it) I just wanted to make it easier to find stuff about Lunates or Solarians. I might separate these into separate posts later on, but for right now it feels fitting.

Solaria, the Great Sunstone Planet is a rock the same distance to it's sun as Venus. But because it's a tidally locked planet, meaning it does not rotate, and it's sun being a relatively quiet sun it's backside is completely dark.

Brief History.

The Lunate were the original settlers of the planet, originally known as Valeria. The planet was dark enough for them to settle but warm enough for them to survive. Lunates nowadays can go into bright light and warm places but their great ancestors could not.

Surprisingly, the Lunates were not nocturnal creatures. So they could not see in the dark but were able to softly glow. And the more Lunates in the area the more light as they reflected it off of eachother. They then developed technology (basically just giant mirrors), called Gradients, to reflect more lights into their land and onto them.

This is what caught the Solarian's attention in the first place. Solarians, being conquers saw this planet as a perfect place to spread their light. At first, they only detected the planet as being a dead, burning rock that swirls around a blazing sun. But they began to spot the shimmers of the Gradients and thought it might've been rare materials that had surfaced. And technically, they weren't completely wrong.

So they traveled the cosmic oceans till they arrived on Valeria. The Lunate welcomed them to their lands and only grew unsettled when the Solarians tried to colonize their land and indoctrinate their ways. In short, a war broke out between the two species. The Solarians realized the proxiity of the planet to the sun was perfect for their Light, Lumentia, which will later become Solaria's second sun. Being resolved by the young Lunate, Liliss. In the end, they came to an agreement to share the planet as the Lumentia needed space (time) away from the quiet sun or it'll garner too much energy and could explode.

So Valeria became Solaria, although, Lunates do still call the planet Valeria. The capital of the Solar Empire, which would soon crumble due to the physical distances between settlements which were taken back mostly by the Irakians (Eraklyon) and partially by those they conquered. Solarians would once again try to grow their empire, which will also inevitably be crushed.

From there they focused on their quiet sun, soon named the Sun of Solaria, and discovered a vault, of sorts, of magic in it's core. They disapproved of keeping it there unprotected, so they figure out a way to transport the core onto the planet. They developed the Steeple of the Sun, a vault on-planet that they could constant keep watch over. They soon transported most of the power of the Lumentia into a vault. Due to this transportation they moved the Steeple of the Sun holding the Sun of Solaria onto the dark side in Valeria, now called Lunare, to keep their energies separated.

It had gone unnoticed, but the planet and it's suns and moons were slowly being dragged in by a bigger, blue-white star. This would become the planet third and final star. It's currently their brightest star and they use it's energy to help light the rest of the universe, balancing and controlling said energy through the Lumentia. They named this star Sirius.

Society(ies), Culture(s), & Ideology.

The Solarians are very proud of their culture and history, despite not becoming the "Universal Empire." They're proud of their relationships between other realms, almost too proud. In general Solarians have a lot of pride for their kingdoms and their people, this can make them somewhat egotistical. The Lunates are also very proud, almost as much as Solarians; they think they're superior in a very non-superior way. As in, they claim to just be more evolved than other societies but other societies could always catch up. Solarians tend to think they're living the ideal life.

Both realms are scholarly and take acedemics incredibly seriously, but Lunares take it up a notch with their kids. Similarly to current Asian cultures, it's common for kids to go to school on weekends, whether it's mandatory or not. And out of all realms, Lunare has the most private, boarding schools.

Solarians tend to wear clothes that show a lot of skin since they need to absorb a ton of sunlight to use their powers. In turn, they can grow out their hair which basically acts as a solar panel. This appeal also bleeds into their architecture, large windows and tall, cathedral buildings. The structure of the various pillars are supposed to allow more light into the building.

Lunates still like to avoid extreme light, usually for skin reasons. So they tend to cover up more. Like Solarians they can grow out their hair, but to instead cover their skin. Aesthetic wise, they dress like witches, hippies, and hipsters. Although their architecture is similar to Solarian architecture and for the same reasons, the soft moonlight slipping through the buildings is a very beautiful sight.

In Lunate churches, called Sanctums, there a ton of water. Long pools lining the walkways, aquariums, ground opening up to the ocean(s). But there's a single bowl full of, essentially, "holy water". This bowl is directly lined with a hole which will fill with light everytime the Lumentia passes.

Lunates have historical grime against Androes because Andros was where Lunates originally lived before it was stolen by Androes rulers. Nowadays they both get along because of their intelligence and calm natures. And if teamed up, could be a very powerful duo.

Solarian churches are called Basilicas, it's hard to tell them apart from other buildings so the best rule of thumb is; if it's isolated at a high elevation it's most likely a Basilica.

Solarians just worship their suns :/

Magic. Laws & Regulations.

The Lumentia, the main source of power for the Solarian royals. Each royal holds a bit of its power with them, like Stella's Power Sword (which might turn into her sun wheel permanently or for transformations).

All Solarians use the sunlight for their powers, like a plant, but they can also combine with the power of the Dragon Fire.

Lunares use darkness, generally, but they're even stronger when in reflected light/moonlight. E.g, using their powers underwater.

Generally, their powers aren't allowed to be used in common criminal acts, violent or civil, especially in Solaria since their powers are considered precious and to use it for such trivial things is essentially a sin. In Lunare, using powers for said things is more so distasteful than a cardinal sin.

Origin. Of the people.

Solarians were born from The Dragon's fire's light. They didn't have a form originally, they were strange shapes of lights. But as these lights continued to roam the universe, they came in contact with nebula where they combined to create their physical forms.

Lunares were born directly from Nebula, which they call The Nursery. When a small comet runs through a Nursery, it picks up dust. Which normally would do nothing, but combined with the millions of water stars that used to fill the cosmic syrup, it'd bring to life the combined gases and minerals.

• Since most of the light of the universe during the creation period was sparks of The Dragon's fire, Lunares needed to avoid it. (I should also specify that the Lunares that founded Valeria were NOT ancient, so they didn't have too much issue with sunlight.)

Trivia. Fast Facts.

Lunates and Solarians both have emblems (birthmarks, technically) Moons for Lunates and Suns/Stars for the Solarians. These marks can look different and are usually on the hand. The second most common placement is on the head; the forehead for the moon as it represents intelligence and intuition, and the heart/chest for the sun as it represents emotions and loyalty.

The Solarian Empire still exists across various planets, like their old capital Dolona. It's just not as vast; and they're more like kingdoms under the Solarian Empire and not extensions of it.

They're based on the Aztec Empire, mostly for the clothing and architecture. Religiously and socially they're based on them heavier in the past, than their current day. Like the Aztecs, they were conquerors and had gruesome religious traditions, not to mention their ferocious warriors. They will soon switch out their roots, only keeping their powerful warriors.

Solarian Lords tried to take over the realm of Pyro and regrettably weren't able to. This is why the dragons on Pyro are violent towards anything other than their own, outside of feeding.

Model House, Hangover, Brazil,

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