#wdte

It's called What Do They Eat and each week we create a new fictional setting based on a prompt.

This week's prompt is called Quadrillion, and it's about the galaxy discovering an abandoned Ecunomenopolis, aka a planet covered by a single massive city from pole to pole. Think Coruscant from Star Wars or Holy Terra from Warhammer 40k.

The planet is nicknamed "Quadrillion" after the estimated number of people that inhabited it in its peak.

What happened to Quadrillion's inhabitants? What do the galactic community find there? How do they change the planet and how does it change them back?

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ABOUT THIS OUTFIT

What Do They Eat?

It's loosely based on an old podcast idea I had. Every week we vote on a prompt and then develop a new fictional setting from that prompt.

This week we're not developing a new world but rather revisiting an old one.

Petrichor, a desert planet inhabited by anthropomorphic scavenging animals like hyenas, vultures, komodo dragons, and dung beetles. The people of Petrichor live off of giant mysterious corpses that fall from outer space, called Godfalls (like whalefalls in our oceans)

It explores themes of environmentalism, industrialization, class divide, cult indoctrination, and cosmic horror. It centers around a found family of outcasts who start a scavenging crew together.

It's my favorite world we've done so far and I'm super happy to go back to it. It also may or may not become the basis for a YA novel trilogy I will write in the future.

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