World Building 101 - The Solar System

Last time we decided a couple of main facts about our planet:

• The world is warm
• It is roughly Earth sized
• It is based on silicon
• It has the necessary atmosphere to support itself
• It is closer to the sun

and from that we extrapolated:

• There is life
• There is less need for fur or other heat retaining constructs; lizards and other cold-blooded animals may be more common
• There is gravity about equal to ours, meaning the animal and plant size is limited
• Alien life forms can exist and be very outlandish in appearance
• The year is shorter and has longer harvesting times

Today on World Building 101 we look to the skies. Namely, what surrounds our little planet? We already know it is closer to the sun than Earth, but how much closer? Is it the only planet or are there several? Is there one sun? Two? More? How many moons? What are the other planets?

We'll wipe up these questions quickly:

• There are six planets in our solar system
• Our planet is the third from the sun
• Our planet is approximately 100 million kilometers from the sun, about 50 million closer than earth.
• The sixth planet is a gas giant, 
• There is one moon and one sun
• There is a satellite entity in addition to the moon 

In order, this tells us that:

• We are in a midsized system
• We're blocked from some solar radiation
• We're warmer than Earth
• There is something wiping up asteroids for us
• The day/night cycle is similar to Earth
• The tides can be a little wonky

That's all for this week, a very short post. But next week we are going to take a jump to our planet's surface and hash out the really interesting things, such as flora and fauna!

Until then, ekobor out!