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Praclara; Remake of Cairn. Sorry for any inaccuracies.
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In the far northern hemisphere, telescopes can detect traces of the Patrios star system. It is about four light years away. The star system was never discovered before, even after they discovered Patrios they didn't find any traces of neighbors. The reason was simple, the plane which the stars neighbors are placed is positioned sixty degrees.

Praclara, a earth-sized planet just outside the traditional habitable zone. This proves that planets don't have to be inside the habitable zone to maintain complex life forms. It is one of the only two of the terrestrial planets orbiting Patrios, the rest are gas giants. It is called by its natives Lore'sol'maia translating to Blue Mother Planet. There is a myriad of strange and bizarre, yet beautiful lifeforms that are more diverse and unique to those found on earth.

Its physical condition has been greatly altered over time. It's atmospheric composition and other traits has allowed complex life forms to proliferate and spread over the planet. The ozone layer together with the planet's incredibly strong magnetosphere has allowed the terrestrial animals to travel into the surface without being hit with deadly solar radiation. Animals evolved no natural defense against solar radiation, so do plants.

The planet, also has a lithosphere. Thicker than earth's continental drift is slower but there is a more larger number of volcanoes than inside earth. The lithosphere is further divided into tectonic plates, less complex than earth's. Today, the planet is surrounded by a large supercontinent housing a immense variety of animals. It is divided into five continents, all of them have a variety of different types of continents, although their is a dominant biome that spans the whole entire continent. This is mostly related to where the continent is positioned or the climate.

Fauna of Praclara is greatly similar to those of our planet. Praclara fauna are carbon based, as opposed to silcon based of some other planets that are known before the discovery of Praclara, The life forms are similar to earth life, both having identical systems such as the respiratory system, or digestive system and evolved similar organs in their place. Flora are green due to chlorophyll, and are notably darker to absorb more of the sun's energy. Fauna are classified inside the kingdom Fueritlator, a reference to some of the clades bearing flesh. They are divided into two phylums.

*Kingdom Fueritlator

*Phylum Duraterga

*Subphylum Durachordata

*Super Class Theriotetrapoda

*Class Pappilator -- A mammal like class, the females secrete have digested pseudo-milk from teat like organs. Unlike most other classes, they have only one jawbone and an advance hearing system composed of soft bones. They also have a great sense of smell on most species, though this is useless for most species with also a great sense of sight. Erectopubic bones, extending from the rib cages to the pelvis are non-existing in this class, as they need their abdomens to expand during pregnancy. They avoid carrier's constrain by standing in a erect posture. They also have advance teeth, and have multiple types, as opposed to just canines, or just molars of other classes. They are ovoviparious, they gestate their eggs inside their womb and has an organ similar to the planceta in place of a yolk sac. Thus, they give birth to developed young.

*Class Rostrolator -- The praclaran counterparts of birds. They have a small and useless erectopubic bones, deprived from asperdermatan ancestors. Thus they retain scales similar to those of pangolins, compact hair like structures. This scales advance warming system is present on tropical rostrolatorians, a series of nerves warm blood when they bask. Like pappilatorians, they are warm blooded. They have given up much of their weight for their efficiency in flying. Even terrestrial species have given up much of their weight for the sake of being bipedal. They are ovoviparious, also gestating eggs inside wombs, but they retain a yolk sac and their young are small and underdeveloped. Like its closest relatives, the Pappilatorians, they have only four legs.

*Super Class Hexapoda

*Class Asperdermata -- Thick skinned behemoths. They have shells, ranging from almost nonexistent, to covering their backs fully. They are essentially turtle like and are the ancestors of the pappilatorians and rostrolatorians, which split from each other around three hundred million years ago. They fill niches of large herbivores, and have beaks with small canines. Which means their dentition is roughly similar to those of the mammal like lytrosaurus and their closest relatives. They have scales, though smaller in size than in most rostrolatorians, the are more compact and provide more protection. In some species though, loose scales evolved as a warning system rather as a warming system.

*Superclass Itchyeforma

*Class Glaberdermata -- They are amphibian like creatures descended from duraitchyians. Most members resemble either jawless fish or more terrestrial living titaliks. They have smooth skin, and external gills or primitive, single lungs. They have small, molars, and they never have more than twelve molars. They have sails on their backs to maintain a constant body temperature, having a series of nerves warming blood during basking.

*Class Duraitchyes -- They have stiff bones that are bony, not a notochord or a cartalingous skeleton. Their jaws are made of just several bones, which are stronger than their extinct ancestor's jaws which' function is to only suck edible debris. They are similar to earth fishes, but have overlapping skin scales. Extant species have gills and have no lungs of any kind, though a lung like structure, stores air temporally in some species. Some extinct of Durafishes have primitive lungs similar to those of glaberdermatans.

*Class Linodermata -- Similar to pikaia or other primitive fishes, they are basal and make a huge part of the ecosystem. They have a notochord, instead of bones. Having a notochord means that they are flexible and agile. They don't have any lungs, breathing through skin, and their rather primitive gill's use is actually for feeding. They filter food in a similar way to those of lancelets. They fill many oceanic and aquatic niches.

*Phylum Bestios
*Subphylum Bestiognatha
*Class Erectobestio -- Mantis like beasts.
*Class Volabestio -- Flying beetle like beasts.
*Class Nebulabestio -- Beetle like beasts that harvest water through mist.

This planet has more carbon dioxide and has two moons. Loren is the largest satellite, about just slightly smaller than luna. Alpines, is half the size of luna, and hence is name has a larger orbit and has ice. These satellites make tidal pulls with their parent body, slowing the planet's rotation and creating more heat. Loren is made after the great bombardment, when asteroids began bombarding the planet. One large asteroid the size of Eris crashes and formed a ring around Praclara, slowly forming Loren. Alpines is captured by Praclara around twenty million years ago and caused climate changes. It stabilized soon after. Asides from this, it is more active than earth and has jagged, irregular shaped continents, which means more carbon and other volcano type gasses.

The atmosphere is made out of one percent argon, twenty six percent oxygen, four percent carbon dioxide, sixty six percent nitrogen, two percent water vapor and one percent other gasses. The amount of water vapor can vary from one to six percent thought the amount shown above is the average amount, twice that of our earth. The higher carbon dioxide content causes earth fauna to struggle with breathing, though not killing them, as it is too little. The climate can vary across the land. There is also a variety of habitats, though the planet is mostly covered by grasslands or dew lands. A cross between a grassland and a wetland, it will have small puddles of water and have short grass like plants and occasionally trees and bushes. In the south, there is immense mangroves, rain forests or mist forests. In the far north, there is tundra and ice.



Edited by JaggerTheDog, Feb 18 2014, 09:38 AM.
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Any opinions?
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Here's a section about the life forms.

The life of Praclara are divided into these main groups, not including bacteria. The plants are divided into two classes, Rufophylum, and Euphyllum. Red plants can move and are more primitive than their green counterparts. True plants, or green plants can't move, being more advance. Hence their name, all of them are green except for a unique genus, Japonicaphyllum sp, referring to their appearance to Sakuras or cherry blossoms. Euphyllum is divided further into two classes, one of them is Opliaphyllum, which includes the genus Opliaphyta.

Fauna are divided into four classes, Itchyeforma, Pappilator, Orinthonoida, and Asperdermata. Itchyeforms are fish like, and are dominant inside marine environments. The next class is superficially mammal like, and females secrete partly digested food. They also have hair like pseudo hair with a single follicles. The next two classes are reptile like, and are both primitive. But Orinthonoida however have scales that resembles feathers, they have a complex nerve system. The complex system heats up their blood. Thus, they only live in tropical regions.
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To just tell, after I get opinions, I might make a improved and more detailed version. I rushed this.
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Do not asking *silly* questions about Heatmor. It makes Orz *frumple* so much.
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Well, a planet outside the habitable zone might get too cold to support complex life (I'm assuming Praclara is further from the sun rather than closer to it to be outside the habitable zone). Could you clarify how the planet is still able to support complex life despite being outside the habitable zone?

It would seem that your planet is no Mars, which is small and its magnetosphere died shortly after the planet formed, and that could be assumed to be barely in the habitable zone of our Sol System. Perhaps Praclara could be in the "cold end" of the habitable zone relative to Patrios, like Mars is to Sol?
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Yes I did explained it already, Praclara has a thick atmosphere and a high amount of carbon dioxide. Just like Titan, being on the outer rim of the habitable zone means that the planet's air molecules can't escape as fast. Even a thin atmosphere can keep the planet from freezing.
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Feb 15 2014, 07:46 AM
Here's a section about the life forms.

The life of Praclara are divided into these main groups, not including bacteria. The plants are divided into two classes, Rufophylum, and Euphyllum. Red plants can move and are more primitive than their green counterparts. True plants, or green plants can't move, being more advance. Hence their name, all of them are green except for a unique genus, Japonicaphyllum sp, referring to their appearance to Sakuras or cherry blossoms. Euphyllum is divided further into two classes, one of them is Opliaphyllum, which includes the genus Opliaphyta.

Fauna are divided into four classes, Itchyeforma, Pappilator, Orinthonoida, and Asperdermata. Itchyeforms are fish like, and are dominant inside marine environments. The next class is superficially mammal like, and females secrete partly digested food. They also have hair like pseudo hair with a single follicles. The next two classes are reptile like, and are both primitive. But Orinthonoida however have scales that resembles feathers, they have a complex nerve system. The complex system heats up their blood. Thus, they only live in tropical regions.
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