The cosmos. Humanity has spent millennia observing the sky above us, and wondering what could be out there. Up until recently have we had a good idea of what could be out there. But we know three main things.

The universe is expansive,

the universe is complex,

and the universe is boring as hell.

Let's change that. Let's create a new universe, full of strange phenomena, unusual beliefs, and of course, plenty of tropes. But we must build it up, brick by brick, planet by planet, solar system by solar system, galaxy by galaxy. And soon enough, we will have our own universe, all to ourselves. Beautiful, isn't it?

Picture a solar system. A group of planets rotating around a central object. It doesn't even have to be a star. It could be anything, from a large meteorite, to a black hole, to a spherical block of cheese.

Picture a strange alien planet in that system. What does it look like? What is its name? What strange creatures reside there? What moons does it have? These are the kinds of questions to ask yourself. And soon enough...

we'll have pieced together our own cosmos.

Let's start with a central planet.

Name: Tropiter

System: The Wiki System

Galaxy: The Information Supergalaxy, A.K.A. The Net

Appearance: The planet is a mixture of white glaciers and yellow deserts, with a vast blue ocean.

Creatures: Humanoids with an affinity for tropes and cliches who all wear lampshades on their heads.

Moons: Forem (A planet full of people talking to each other, mostly about making improvements to the main planet, and sometimes playing word-based games.)

NOTE: You don't have to make a new galaxy for every planet. It's highly recommended that you use existing ones, but since it's the start of the game I'll give it a pass for a while.

Edited by madface7 on Nov 11th 2020 at 2:02:47 PM

Name: Cum

System: Testicle System

Galaxy: The Humor Galaxy

Appearance: Just a giant white ball. Atmosphere is 85% cum.

Creatures: None. It just a giant ball of cum.

Moons: None.

Name: Cheese

System: Lactation System

Galaxy: Milky Way

Appearance: Like a swirling ball of cheddar jack. That’s because it is.

Creatures: Alien mice, alien cows, and other creatures that feed off of the cheese.

Moons: 200 trillion (the moon is made of cheese, after all)

Name: Mafiturn
System: Legit System
Galaxy: The Business Galaxy
Appearance: Like any other legitimate business planet.
Creatures: These creatures were naturally here, and not imported from other planets.
Moons: There's ten moons, and we ain't sayin' nothin' else, got it?

Name: Felinia

System: Pets

Galaxy: Cuteness

Appearance: This is a medium sized planet with a rich atmosphere. There is a varied ecosystem comprised of jungles, desert, caves, and the occasional tundra. Large bodies of water are strangely limited but there are a lot of ponds and streams and such.

Creatures: Cats of all kinds and sizes are the dominant species on this planet. There are also prey animals such as rodents and the streams are full of delicious fishes.

Moons: There are 9, because cats have 9 lives. Curiously, the moons closely resemble giant balls of yarn...

Name: Chungite

Galaxy: Humor

System: Memes

Appearance: big chungusphere

Creatures: big chungus

Moons: Keanu Chungite, Woahnium, and Ugandor

Name: Ben-n-Jerry

System: Lactation System

Galaxy: Milky Way

Appearance: This planet is mostly covered in a vast tundra, although there is a small temperate-to-tropical region where various berries and beans are grown.

Creatures: A couple of dudes and a bunch of dairy cows.

Moons: A large number of them that look like scoops of various flavors of ice cream.

We got a submission from the other thread.

Might as well...

• Name: Legal Eaglesphere
• System: Business System
• Galaxy: Legit Galaxy
• Appearance: The Legal Eaglesphere is basically covered in tall glass-and-concrete skyscrapers, masking the original arid terrain. There are major spaceports at both poles, and at four points along the equator.
• Creatures:
  • Humanoid eagles, resembling many Earth species, known as Legal Eagles (or just Eagles). They weren't always lawyers - they were forced to adapt. They have a very rich culture that flourishes outside of work hours, but they're forced to speak in board-approved languages and adhere to the dress code. Also the only residents that are stopping the planet from invading Felinia.
  • Lawyers of many intelligent species come here to work, find loopholes, defend the innocent and prosecute the guilty, and vice versa. The natural eagles of this planet have joined them, a handful even willingly so. The higher-ups seem to have a sinister agenda.
• Moons: Just the natural satellite, a small, silver-based moon named Lodewuhl. Legally, the (alleged) Rogers-9 Artifical Satellite doesn't exist, in spite of its (supposed) size and (purported) presence of multiple planets' militaries.

Is there anything that we can do with these planets?

not really

Feel free to steal them for a story or something. If this goes on long enough, there might be a ton of worldbuilding to work with.

Name: Monastery of Steel

System: N/A

Galaxy: N/A

Appearance: Not a planet, but rather an artificial planetoid the size of a moon. It is approximately cuboid in shape with an outer surface covered in sterling metal. Hatches can be found all across the Monastery, each hiding the temple's numerous weapons or Void shield projectors. On each four vertices is a massive spire which serves as spaceports. The base of these spires house massive industrial, commercial, and residential facilities, large enough to sustain the population of a metropolis.

Inside the Monastery are vast series of spaces, most of them having been molded into specific biomes by the inhabitants. These biomes are specifically intended to be training areas and tend to be hazardous; a tropical island, for example, may be seeded almost entirely with poisonous flora and man-eating fauna. Biomes situated deeper inside tend to be vastly more dangerous than those closer to the surface. Because of this, exploring deeper into the Monastery is highly discouraged.

The Monastery constantly travels. It is rare for it to linger inside a system for more than a year. Though where and when it travels is a mystery for everyone except the elders.

Creatures: All manner of warriors across the universe make their pilgrimage here. They seek not only to train and spar with the finest fighters alive, but also pay homage to those who have fallen in the past. Some of these warriors chose to permanently immigrate into the Monastery instead. These residents organize themselves into Chambers of like-minded individuals. Several chambers offer mercenary services, while others operate more like a traditional dojo. Still others chose to work with weapons and armor—practically a necessity in such society.

The Monastery is governed by a Council of Elders. Each of these elders are handpicked by previous elders to be their successors, though there are records of outsiders, almost always a victor of the Monastery's bicentennial fighting tournament, being inducted to their ranks as well. Each elder are expected to possess incredible fighting prowess as well as great wisdom.

Of note is an endemic insectoid race known as Stewards. They appear to be the Monastery's maintenance personnel. When a duel snowballs into a full-on brawl, expect several Stewards to come and clean up the mess, repair damaged structures, and cart unconscious fighters to their lodgings. It is unknown where they came from; the Monastery records conspicuously lack relevant data to their origins, and no successful communication attempt has been made with them. They are assumed to be sentient, however, and the Monastery residents consider it to be rude to interfere with their work.

Moons: Besides artificial ones such as satellites and orbital trash, there is a small, almost perfectly round asteroid called Mage's Eye by the Monastery residents. Its most notable feature is a circular crystalline formation near its equator, hence its name. The Monastery elders forbid anyone to set foot upon the Eye, though the reason for this ban remains unclear.

Name: Unnamed; simply referred to as Ex-1K31 by researchers

System: Carnival System

Galaxy: The Net

Appearance: An average-sized, barren, monochromatic rocky planet overflowing with strange plant life, but not an animal in sight; an excess of iron in the water supply has caused it all to turn red

Creatures: None; research shows it may have harbored life at one point, but by an unfortunate happenstance it all went extinct

Moons: a single Mars-like moon called Ex-M374

Name: Pizza Planet

System: Lactation System

Galaxy: Milky Way Galaxy

Appearance: Appears to be a giant blob of molten cheese, likely created from a meteor striking the planet Cheese. Has patches of crust, where the dominant species lives.

Creatures: The dominant race is anchovy-people. They do not swim, oddly, and have learned to breathe air. Other creatures include Pepperonis, giant meat monsters that lurk in the molten cheese, and wild hogs.

Moons: Only has one, dubbed the Pizzabox. It seems to be constructed entirely of cardboard, and is a popular tourist destination.

Name: SPARTA

System: The Justice System

Galaxy: The Warzone

Appearance: A planet drenched in blood. Just one big gladiatorial battle.

Creatures: Anyone strong enough to fight

Moons: Violence

Planet: Sauce (sometimes spelled SaaS)
System: Meme System
Galaxy: Humor Galaxy
Appearance: A large planet covered in a viscous red fluid which flows perfectly symmetrically.
Creatures: No known inhabitants.
Moons: Three moons, officially unnamed, but informally referred to as JoJ, FaaF, and LoooL

Planet: Virtua
System: Popular System
Galaxy: The Net
Appearance: Looks like a hologram, but it's not a hologram.
Creatures: Every Virtual Celebrity resides here, even the ones that will make their debut in the future.
Moons: There's only one moon, which has been (fittingly) dubbed "RatinSphere", which houses a system which helps tell the planet's residents their social media stats, e.g. YT subscriber count, etc.

Name:Capsool

System: Gachapon System

Galaxy: Figura System

Appearance: The planet has an outer shell made of two halves: One half a clear plastic-like substance, the other red and made of a similar material. Inside the shell is made up of billions of small plastic figures.

Creatures: No known inhabitants

Moons: The planet has three moons, which are more or less smaller versions of the main planet of various sizes and colors.

Name: Sugarin

System: Sakarin System

Galaxy: Milky Way

Appearance: A giant, pink planet seemingly made out of candy. The waters appear to be made out of chocolate, and the flora resembles things such as candy canes, trees that grow candy and chocolate bars, or jawbreakers growing out of the ground.

Creatures: Creatures include, but not limited to, a species of brown lagomorph, giant brown birds that lay colorful eggs filled with chocolate-like substance, colorful gummy-like worms that are the primary prey of the birds, and gummy-like fish living in the chocolate seas.

Moons: There are three: A white chocolate moon, milk chocolate moon, and dark chocolate moon.

Edited by Oggy123 on Nov 11th 2020 at 10:26:06 PM

Name: Pantheon's Gate

System: The Wiki System

Galaxy: The Net

Appearance: A torus-shaped object floating in orbit around the moon of Forem. It was constructed to resemble Greco-Roman style architecture. Carbon dating estimated the object to be at least one million year old, though the object shows far less damage than its age may imply. Scans have suggested the presence of machinery and thaumaturgical implements inside the Gate's structure, but further research has been prohibited by Tropiter government.

The Gate took its name from Tropiter mythology. It was said to be a portal to a higher realm of the gods. Through this gate, newly-ascended gods shed their mortal coil and receive divinity. On rare occasions the gate pulses with spectral energy, almost always coinciding with the addition of a new deity to the Tropiter pantheon. No object has been recorded travelling through the gate during this event.

Creatures: No permanent residents, but a small group of Foremites operate a semi-permanent watchstation some distance away from the gate. This secretive group assembles an ever-expanding canon, cataloging various gods into houses as well as chronicling their exploits. Some say that they are the true arbitrators of the gods, the ones who cast judgment if a mortal is worthy of ascension. Regardless, they are known to keep track of newly ascended gods—as well as records of fallen deities.

Moons: N/A

Edited by ArmoredFury on Nov 11th 2020 at 11:10:34 PM

Name: Space Austin

System: Space Travis County

Galaxy: Space Texas

Appearance: It's like Austin, Texas, but if it was larger, and in space (So essentially a Planet-City). Space "X" is in full effect here, where everything is normal Austin, Texas stuff, except more space-esque and sci-fi-y. It is the capital planet of Space Texas.

Creatures: Very diverse population, containing humans and also not-humans. The region is also known for its tech industry.

Moons: A few tech industry moons, named for the companies which own them, such as Space Applied Materials, Space Dropbox, Space Xerox, Space Intel, Space Arm Holdings, and other such places.

Edited by Florien on Nov 11th 2020 at 8:43:53 AM

Name: Consola

System: Nintendo System

Galaxy: Videogame Galaxy

Appearance: A planet with a highly diverse environment, ranging from deserts to tundras to forests. Most of the planet is covered with futuristic cities with a red-and-blue motif.

Creatures: A variety, such as gorillas, turtles, walking fungal entities, among many others, but the dominant species are the human-like Gamers. Their capital city is the Switch, located in the Miyamoto country. The highest authority of the planet is supposedly a Gamer woman leading the Blanc corporation.

Moons: Two, which are the monochromatic Geebee and the white Duoscren.

Edited by Oggy123 on Nov 12th 2020 at 7:40:17 PM

Name: Riq-Rohl

System: Meme System

Galaxy: Humor Galaxy

Appearance From a distance (outside its atmosphere), the planet looks like an uninhabitable, gemstone-encrusted planet. However, on closer inspection, the planet is, in fact, populated, with many islands of various biomes across the vast blue sea. There are no valuable minerals anywhere on the planet. "Never Gonna Give You Up" can be heard everywhere.

Creatures: Various types of humanoid; some resemble Rick Astley, others look like Spanish Inquisitors or Dio Brando.

Moons: There's one unnamed moon. From the distance, it looks like a black hole surrounded in brown, but upon landing, it looks like this.