Planet Lumin
Lumin is an Earth-like planet 7.2 light years from Earth. The planet gets its name from Luminite, an intricate system of energy storing minerals that glow a distinct moonlight blue. Known more for its wonderous beauty, many multi-stellar adventurers travel to Lumin to see a world of uncharted nature far beyond anything else in the known galaxy. Between the towering Spiral Mountains that twist high above the clouds like a spaceborne hurricane, to the dark and concealing blood red canyons of the Branch Impact crater, Lumin’s geography is as captivating as the evolutionizing culture of the planet’s largest city, New Dawn.
Lumin from space
Harmonized within the wonderous nature, a beauty of a whole different kind lies within the variety of rich human cultures found around the planet. Sustained by Arwin, the galaxies only known automated resource network, and powered by the planet’s self-energizing capabilities, the people of Lumin are thought to be living in the zenith of the species; an age of ultimate free will, an age where people just get to be themselves and spend their lives doing whatever they want. Manifesting in many different systems of belief, this extraordinary life sustaining system produces a multitude of cultures, each reflecting sides of humanity that seem to simultaneously reach into the evolutionary future, and the deeply rooted foundations of the species itself. All of this in a world where physics defying nature has met limit-exceeding technology; further influencing what it means to be a human.
​ Perhaps one of the strangest qualities of the planet can be found in many of the world’s natural creations, which often have strange properties that taunt our very understanding of the physical world. Various stones, for example, can metaphysically speak to our bodies like a programmer speaks to a computer, assisting people to achieve better states of mind and emotion. But like a person with multiple opposing personalities, certain countering Darkstones also exist which can be used to control and manipulate. Alongside minerals, many other categories of the natural world have also been shown to hold similar, strange, next-level abilities. While very prominent scientists have logical theories that could explain some of these phenomena, many people simply believe them to be of supernatural origin, referring to them as if they were magic.
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​ Walking, crawling, running, flying, and swimming all around the natural world, creatures of all shapes and sizes call Lumin home. Some, like massive four-legged prehistoric type reptile dogs grace people with their loyal personalities and landscape traversing physique. Others, which can only be described as a sort of Dragonsaurus Rex, terrorize the lands already suffocated by dark and dense clouds, as if to horde them.
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The Spiral Mountains
The Branch Impact Crater
​ Out of all the mystifying and wonderous beauty held by Lumin, the greatest of all might just lie in the yet unknown. Large, and widely still undiscovered, Lumin is a place where imagination becomes reality, and the unknown becomes a fun, yet sometimes tumultuous, adventure for anyone daring enough to step into the unknown.
Luminite
By far the most intriguing and electrifying natural discovery in the already unique world, Lumin has an extraordinary ability to capture and store the sun’s energy, allowing it to be harnessed. Floating high above even the tallest parts of the Spiral Mountains, luminous Aurora Borealis-like Voltaea clouds, which behave like a photovoltaic solar panel, captures 100% of the solar energy that touches their dense magnetically charged surface. Although Voltaea clouds look like typical clouds of water vapor, they are actually comprised of highly conductive micro-minerals, turbulently dancing together in a seemingly un-choreographed electrically charged ballet. But once these highly energized clouds pass over the Voltaic mountains in the north and south poles of the planet, something happens that baffles scientist.
A Luminite crystal
Through beautifully chaotic electrical storms, the energy within the Voltaea Clouds arcs with the superconductive lightning rod-like mineral Electrite, which is found in large concentration amongst the mountain peaks. The energy then flows like life sustaining blood through to nearly every mile of the planet’s surface and core, where it is retained by the energy storing mineral Luminite. With astonishing potential, the planet’s Luminite stays constantly charge with enough capacity to easily meet the energy demands of every human on the planet.
Energy storm in the Voltaic Mountains
As an old saying on Lumin goes, “If it glows blue, it can electrify you”, Luminite, while not dangerous to the touch, can be used to provide electricity to any device through use of a Triga Node, which use a system of micro suction cups to unobtrusively attach itself to the mineral and feed on its electricity. If broken off as a standalone piece, the energy from the Luminite can still be used, but once it’s used, the energy will not be replenished, as it is not ultimately connected to the electrical storms in the Voltaic Mountains. Luminite that no longer holds any energy, commonly referred to as “Dead Luminite”, turns to a non-glowing, dark matte black stone similar to shale, which eventually withers away and contributes to the very dark, soft, nutrient rich soil found on nearly every inch of the planet’s surface.
Veins of planetary Luminite.
Voltaea Cloud
History
The Spiral Mountains from above.
Lumin was discovered after many observatories around Earth suddenly recorded a strong surge of gravitational waves coming from 404-AP, a previously unknown solar system close by. Scientists, after many years of intense research, finally discovered the source of the gravitational waves- a mega asteroid impact on the largest planet in the solar system. But it wasn’t until several mystery-shrouded years later that they discovered a truly revolutionary gem hiding in the unusually dark and quiet solar system; a much smaller planet slightly closer to the sun that had an intriguing and potentially life-sustaining atmosphere. This enthralling planet would eventually be called Lumin.
Lumin instantly enamored scientists, who by every measure deemed it to be potentially capable of sustaining life. As excitement for this mysterious world raged through various scientific fields, new and exciting discoveries were constantly beginning to piece together the historical story of a world rich in biology, ecology, and geography; a world just beyond the reach of familiarity. Although traveling to the seemingly fictitious planet was gripped tightly by several hands of impossibility, one of Earths greatest visionaries, accompanied by a highly skilled team of brave explorers, slowly but surely overcame the unfathomably difficult, and set out for interplanetary sail in 2075. Since the dawn of the species, humans have dreamed of stepping foot on a distant world, and for the first time, this dream was now a reality.
Planetary Facts
First discovered in 2069, it takes nearly 7 Earth years to travel to Lumin. However, due to time dilation, travelers aboard a ship will perceive travel time as 224 days, or roughly 7 months. One day on Lumin is closely equivalent to 28 Earth hours, and the planet completes one revolution around its sun every 422 days, making years on Lumin 1.156 longer than Earth. Because there are no major seasonal, lunar, or planet tilt changes, time is tracked only by day and year and is formatted as dd/yyy..
Aetheria
Branch Impact Crater.
Known intergalactically as the largest single continent ever discovered, Aetheria comprises around 82% of the entire surface of planet Lumin, leaving the remaining 18% to small islands and liquid salt water. Originally two already large continents sitting on individual tectonic plates; chaos was unleashed with the impact of the Branch Meteor, causing the eastern plate to rapidly collide with the western plate, fusing the two together, and creating the unique hurricane-like shape of the Spiral Mountains in the process.
The 5,157.7-mile diameter of planetary crust is vastly unlike anything found on Earth: constantly recycling and replenishing itself in a manner similar to human skin.
Very high pressure within the core of the planet, mixed with dense energy and heat that pushes outward like a rapidly expanding balloon, meets the planet’s thick, rocky crust that withstands the pressure and turns it into a bountiful goldmine of metals, minerals and geodes. All of the planet’s natural resources that one would expect to take millions of years to be created are replenished at the mind-bending rate of only several hundred years. This allows for an ultra-life sustaining environment that seems to give at a near limitless rate.