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Portal for the world of Infinite Sky.
 
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[[A Brief History of Infinite Sky]]
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[[A Brief History of Infinite Sky]]<br>
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[[The World of Infinite Sky]]
  
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=Description of the World=
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[[Infinite Sky: Units]]
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Although the altitude of any landmass could change over time, '''Mean Altitude''', much like our world's magnetic north, is still the most frequently used altitude reference. It is defined as the altitude matching the official indicator at '''Kirisame Observatory'''. While not useful to scientists for advanced work, it is simple and useful for virtually everything else, including aeronautical navigation. Mean Altitude is at the low end of the atmosphere's habitable band and matches up very well with estimations for the overall center of mass of all known land as a whole.
 
  
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Below MA, average temperature rapidly drops and turbulence becomes more frequent. Low altitude areas tend to be cold, nonspecifically gloomy and will experience very severe blizzards if they are low enough to be engulfed by swells from the Sea of Storms.
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[[Infinite Sky: RPG]]
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Above MA, average temperature gradually increases, though altitude cooling dominates local temperatures over land. This means that higher altitude landmasses are more likely to be warm overall but mountain tops are still colder than low lying areas of the same island. 
 
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===Upper Reaches===
 
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True tropics begin approximately 40km above MA and continue onwards, becoming more intense as one ascends. This is a region of intense precipitation and the atmosphere here can be as stormy as the very low altitudes just above the sea. But while climate is certainly an inconvenience, other factors present a more direct challenge to human travel and colonization of the '''Upper Reaches'''. The most obvious of these is lift. Power requirements for altitude increases at an ever greater rate. A cruiser with weeks or months of endurance at MA could burn up its Luftum supply in a matter of days patrolling the high tropics.
 
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Hand in hand with the impact on fuel economy is a marked paucity of land the higher one goes. Landmass altitude is obviously correlated in some way with the amount of Luftum permeating it. Whether this wealth could be extracted from such remote locations is another matter entirely. Beyond a certain point, there is so little land and habitation that most ships simply aren't built to go there. As a related matter, extraction of Luftum from any landmass naturally lowers its altitude and therefore has a cooling effect on its climate. This has already occurred in some locales with disastrous results.
 
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Another concern is water. Landmasses in the tropic belt experience high precipitation but humidity rapidly drops off at very high altitudes where it becomes virtually impossible to dredge for water using condensation nets. Past approximately 60km above MA, what little land there is becomes increasingly harsh desert. Some of the highest flying ships ever constructed were a handful of tankers and colonial protected cruisers designed by Continental Powers to hold sway here. Today, this region of the sky is largely the domain of the airplane.
 
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===Sea of Storms===
 
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The lower boundary of the habitable band, the '''Sea of Storms''' is an intensely cold atmospheric layer that rises to within 6km of Mean Altitude in winter and retreats to approximately 12km in summer. This is also approximately the altitude of the lowest known land. Land beneath a certain altitude would experience snow and ice buildup exceeding the rate of outflow from thaw and glacial drift and would inevitably be pulled into the Sea of Storms by a feedback loop of mass increase. Most ships want to have as little to do with this layer as possible but some vessels are designed for it. The ability to shed ice and negotiate very limited visibility are essential.
 
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High above, beyond even the Upper Reaches is the '''Void'''. It is too high for even airplanes to reach.
 
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Latest revision as of 06:02, 5 April 2015

Portal for the world of Infinite Sky.

General

A Brief History of Infinite Sky
The World of Infinite Sky

Gameplay

Infinite Sky: Units

Infinite Sky: RPG

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