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==History== | ==History== | ||
"They visited the Landing park, where the Seersa had first touched down: there were crete pawprints set on the lawn where the first few individuals had walked, and a reproduction of the shuttle they'd used to reach the surface from the great sleeper ships that had carried the Pelted away in the Exodus from Earth."<ref name="mt-26">Mindtouch, Chapter 26</ref> | |||
==Geography== | ==Geography== | ||
Revision as of 21:24, 10 October 2021
The homeworld of the Seersa. Welcome station is known as Double Welcome. Tethered around the most distant planet (a rock-like thing like Pluto).
Vital Statistics (At a Glance)
Pronounced sheer SAHN ah. Possessive is Seersanan. Demonym is Seersanan.
- Major Populations: Seersa
- Type: Core homeworld
- Population: [an approximate number]
- Gravity: average
- Native Language: Universal, Seersan
- Current Allegiances: Alliance member
Calendar
340 days to a year, 85 days to a season, 21 days per month, 2 weeks to a month, 4 months per season, with a "leap week" of 4 days in mid-summer.
Weeks are ten days long (giving 34 weeks a year); the first five days are known as "up-week" and the last five as "down-week."
History
"They visited the Landing park, where the Seersa had first touched down: there were crete pawprints set on the lawn where the first few individuals had walked, and a reproduction of the shuttle they'd used to reach the surface from the great sleeper ships that had carried the Pelted away in the Exodus from Earth."[1]
Geography
Has a 'western' continent, which presumes there's an eastern one.[1] Has a longer day than Selnor, but "not by much." [2]
Major Cities
- Kavakell (Capital)
- Seersana University
- Performing Arts Center (which has a smaller theater known as the Stringleigh Center); this downtown concert hall is a "sweep of silver walls and vast black windows" on the top floor of one of the capital's tallest buildings. "The glass is so clear there seems no interruption between plush wine-colored carpet and the night sky." This center is home to the Kavakell Symphony Orchestra. [1]
- "esteemed shopping district," with shingled rooves, pastel paint jobs, and surrounded in flowering trees that are artificially maintained in winter [3]
- many restaurants: "tiny family restaurants maintained by generations of Seersa", "fancy restaurants with transparent floors set over fish ponds" [1]
- historic districts, with museums[1]
- Landing Park: where the Seersa first touched down, with crete pawprints on the lawn where the first individuals had walked, and a reproduction of the shuttle used to reach the surface from the sleeper ships that carried the Pelted away from the Exodus[1]
Public Transportation
People movers as well as Pad stations[1]
Major Landmarks
- Spindle Tree National Park (on the other side of the world from the university)[4]
- "amazing parks", including one on the western continent where the wind shaped rocks into natural flutes [1]