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[Gravity: 0.97G, Pressure: 0.2ATM, Orbit: 3.6AU, Replaces Ba Sing Se]

A cold and barren Mars-like planet, just outside the habitable zone. The thin, unbreathable air and high radiation on the surface of Ba Sing Se encouraged its early settlers to build their habitats underground. As the centuries wore on, they kept venturing and building further and further down, until an area hundreds of kilometers in diameter had been all-but hollowed out, and built into a thriving metropolis, kept running by plentiful nuclear fission power, and illuminated by greenish uranium glass. Ba Sing Se is the manufacturing hub for most complex machinery and spacecraft in the system, and their export helps compensate for the economic difficulty of underground farming and dense population. Several kilometers of stone crust protect the city from above, and railguns have been built into defensive positions in the surrounding mountains and waste pillars. The planet is thus a highly defensible position, and has stood indestructible, unbreachable, unconquered, for over a thousand years. There is no war, and will never be war, within the fortress world of Ba Sing Se.

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Questions you may have:
What am I looking at here?
This is the world of Avatar the Last Airbender, except instead of being set in an industrial-revolution-era earth-like Asiatic fantasy world, I have removed all those industrial-revolution-era earth-like aciatic fantasy bits, and have reinterpreted all the show’s characters, events, and locations into the far depths of
O U T E R S P A C E
Why would you do this?
I recently watched ATLA for the first time, and fell in love with the characters and the world, and wanted to do something special for it. However, the fandom is about a billion years old and a billion fans strong, so any fanart has likely already been done, and the show’s writing and plot are so solid that fanfiction could do more disservice than good, so I figured hey, I’m a huge sci-fi nerd, why don’t I just give it the ol’ Treasure Planet treatment?
This could be an awesome writing prompt for other people.
Why should I care?
Momo as a cute space alien
Azula in power armor
Learn cool science concepts such as ‘entomophagous’, ‘ekranoplan’, ‘tidal locking’, ‘V.A.S.I.M.R.’, and ‘Lagrange Points’
Ponder interesting tidbits about how a hard magic system could influence technological options among spacefaring nations
Sokka’s first girlfriend turned into a black hole.
Isn’t it supposed to be ‘Airbender’? Why ‘Voidbender’?
This is the only large change I had to make to the magic system. Airbender powers would be unable to embody the philosophies of freedom and fun in space. Voidbending takes its place; it relates less to a physical material, and more closely to the manipulation of gravity and spacetime, which fits better thematically and is necessary to the plot, as will be explained in the voidbender link.
Could you elaborate in excruciating detail?
Yes.
Can you draw [insert favorite character/scene/ship here] in this AU’s style?
Yes, I’ll draw whatever the heck. Name it.
Did you change the ‘spirits’ to make them aliens or something’?
Nah, I kept the spirits the same.

Description

[Gravity: 0.97G, Pressure: 0.2ATM, Orbit: 3.6AU, Replaces Ba Sing Se]

A cold and barren Mars-like planet, just outside the habitable zone. The thin, unbreathable air and high radiation on the surface of Ba Sing Se encouraged its early settlers to build their habitats underground. As the centuries wore on, they kept venturing and building further and further down, until an area hundreds of kilometers in diameter had been all-but hollowed out, and built into a thriving metropolis, kept running by plentiful nuclear fission power, and illuminated by greenish uranium glass. Ba Sing Se is the manufacturing hub for most complex machinery and spacecraft in the system, and their export helps compensate for the economic difficulty of underground farming and dense population. Several kilometers of stone crust protect the city from above, and railguns have been built into defensive positions in the surrounding mountains and waste pillars. The planet is thus a highly defensible position, and has stood indestructible, unbreachable, unconquered, for over a thousand years. There is no war, and will never be war, within the fortress world of Ba Sing Se.

LINK TO FULL GALLERY

Questions you may have:
What am I looking at here?
This is the world of Avatar the Last Airbender, except instead of being set in an industrial-revolution-era earth-like Asiatic fantasy world, I have removed all those industrial-revolution-era earth-like aciatic fantasy bits, and have reinterpreted all the show’s characters, events, and locations into the far depths of
O U T E R S P A C E
Why would you do this?
I recently watched ATLA for the first time, and fell in love with the characters and the world, and wanted to do something special for it. However, the fandom is about a billion years old and a billion fans strong, so any fanart has likely already been done, and the show’s writing and plot are so solid that fanfiction could do more disservice than good, so I figured hey, I’m a huge sci-fi nerd, why don’t I just give it the ol’ Treasure Planet treatment?
This could be an awesome writing prompt for other people.
Why should I care?
Momo as a cute space alien
Azula in power armor
Learn cool science concepts such as ‘entomophagous’, ‘ekranoplan’, ‘tidal locking’, ‘V.A.S.I.M.R.’, and ‘Lagrange Points’
Ponder interesting tidbits about how a hard magic system could influence technological options among spacefaring nations
Sokka’s first girlfriend turned into a black hole.
Isn’t it supposed to be ‘Airbender’? Why ‘Voidbender’?
This is the only large change I had to make to the magic system. Airbender powers would be unable to embody the philosophies of freedom and fun in space. Voidbending takes its place; it relates less to a physical material, and more closely to the manipulation of gravity and spacetime, which fits better thematically and is necessary to the plot, as will be explained in the voidbender link.
Could you elaborate in excruciating detail?
Yes.
Can you draw [insert favorite character/scene/ship here] in this AU’s style?
Yes, I’ll draw whatever the heck. Name it.
Did you change the ‘spirits’ to make them aliens or something’?
Nah, I kept the spirits the same.