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[Gravity: 0.6G, Pressure: 1.3ATM, Orbit: 0.9AU, Replaces Si Wong desert]

An arid desert planet just inside the habitable zone. Its thick atmosphere and powerful winds have blasted the world’s tropic regions into an inhospitable sea of sand. The only water exists deep underground or on the poles, in the form of sparce ice gysers. The planet’s centralized location in the system and its uninhabitable nature have made it an ideal and safe dumping ground for old ships. This has attracted a small population of nomadic scavengers and traders, who travel the desert on Ekranoplans, picking apart the old ships for parts and selling them at ports near the poles. Legend has it that the ancient spirit Wan Shi Tong built a vast computerized library somewhere on the surface of Si Wong, though its location has since been lost among the myriad wreckage and blowing sand.

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.

Description

[Gravity: 0.6G, Pressure: 1.3ATM, Orbit: 0.9AU, Replaces Si Wong desert]

An arid desert planet just inside the habitable zone. Its thick atmosphere and powerful winds have blasted the world’s tropic regions into an inhospitable sea of sand. The only water exists deep underground or on the poles, in the form of sparce ice gysers. The planet’s centralized location in the system and its uninhabitable nature have made it an ideal and safe dumping ground for old ships. This has attracted a small population of nomadic scavengers and traders, who travel the desert on Ekranoplans, picking apart the old ships for parts and selling them at ports near the poles. Legend has it that the ancient spirit Wan Shi Tong built a vast computerized library somewhere on the surface of Si Wong, though its location has since been lost among the myriad wreckage and blowing sand.

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.