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[Gravity: 0.53G, Pressure: 0.6ATM, Orbit: 15AU, Replaces South Pole]

A small, icy planet orbiting within the L5 Lagrange point of the sun/black hole pair. Its surface is significantly colder than comfortable, and its human inhabitants must wear thick insulated environmental suits when outside their habitats. Sparse native bacteria and animal life exist in the oceans beneath the planet’s ice layer, getting nourishment from geothermal vents. This life has given the atmosphere a small oxygen percentage, similar to high mountain regions of Earth, though far colder. The planet is inhabited very sparingly; most of the human population is concentrated in small fishing villages near the equator, where the ice is periodically thin enough to break through. The fire nation carried off most of the world’s resident waterbenders during the war, so fusion power has become impossible to use; their electrical power is now extremely limited, and comes from wind or tidal motion.

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: 0.53G, Pressure: 0.6ATM, Orbit: 15AU, Replaces South Pole]

A small, icy planet orbiting within the L5 Lagrange point of the sun/black hole pair. Its surface is significantly colder than comfortable, and its human inhabitants must wear thick insulated environmental suits when outside their habitats. Sparse native bacteria and animal life exist in the oceans beneath the planet’s ice layer, getting nourishment from geothermal vents. This life has given the atmosphere a small oxygen percentage, similar to high mountain regions of Earth, though far colder. The planet is inhabited very sparingly; most of the human population is concentrated in small fishing villages near the equator, where the ice is periodically thin enough to break through. The fire nation carried off most of the world’s resident waterbenders during the war, so fusion power has become impossible to use; their electrical power is now extremely limited, and comes from wind or tidal motion.

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.