Shellworld Vhisola by Teharcohn on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

"Shellworld Vhisola, one of my favored creations, is a massive artificial planet named by my wife. She found the name fitting, borrowing yet again from a series she's fond of. It is a ridiculous world that is at least over 700 times as wide as the average rocky planet, made from the leftovers of the massive star turned black hole that was once Nokama. Given its mass, this puts it in incredibly close proximity to the black hole, yet in spite of its mass, it's not enough to shift the barycenter outside of the artificial structure that now encapsulates the black hole. This shellworld features five distinct layers, each with decreasing land coverage as it goes higher up."

"Its topmost layer is arid and cold, its landscape dotted mostly by snow and sand as it's battered by most of the controlled light. Snow somehow gets whipped around by the wild winds above, able to displace it from the higher latitudes to lower ones. In spite of this, this layer is littered with small towns and cities built around transport hubs and space ports as a portal to the system proper. Beneath it, savanna and grasslands, and the start of ever scenic waterfalls spilling forth from the top layer. In turn, this layer is populated with a lot more towns and cities, mostly focusing on tourisim. Below, more of the same with wide forest grounds" Beneath that, the second-most bottom layer, is populated by jungle and moss. With land area significantly higher, this leads to mroe water being able to pool, leading to a boom in fishing towns. The bottom most layer is sparsely populated by plants. Instead, fungi dominate this layer amidst its damp and cold air. Fishing and tourist towns are surprisingly prevalent with the bioluminiscent fungi I've seeded the area with. Atop that, major storage and archiving facilities exist here, such as injection sites for long term gas storage, and the start of the massive spire-nozzle that ejects polar gas borne as a result of momentum conservation in ramming into the neutron star core. The archiving facilities double as museums deep below, leading to small tourist towns cropping up as well."

"Deep within the world is a neutron star spun obscenely fast for its core, forcibly collapsed with spare material from a once massive star. Surrounding it are leftover gases, zipping around at relativistic speeds, rendering the inside blindingly hot and radiant. The speed by which that star spins even manages to structurally compromise it, leading to surprising cracks and fissures, and occasionally, large, breakaway nucleons that tightly orbit an even denser core, leading to the neutron star ever so often resembling the shellworld it is buried deep within, but with an even thicker atmosphere of radiant plasma."- Terlynn