Compendium: Planet Characteristics
From Imperium:Reclaimed
Land Cover
Habitable planets will have one of the following land cover types:
- Barren: predominately land that is too poor to produce much or any vegetation.
- Desert: receives little precipitation which results in harsh conditions that are hostile to plant and animal life. Geography often consists of sand, dunes, and exposed rock.
- Forest: dominated by perennial plants with long trunks supporting branches and foliage.
- Grassland: flowering plants often with a stem that is hollow but does not support foliage. Similar to prairie.
- Ice:extended mass of ice covering the majority of the planet.
- Jungle: overgrown forest co-mingled with tangled vegetation.
- Marsh: land that is saturated with water on a regular or persistent basis and is dominated by plants with long stems and little to no foliage.
- Mountain: distinct rocky landforms that exhibit significant elevation.
- Prairie: typically a landscape where the dominate vegetation is grasses and shrubs with few trees. Similar to grassland.
- Rocky: flat or nearly flat landscape populated with numerous rocks.
- Savanna:
- Swamp:
- Telluric:
- Tundra:
- Wetland:
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