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I’m at the bottom of the world. If you want to see the biggest known ocean on
a habitable planet, go to Earth. I know that they seeded human life on some
other planets, so I guess I can’t speak about those, but I’m guessing that
Earth still takes the cake, so to speak. The next best thing, however, is on
Castlebourne. This planet has two oceans, which are man-made. Have you ever
thought about how unusual that word is? My guess is that it’s a holdover from
back in the day when things really were constructed by humans. There I go,
showing my age. A bunch of quincentenarians are rolling their eyes now. “No,
d’uh it’s because we used to have to make everything by hand, you idiot.” Of
course, it would be technically unfeasible to try to accomplish something like
this with manual labor alone. The land was mostly there, but the automators
had to do a lot of digging so the water would be contained to these two spots.
The domes here are much more disproportionate, and do not form hemispheres.
Still, because of how insanely wide they are, they’re much taller. It says
here that they’re 3300 kilometers in diameter and 216 kilometers high at the
zenith. When you’re inside, the holographic projections make it look like
you’re just outside. Really, you cannot tell the difference between the two
environments. If you abducted someone from Earth, transported them here, and
let them wake up on the beach, they would assume they were still on Earth.
Certainly if you took them from, like, the 21st century, where they didn’t
know about alien planets yet. More recent days, who knows? I’m getting off
topic, I know. I’m here to discuss Polar Tropica. This is the southern dome.
It’s more of a cap, really. Someone else in our orientation group called it a
little yarmulke for the world. I had to look that up. It’s a religious thing,
LOL. Just run an image search for that, and you’ll get that he was right,
though. Okay, enough about the shape. Unlike on Earth, the oceans here are
perfectly tailored, and maintained. The temperature always sits between 21 and
27 degrees. It depends on what time of day it is, and precisely
where you are. If you recall, it’s a giant environment, so they don’t
have to keep it at the same temperature everywhere at once. They control the
humidity too, but I don’t have those numbers. Basically, it’s perfect. It’s
always comfortable. Some of the water is deep, but not as deep as a natural
ocean would be. You can stand in water that’s miles and miles away from any
shore in some places, which is just so amazing. Name something you can do in a
real ocean, you can do it here. You can even fish, though you’ll be catching
animatronic sea creatures, so just remember that, you violent psycho. Anyway,
there’s a strip of land that runs the entire perimeter of this thing, and
random islands dotting the water. Some of them even float, which you can’t get
on Earth either. There’s a giant island in the very center that serves as a
sort of hub. There are residential spaces there, and I think that a lot of
people are making it their permanent homes. Who could be unhappy in a place
like this? To me, if the only habitable region on Castlebourne was Polar
Tropica, it would be worth it. But I guess you’ll have to see for yourself...
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