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Desolation

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Genre

Science-Fiction, Cyberpunk, Dystopian

Themes

Propoganda, Hope/Hopelessness, Control

Desolation was once a thriving planet, home to an ever-expanding planet. With three moons, two of stone and one of machine, the planet was just entering its space age when disaster struck.
One of its moons collided with another, sending both wildly off course. The first of these moons crashed into the planet below, splitting a third of the planet off, and disrupting all life across the planet.
The only sapient survivors were those in the satelites and stations orbiting the planet, who quickly had to learn to adjust to their strange new reality. Having lost their home, they were now fully reliant on what few minerals they could scrape from the debris, and the food that they were able to grow aboard their still primitive space stations.

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Inspiration

Worlds

Shattered

Vibrantly fractured lands crossing ink-black space

Shattered is a place of brokenness, as its name says. It is composed of many islands and giant animals floating in space and surrounding a single star-like object, which has three states: light, dark, and rain. On these islands, one finds life, civilized a

Cathedris

Games

Cyberpunk 2077
Rain World

Movies/Television

Gattaca
Doctor Who, series 5, episode 2: The Beast Below

  • Desolation
    Generic article | Apr 7, 2025

    A broken planet and the life that trudges on


Cover image: Mountain At Night Under A Starry Sky by eberhard grossgasteiger

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