Szorik
Szorik is the name given to the Szassar homeworld by its dominant sapient species. It is a class-M planet orbiting at 0.92 Astronomical Units from its star. Its orbit is moderately elliptical, and its seasons - such as it experiences such phenomena - are drawn more from proximity to its sun than orientation of a specific section of the planet towards the star, as its axis of rotation is very flat, a minimal 0.25 degrees. The star around which Szorik orbits is known as Szor by the Szassar. The "-ik" morpheme in the Szassar language means "child of". There are five other planets in the system. For more information on these, see the article on the Szor system.
The core of Szorik is a super-heated pressurised ball of Silicon and Titanium. The silicon acts as a transition layer between Titanium and the planet's more silicaceous crust.
Pangaea
Szorik's main landmass is a pangaea (also referred to as Szorik) that covers roughly forty-five percent of the planet. The west coast slants north-west in the Northern Steppes Zone, a result of erosion from the strong cyclic and current that pulls fast moving arctic water down as it cools at the pole, and has undermined the continental plate that the Northern Steppes zone sits on. As undermined sections of the continent have collapsed into the waters, the rubble has been carried south and deposited on the west coast of the Northern Temperate zone, which bulges outwards into the ocean. Following the current south, the warmer waters of the central Tropical Zone are buffered by the bluff body formed by the metamorphic deposits mentioned above. The current swings out to sea, and the coastal waters on the west coast of the tropics are clear and still. The tropics of the pangaea are shaped more like an elbow compared with the shoulder and bicep of the two previously discussed coastlines. As the western current pushes up against volcanic islands in the tropics, it pushes back to shore in the Southern Temperate Zone.Regions
...Northern Steppes Zone
...Hrusk
...Vlask
...Telsk
...Morsk
...Northern Temperate Zone
...Fillsaa
...Zemsaa
...Stromsaa
...Kelsaa
...Tropical Zone
...Nukanaa
...Yiarknaa
...Helvaa
...Southern Temperate Zone
...Gerelsaa
...Nemsaa
...Ziernsaa
...Southern Peninsular Zone
...Telib-Tooran
...Telib-Wallan
...Telib-Kuran
...Telib-Rassan
...Telib-Yioran
...Maps
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Szorik - globe
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Szorik - Rectangular Projection
Type
Planet
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