PLANETARY GEOGRAPHY AND ATMOSPHERE

Pandaemonium is about half the size of Earth. Dotting its surface in a seemingly semi-random plan are 31 domes, placed where they are because useful mineral deposits were detected in those locations. A number of the domes have been damaged to the point that they are uninhabitable, or were abandoned before construction was completed, so the number of structures out in the Ether are more but are not inhabited.

The average dome size is about that of France. The diameter is about 20 days journey by foreman. A dome will have a number of large size cities (think Paris), about 3. 6 Mid size cities. And about 30 villages, and 30 hamlets, smaller even than a village. Studded throughout are the castle/fortress domains of the Knights and warlords.

Among the domes are massive microwave energy collectors receiving beamed solar energy from the Dyson sphere around Luciver, and attached to these automated complexes are battery banks. These also exist in various states of disrepair and habitation, with some being constantly tended to and some being long forgotten or too dangerous to reach, and a bunch in between. 1/3 are in domes, the rest are not.

Outside the domes is a barren, rocky terrain devoid of vegetation and choked by a swirling, electric fog known as the Ether. Predatory creatures are said to exist out there, and occasionally a gypsy caravan gets lost and its people killed. Travel outside the domes functions much like it would in a desert environment, with domes and energy collectors functioning like oases. Aero engineers are used to provide spheroid shields of force filled with breathable oxygen and keep out the Ether, and caravans travel inside these.

For poorer travelers, breathing assitance of a mechanical variety is required. There are kludged apparatuses that can be used, and many even poorer people use a variety of insect parasite that attaches to the face and eats the exhaled CO2 and provides oxygen.