Planet

Planets or Terrain in Spore play a very crucial part in the heart of the game, as they are where all major activity happens, outside of the Space stage's interstellar exploration. Initially, they will be made up of any combination of Terrain features, such as mountains, oceans, lakes, plains, flora, etc, as well as other creatures. Once the Tribal stage has been reached, Buildings will become a common sight on all planets. As the player continues, Cities and other Creature-made features will become more and more common on planets with sapient life.

Types
There are an extremely large number of planets in Spore. Gas giants are very possible, and even habitable moons orbiting Gas Giants have been displayed. Rings around Gas giants are very common. Rings around Rocky Planets or Habitable Planets may also sometimes appear. The size of Rocky Planets, however, has remained small in comparison to Gas Giants, but that is natural. Newly added in Spore Patch 1.02 is the cube Planet.


 * Computer-Generated Planets
 * all planets in Spore are made by hand.


 * That is to say, they are created by algorithms. The Spore Development Team is including a wide variety of algorithms, making anything from Hyper-unrealistic worlds to very whimsical planets.  water seen from E3 2006 have ranged in colour from a Pearlescent yellow to a Ferric blue, hinting at the variety.  The terrain can also be painted from a very cute green, to a really dark red.

There are some exceptions to this, most notably the Sol system.


 * Player-Created Planets


 * At E3 2006, Will Wright announced that players would be able to customize planets, making modifications to the terrain, the colours of the land and water, the climate, and so on. Presumably these types of planets would then be uploaded to the server and spread through the content pollination system similar to the method by which creatures, buildings and flora are distributed. However in the released game players can't even modify existing planets. A planet editor is yet to be seen in Spore. However, Spore Galactic Adventures has a planet that could be shared with other planets. Planets can be slightly edited by using planet sculpting tools or painting tools.

Forms
Barren planets/dead planets
 * Ice planet - A cold planet with an extreme amount of Ice on its surface.
 * Lava planet - A hot planet where Lava and Fiery Clouds have formed on its surface.
 * Rocky planet - A dry planet with nothing but rock and dirt on its surface.
 * Water planet - A humid planet with an extreme amount of water on the surface.
 * Flurry planet - A cold planet with no Ice on the surface, which is primarily rock.
 * Arid planet - A hot planet with no Liquid Water, and sand covering the surface.
 * Boiling planet - A planet that still has Liquid Water, but which is starting to Boil.
 * Melting planet - A planet that has ice on its surface, but which has patches of Liquid Water.
 * Gas giant - A planet that cannot be colonized, but that usually has moons.

Habitable planets
 * Homeworld - The planet in which creature has developed in the previous stages.
 * Category-1 planet - A planet with a little life, acceptable atmosphere and temperature.
 * Category-2 planet - A planet with a good amount of life, good atmosphere and temperature.
 * Category-3 planet - A planet flourishing with life, has perfect atmosphere and perfect temperature.

Other Types
 * Cube planet - A cube-shaped planet added in Patch 1.02
 * Storybook planets - A specially sculpted planets, ten are scattered around the Galaxy.
 * Crater planet - A strange planet with an astonishing amount of Craters.
 * Ruined Planet - Found on the player's second mission, a few piles of rubble found on the surface.
 * Saved Game - Another Spore Game of the player's.
 * Unnatural planets - Strange rare planets with impossible geology such as super mountains, etc.
 * Moons, asteroids and comets - Other planetary bodies in most star systems.
 * Destroyed planets - These planets have been destroyed by a Planet Buster. They eventually fade away.

Planet Dangers
All Uninhabitable planets have two dangers. Lava Planets have Fire Storms and Fire Jets. Arid Planets have Fire Jets and Meteor Showers. Rocky Planets have Rock Geysers and Meteor Showers. Flurry Planets have Ice Geysers and Meteor Showers. Ice Planets have Ice Geysers and Electric Storms. Water Planets have Electric Storms and Whirlwinds. Boiling Planets have Electric Storms and Fire Jets. Occasionally a Homeworld will have an Epic Creature on the surface. Homeworlds often have volcanoes that can cause minor damage to the ship. Be warned that the damage from planets affect a percentage of your hp not a certain amount.

Orbits
Every planet has a fixed orbit, and the shorter the distance between the planet and the star, the smaller the orbit will be (and hence the less time required for the planet to go around the star once). There are four types of orbits in the game, classified based on the distance of the planet from the star: orange (shortest distance), green, turquoise, and blue (furthest). The color of the 'trails' (tractors) indicate which type of orbit the planet is in.

The following will list the types of orbits (note that orbits are listed by the distance from the host star).

Orange orbits are the second most common orbits in the galaxy. Planets with the orange orbit are closest to the star, and have the shortest year. These planets are always hot and tend to be boiling or lava planets. Mostly, they have too much atmosphere. Their atmosphere color is usually orange, red or pink; the ground is usually red or pink; and the seas are red.
 * Orange

Green orbits are third most common orbits in galaxy. Planets in green orbits are more easily terraformed (and hence are easier to colonize). In addition, these planets may already have plants, creatures, tribes, civilizations or empires.
 * Green

Turquoise orbits are very rare. These orbits are somewhere between the green and blue orbits, and planets with these orbits exhibit some of the characteristics of planets in both blue and green orbits. The color of their atmospheres, seas, and land vary greatly.
 * Turquoise

Blue orbits are most common orbits in galaxy. Because planets in blue orbits are far away from the star, they are always cold and are normally covered in ice. They have ice geysers and asteroids falling onto the ground. These planets tend to have gray-coloured land and have very little atmosphere.
 * Blue

Gas giant orbits
Gas giants normally have blue orbits. Sometimes they have green orbits, and are rarely found in orange orbits, depending largely on the planet's distance from it's parent star. Gas giants can rarely be found in turquoise orbits.

Moon orbits
Moons have always same type of orbit as the planet around which they orbit. Their orbit tractors are always shorter and more transparent than planet's.

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