| ThomasBowman |
This is the Venus of classic pulp fiction, very similar to Castrovel in many respects, it is a jungle/swamp world where it rains an awful lot, it has overcast skies most of the time over most places, the exceptions being very high mountain tops. days are very hot, often in excess of 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Humidity tends to he high, the air is filled with all kinds of insects. This Venus differs from the Venus of our Solar System in several respects, it rotates faster, it has a magnetic field such that magnetic compasses point south, and it rotates backwards such that the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east, it has a large moon, that is actually the planet Mercury, creating tides that are stronger than on Earth. The moonlight filters through the overcast sky, and occasionally this moon is even seen through a break in the sky, the disk of Mercury appears white and featureless as it has nearly 100% cloud cover just like Venus. The Sun appears as a diffuse glow in the sky, and occasionally shines with painful brightness through a break in the clouds, although this rarely happens.
Allosaurus is my first entry of legacy creatures converted for Starfinder using the rules in the core rulebook. I have ten dinosaurs I intend to detail, they will be included in encounter tables. Venus has the following terrain types by the way: Warm Forest, Warm Swamp, fresh water surface, fresh water depths (including rivers, lakes, and streams. Ocean surface, Ocean depths, clear, scrub, barren, hills, mountains. Venus has no deserts, it has glaciers only on its highest mountains near the poles.
This chart of Solar System A shows the stats of Venus and neighboring planets and Earth's Moon.
To summarize, Venus has an axial tilt of 2.6 degrees, thus very little in the way of seasonal variation, it is hard to tell what time of year it is from the surface because one can rarely see a clear sky. Venus' year is nevertheless 322.5 days long, not that it makes much difference. The most important time periods for Venusians is the day and the month. The Venusian year is divided up into ten months each one of roughly 32 days, ad sometimes of 33 days. There is a leap year for every other year.