- Temperate rainforest. Tall, slender trees with few branches, gigantic ferns, mist and moss.
- Towering red sand dunes. Incongruous oasis cities built around shafts into ancient ice deposits.
- World-girdling coral reef. Sinkhole-riddled limestone escarpments lifted by tectonic activity.
- Glacier-carved highlands. Cities of ice slowly carried toward their demise in equatorial lakes.
- Stagnant bayou. Flat, windless, permanently overcast. Breeding-ground for fun new plagues.
- Rolling prairie. Caravans of nomads tend to vast herds of beasts. Nobody knows what trees are.
- Volcanic waste. Jet-black jagged lava fields, billowing vents of sulphur, pockets of fertile soil.
- Carnivorous death jungle. Agile predators and parasitic vermin vie with the trees themselves.
- Cloudscape. Floatstone archipelagos, hovering cities, mysterious and uncharted surface.
- Scrapyard. Original surface of planet invisible beneath thousands of years of space junk.
- Megacity. Depopulated by long-forgotten economic collapse, whole areas now abandoned.
- Zero-atmosphere rock. Domed cities on verge of exceeding population capability.
What kind of thing are the inhabitants?
- Human
- Mammal
- Bird
- Reptile
- Fish
- Insect
- Mollusc
- Annelid
- Plant
- Fungus
- Machine
- Mineral
What's the one personality they're allowed to have?
- Honour-bound warrior
- Noble savage
- Conniving politician
- Greedy merchant
- Emotionless savant
- Decadent aristocrat
- Preachy pacifist
- Xenophobic fascist
- Religious fundamentalist
- Eccentric scholar
- Enlightened mystic
- Comic-relief idiot
Who runs the place?
- Corporations
- Crime syndicate
- Military dictator
- Space pope
- Absolute monarch
- Feuding noble houses
- Fairly-elected president
- Council of elders
- Caste of scientists
- Impenetrable bureaucracy
- Hive mind
- Nobody
What's their aesthetic?
- Ancient. Pyramids, weird gods, clay and cuneiform.
- Classical. Marble columns and philosophers in togas.
- Medieval. Castles, peasants, paladins and wizards.
- Renaissance. Conquistadors, courtiers, powdered wigs.
- Orientalist. Monks, mandarins, silk and calligraphy.
- Arabian Nights. Turbans, harems, eunuchs, bedouin.
- Native American. Feathered headgear, buckskins, warpaint.
- Cyberpunk. Neon, black leather, hackers and sunglasses.
- Space Nazi. Uniforms, jackboots, synchronized marches.
- Space Hippie. Wreaths of flowers, nudity, drum circles.
- Space Cowboy. Ten-gallon hats and spitting in the street.
- Space Gangster. Fedoras and inexplicable Brooklyn accents.
What problem are they having that the crew of your starship could solve?
- Civil war
- Alien invasion
- Mysterious plague
- Impeding meteor
- Social unrest
- Collision w/ parallel universe
- Utopia w/ terrible price
- Secretly-alive planet
- Omnipotent mischief-maker
- Time travel
- Hippie love cult
- Murder mystery
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