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Initial Steps to a Challenge

A Writing Challenge: What I have come up with for a base to a New Character and a New World:

a new character
Gender: female
Race/Species: non-human race--From semi-tropical zone.
Age: young adult: 27 years to 37 years (Equivalence to human Life span: Human=85; nonhuman=105 years)
Hair: fine; medium length; light brown to dishwater blond with purplish/pinkish highlights
Eyes: off-white;bluish tinted eyeball w/ dark blue w/ darkpurple streaked iris @ purple black pupil/round (Billy Joel eyes)
Nose: medium length; slightly flat around nostrils/Additional olfactory organs appear as a set of six small holes on cheeks and a prehensile feather like protuberance on top of the head.
Skin: olive pigmentation
Stature: Height: 5'8"
Weight: 125#
Energy: Physical: Quick Athletic/Agile/Limber/Acrobatic
Mental: Methodic/Purposeful/Thoughtful
Emotional: Aura equivalent to Grounded/Calm/Kind
Name(s): Home Language: [low grunt-medium gurgle-shrill whistle-low chirp- short cackle]
Human interpretation: Quiet Brook Laughing Sparrow

Political/Spiritual Base:



a new world

Name: Indigenous Language: [long gurgle-moderate whistle-grunt] rough translation-the World-but actually equates a deeper emotional/spiritual attachment

Galactic Identification: deltaM?????? Subsector /Sector /Quadrant

Human Name: Spensor (named by initial mapping expedition exploring this section of space; Spensor Drummond was the Third in command)


Life:
Microbes found in soils, water, air: large vector of bacteria and viruses (most not dangerous to human life because they are genetically too different; others have evolved enough that immunizations are required to prevent major epidemics among indigenous inhabitants and visiting humans.)

Botany: earth equivalents from single celled plants all the way up to complex flowering plants


Zoology: earth equivalents from single celled to mammals
For example:
Rodentia: Spensor Wharf Rat--not quite a rat at all; smaller than Earth equivalent w/ appearance more of a cross between a squirrel and a vole--but fills same niche as an Earth Wharf Rat/genetic code--more complicated than found in earth flora and fauna

Geology: a Planet similar to Earth 0.9 gravity @ sea level with similar Earth-like Climate Zones/1.2x Earth dia./Less dense than Earth consists of more silicates and slightly less percentage of iron and other heavier metals/Plate techtonics/Molten Core (volcanic activity)/Tilted axis 10 degrees (seasons)/32 hour Rotation/ 2 moons (tidal pulls)/White Dwarf Sun (1.1xSol)/68% water/32% land masses with 4 major continents/3rd planet from the sun but orbiting at a distance between the mean orbital distance of Earth and Mars.



Characterization


369 words (all words)

This is the base for the character and world--a start to it anyway--now to let it soak into my being and fester into a story I will add to physical descriptions both to character and world as the days evolve.