Classification Types

Worlds are chiefly classified by four criteria:  habitability and composition, mana level position relative to the system's star or stars, and size, although a variety of other classifications are also often used.

Mana levels are discussed in the article, 'Magic'.  Position relative to the star is usually designated by affixing a number in 'Roman Numerals' after the system name, such as 'Anatares IV'.  While most inhabited worlds have a more unique name, those who live outside the system normally use the standard naming designation.  Size is usually designated either by circumference at the equator or by radius.

Habitability and Composition are more complex.  The system is roughly as follows:

• A:  These are tiny worlds, from the size of an asteroid to a small moon.  Usually, they lack any atmosphere.
• B: Barren.  A world that could be terraformed, but is currently not appropriate for settlement.
• D:  Dangerous.  A world that could be settled, but possesses some major problem, such as being overrun with energy-sucking monsters.
• F:  Fae.  A world controlled by the faeries, and often dangerous for non-Faeries to visit.
• G:  Gas Giant.  A world that is largely semi-coherent gas, usually around some sort of frozen gas core.
• H:  Hot.  These worlds are too close to their star for settlement.
• I:  Ice.  These worlds are frozen over.
• L:  Legendary.  A world, usually high-mana, which seems to be based on some set of legends of one of the sentient races.  These high mana worlds are usually left alone, as anyone who enters them tends to be assimilated into the story in progress.  Their origins are unknown.
• M:  A world that is suitable for settlement immediately, although it may contain some dangers.
• O:  A world already occupied by sentient non-faerie life.
• S:  Sentient.  These worlds are alive and self-willed in some manner, ranging from being a Great Old One to magic, to strangely evolved telepathically group minds.
• T:  Toxic.  This includes both worlds with a composition largely poisonous to most sentient species, and also the subclass, T-2, of worlds whose mana level is so high that it tends to destroy visitors within a few minutes or days.
• W:  A water world, with land surface of 10% or less.

• Sol 1--Mercury.  Type FH
• Sol 2--Venus.  Type F
• Sol 3--Earth.  Type MO
• Sol 3/1--The Moon.  Type MO (Due to heavy terraforming in the early Crystal Millenium)
• Sol 4--Mars.  Type MO
• Sol 5--Jupiter.  Type G
• Sol 6--Saturn.  Type G
• Sol 7--Uranus.  Type G.
• Sol 8--Neptune.  Type G.
• Sol 9--Pluto.  Type IO