Shift (planet)

EDIT: THIS PLAN IS OBSOLETE. LIKE, REALLY OBSOLETE. STILL KEEPING IT BCS IT HAS A BUNCH OF STUFF THO

Shift is a System A planet in the Zenith Galaxy and is the main setting where events take place in Ascendance. It is a few times larger than Earth, making it a massive planet.

(disclaimer: there's a bunch of stuff I got in Wattpad that I need to put here to update the entirety of this page, after that the writing will be smoother. This is kinda old)

## Overview

### Etymology

The planet's vibename was always something like "a place that shifts", "shifting place". With the arrival of scripted language the planet was named Shift ever since the Age of Discovery.

### Description

Shift is a vast planet with many streams of clouds and circle clouds (circle clouds are literal spheres of cloud scattered everywhere and are common). The world is known to have very many microstars all throughout the atmosphere, ranging in size from palm-sized fruits to beach balls. The world has big mountains in it. Its forests are one of its most distinctive features- many trees make the average Shiftion seriously look like a period in an article. Plus, circle leaves (literal spheres of leaf) are plentiful in these trees. It is with the sheer scale of these forests that many cities have been made miles above the branches of their trees. It takes a healthy level of awareness to physically move through the circle leaves, otherwise it will be a bushy struggle and this type of leaf is a popular household item in magic-using civilizations.

Another feature of the planet is floating islands, which are also common. They can range in any size from small to huge and will at times be in some way connected to the ground below regardless of what level of sky they are under.

Its moons are sometimes said to look like eyes, especially when they are shining from certain angles.

moons: nepi (neh-pee) and pea (pay-ah)(it's not "pea" it's "pea")? named for ancient love tale chars? mentioned in at least one pop song?

## World History

Ages are common terms for time periods of Shift's history.

### The Age of Humanity

A long time ago, a few billion years ago, humans existed and evolved from hairy snails. They used their limbs to walk, to scavenge, and to live, unaware of their previous ancestry. Scientific data shows that both ancient human fossils and hairy snail fossils were devoid of magic, like some other animals at the time. Instead, humans were a much more physical species, whose population was reportedly beginning to dwindle by the time the Gods came.

### The God Age

...

... arguably the shortest age ...

### The Tribe Age

As Shiftions adjusted to the environments around them, they began creating the first group markers signifying different tribes, in the form of crystal pieces.

... the second shortest age ...

##### The Rise of Politics

... keywords: relation to government, the Hidebound, the Fencers, the Environmentalists, the Elements of Civilization, a jump increase in Environmentalists with new tech for a while

rumors of little alien people.....?

### The Neoscreen Age

#### Ascendance

The present timeline of Ascendance takes place in this age

... little alien people confirmed (see Zenith Galaxy) ...

megamegalopoli

the Unknown

###### "Descendance"

too much everything

politics expands into AI magic cartoons

actually not part of the Ascendance series but its standalone series despite taking place between the two Ascendance books

## Science and Composition

The planet is at a noticeably tilted angle, which given its structure and stable gravity it normally shouldn't be. Whether this gravitational interference is due to the parallel dimension or not has been up for debate for quite a long time. Any discussion on the matter only leads to theories.