Atlantis (Planet)

Atlantis from orbit currently.

**Atlantis** is a temperate Me-Class world and a multi-themed
**Pleasure Planet** located in the **Thulcandran Federation**.

## History

Atlantis, despite its advanced age of over twelve billion
years, has never evolved advanced life. The only major life discovered on
Atlantis was a widespread grasslike plants spread all over the planet as well
as various microbial life and small harmless birdlike creatures who pollinated
the grass.

Atlantis’ lack of advanced lifeforms is due to it having
been terraformed by the First Civilization during its Second Era governing of
the Milky Way Galaxy  over 1 million years ago.

Atlantis formed from the planetary disc surrounding its
parent star early in the history of the Milky Way Galaxy . The planet never naturally
evolved any life as the presence of two stars was enough to keep the planet
bombarded early enough in the planet’s history that no life ever formed. A
major strike did create two of the moons in orbit as well as the planet’s ring
system.

Around 100 million years ago, the First Civilization discovered
Atlantis and constructed many different underground facilities during the
planet’s apparent terraforming. It’s unclear if the First Civilization
abandoned complete terraforming or if they did indeed terraform it as they
wanted. Many archaeologists believe the former to be the case as the time of
terraforming appears to coincide with the time period in which the Second Era
First Civilization was beginning to collapse. The planet remained fallow until
the Thulcandran Federation discovered the planet in 3987 CE.

Upon the discovery of underground facilities who’s designs
matched those of other First Civilization artifacts, Atlantis became one of the
most heavily visited planets in the Federation by archaeologists all around the
local group, all heavily studying the artifacts.

After many hundreds of years of study in which all available
information was taken from the artifacts themselves, the planet was largely
abandoned by the archaeologists. In 4871, twenty-seven years after the planet
was abandoned, tours of the artifacts and installations began, being run by the
Starzone Entertainment Group, one of the major corporations founded in the Federation.
The planet began undergoing more terraforming procedures to lengthen the day,
scrub the excess atmospheric pressure etc.

During the last two hundred years of the terraforming
process, Starzone began constructing massive themed parks all around the planet,
such as Treasure Islands, Desert Adventure, Realm of Wonders, Jungle Discovery,
Night of Horror, Star World and many more parks themed around various human
genres. Most of these parks were, in actuality, guest participatory in which
guests are given outfits to match the themes of the adventure they are
participating in. Some of these adventures can last for days or even weeks and
as such some are more heavily regulated and restricted.

Atlantis quickly became a popular hotspot of tourism from
all around the Thulcandran Federation and some surrounding civilizations. With
the discovery of more aliens, Starzone constructed theme parks based off of various
alien adventures, the most famous being the Conyth Chronicles, adventures made
based off of ancient Conyth myths and fairy tales.

The park was not without controversy, however. Starzone came under fire after the opening of Atlantis for their creation of Red Light districts in every theme parks. The park executives defended their choice in a press conference by saying, "Atlantis is a place ''For All Ages', and we believe that entertainment shouldn't just be for children, but for adults as well. We will of course ensure that no underage citizens are allowed into these sections of the park." This statement caused a mass boycott of the park by many religious groups, however it didn't slow business. In fact, business increased as many traveled to enjoy the new districts.

During the Collective-Federation War, the planet was shut
down due to an attack which destroyed many of the now ancient but still beloved
parks. Fortunately re-construction only took twenty years.

In 101056 CE, Atlantis and its entire star system were
completely encompassed in a large Dyson Sphere and became part of the Fleet of
Systems. During the 23,424 years of transit, the planet remained open and was a
large source of entertainment for the other member worlds. Upon arriving in the
Via Aurum Atlantis was placed close to the Maleldil Nebula and became the center
entertainment throughout the Federation.

## Culture

Being a world entirely devoted to pleasure and relaxation,
the cultures in all parks, which are complete mini-nations in and of
themselves, are all related to the them in which the performers live. For
example, Treasure Islands are a series of islands in an inland sea where the
performers take on the personas of ancient Earth representations of pirates as
seen in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Desert Adventure takes place
in the Deep Desert north of the equator and all who live there have taken up
fictitious desert personas.

Atlantis is one of the wealthiest planets in the Federation,
bringing in trillions of F-Units yearly from customers as well as contracts
with major corporations to sell their merchandise.

## Life

Most life on Atlantis is transplanted terrestrial stock bred
to be able to interact with the already local lifeforms. The local life, mostly
grass and small insects, are harmless to humans and most other alien species alike.