Planet SwRm: Home of Maroon Island VILLAINS, The SwRm!
Planet SwRm is the nearest planet to Earth with intelligent life, a mere 100 light-years away.
Planet SwRm: Hell on High
It is an awful place to live. Billions of years ago, when it's solar system was still forming, the young planetoid was knocked from it's natural orbit by an apocalyptic collision with another still forming, but smaller planet. The impact obliterated the smaller planet and sent Planet SwRm reeling into its current position creating its hostile ecosystem.
It's a planet of howling extremes, one side permanent day and the other total night. Its "south" half is now locked eastward toward the sun it circles. Its "northern" half is strangled by darkness, constant subfeezing temperatures and relentless storms. The planet now spins perpendicular to the sun along it's east west axis.
Planet SwRm: Endless Night, Endless Day
The Ring of Life is what residents call the central ring of Planet SwRm, the only habitable zone. The Sun can always be seen on the horizon, bathing the Ring in gentle light. Vegetation and drinkable water can be found here and as ice melts from the frozen zone, rivers form all along the Ring, flowing eventually to the edge of the desert.
Towards the Sun lies endless desert. If, somehow, you make it to the Eastern Pole, the closest place to the sun, you will find magma forcing it's way to the surface from the internal magma core. These massive volcanoes riddle the Eastern Pole and blanket it in a shroud of sullen gray clouds of pumice and ash.
Adventurers heading away from the Sun find icy mountains and ice sheets beyond. Similar to the Eastern Pole, the Western Pole is saturated with volcanoes, ice volcanoes. These massive volcanoes spew magma and water which instantly freezes in the harsh conditions of the Pole. These ejections spew condensed water into the atmosphere which comes down as snow in the Frozen Zone and rain in the Ring of Life. The magma comes quickly back down as huge hails of rock which cause the volcanoes to grow.