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DainPig
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Sep 2 2015, 7:14pm
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Is possible to a planet to have only one ecosystem?
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like Star Wars or Star Trek and others sci fi stories, where we always see the "Ice Planet, Vulcan Planet, Desert Planet!" Yes, there's planets like Mars, which is a large desert, but Mars have no oxygen. I speaking of a Tatooine, or Hoth (both from Star Wars) planets with only one ecosystem and which have oxygen.
Thanks for replying, the case is that I want to writte a sci fi story, and need of help. AND sorry for the bad english 
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Beorn's Bees
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Sep 2 2015, 7:47pm
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I assume that if the planet were small enough there might only be one ecosystem.
But to be honest I have no serious idea that's just a guess.
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Otaku-sempai
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Sep 2 2015, 7:51pm
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I can imagine a water planet with almost no landmasses. But I would expect more variety, generally, on any other life-bearing world.
Like Arrakis (Dune), Tatooine could have water locked under its surface.
"At the end of the journey, all men think that their youth was Arcadia..." - Phantom F. Harlock
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Susan
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Sep 2 2015, 8:13pm
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But maybe an ice planet with subsurface water? Something like Titan? And you don't necessarily need oxygen, depending on what you want to live there.
Also if you're writing a sci fi story, you might want to check this article about inventing fictional worlds out; I found it pretty useful. It's called: "The Worst Blunders People Make in Inventing Fictional Alien Worlds," (not the most encouraging title, I know  ).
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Elizabeth
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Sep 2 2015, 9:40pm
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The more we've learned about the planets and their satellites in our solar system the more we see that even relatively small bodies have differing regions, for example Jupiter's satellite Europa have geographic differences that probably constitute "weather". Mars, which might have been an inspiration for the desert planet Dune, has polar ice caps, so the high latitudes would be quite different from the equatorial regions and areas in between.
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Brethil
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Sep 2 2015, 9:41pm
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In a purely natural story it may be hard to get right...
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but then, if you are crafting a world with a deity or supernatural structure, that opens up possibilities.
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CuriousG
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Sep 3 2015, 12:15am
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Thanks for that article--good read.
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Googling around led me to a similar one, which I don't dispute, except for a laugh: 7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding
How do they eat? What do they eat? Who takes away the garbage? Who deals with their bodily wastes? How do they get around? What do the majority of people do to survive? You're not just constructing a society, you're creating an economy. Tolkien is notorious for not explaining away about how his economies work in Middle-earth, especially the Elves', but that doesn't stop us from feeling like it's an almost-real place. An author can't explain *everything* or a reader would feel no urge to wonder about the place.
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Darkstone
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Sep 3 2015, 4:12pm
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Ataahua
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Sep 3 2015, 7:27pm
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that what you don't explain (because it's a given, and therefore unnoticed, by that society) is just as important as what you put time into detailing. The 'not explained' has to be done deliberately, though.
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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Susan
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Sep 3 2015, 8:15pm
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That was an interesting article as well...
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though like you said, an author can't explain *everything*. I guess as long as there's enough relevant and believable information for the reader to take the actual narrative seriously, the writer has done a pretty decent job of worldbuilding. Plus, readers do love to imagine and rationalize.
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Otaku-sempai
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Sep 3 2015, 8:28pm
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In fiction, rules were made to be broken.
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A skilled writer can break the rules of world-building if one knows what he/she is doing. A highly-advanced civilization might be able to artificially control an entire planet's weather and ecosystem. It might even be able to artificially construct whole worlds. We ourselves in the far future might have spawned a decedent civilization that crafts space ships that look outwardly like steam locomotives (thanks to both Michael Moorcock and Leiji Matsumoto!).
"At the end of the journey, all men think that their youth was Arcadia..." - Phantom F. Harlock
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Sep 12 2015, 3:57pm
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bigger on the inside...
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To the sea, to the sea, the white gulls are crying, the wind is blowing and the white foam is flying...
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