====== Midgard ======
Midgard is Earth.  Specifically, it is the Earth as we knew it in the 9th century. The [[Asgardr]] have a colony somewhere in Norway or Denmark.

===== Midgard, Sol System =====

**Atmospheric Composition:** Standard Oxygen-Nitrogen Mix

**Hydrosphere:** 75%

**Lithosphere:** Light Metals predominate

**Gravity:** 1G

**Diameter:** 7,917 miles

**Temperature Extremes:** -30 to 110 degrees

**Tectonic Activity:** 12 lithospheric plates, wide-spread evidence of subduction, extensive orogenic processes.

**Sentient Life Forms:** [[Midgardr]], [[Asgardr]], few [[Jotnar]]

**Population:** Midgardr 310,000, Asgardr 12,500, Jotnar c1000 (?)

**Cultural Basis:** Family-clan-tribal units dominate, Nation-states ruled by force of arms.

 
**Major Religion(s)**Christianity dominates most of European continent near Asgardr Colony.  Islam and Buddhism elsewhere. Spirit-based shamanic traditions over most of the planet. 


**Traded Commodities:** No interplanetary trade.

**Threatening Lifeforms:** Some rare Eitrlings (Trolls, Ogres)

**Notable Physical Phenomena:** Large Moon (Luna)


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