Everything outside the Inisfreean realm (beyond where our Sentry Towers stand watch outside the Perimeter Wall) is considered ‘beyond our orb’; faraway from the sphere that containers our airspace and underground territory. We commonly divide everything beyond that orb into the following categories:
Surface:
- Outside the Orb: the immediate exterior beyond the orb with our Sentry Towers (the local icy wastes of Antarctica)
- Neuschwabenland: extending from Inisfree all the way out to the Antarctic coast where Base 211 and New Berlin are
- The StarCraft Mobile Buildings Proving Grounds: where buildings fly (in an otherwise unused area of Antarctica)
- Archaeological Sites: of ancient ruins across Antarctica which also make up a region beyond, of sorts
- Ley-line Zones: anything within a certain ‘area of effect’ distance from Earth‘s natural energy meridians and powerful ruins
- Four Sentinels Mountain: a ‘guardians & warning’ version of Mt. Rushmore (hundreds of miles from Inisfree)
- Distant Exterior: everything beyond our region of Antarctica (across the Southern Ocean)
- Shadowmassland: a new biome on Earth where shadows are tangible (thousands of miles away)
- Islands: Inisfreean territories (named after the some of the Inisfreeans, these are scattered around the globe)
- The Arena of Doom: another gladiatorial area (nearly ~8,000 miles away)
- The Vatican Arena: the actual one’s ruins right in the heart of Rome (~9,000 miles away)
Below:
- The Polar Holes: one in the north, the other around the South Pole, both leading in to the hollow core; Agharta
- Surface Caves: some are isolated, others winding down and around to connect to other systems
- Sub-glacial River-ways: Amazon River-sized flows within cavernous tunnel-like openings beneath the ice domes
- Global Tunnels Network: made by the giants and angels, among others, these are the ancient subway system
- Drow Caves: elves who migrated underground in Ages past have since converted giant stalactites and stalagmites into homes and even towns
- Agharta: the hollow interior of the Earth, where nations of giants and others remain
Above:
- Cloudmassland: another new biome of Earth where clouds have become land-forms (thousands of miles away, and several miles up)
- Earth’s Atmosphere: belonging not to the humans, but the sylphs and other humanoid beings who have always had it (extending 30 miles up)
- Low Orbit: 100 to 1,240 miles above Earth’s surface
- Mid Orbit: 1,240 to 22,240 miles above Earth’s surface
- High Orbit: more than 22,240 miles above Earth’s surface
- Sol System: the solar system arranged around the Sun; Earth’s main star (and it is a binary-star system, by the way)
- The Orion Arm: the ‘arm’ (curved grouping of solar systems) of the Milky Way galaxy in which the Sun is
- The Milky Way: Earth’s galaxy; hundreds of billions of solar systems orbiting a super-massive black-hole
- The Reverse-sphere Border: a ‘loop’, as it were, where, at the edge of the Universe, different regions reconnect to their polar-opposites in various ways (our Universe being a fractal of fractals, with no true end, and all things interwoven)
- And everything else is the rest of the Megaverse: all the known Universes (or time-streams of our Universe; a.k.a. Creation)
Also, we Inisfreeans think of Space as an/the Abyss (as it goes on forever, after all), thus everything in it is “down” from the Earth, and everything inside the “crust” of the Earth is, at least to us, “up”. Anytime we go beyond our orb more than several thousand miles in just about any direction (other than down through the Earth itself), we think of this as descending into the Abyss beyond our orb/realm. When Inisfree leaves the Earth in 2313 A.D., everything away from Inisfree (outside/beyond our/its orb) will then be considered “down”.
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