Astronomy things aside, I've primarily been working on doing the surface of the planet from a mapping perspective. However, I would not mind feedback from people who know more about this stuff than I do.
Ultimately my goal with this is to:
- End up with a reasonably topographic map of the world
- Figure out a climate map
- Figure out the various nations and map their current political borders
Which leads to a bunch of other things, but first the map.
I realize there's a "sample size of one" problem with all sorts of "is this plausible/realistic" questions. Ultimately, what I'm interested in is whether or not something is distinctly implausible, so it can be changed.
What I have so far is building up the major plates and their interactions, and a very rough sort-of sketch of landforms. By no means are any of these final coastlines; instead, it's just rough ideas of where land is going to be and roughly what it's shaped like. While I know some topography sorts of things in my mind, I don't have them particularly marked yet.
You can find the whole suite of maps up here. Here is also just the basic equirectangular map with plates numbered:
The subduction zones are between 7 and 8, and then everything running into 10.
While I'm open to any and all feedback (I would love it, in fact), I'm currently most interested in if there's anything glaringly unrealistic or wrong about my plates, their movements/interactions, and the rough landmasses that are resulting.
I'm also looking ahead and thinking about climate; I have ideas of what sorts of climate the various places will have, but I can't help but wonder if I'll end up with any surprises.
Once I more-or-less finalize the plates and general landforms, I'm going to move into actually working on more reasonably mapping the landforms and starting to add topography. But I'd rather make sure I'm not going down a wrong path this early before delving into that more time-consuming matter.