Port Somme-Were (named by some joker on the first survey ship to make planetfall) is a preserve world, colonized on only one island, keeping the rest in a wildlife trust for future generations. Centuries have passed, and the population has many times its original size, yet even with their teeming millions, they remain in self imposed exile to their small patch of civilization.

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Couldn't find a good tutorial on terrestrial style planets, so I managed to come up with a fairly decent one from scratch - still tweaking but the general idea is to get textured land masses, flat oceans, and no coastal outlines. Tricky, but rewarding.

Next all I gotta do is come up with a better way of painting clouds on a planet. Both handpainting and starting from filters, so far, hasn't been very useful - more tweaking ahead.