"Cradles dont last forever, there will be a time to leave it."

Overview

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and is one of six astronomical objects known to harbour life. This is enabled by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all of Earth's water is contained in its global ocean, covering 70.8% of Earth's crust. The remaining 29.2% of Earth's crust is land, most of which is located in the form of continental landmasses within Earth's land hemisphere.

Most of Earth's land is at least somewhat humid and covered by vegetation, while large sheets of ice at Earth's polar deserts retain more water than Earth's groundwater, lakes, rivers, and atmospheric water combined. Earth's crust consists of slowly moving tectonic plates, which interact to produce mountain ranges, volcanoes, and earthquakes. Earth has a liquid outer core that generates a magnetosphere capable of deflecting most of the destructive solar winds and cosmic radiation.

Earth is considered the birthplace of humanity, with some of the oldest structures of intelligent design being located on it. It contains the most population out of all planets in the solar system with over 9 Billion living humans on it, with a global peak of 12 Billion humans in the mid 2200s.

Earth is administered by multiple nations and territories, but all of them are represented by the United Nations, alternitavely known as the United Nations of Earth and Luna. Earth is considered a "major power" within solar system politics.

Geography

The planet currently houses seven major landmasses, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and, Antarctica, Each of these continents is incredibly varied with most on Earth living in fertile cresents like the Gangetic belt or the Yangtze-yellow river basin. Separating these continents are five distinct oceans known as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Southern Oceans respectively.

Across these landmasses lie vast deserts, forests and mountain ranges. Thes enviroments however are somewhat damaged due to Anthropocene climate change, even though mostly reversed, it has left many gaps in niches that geneticists and conservationists are still trying to refill.