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**HOW OFTEN DO PEOPLE BATHE IN YOUR WORLD**

The Kerbals (little green men from the game KSP whose rights I do not own*) on the planet Mesbin (the planet mod which i made and own the rights to) live in caves and lava tubes underground since there is no atmosphere at the surface.

Water is not impossible to find, but does rely on technology to make use of, there's no natural potable water within the planet. As a redult, water is conserved heavily. But hygeine is also important, otherwise the Kerbals would start killing each other or themselves over the stench, which naturally wouldn't help the issue. (And diseases would spread)

Mesbinites therefore mostly bathed with damp and soapy washcloths that are boiled or microwaved to disinfect. Graywater is dumped into the graywater plumbing network (or in some places, the normal sewage plumbing network) and freshened up for others to use. There is a specific daily water ration per person, but this can be increased if it's needed (staying hydrated when ill, when pregnant, or if you get REALLY dirty and need a bath.) Overuse or misuse of this can get your extension privelages revoked, or cause you to receive a fine or jail time. In Mesomesbin, the nation with the space program, the society is fairly socialist, so you only need to pay for water extensions, not the default water ration.

Other more unfettered capitalist states require that citizens pay for any water they consume. (Causing lots of bad hygeine because poor people will only pay for enough water to survive on) Some have exceptions but only for disabled people. Some places provide as much water as is necessary for free, especially if they are cities that have a big water industry, or if they're very socialist.

Very wealthy mesbinites will take baths or even showers, though the latter re-use greywater internally so they're not too wasteful. A bath is viewed as a luxury, a shower is viewed by the non-rich as decadent.

Some places may have common baths, which exist far more to fullfil the luxury of bathing rather than the hygeine part, as it's expected that you arrive and leave more or less clean. They're effectively public hot tubs, and one of the more successful businesses operating these spaces is the Dawton Kerman Family.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/bu69xf/a_few_questions_about_the_history_of_your_world/

Preface/disclaimer: My work, *Whirligig World*, is a derivative work of the game Kerbal Space Program--it's a planet mod with a very fleshed out lore. As a result, while I own the rights to the setting as it's all original work, I don't own the rights to the playable species of little green men. (If I ever decide to do anything for profit with WW I'd probably just turn the kerbals into humans and rewrite some of the lore) So there's a distinction in Whirligig World between canon about the planet and my personal headcanon about the stock game.

**How far does history go?** Canon dates back around a thousand years, though it's ambiguous for now whether that's Kerbin (stock game's homeworld) years, Mesbin years, or Earth years (the latter of which is around 3 times longer than the former two), and it's not precise anyway. This is how far back well-recorded history on Mesbin goes, but there is some that is known about history on Kerbin. And headcanonically, that dates back around 6,000 Earth years until writing was unvented, and you're in prehistory.

**Creation myth?** While the voyage of the colonists that traveled to Mesbin has been warped and mythified over the centuries in different ways by different cultures, there's no creation myth per se. My headcanon also presumes a secular origin of the Kerbol solar system, planet Kerbin, and the Kerbal species, which is analogous to humans and the earth.

**In-universe lore or out-of-universe lore?** Both, but mostly out-of-universe. In-game, I have changed some of the descriptions of the rocket parts to have little tidbits of Mesbin-specific lore, and the science definitions you read when you perform science experiments are in-universe. But a huge amount of the worldbuilding and lore is either not presentable in-game or I simply haven't gotten around to presenting in-game, so I write about it on the internet.

**Dividing line or eras?** In-game, the clock starts on the Vernal Equinox (or the equivalent of it) with year zero being the year that the Space Program starts. Canonically, the calendars start on the Vernal Equinox, the year that the *U.S.C. Manifest Destiny* crashed into Mesbin and the colony was set up. Thus there's B.M.D. (Before Manifest Destiny) and A.M.D. (After Manifest Destiny). In stock KSP canon, the clock also starts the day that the space program starts. In my headcanon there would be some other calendar with an older dividing date, but I haven't fleshed it out.

**Organization?** I basically just type out my lore on Discord, Reddit, Pastebin, or the mod's GitHub wiki.

It was at this point that I realized the OP was less intended as a worldbuilding prompt and more of a request for advice. So that was pointless. :v

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**What's the weather like on your world?**

I suppose this is a bit of a stretch but... sometimes it "rains" rocks.

The planet [Mesbin](http://imgur.com/gallery/sPPxRD3) is a supermassive rapidly rotating world (rotating once every 28 minutes) with an oblate shape and no atmosphere. Most people live underground in terraformed caves and lava tubes. The world was colonized by the U.S.C. Manifest Destiny when it crashed into Mesbin's equatorial bulge on its way to the Earthlike habitable moon it was aiming for. But there is increasingly more and more surface structures over time, and the equator with its moderate gravity is prime real estate.

Structures have had to deal with hypervelocity micrometeoroid impacts on the surface for a lomg time. Even small specks of dust can do a lot of damage if they hit the ground in excess of 30 km/s, which is by no means unheard of here. This is solved by heavily armoring anything that needs to stay on the surface for large periods of time.

Whipple shields which turn meteoroids into a spray of dust (or at these speeds, let's be honest, probably vapor or plasma) which hits a backplate are standard, and thick layers of foam and ceramics absorb worse impacts.

But sometimes armor can only go so far. Mesbin has a diffuse ring of small bits of debris called "moonlets", ranging from large stones to house-sized boulders. They are mostly in stable orbits, but sometimes a chunk will enter an unstable resonance with one of the moons and it will be turned into a "mountainscraper", or worse, actually hit the planet. Now these collisions are actually fairly slow, as the rotation speed of the planet is not much lower than orbital speed. Usually you won't get anything faster than 3 km/s. They're also a lot less common than micrometeorites. Usually they'll just hit random ground and make a modest crater. But sometimes large chunks hit surface structures, causing SERIOUS damage.

Once, a falling moonlet did not QUITE hit the ground, but instead hit the side of a tall hotel, completelly destroying the building. The resulting spray of debris had its orbit lowered to be in a near 1:1 resonance with Mesbin's rotation, and after more rocks fell from the sky in the same location over the next few fortnights, there was a single large moonlet remaining in an unstable 1:1 orbit for several months. Its orbit was tracked, and its final destination was tracked to a mountain that was being extensively mined. The collision would collapse the mineshafts, but the company refused to lose time evacuating the site, so they lost the lives of most of their workers instead.

Mesbin also experiences modest solar weather. ~~Solar~~ Kaywell wind and other forms of ionizing radiation are monitored constantly by astronomers so that surface crews can find shelter during a flare. Mesbin's powerful magnetic field protects against the majority of solar wind and Kaywell is a calmer star than the Sun, so this is not as important as it would be for, say, the Moon.

^(Mesbin is the homeworld for my Kerbal Space Program planet mod "Whirligig World.")