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Xanadu (Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1816).

Yorbund: Regina/Spinward Marches, 2303, C7C6503-7, --, Ni Fl, G220, Im, M8-VI.

Yorbund is a non-industrial Imperial world located within the Kinorb Cluster in the Regina Subsector of the Spinward Marches. It has a warm climate and a corrosive fluorine atmosphere that has so far limited efforts to explore the planet -- the local atmosphere is insidious, corrosive, and will defeat all personal protective measures within hours. Thus, the surface of Yorbund is largely unexplored, with few individuals venturing far from the starport and associated caverns.

Cloaked in a densely overcast atmosphere, little is known of the surface features of the world. Sporadic low-level flights have revealed a geography of low, rolling hills, punctuated by volcanic vents releasing ash, lava, and sulfurous gases into the air, and carpeted with a wide variety of fungal vegetation in shades of gray.

As experience has shown, Yorbund is subject to seismic tremors, generally of low magnitude, but sometimes quite severe; such tremors have been detected from nearly all points on the world's surface. Finally, the planet is known to be subject to considerable volcanism.

The population is concentrated in a few underground cavern complexes. Yorbund's major resource is fungi grown in the caverns; it provides food, fibers, and fuel, and is exported as pharmaceuticals.

The Kinorb Cluster includes Heya (SM2404), Kinorb (SM2202), Tentus (SM2201), and Yorbund (SM2393).

Zamorna (fictional city in the Kingdom of Angria and the Glass Town Confederacy, a paracosm invented by Charlotte Brontë and her brother Branwell when she was twelve years old, 1828).

Asgard (Marvel Comics).

Briarmains Hall (Shirley, Charlotte Brontë, 1849).

Commune Of France (Kaiserreich).

Donnithorne Estate (Adam Bede, George Eliot, 1859).

Exonbury (The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy, 1887).

Fieldhead Manor (Shirley, Charlotte Brontë, 1849).


* I best stop now, before I get a reputation for playing with myself *

Gandara (Yu Yu Hakusho, Yoshihiro Togashi)

Heya SM2402 B687745-5 -- Ag Ga Ri G734 Im K6-III M3-V

The initial survey of Heya was performed several hundred years ago, and it was deemed devoid of exploitable resources. The planet has been a backwater for many years. Recently, there have been rumors that the initial report was forged, and that extensive and valuable mineral deposits lie hidden in the region known as the Hamantt, a dense jungle area in the center of this world's only continent. Sternmetal sent an undercover survey team into the region several months ago, but their report was never received. Investigation revealed that the team had completed the survey and was returning to the starport via a tourist excursion steamer when the ship was attacked by a band of terrorists.

The wreck of the steamer was never located, and the local government officials are reluctant to speak of it. Apparently, only a cursory investigation was made, as the area was (and still is) infested with guerrillas hostile to the local government. Sternmetal Horizons, LIC, will pay Cr2,000,000 for the recovery of the lost survey report, or Cr100.000 for the location of the wreck of the ship.

The government of Heya is desperate for tourism (virtually its only means of getting off-planet currency) which
has been on the wane since the rebellion in the outback began. They have, therefore, taken steps to conceal the extent of the rebellion and restricted tourists to the relatively safe areas south of the capital.

The Kinorb Cluster includes Heya (SM2402), Kinorb (SM2202), Tentus (SM2201), and Yorbund (SM2303).

(Source: "The Traveller Book", (C) 1982, page 129)

Iconia

Jordan College (from Northern Lights/The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman)

Kiamo Ko Castle (Wicked, Gregory Maguire, 1996).

Lalaland.

Marsh Farm (The Rainbow, DH Lawrence, 1915).