Space: Desert Planets

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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2

Ironically, for all that Mongo is the classic setting for 'sword and planet' stories (except possibly Barsoom), Mongo is actually a relatively believable habitable world. It has multiple biomes, oceans and forests and deserts and jungles, cold polar regions and mountains and valleys, it's a fairly well-realized world.

Well, you know, regardless of that, the point of the joke is still valid: A planet has diverse terrain types (as GURPS calls them), and fiction with "desert planets" and "jungle planets" and "swamp planets" is naive. You might as well have aliens come to Earth and call it "the water planet."