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Title: What Is The Rest Of The Planet Like?
Description: Questions on the planet Dragon City ison


Liliwen - September 28, 2006 10:42 PM (GMT)
I know Dragon City is on another planet, due to the fact that they have two moons. But what country or empire is Dragon City in? Did the other empires from the first D-H war just dissolve into the crews? Are there new empires?

Armeggadon - September 29, 2006 12:20 AM (GMT)
They might tell us more about it in the next season.

Liliwen - September 29, 2006 12:47 AM (GMT)
I hope so. it's bugging me that I don't know what's out there... <_<

hyperpsychomaniac - September 29, 2006 02:09 AM (GMT)
Hmm... it would be interesting if we got to see more of... what is thier world even called? I mean, they could always do an ep, or a string of eps outside of Dragon City. Though I think that would mean they have to do up new 'sets'. They might be too lazy to do that. :rolleyes:

The Furox - September 30, 2006 02:58 AM (GMT)
At least we know there are other cities since says Sentrus says there are limited openings in the Academy for racers from Dragon City this year. That pretty much implies there are racers in other cities that want to get into the Academy.

Any yeah, it would be nice to know what their planet is even called. :D

Burnout Beau - September 30, 2006 04:41 AM (GMT)
It would be nice if there's an episode that show other cities besides Dragon City. As for the whole planet scenario, I think Dragon City is considered the capital city, something like Washington DC in the US, I guess. :)

The Furox - September 30, 2006 08:08 AM (GMT)
Dragon City always reminded me more of New York City because of all the tall skyscrapers packed in together so closely. Washington, DC lacks that feel. But maybe that's just because I grew up in New York.

Armeggadon - September 30, 2006 04:21 PM (GMT)
I think the world in DB might just be one huge continent. It would have been pretty hard to have a Dragon-human war overseas.

Kay Yasha - September 30, 2006 11:03 PM (GMT)
This might just be because I like geography, but I've come up with these little bits of info on how the city is put together.

1. Sun City is the highest part of the city, while below that area is bombarded with air and light pollution. This pollution may be an effect of industrial activity on a lower area. And to create the air pollution (smog) on the lower areas, there would have to be some kind of fossil fuel for the people to burn. (I haven't seen any huge solar pannels lieing around yet, and they don't produce smog. Nor have I seen anything that could be a nuclear reactor.)

To get fossil fuels, you need fossilised vegitation. That means at least in one stage of the dragon world, there were trees. There may still be trees, but we haven't seen any in the city.

2. There are huge walls around the city. We haven't seen much of them, but they're always on the horizon. Why would this be? Either there are some huge nasty creatures out there that the people are afraid of getting in, or they are mega sea walls. I would like to think there is some kind of sea, but there is no evidence of this.

3. Has anyone actually seen a clear shot of the sky, with stars and sun without a kind of 'film' over the top distorting everything? I am yet to, so it might be that there is some kind of 'ceiling' attatched to the walls.

This may be because of an unstable climate for the people, or that Dragon city is the least smoggy area. That is a scary thought.

4. The obvious over population has lead me to belive that Dragon City is indeed an island, as the way that everything is crammed into such a small area is typical of people doing what they can with such a small amount of space. Maybe there are other islands around.

5. There are no natural streams or lakes. Does this mean that there was no fresh water in the area? Doubt it. They were probably turned into the huge pipes that seem to be scattered around the place, although most of there have dried up over time. (Poor water management back then)

This leads me to believe that Dragon City would recycle it's water. If there was a dam built somewhere I think Word would have targetted it for one of his uberebil plans already.

6. It's pretty obvious that dragons are carniverous, and I doubt something that weighs in the tons would be satisfied with crow-drags for more than a few hours. Was there some kind of mega fauna for the Dragons to eat before the people came?

Where are they now? Well, that isn't a hard question. They're extinct. The people probably wiped them out when they domesticated Dragons. What are the Dragons eating now? Probably something manufactured with a ton of artificial vitamins for them.
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Well, there's my two cents.

Liliwen - October 1, 2006 12:04 AM (GMT)
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There are huge walls around the city. We haven't seen much of them, but they're always on the horizon. Why would this be? Either there are some huge nasty creatures out there that the people are afraid of getting in, or they are mega sea walls. I would like to think there is some kind of sea, but there is no evidence of this.

Seriously? Woah, I've never noticed that. I like both of your reasons for this. Maybe there is some wild, undomesticated dragons out there, or humongous hydrags. I like the idea of a huge sea.

I wonder if the whole planet is an ocean and there is only one small continent. I mean, back in the day, they scattered the bone marks all over the planet so no one could find them. But suddenly, we see the most dangerous of bonemarks, in and around Dragon City. (Furox, Samourox, Vysox, then all those others in Eye of the Dragon eppie.) Though its probably because we can't have the charactors going a huge, long journey to get one. Otherwise they'd miss all their races. :P

But there has to be some sort of land mass, because in the original DH war, there were empires. (Red, black etc...) They had to have some sort of territory. Or maybe they blew all the land up after the war, and now all of the planet's population lives in DC.

Et<laayz> - October 4, 2006 03:28 AM (GMT)
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1. Sun City is the highest part of the city, while below that area is bombarded with air and light pollution. This pollution may be an effect of industrial activity on a lower area. And to create the air pollution (smog) on the lower areas, there would have to be some kind of fossil fuel for the people to burn. (I haven't seen any huge solar pannels lieing around yet, and they don't produce smog. Nor have I seen anything that could be a nuclear reactor.)


They use geothermal energy, the magma generator plants in shadow town.

The Furox - October 5, 2006 07:43 PM (GMT)
I'm not sure what we see on the horizon are meant to be massive walls or not. With CG animation, the "set" the action takes place in has to end somewhere and to keep costs down they don't want to model and render more than have to. This means the "edge of the world" can't be too far away and the way they've modeled the boundary is probably a cost saving measure. The fact that it sort of resembles a wall is probably just easy for them. Perhaps we'll call it artistic license. :) I think the same applies to the sky overhead. In some shots, particularly night shots, is sort of looks like a dome. But I think it's just the way they choose to model the sky to make things easy.

I tend to think the wasteland that surrounds the city is supposed to go on for quite a ways. Though we've never been giving any reason why the city was built up so high as opposed to sprawling outward.

Their energy sources all seem to be clean and their technology seems to be advanced enough that they can probably operate the factories without much if any pollution. I think what we see is natural clouds and fog. The city is pretty high, so clouds should be forming in and around the various levels.

I'm not sure whether there might be mega fauna around that the dragons originally fed on. They might have just feasted on herds of deer sized creatures (deer-drags perhaps). Wolves, for example, are quite happy eating small animals like mice and rabbits when they're plentiful. They only go after the bigger game when they have to.

As for what dragons are eating now: probably something processed like dog food. We've seen fish bones in the trash, so let's assume fish is in the human diet and that they're probably farm raised fish. So dragon food could consist of fish meal along with a filler like rice and/or corn. Or there could be other reptiles that are raised for meat as well for when people (and dragons) get tired of fish. Tofu may be popular as well. :)

I hope we get to learn about what the rest of the planet looks like at some point and what the other cities are like now that other cities have been alluded to in season 3.

Et<laayz> - October 6, 2006 02:50 AM (GMT)
They have fish, which means there was bodies of water, at one time for them to breed in. :D

The Furox - October 6, 2006 07:02 PM (GMT)
Oh, I'm sure there must be oceans and lakes somewhere. We've seen it raining in the city and moisture gets into the air and condenses into clouds by first evaporating off large bodies of water. The weather would be seriously messed up without oceans on the planet. :)

I get the feeling that Dragon City is supposed to be self contained which is why I mentioned the possibility of farm raised fish on some of the lower levels. The city descriptions on the web site and in the book never mention anything about any kind of transportation system with other cities that would be needed to engage in trade. People and dragons may travel between cities, but there seems to be no system for transporting large quantities of goods. So I think the cities are designed to be self sufficient.


J`Rin Tekaar - October 6, 2006 09:34 PM (GMT)
Interesting points, to be sure; In "All Is Not Lost", we see a river running under the city with a bridge over it at ground level(which collapses after Artha and Beau go over it; In "Misjudged", we see Kawake digging outside the city walls, at a support for Worktown; In "Fanning The Flames", we see the abandoned Scale Citadel on top of a cliffside, with a clouded sky above it(whether cloud or smog is unclear); In "The Return of Drakkus, Parts 1&2", we see the Penn crew under the same cloudy sky, with no large city support columns above their heads, just old ruins around and ending above their heads. Also, the aquatic class dragons of the Dragonfish crew, and their particular jargon suggest bodies of water must exist.
More details probably exist, but I`m short on time to list anymore right now.

BlueBooster - October 6, 2006 09:38 PM (GMT)
Theve gotta show us the dragon fish crew dragons swimming there must be a swimming comp or pool or sea somewhere love to see beua swimming and iam sure he could he can mag all gear colours and levels after all ;3




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