I posted the idea for my entire new world building idea on here the other day, but it was probably a bit much to handle in one go. So I'm just posting the bits I'd most like feedback on.
I've got huge numbers of worlds, all with perfectly fine gravity but small, with about the surface area of Ireland, give or take. At the start, only eighteen are inhabited, by the Founding Races of the Founding Peoples (Humans, Merfolk, Orcs, Elves, Dwarves, Kobolds; divided into at least four ethnic groups/cultures each), although many others are rumoured to have tribal-level peoples, of a wide variety of types. In between the little worlds is pure breathable air, in zero gravity, through which people can travel if they get out of the atmosphere, which takes no more than flying a few miles above the ground. This is how birds, dragons, insects and some plants make the migration regularly. There are also portals between worlds, usually not worlds in proximity, but these are often unreliable. Stable portals are very rare. Each world has two or three portals, sometimes more, sometimes less, and only one in ten or so words will have a stable portal to another world.
My question is, to what extent will the portals likely be used over flight between worlds? Also, to what extent would you have thought settlement of the weightless regions occur? In the colder regions further from the star, there are lumps of rock floating in the zero gravity, akin to asteroids but with plant growths. Obviously there's no real right answer, but just looking for a little feedback.
I've got huge numbers of worlds, all with perfectly fine gravity but small, with about the surface area of Ireland, give or take. At the start, only eighteen are inhabited, by the Founding Races of the Founding Peoples (Humans, Merfolk, Orcs, Elves, Dwarves, Kobolds; divided into at least four ethnic groups/cultures each), although many others are rumoured to have tribal-level peoples, of a wide variety of types. In between the little worlds is pure breathable air, in zero gravity, through which people can travel if they get out of the atmosphere, which takes no more than flying a few miles above the ground. This is how birds, dragons, insects and some plants make the migration regularly. There are also portals between worlds, usually not worlds in proximity, but these are often unreliable. Stable portals are very rare. Each world has two or three portals, sometimes more, sometimes less, and only one in ten or so words will have a stable portal to another world.
My question is, to what extent will the portals likely be used over flight between worlds? Also, to what extent would you have thought settlement of the weightless regions occur? In the colder regions further from the star, there are lumps of rock floating in the zero gravity, akin to asteroids but with plant growths. Obviously there's no real right answer, but just looking for a little feedback.