The planet Barsol (pronounced bar-SOLE) is a jungle world that, due to its constant, violent electrical storms, has crashed enough exploration ships and probes that it has been written off as unsuitable for exploration or colonization. Though the occasional vessel might make its way through the world's murderous purple lightning, only the most talented, desperate, or foolhardy pilots will attempt to land here... and there is very little reason to stay.

Beneath Barsol's constant, lightning-infused cloud cover (that encompasses its mountain tops), there is a horizontal slice of clear atmosphere. Beneath that is the mist layer, equally constant across the world. Beneath that, the surface of the world is clear once again.

Although the world is almost entirely (and wisely) uninhabited, there are two settlements of note here: Mok's camp, and the 'homestead' belonging to a man named Joad.

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