Dragon Ball Earth
It's like our own reality, with a few little changes. Like giant wishing dragons, flying carpets, hover cars and animal people.
Unlike the real earth, the DBZ earth is composed of a single large continent, 2 smaller ones and 2 island clusters.
The only major landmass on DragonBall Z Earth is shaped roughly like the Eurasian continent of this Earth, with a somewhat reduced India, no Korea and no Japan. A long curved section extends from the western coast (about where France would be), and loops south- wards, creating a rather large, enclosed sea. To the north and south are two subcontinents about the size of Australia; the northern one, Yunzabit, is a frigid waste with high buttes and deep valleys; the southern subcontinent is tropical and a bit like South America in foliage and climate (from this, one can extrapolate that most of the DragonBall Z world's land masses lie above the equator).
The vast majority of DragonBall Z Earth is dense forests, grassy plains and rocky, desolate areas similar to the American southwest, all with a temperate to chilly climate. Most of the interior is sparsely inhabited, if at all.
Planet Namek
Distant home of the green-skinned, snail/reptilian Nammccians, Planet Namek is a warm, pastoral waterworld dotted with hundreds of islands, jutting grass-topped buttes and small continents covered in odd puffball-shaped trees. The planet is pleasant and food plentiful, and whatever dangerous creatures present prefer to stay well away from civilization (although there are some hints that there are some nasty critters indeed on peaceful Namek).
Namek's inhabitants do not, as a rule, build cities; with low birth rate a long lives, they prefer to cluster in small villages of a few hundred people. With its low, rounded shapes and bubble windows, Nammeccian architecture is quite distinctive and somewhat reminiscent of natural forms like abalone and snail shells (perfectly fitting for a race with obvious mulluscan ancestry). Villages are managed by an Elder, chosen for wisdom rather then charisma or power. Village Elders gather occasionally to discuss regional problems, but there is no centralized government. Each Namek is born with a purpose or place in life that they try their best to fulfill. There are no armies or other large organizations-each village has a small cadre of warriors who defend their home (and village's single DragonBall) against all aggressors. Although their general technology level is high (starships, for example), the nameks don't seem to use it much; they appear to concentrate mostly on the spiritual aspects of life, not the material.
Planet Vegeta
According to legends (and the tale told to us in the Pendulum Room), Planet Vegeta was originally home to two humanoid species; one technological and peaceful, the other savage and warlike. The Saiyans were the latter group, and over time, exterminated their Truffle neighbors, presumably renaming the high-gravity planet after their leaders, the Vegeta Dynasty. Bloodthirsty warriors, Saiyans are fearless in battle, even before the light of the full moon turns them into giant, energy breathing were-apes. And that's not counting the legendary power of the Super Saiyan who supposedly appears every 1,000 years!
From the records of the Pendulum Room, Planet Vegeta appears to have been much like Earth, with a fairly sophisticated level of technology. Truffle cities covered most of the temperate zone, with the nomadic, Hun-like Saiyans overthrow reduced much of the habitable zone to rubble and wrecked the entire planet, technology and all. This didn't bother the Saiyans much; they simply joined up with Frieza's starfaring marauders and became intergalactic pirates and muscleboys. Most Saiyan tech therefore comes from the Frieza Gang, instead of being homebuilt (the exception is the scouter-obsessed with measuring an opponent's fighting power, The Saiyans developed this themselves).
Planet Arlia
Arlia was a dry, dim world somewhere between the ruins of planet Vegeta and Earth. Its insectile inhabitants had a fairly advanced civilization by the time it appeared in the Sagas, although the rough, rocky terrain and lack of light seemed to indicate that life was harsh even so.
Like Planet Vegeta, Planet Arlia has also been ravaged by constant war, this time between the old ruling family and the new King. War on Arlia must have been pretty awful; its seven-foot tall, grasshopper-like warriors were skilled fighters and backed up fairly high tech weapons (blasters). They had also mastered ki-energy attacks of their own, but they did not even come close to Vegeta and Nappa's attacks.
Vegeta and Nappa stopped briefly on Arlia (as a sort of rest break), and decided to amuse themselves by interfering in the local civil war. It was hardly a good workout; the Saiyans easily overthrew the ruling tyrant, feed the good-guy leader languishing in the dungeo |