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| A planet populated with tribals and mountains.<ref name="Jon">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jonathan Craig|Jonathan 'Jon' Craig]]</ref>

| A planet with elite training school for socially gifted students on it.<ref name="Darkeye">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Matis Saro|Matis 'Darkeye' Saro]]</ref>

| A planet with the Novo Mosteiro dos Jerónimos monastery on it, at least 2 continents and alcohol prohibition leading to the rise of bootleggers.<ref name="Oahnip">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Vitor Pinhao|Vitor 'Oahnip' Pinhao]]</ref>

| A trading hub planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#William Gregory-Heap|William Gregory-Heap]]</ref>

| A lucrative spice mining colony.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Benn Tannen|Benn 'Ben' Tannen]]</ref>  

| Planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Yutong Li|Yutong 'Li' Li]]</ref>

| A glitterworld planet. Capital of the Star Empire, which maintains a military called Starforce which trains its cadets at the Star Academy. Fields Manned Fighters launched from Carrier Ships, and has been involved in at least 3 wars against "more advanced aggressor cultures".<ref name="Nerhesi">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sam Wissa|Sam 'Nerhesi' Wissa]]</ref> Relationship with [[#Rogia|Rogia]], another glitterworld which also hosts a "Starforce", is unknown. It is possible that they are part of the same Star Empire.

| A world with towering forests and fern farmers. The seedy underworld of racing, illegal speeder racing, zipping in and out of the massive canopies and gorgeous vistas of the world occurred here.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Russell Shackleford|Russell 'Rusty' Shackleford]]</ref>

| A planet that hosted people awakening from long periods of cryptosleep. Also had an Ordo Historia archive on-world.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/>

| Hosted a military base. Has a military with infantry and spacejets, involved in the [[#Xennoa-Zartza War|Xennoa-Zartza War]] <ref name="Harris">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Kyle Harris|Kyle Harris]]</ref>

| Prestigious academy on a glitterworld <ref name="Doc">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#James Grey|James 'Doc' Grey]]</ref>

| Teaches young cadets proficiency in a range of weapons and survival skills.<ref name="Leystrat">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Bashkire Leystrat|Bashkire Leystrat]]</ref>

| A glitterworld school that offers mathematics and computer programming in its curriculum. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Darrien Maliphalo|Darrien 'Mal' Maliphalo]]</ref>  

| A place with raiders and mudlands. Possibly a planet. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ida Painstingle|Ida 'Ida' Painstingle]]</ref>

| Purchases slaves, including for male prostitution.<ref name="Gnugfur">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Robert Krondorfer|Robert 'Gnugfur' Krondorfer]]</ref>

| <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Chad Walcenville|Chad 'Stonejaw' Walcenville]]</ref>

| A military conflict presumably fought either in, or by a polity from, the [[#Xennoa system|Xennoa system]]. Infantry and spacejets were deployed during it.<ref name="Harris"/>

* '''Urbworlds''' - Super-high density planets dominated by cities. Urbworlds’ population growth outstripped their social and technological development, so they tend to be overcrowded, polluted, violent places. The people here are often callous towards strangers. This is often the outcome for midworlds that see their demographic transition into lower birth reversed by dysgenic reproduction patterns.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Urbworlds can build mechanoids. <ref name="Keuneke">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Markus Keuneke|Markus 'Keuneke' Keuneke]]</ref>Some urbworlds have worldwide cities ruled by corporations. <ref name="Coffey">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Darius Coffey|Darius Coffey]]</ref>Urbworlds can be ancient - some even have greedy nobility in spire palaces while cannibal cults exist in the deepest reaches of the underground hive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Skye Lorne|Skye 'Skye' Lorne]]</ref>

* '''Glitterworlds''' - The most technologically advanced societies that can be led by humans. Swaddled in comforts by the strong arms of technology, glitterworlds are the peak of recognizable human society in terms of art, health, and generous human rights. Common people from these planets often lack grit and are very trusting in people and technology.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Likely synonmous with '''glitter-tech world'''.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Rogia entry</ref> Glitterworlds are mostly free of disease and human suffering, and surgeons employed there mostly perform elaborate and creative cosmetic surgeries, and never have to remove a cancer or a bullet.<ref>Glitterworld surgeon Backstory</ref> While glitterworlds are peaceful places and some units rarely see action, they often remain prepared for war.<ref>Glitterworld Officer Backstory</ref> Despite this tendency towards peace, some glitterworlds do field space navies and engage in active campaigns against enemy cultures.<ref name="Nerhesi"/> On some glitterworlds all menial work was done by robots and people devoted themselves to leisure.<ref>Biosphere Manager Backstory</ref> This extends to some technical fields as well, such as AI handling all the technical aspects of architecture, allowing architects to focus on artistic expression <ref>Architect Backstory</ref> This is not universal however, as others still had humans washing dishes in restaurants<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Stijn Gezink|Stijn 'Stin' Gezink]]</ref> Farms are operated on some glitterworlds, though all but rare exceptions have abandoned traditional farming methods for glitterworld technologies.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Pete Holiday|Pete Holiday]]</ref>Glitterworld police forces were often equipped with [[recon armor]]<ref>[[Recon armor]] description</ref> and [[Recon helmet|helmets]].<ref>[[Recon helmet]] description</ref> Some glitterworlds have mechanoid companions for children,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Erisen Irioth|Erisen 'Erisen' Irioth]]</ref> or as workers.<ref name="Rogia">Ideology Places.xml - Rogia entry</ref> At least some Glitterworlds apparently remain capitalist, as attending their universities can leave a person in enormous debt,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Caitlin Stirr|Caitlin 'Cait' Stirr]]</ref> and corporations exist.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ryan Michael|Ryan 'Legend' Michael]]</ref><ref name="Brazil">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jhet Whistler|Jhet 'Brazil' Whistler]]</ref> At least some Glitterworlds were monarchic, with royal households that would intermarry with the royal families of other planets.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Xiao Li|Xiao 'Ally' Li]]</ref> See also: Sophiamunda and the Empire for information about a specific glitterworld society.

* '''Coreworlds''' - Based on the name, may be the worlds that form the astrographical or political core of human civilization, perhaps including Earth and other early colonies. Alternatively, may be worlds located in the galactic core or some other definition. In the now non-canon [[#RimWorld Universe Quick Primer (Obsolete)|RimWorld Universe Quick Primer]], coreworlds and rimworlds were instead defined in opposition to each other. Coreworlds were those planets in the galactic core whose social and technological development benefited from the clustering of stars, and thus other cultures, in the core. Rimworlds were in turn those planets outside the core and thus further from neighbours.<ref name="RimWorld Universe Quick Primer">[[#RimWorld Universe Quick Primer (Obsolete)|RimWorld Universe Quick Primer]]</ref> However, with the new canon definition for rimworld, it's likely that this definition of core and rimworlds has been become non-canon, probably because the galactic core is significantly beyond the 1200 light year wide canonical expansion of humanity.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Possibly synonymous with planets in the 'core region', which includes at least one glitterworld.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Candice Roughchild|Candice Roughchild]]</ref> Appear to be relatively advanced and stable, with at least midworld level surgical capabilities,<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Alyssa Orchard|Alyssa 'Sparkles' Orchard]]</ref> planetary governments,<ref name="Anarchist">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Mike Mudgett|Mike 'Anarchist' Mudgett]]</ref> and sufficient competent military forces to push out both anarchists<ref name="Anarchist"/> and fairly large mercenary forces.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Aznable Coal|Aznable 'Reikguard' Coal]]</ref>

* '''Toxic worlds''' - Worlds destroyed by pollution, chemical or nuclear warfare, but still inhabitable at a low level, with sufficient technology.<ref name="Cryptosleep Revival Briefing"/> Toxic may have a limited definition, or may only relate to Humans, as some toxic worlds are overgrown with hostile plant life.<ref name="Johs">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Johs Barrowlocht|Johs 'Johs' Barrowlocht]]</ref>

* '''Indworlds''' - Distinct from Industrial worlds, they are worlds undergoing their industrial revolution.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Victoria Louene|Victoria 'Vicky' Louene]]</ref>

* '''Industrial worlds''' - Distinct from Indworlds, they are worlds devoted predominantly to industry.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Amelia Flais|Amelia 'Engie' Flais]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sa'Bikk Saleosy|Sa'Bikk 'Sab' Saleosy]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Daniel Mann|Daniel 'Dankman' Mann]]</ref> Some host large factory cities<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Felix von Schild|Felix von Schild]]</ref>

* '''Farming planets''' - Worlds devoted predominantly to farming. Not necessarily technologically backwards, with some using automated machinery that grow and harvest the multitude of crops. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Conlay Shen|Conlay Shen]]</ref> Likely synonymous with '''farm-worlds'''.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Filson entry</ref>  

* '''Prison planets''' - Worlds where convicts are condemned to remove malefactors from society. <ref name="Jay">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jered Martin|Jered 'Jay' Martin]]</ref>

* '''Feudal world''' -  Multi-planet feudal empires besides the [[Empire]] exist. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Frank Laquinto|Frank 'Isimiel' Laquinto]]</ref>

* '''Trash planets''' - Dumping grounds for surrounding glitterworlds <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Xandarian Stalzer|Xandarian 'Xandy' Stalzer]]</ref>

* '''Iceworld''' - Apparently self-descriptive. Plants are rare. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Slivaki Warts|Slivaki 'Sliverwar' Warts]]</ref>

* '''Dino-worlds''' - Apparently self-descriptive - worlds inhabited by dinosaurs and other megafauna, likely resurrected through genetic engineering. Mentioned species of a single example dino-world include: ankylosaurs, blue mammoths, and novoraptors.<ref name="Zoutera">Ideology Places.xml - Zoutera entry</ref>

* '''War-worlds''' - Worlds stuck in an endless cycle of war. These planets are typically over polluted due to constant usage of bombs and chemical weapons.<ref>Ideology Places.xml - Kemia entry</ref>

* Steamworlds and Midworlds aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Charles Zillioner|Charles 'Charlzie' Zillioner]]</ref>

* Industrial planets and midworlds ''may'' not necessarily be mutually exclusive. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Lancelot Hale|Lancelot 'Lance' Hale]]</ref>

* '''Space marines''' - A role filled by human warriors. Some serve on the navy ships of space-faring empires, where they punch into enemy starships, gun down the crew, and capture the ship intact.<ref>Space marine Backstory</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nico Storch|Nico Storch]]</ref> Others serve in the security forces of off-planet corporations, defending ships against pirates and engaging in private space warfare contracts.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Roland Kleist|Roland 'Roland' Kleist]]</ref> One organisation of space marines was the "Interplanetary Marines" which fought on behalf of a particular planet.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Trevor Cobb|Trevor 'Hunter' Cobb]]</ref> Colony contact expeditionary forces employ space marine medics.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ryan Torrijos|Ryan 'Noob' Torrijos]]</ref> [[Marine armor]]<ref>[[Marine armor]] description</ref> and [[marine helmet|helmets]]<ref>[[Marine helmet]] description</ref> were often used by rapid-incursion space marines. [[Go-juice]] was developed as a combat drug for space marines during the early days of interplanetary warfare.<ref>[[Go-juice]] description</ref>

* '''Navy pathfinders''' -  A group of military explorers dedicated to charting pathways through deep space and on remote planets.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nicklaus Blackthorn|Nicklaus 'Shadow' Blackthorn]]</ref>

* '''Mechanoids''' - Some militaries deploy combat mechanoids in their militaries <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dennis McCarthy|Dennis 'Mac' McCarthy]]</ref><ref name="Keuneke"/>

* '''Interplanetary super-destroyer''' - Such as the HMS Thunder-Child of the Royal Fleet <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jake Maddams|Jake 'Table' Maddams]]</ref>

* '''Starfighters''' - Combat spacecraft and are flown by starfighter pilots for militaries.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Sjoerd Lukas|Sjoerd 'Bowman' Lukas]]</ref> See also '''manned fighters'''.  

* '''Spaceyacht''' - A human-piloted pleasure craft and transport for the well-to-do, such as wealthy businessmen and politicians <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Owen Clarke|Owen 'Cali' Clarke]]</ref>

* '''Space cruiser''' - A manned space-capable ship of some kind.<ref name="Jay"/>

* '''Consularship''' - Such as the St. Anthem. Carried glitterworld diplomats on diplomatic tasks. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Florian Haas|Florian 'Skater' Haas]]</ref>

* '''Substance F''' - A drug. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Peter Marshall|Peter 'Pete' Marshall]]</ref>

* '''Autocycle''' - A midworld vehicle. <ref name="Ironhead">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Robert Seafield|Robert 'Ironhead' Seafield]]</ref>

* '''Vidtube''' - A popular video sharing service. Hosted everything from video game reviews to pasta cooking guides. Some had over a million followers on the service. People on the service were called Vidtuber Stars or Vidtubers <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Remy Young|Remy Young]]</ref>

* '''Holography''' - Including interactive holography which gives form to artificial intelligences to allow them to interact <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dave Mark|Dave 'Fox' Mark]]</ref>

* '''VR''' - Accesses to a virtual gaming universe by spinal plug. Can be addictive. Unplugging during play can create a mental backlash and merge the real and virtual identities. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Douglas Black|Douglas 'Doug' Black]]</ref> Can also be used to raise children or teach professions<ref name="Brazil"/>

* '''Vatgrown''' - Genetically modified living creatures, including humans, grown in a lab and usually designed and programmed for a specific task. Capable of being produced on some urbworlds. Examples of roles for which vatgrown humans were produced include Soldiers,<ref>Vatgrown Soldier Backstory</ref> Combat Medics <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Edward Toon|Edward Toon]]</ref>, Assassins <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Vaska Neemor|Vaska 'Vas' Neemor]]</ref>, Slavegirls (which are illegal at least in some places) <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Emily Young|Emily 'Emmie' Young]]</ref>, and even Scientists with minds perfectly tuned for physics and chemistry. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nicole Squid|Nicole 'Nicole' Squid]]</ref> The same process, along with genetic modification, was also used in the weaponization of the original Sorne Geneline into the current [[Insectoid]] species.<ref name="Insectoid Faction Description"/>  

* '''Perfect mates''' - Genetically-engineered on glitterworlds, are fertile and capable of producing children.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Chaz Serir|Chaz 'Chaz' Serir]]</ref> Their relation to vatgrown and highmates is currently unknown, however a currently unused backstory in the gamefiles states they, or at least some, are vatgrown in hyper-expensive clinics to serve the tastes of a specific client. They are engineered, raised and trained as a perfect pleasure-giving mate, with ''"learned skills that would baffle even the most seductive baseline human lovers"''. The canonicity of these statements are also currently unknown.

* '''G-nome Project''' - A Genetic engineering project that created humans implanted at birth with encyclopedic knowledge of all aspects of xenobiology. Presumably on a Glitterworld. Relation to vatgrown unknown. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Joshua Nelson|Joshua 'Gizmo' Nelson]]</ref>

* '''Lab-grown children''' - An altruistic but failed attempt to create a new class of human. Method and relation to similar concepts unknown. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Lukas Dietrich|Lukas Dietrich]]</ref>

* '''Clone-farming''' - Clone children are seeded into nutrient-rich womb-vats and rapidly grown in a simmed (i.e. VR) universe. They're harvested later, sometimes for food, sometimes for organs, sometimes for workers - but they're always disposable. Harvesting the products of clone farms is mostly done by the clones themselves - particularly to those whose sims tended towards the social. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Dan Griliopoulos|Dan 'Grill' Griliopoulos]]</ref>

* '''Glitterpedia''' - A glitterworld technology through which glitterpedia recorders document information.<ref name="Codex">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Ang Gao|Ang 'Codex' Gao]]</ref> Likely analogous to Wikipedia.

* '''Eltex''' - A material, threads of which can be embedded in [[prestige armor|specialized armor]] or [[eltex|clothing]] to enhance the wearer's psychic sensitivity.<ref>[[Prestige armor]] descriptions</ref> It is technically indeterminate whether it is responsible for improving neural heat dissipation, however as eltex is the only noted difference between prestige armors and their standard variants it is likely the case. It is possible that eltex is simply one of, or the most significant of, the "special psychic focusing materials" mentioned in the description of eltex clothing.<ref>[[Eltex]] item descriptions</ref>

 

 

 

 

* '''Furred xenohumans''' - Exist on a cold rimworld of at least industrial level.<ref name="Svejgaard">Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Benjamin Svejgaard|Benjamin 'Svejgaard' Svejgaard]]</ref> May refer to [[#Yttakin|yttakin]] or some other furred xenotype.

* '''Opticows''' - Present on Midworlds in agricultural settings. <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Jacqueline Richter|Jacqueline 'Jackalope' Richter]]</ref> In the now non-canon [[#Longsleep Revival Briefing|Longsleep Revival Briefing]], the prefix [[#The biology of plants and animals|Opti-]] indicated animals with enhanced but still sub-human intelligence from breeding, evolution, and genetic engineering including recombination with human DNA. They also included physical changes to the animal's body to better exploit the new intelligence. Optianimals can usually use tools, form long-term goals and organize into primitive social groups, but can’t speak more than a few words, read, or think abstractly. Optidogs, optipigs, optiwhales, and optimonkeys were given as examples.<ref name="Longsleep Revival Briefing"/> This likely implies that that portion of the lore remains canon, and that opticows are modified, semi-intelligent [[cow]]s.

* '''Pygmy wombat''' - A furry animal.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Riesling Bacchus|Riesling Bacchus]]</ref>

* '''Ankylosaurs''' - Megafauna found on Dino-worlds, likely reproductions of the dinosaurs of the same name resurrected through genetic engineering.<ref name="Zoutera"/>

* '''Blue mammoths''' - Megafauna found on Dino-worlds, likely reproductions of the ancient elephantid of the same name resurrected through genetic engineering, and possibly with modifications similar to the [[muffalo]] to make them blue. Mammoth burial grounds are mentioned as existing on the world of Zoutera, however whether this is natural behavior like the mythical "elephant's graveyard" or something created by the human inhabitants of that world is unclear.<ref name="Zoutera"/>

* '''Novoraptors'''- Megafauna found on Dino-worlds, likely reproductions or variants of the dromaeosaurids and similar dinosaurs commonly given the '-raptor' suffix resurrected through genetic engineering. Given the name, it is possible that they are not pure reproductions of previously existing raptor species, but rather some variant or combination thereof.<ref name="Zoutera"/>

* '''Thorny Devil''' - A reptile discovered by Venus 'Unay' David. Relation to the real species ''moloch horridus'', also called the thorny devil, is unknown, but presumably they are distinct.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Venus David|Venus 'Unay' David]]</ref>

* Mechanoid wars are common <ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Nathaniel Hicklin|Nathaniel Hicklin]] and others</ref>

* Religions are still present and practiced.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Samuel Chua|Samuel 'Chewy' Chua]]</ref><ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Levin Lossfelt|Levin 'Levin' Lossfelt]]</ref><ref name="Oahnip"/> See also [[Empire#Lore|Empire]] for their specific religion.  

* All-Might - the name of a superhero, presumably fictional.<ref>Backstory of [[List of Player-created Pawns#Brazos Wheeler|Brazos 'Braz' Wheeler]]</ref> ''Out of Universe: This is likely a reference to the character of the same name in the "My Hero Academia" multimedia franchise.''

Today, mankind is smeared across a region of the galaxy about 1,200 light years wide. Our best models indicate that there is a general trend towards greater population density towards the center of this region, where the stars were colonized earlier. At the edge of known space lie the rimworlds, drifting alone with few inhabited neighbors, mostly unvisited.

Because this happens regularly, people in the RimWorld universe come from extremely varied technology levels. Some are stone-age tribespeople. Some are medieval farmers and lords. Some are industrial-era politicians and bankers and riflemen. Some are information-age programmers or astronauts. And some are from eras beyond our own.