GoKrida Diary

GoKrida Diary of XiaoMu, Founder, TAG; Editor-in-Chief, The Descryer. Alignment: EARTH Yellow Grotto Land-- My Own Planet!
Date	Incidents	Additional Notes

January 7, 2006 Day of Dragon	It has been a while since the last entry...a long while. Much has happened to the GK world: new alliances formed, old ones re-grouped, war raged, Archies came to Chaos and spoke, new system requirements and changes implemented (much to the dismay of many GoKridans), skilled lost and gained, friends likewise, and life marches on in this hidden world of ours. I have published a few issues of The Descryer, a GK Occasional Newspaper, with the help of some other souls. The archived issues are stored in The Descryer Vault. These issues mostly reported the Wars on RCE and YM, both my home planets. TAG has now four worlds, with the addition of Blue Moon World and the claiming of Green Hero. Three of them have weir gates and are inter-connected. I hope very soon all of our activities and worlds will be truly public knowledge. Currently, we have about 30 members and growing. I lost a bunch of stats because of a fairly idiotic death ... stepping on an aggro hamlet set by a friend for security reasons without checking my path first. Now am in the process of painstakingly regain some of the stats. But I also had the good fortune to be helping with TransProp's Blue Sun project and as a result, I learned TD, Scrying, Scanning, and other fun and useful skills. I imagine that my telepathy level will grow steadily. Here's the list of my stats: Talented Angelic Magic Telepathy Proficient Elemental Magic Experienced Conjuration Knowledge Accomplished Construction Spatial Magic Effective Journey Capable War I am working on an Alchemy Capable at this moment, back to my first Escape World, Yellow Grotto Land -- after traveling between BMW, GH, LRC, and Blue Sun.	My forum, The GK Public Library is also thriving. All is well, in a world of unsettling warfare and betrayal.
August 5, 2005 Day of Dream	Again, 10 days packed with lots of actions. TAG made a world... Red Catastrophe Earth (known as Legendary Red Catastrophe - LRC) to correspond with Silverius' Annals of such a world. Several TAG members went and developed the beginning history of LRC. Everyone there got the advantage of accelarated time. I went and built an Earth Temple and promptly triggered back to Yellow Grotto, my home, sweet home. In the past month, because of TAG and other connections, I have made friends with many other Major Souls. I hope these connetions will last a long long time.
July 25, 2005 Day of Night	Much has happened in the last two weeks. First, I started/founded a new organization called TAG - Third Age GoKrida. Here's a link to the "proposal" on the Forum. Some young souls have been invited to join, and others have found their way to us. It is quite exciting. We are embarking on making some really exciting projects. I am not revealing it here since it is a public diary and until TAG is fully established and becomes strong, I will keep our projects to ourselves. Then, I was talked into (JWR... you have to answer for this somehow .. in the future...) ASCENDING (300 SEs!!!) in hope of being Resurrected as CHAOS. What a series of disappointment that was!!! It took us (Blacksparrow and I) a WHOLE week of non-successful attempts to eventually.... FAIL!!! I "crawled" back to Yellow Moon and became Earth again. sigh The good thing is that I definitelly increased my knowledge of the High, Middle, and Lower Heavens... understanding how the RIM works (somewhat) and know the GREYNESS very well, too. So.. the theories are many as to why the Res. sessions were not successful. I'll have to experiment some OTHER scenarios in the future to test out these theories! I'll be staying on Yellow Moon for a little while... Oh.. I also got to Level 10 because of the experience in Heavens?! And, I have 40 Stats. Yeah.	Click to see Yellow Grotto Land's recent Map view.
July 9th, 2005	At 792 meters, the hill turned red... .so this makes the turning point between 738 and 792. I'll experiment one more time when I get the chance... And, it looks like Red Hills can hold up to 131 creatures but after that there is no growth.
July 8, 2005 Day of Youth	Info: Created mountain to raise the elevation of a green hill to 890 meters. The green hill became a red hill. At 738 meters, the hill remains green. So.. the turning point is between 738 and 890. The exact cut-off height is not yet clear. When settled on a red hill, the population growth can be more than 100. The maximum number remains to be discovered. At 100, the growth becomes 3 per day. Yellow Grotto is even more formed now: with 2 Sky plains, green and red hills, two Earth Temples, a Laboratory, 2 potato farms, a wheat farm, and a Stone Quarry. Many roads have been constructed. Rabek has been most generous in his help. I also took advantage of accelarated time recently at the newly formed world called Black Wolf ZD-4. There, I made green hills and White Mountains, and thus raised my elemental magic stats: currently, it is at level 6. It's been quite satisfying.
June 19, 2005 Day 6, First Cycle: TWIN	A few things: 1. I finally figured out how DAYS/TIME is recorded in GK. This GK Temporal Guide is extremely helpful. (Although because of a recent "shifts," it is no longer accurate.. I have now created a chart of my own based on this Guide, and have been monitoring it to make sure that the Time Governor and the chart matches. added, jul. 25) So, I will be able to tell what a village/world will be called and plan naming them better in the future. 2. Brought a few players here and comissioned them to make Yellow Grotto nicer. In exchange, they have a safe place to gain experience (XP). Flawblure built me a LAB (pretty pretty), Rabek is building up SKY Land, and Desecrator is both forming mountains and teaching me a few much desired knowledges. It feels wonderful to have company. 3. Learned Semiotics. Will go on learning telepathic skills, too. 4. I have started to compile a list of TOP RANKED players and their skill levels in the FORUMS. When it's more complete, I will post it here. 5. I have Spatial 3 now, from Gathering a bunch of times to bring people here. Here's the map as of today: Clicking on it will give you a larger view...
June 12, 2005	I can't believe it's been so long since the last entry. Ok. Here are some progress. I am still on Yellow Grotto Land. I've had a couple of souls visiting in the past month and learned, finally, TRIGGER. Not that I am going to trigger off somewhere else in the foreseeable future. I am quite attached to this escape world. Right now, I am hosting a METAL soul who will build me a LAB, teach me a couple of knowledges, create a desert and a tungsten garden somewhere. Very nice, indeed. I also have learned that my Earth people can grow in number if they are settled on the right height of hills... So.. right now, I have settled eight hamlets and that means I gain at least 8, and at most 16 minor souls a day, plus the one that grows on ME. The total count of minor souls I have now is 462 (with the 65 working on my village.) When I first made this world, I only had 134 souls on me. (I did summon a few, but not to this extend.) So, that's quite cool. Right now I have two Earth Temples, three potato farms, one Sky (Wheat Grain) Farm, a Village (Black Emporer), and a couple of tall hills. I'll create some mountains also. Ah.. there is also a stone quarry that I made. Recent status gains are: Construction (4) and Elemental (5) and Journey (2). None of these has made a tremendous amount of difference in reducing time needed for tasks. Oh.. well. I will KEEP up working and gaining stats. Here are the maps of YGL/Village of Black Emperor:
April 27, 2005	Finally, Construction 3! Many tasks now take one hour shorter to complete: Build: Farm 22 (23) (24) hours Metal Gate 51 (54) (56) hours Earth Gate 51 (54) (56) hours Stone Quarry 27 (28) (29) hours Village 12 (13) hours Earth Temple 45 (48) (50) hours Raze 10 (11) hours Between spaces: Path 10 (11) hours Road 23 (24) (25) hours Fence 11 (12) hours Dig 70 (72) minutes Wall 19 (20) (21) hours Destroy 11 (12) hours	Although I am slightly bored... I am happy to be able to concentrate on skill building for a while.
April 21, 2005	I have been in my new world, Yellow Grotto Land, for more than a month now. Progress in building up the planet is slow. The pulse of the planet went from Stable to Mild during this time. So, I attempted charging Earth for the last two days. It takes 13 hours to accomplish the task -- and the tendency to fail is big. But finally, I succeeded. Below are the messages in the past day: 2m48s ago: You finish casting Listen Earth and feel a stable pulse.��(MESSAGE FROM LISTENING EARTH)� 15 minutes ago: You finish the last quiet words, and your body burns with unexpected happiness.��(SUCCESSFUL CHARGING EARTH)� Apr 21st, 8:18: Alas, the earth does not seem to hear your prayer.�(FAILED CHARGING EARTH)�� My new knowledge list (after forgeting some conjuration and water magic which are useless to me...) Stoneworking Elemental Magic Roadbuilding Conjuration Fundamentals of Sorcery Conjuration of Potatoes Diplomacy Earth Magic Baking Desert Alchemy Conjuration of Grain Conjuration of Nectar Conjuration of Wood Conjuration of Stone Basic Conjuration of Iron Basic Spatial Magic Local Diplomacy Expert Diplomacy Weather Lore Learning Amnesia Horalogy Alchemy Advanced Spatial Magic Finally got Journey 2. I'm working on advancing Construction and Journey. Then, I'll invent more. Hope for something fun. Eventually, I would like to build a couple of Gates and let the planet LOOSE for the others to enjoy... fight over... or destroy. Partially built-up planet -- South East Corner.
March 19, 2005	Researching Horalogy (6 hours) Inventing is taking 54 minutes now.. .but only after a few attempts, I got to researching Horalogy... for only 6 hours... Should have done inventing for the last two days... Oh, well.
March 18, 2005	The accelerated time is running slow now... Build: Farm 2 hours - 5 hours Metal Gate 5 hours - 11 hours Earth Gate 5 hours - 11 hours Stone Quarry 3 hours - 6 hours Village 75 minutes - 3 hours Earth Temple 5 hours - 10 hours Raze 65 minutes 2 hours Between spaces: Path 65 minutes - 2 hours Road 2 hours - 5 hours Fence 70 minutes - 2 hours Dig 6 minutes - 14 minutes > Wall 2 hours - 4 hours Destroy 72 minutes - 2 hours Settle Creatures Settle Creatures 1 minute Mobilize Creatures 1 minute Aggravate Hamlet 1 minute Pacify Hamlet 1 minute Miscellaneous Count 1 minute Bake 5 minutes - 11 minutes Collect 1 minute Drop 1 minute Eat 1 minute Wait 5 minutes - 11 minutes Accept 2 minutes - 5 minutes Warfare Attack 94 minutes - 3 hours Attack Creatures 14 minutes - 29 minutes Melee 19 minutes - 39 minutes Recruit Creatures Recruit Creatures 6 minutes - 13 minutes Recruit City 6 minutes - 13 minutes Knowledge Invent 18 minutes - 37 minutes Wait to be taught 23 minutes - 47 minutes Teach 2 minutes - 6 minutes Examine 1 minute - Forget 3 minutes - 6 minutes Check Skills 1 minute - 3 minutes Elemental Magic Call Water 10 minutes - 20 minutes Raise Land 18 minutes - 36 minutes Create Mountains 46 minutes - 90 minutes Lower Land 18 minutes - 36 minutes Listen Earth 1 minute Create Spring 15 minutes - 30 minutes Charge Earth 80 minutes - 3 hours Weather Magic Call Rain 15 minutes - 31 minutes Spatial Magic Charge Space 18 minutes - 37 minutes Sorcery Force Bolt 4 minutes - 9 minutes Angelic Magic Summon Minor Soul 1 minute Alchemy Desert Alchemy 20 minutes - 41 minutes Conjuration Seeds 1 minute Potatoes 1 minute Fish 1 minute Grain 1 minute Nectar 1 minute Seaweed 1 minute Stone 1 minute Wood 1 minute Ironweed 1 minute Snails 1 minute
March 16, 2005	I know I am probably completely INSANE... but, here I am, on my own little planet. Yellow Grotto, 'tis called. This is what a new planet looks like... It is quite flat... I'll have to think how to position everything... and where to alter the terrain... and when to invite others to live here... Wow... and look at the reduced time for completing each task.... Build: Farm 2 hours Metal Gate 5 hours Earth Gate 5 hours Stone Quarry 3 hours Village 75 minutes Earth Temple 5 hours Raze 65 minutes Between spaces: Path 65 minutes Road 2 hours Fence 70 minutes Dig 6 minutes < > Wall 2 hours Destroy 72 minutes Settle Creatures Settle Creatures 1 minute Mobilize Creatures 1 minute Aggravate Hamlet 1 minute Pacify Hamlet 1 minute Miscellaneous Count 1 minute Bake 5 minutes Collect 1 minute Drop 1 minute Eat 1 minute Wait 5 minutes Accept 2 minutes Warfare Attack 94 minutes Attack Creatures 14 minutes Melee 19 minutes Recruit Creatures Recruit Creatures 6 minutes Recruit City 6 minutes Knowledge Invent 18 minutes Wait to be taught 23 minutes Teach 2 minutes Examine 1 minute Forget 3 minutes Check Skills 1 minute Elemental Magic Call Water 10 minutes Raise Land 18 minutes Create Mountains 46 minutes Lower Land 18 minutes Listen Earth 1 minute Create Spring 15 minutes Charge Earth 80 minutes Weather Magic Call Rain 15 minutes Spatial Magic Charge Space 18 minutes Sorcery Force Bolt 4 minutes Angelic Magic Summon Minor Soul 1 minute Alchemy Desert Alchemy 20 minutes Conjuration Seeds 1 minute Potatoes 1 minute Fish 1 minute Grain 1 minute Nectar 1 minute Seaweed 1 minute Stone 1 minute Wood 1 minute Ironweed 1 minute Snails 1 minute	Without roads between hexes, I can move from one to the next for 0 to 2 hours... I wonder if all these will change soon as the world grows older....
Feb. 21, 2005	At conjuration 5, I can conjure 11 stones in one minute. My village now has the following items: Stone here: 37 Wood here: 21 Potatoes here: 135 Wheat grain here: 852 I also just discovered that I lost a whole Forest to the Sea... Chacmol is responsible for this disaster, I dare say. Sent him a message, asking if I should simply leave the place.
Feb. 20, 2005	Here are some items in my village. They have been slowly growing. I want to record and compare in a week or so: The FOREST two hexes north of the village has Wood here: 15 Desert seeds here: 868 Stone here: 50 Wheat grain here: 4187 Wood here: 3 Herringfish here: 463 The Hills east of the FOREST has Stone here: 4 The Sky Gate has nothing. The Main Village has Stone here: 37 Wood here: 21 Potatoes here: 135 Wheat grain here: 781 The Farm east of the Village has Wheat grain here: 71 Wheat grain here: 300 Violet Nectar here: 50 Wood here: 70 (It seems that these are discarded by me a while back... might not grow...)
Feb. 14, 2005	This is a beautiful image of a village... I am trying to obtain a village of my own... found an open hex, built a village (called, the Red Lovers... I like the name,) but somehow it does NOT belong to me -- I have no creatures working there... Maybe it takes time???? I'll have to wait and see. This is the area of my village -- close to the Sky Gate. I have settled 3 hamlets around this area...	It turned out that all I needed to do was settling some creatures and the village became mine. Then, I was allowed (by the game logic) to attach several open hexes near this village to it. Now, I'm the proud owner of a village and other 4 hexes... a Forest, A Farm, some Hills. Wow.
Feb. 5, 2005	In the past two days, because of "time" and because of my effort in raising mountains, I've got two new stats: Journey 1 and Elemental 2 Here the stats stand: xiaomu��Level 7 Angelic 5 Death 1 War 1 Knowledge 3 Elemental Magic 2 Conjuration 5 Construction 1 Journey 1	I want my own VILLAGE -- so much land is occupied by Daithi in this part of RCE and we are friendly with each other so I cannot attack or convert his land... However, I have spotted one place not that far off, so will try to see if a village can be made there.
Feb. 2, 2005	Haven't written here for a while -- trying to up my stats... finally, my construction level is back to 1 and conjuration is now FIVE (5)! I also got 5 in Angelic... not that it has any obvious use! So, the stats now look like this: xiaomu��Level 7 Angelic 5 Death 1 War 1 Knowledge 3 Elemental Magic 1 Conjuration 5 Construction 1 So... this is it -- each level of conjuration allows MORE pieces to be produced with each attempt. I can now conjur 11 stones and 21 wood with each conjuration... at level 4, I used to only conjure 7 stones and... I don't remember now but definitely fewer than 21 wood! Pleased... 34 potatoes at one shot is also quite useful. This part of RCE is quite watery... here's a snapshot of the area near sky gate with road conditions:	I tried to build a road toward one of the watery hexes and failed. The system message was: building road northwest failed: That's a little too much water to handle.
Jan 23, 2005	Another day on RCE. Learned a couple of things -- such as Daithi's forum is only viewable to those on RCE and I can no longer access YM forum set up by GothMistress. Thor messaged me and told me that he abandoned summoning me... but, sob, he never bothered letting me know... and through my own eagerness, I lost all those souls, hamlets, and life on YM. I am going to try to have the best time on RCE, though. Daithi is here, with his university. So, yes, I will learn and be his student... as we once discussed long ago.	I need to find the Sky Gate -- feeling more secured near an element that I dominate.... Too much water hexes and water souls here around me.
Jan 22, 2005	Here's the area map of RCE
Jan. 22, 2005	I DIED!! tictoc attacked me while I was most vulnerable -- having settled all my creatures but one soul to get ready for my inter-planet travel (without waiting for my summoner for a specific time...)... So, this is death by stupidity! And of course, he is very mean spirited! This incident, however, allowed me to see who my friends and allies are: GothMistress and Ouroboros have messaged me repeatedly and are helping me settle in the new planet (Rainbow Catastrophe) and sent their kind words.. Here's my stats... phew remaining the same -- except that I lost my hard earned Construction 1!!! Just realized that I have no more Telepathy left, either -- search and signal are gone... rapsberries xiaomu Level 6 Angelic 3 Death 1 War 1 Knowledge 3 Elemental Magic 1 Conjuration 4	Hm... did not gain any death stats! Oh, well. But, at least, I'm on another world.. for the first time... I'll take advantage of the time I am here... even if it is for a short period.
Jan. 20, 2005	I learned LEARNING... yeah. Hopefully, amnisia will also come along...	I know there is a limit to knowledges one can have, but, I don't want to forget ANYTHING!!!
Jan 18, 2005	Quite a bit happened in the last few days -- both Leaf and Metal gates were blasted and destroyed. It seems that no more metal gates are available in ANY of the worlds... it must be rebuilt. I wonder what happens to GK if most of the gates are gone... and now, no more metal angels can be born! Wow. Standing guard at Sky Gate, awaiting futurebeatle's arrival -- he's staying in heaven, obviously, and waiting to attack when our guards are down... I'm being vigilent. Probably will remain here for a while.	There goes the journey stats! But, maybe I can gain some war stats.
Jan 15, 2005	Welcome to Level 7. Yeah. The plan is still continuing my wandering way... construct roads where necessary, baking and conjuring occasionally. I'd like to raise land somewhere and build a tower if I have the ability -- on the west part of YM.	Does Level really have much to do with anything? Stats seem to be more relevant!
Jan 11, 2005	Construction 1 -- FINALLY! Now... some of the tasks take a tad less time. See: Build: Farm 23 (24) hours Metal Gate 54 (56) hours Earth Gate 54 (56) hours Stone Quarry 28 (29) hours Village 13 hours Earth Temple 48 (50) hours Raze 11 hours Between spaces: Path 11 hours Road 24 (25) hours Fence 12 hours Dig 72 minutes Wall 20 (21) hours Destroy 12 hours The plan right now is to construct more and journey more to build up more skills...	... and if there are chances, get into war more ...
Jan. 8, 2005	Doing a lot of moving around and road-building. My hamlet at a farm was attacked because it was somehow set to aggressive... it only has 10 creatures left so I am traveling back there to settle some creatures to strengthen the landhold. This is what my farm looks like: This is my Build Menu Build: Farm 24 hours Metal Gate 56 hours Earth Gate 56 hours Stone Quarry 29 hours Village 13 hours Earth Temple 50 hours Raze 11 hours Between spaces: Path 11 hours Road 25 hours Fence 12 hours Dig 72 minutes Wall 21 hours Destroy 12 hours Settle Creatures Settle Creatures 3 minutes Mobilize Creatures 2 minutes Aggravate Hamlet 1 minute Pacify Hamlet 1 minute Miscellaneous Bake 59 minutes Collect 10 minutes Drop 4 minutes Eat 12 minutes Wait 60 minutes Accept 30 minutes This is my magic menu: Elemental Magic Call Water 2 hours Raise Land 3 hours Create Mountains 8 hours Lower Land 3 hours Listen Earth 4 minutes Create Spring 3 hours Charge Earth 14 hours Weather Magic Call Rain 3 hours Spatial Magic Charge Space 3 hours Sorcery Force Bolt 50 minutes Telepathy Search 4 minutes Signal 2 minutes Angelic Magic Summon Minor Soul 4 minutes Alchemy Desert Alchemy 4 hours Conjuration All 1 minute	The road to its west is only a path which slows down travel time.. .I'm rebuilding it as a road once creatures are settled... probably late tomorrow.
Dec. 30, 2004	Use of Force-Bolt. Back fired -- Message received: Yellow Lights Exploded in Your Head; Action became: Stupefied; It took hours to clear, receiving the message: You Feel the World Coming Back Into Focus	Although I have Foundamentals of Sorcery, I have NO sorcery level. This might be the reason why I should not have used Force Bolt. However, this might also be the only way to gain sorcery level... will have to experiment.
	Hamlet reporting: "Sir, we are your earth people... " that they successfully defended my hamlet against an intruder... they asked to be congratulated... but I accidentally deleted the message before having a chance to reply.	I hope nothing bad happens because of my oversight... Don't know how to actually communicate with my creatures. Research needed.
Dec. 31, 2004	Learned Local and Expert Diplomacy. Options for "Donate Hamlet" and "Detach Village" appear on the hex that I currently occupy, which is Sky Gate -- with my own hamlet. Dare not detach the village from GothMistress...but hopefully I'll have a chance to travel in a few days after the learning sessions are done.	Also in BUILD, I can now aggravate or pacify a hamlet. Will have to try these out for the future to see if I can pacify an aggressive hamlet owned by someone else. That will be quite handy, indeed!
Jan. 1, 2005	Happy New Year to All! Peace on Earth but War on GoKrida? Ok... Learned to conjure fish. Very happy about that. Still in learning mode from Bluedragon. Ouroboros, Zatara, Streben, and BlueDragon have been my tiredless teachers since my life on GK. I am truly grateful. And, of course GothMistress, who extended a friendly hand from very early on and guided me through a rocky time.	Happy New Year, again!
Jan. 2, 2005 Soul: 54 Days	Finished learning two more things: Weather Lore and Water Magic... now can Call Rain... and the time for calling water seems to be shortened to 2 hours. Unfortunately, I failed in learning "Learning" -- 30 times and yet, I was "not paying attention." Oh, well... BlueDragon has to go back to his other planet so we had to stop the teaching sessions. This frees me up to travel and I shall travel for a couple of days, to see the West part of YM. Finally. Baking: 80 Wheat Grains + 1 Wood + 59 minutes + 0 Baking Stats = 64 Flatbread	No idea what these water-and-weather related magic will do for me... some other time, I must experiment. The only reason that I leveled and stats'ed so fast is that I made some donation to the Game and thus received a lot of spiritual energy... This allowed me to conjure a lot and wield elemental and angelic magic a lot. Of course, I have been a fairly diligent student and gained quite a bit of knowledge and skills that way. I am trying to not abuse my SEs (Spiritual Energy) because it seems to be considered "cheating" by GoKridans who cannot afford or who do not wish to donate to this "Free Game."
	xiaomu��Level 6 Death 1 Knowledge 3 War 1 Elemental Magic 1 Conjuration 3 Angelic 2
Jan. 4th, 2005	Angelic Level 3! achieved... do not know how that will affect my future actions. The only difference that I noticed today is that when I summoned minor souls, the message of my spiritual links with the world have gone awry and that I had a headache did not appear while summoning more souls. Settled some creatures to occupy the fram land. Here's the area that I'm in currently: Here's the closeup map: Copasetic messaged me inquiring as to why I am building a wall -- I messaged him back that I am practicing construction skills... will destroy and rebuild the road once it's done. I hope nothing terrible will come of it. This land-hogging and severe questioning are getting on my nerves. How any any player gain any experience if every single one of their moves is questioned??? Success in building the wall. I'm knocking it down now.
Jan. 5th, 2005	Conjuration Level 4! I conjured stones... each conjuration generated 7 stones. Now I am building a road.. 25 hours to do so... I wonder if when I have construction levels, it will take less time and whether it also depends on how many creatures I have to help building the road.	Someone told me today that since he had 1 soul and 500 potatoes, moving from one hex to the next would have taken him something like a few hundred hours... Hahaha.

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GoKrida Diary of XiaoMu, Founder, TAG; Editor-in-Chief, The Descryer. Alignment: EARTH Yellow Grotto Land-- My Own Planet!

GoKrida Diary of XiaoMu, Founder, TAG; Editor-in-Chief, The Descryer.
Alignment: EARTH
Yellow Grotto Land-- My Own Planet!