Corrosia Atmosphere
The Corrosia Atmosphere is an acid-etched inferno where clouds eat metal and the rain burns thought itself. It is one of the harshest known environments in the Continuum Universes — a sky of acid and oxidizers, shimmering like liquid glass over a world perpetually dissolving into itself. To Continuum exochemists, Corrosia-class worlds are laboratories of entropy, proof that matter can remember pain.
Composition and Behavior
The air is dominated by CO₂ and SO₂, with highly reactive traces of HCl and HF. At surface pressures exceeding 4.8 atm, these compounds condense into molten acid clouds. Lightning flashes not as plasma but as chemical combustion between descending vapor strata — a **reaction storm** where raindrops ignite upon contact with the ground.
Environmental Characteristics
- **Pressure:** 4.8 atm — crushing and heat-dense.
- **Temperature:** 700–750 K (above the melting point of lead).
- **Visuals:** Amber-orange haze pierced by violet ion arcs.
- **Auditory:** Deep, resonant thunder reverberating through dense vapor.
- **Olfactory:** Overwhelming; sharp chlorine and sulfur tang detectable from orbit.
Phenomena
Acid clouds cycle in luminous convection towers, visible from orbit as glowing spirals. Occasionally, temperature inversions create “acid glass” storms — semi-solid rain that shatters on impact, leaving crystalline residue across the terrain. Rarely, Contradictium traces have been detected, suggesting spontaneous molecular inversion where the laws of corrosion themselves briefly reverse.
Interactions
Organic life is instantly annihilated; only energy-based or divine entities can exist here. Some Continuum relics remain intact — believed to be ancient machines that **drink corrosion** as fuel, converting acid rain into psionic charge. Corrosia-class worlds thus serve as entropy batteries for larger cosmic systems.
Associated Gases
Sulfur Dioxide • Hydrochloric Acid • Hydrofluoric Acid • Carbon Dioxide