>>22177442>the gravity on their world is so high an inch of fall is horribly fatalWell... not exactly. See, that's the weird thing about Mesklin. It's absurdly fucking huge, so the gravity at the poles where the main characters live is something like 700 gs, and an inch really is fatal. Mesklin also spins absurdly fast, however, so fast that it looks like a pancake from the equatorial bulge. And due to sheer centrifugal force, at the equator Mesklin only has a gravity of three gs- so low that the human character can survive there, although not comfortably. At the equator, Mesklinites have discovered a strange technology utterly foreign to the polar Mesklinites, known as "flying." (Also, "roofs" and "throwing things".)