🌕 FFMV Moon Classification Codex
“Because moons aren’t just orbiting rocks. They’re stories. They’re ecosystems. They’re sometimes sentient.”
In the Fungal Frontiers Myco-Verse, moons are more than celestial tagalongs—they’re strategic platforms, biological experiments, planetary memory banks, ancient archives, and sometimes… very opinionated roommates. This classification codex is designed to help Myco-Explorers, FFMV Cartographers, and Sporeborne Historians better understand the diverse and bizarre range of moons scattered across the Realms of Existence.
Each moon type includes subtypes, lore, real science grounding, and gameplay/worldbuilding applications. Use this guide to classify known moons, inspire new ones, and expand the Fungal Frontiers universe with cosmic consistency and delightful lunacy.
🌑 Crust Moons
Overview: Dry, stable, and geologically ancient. Often scarred by eons of impacts and deep myco-geological history.
- 🪨 Basaltic Shells – Iron-rich, classic cratered moons. May house sealed myco-vaults.
- ⛏️ Orebound Craters – Metallic-rich moons full of extractable resources and magnetic anomalies.
- 🧱 Hypha-Locked Plates – Tectonic survivors with embedded fossilized spore architecture.
❄️ Cryolunar Bodies
Overview: Ice-coated or frozen worlds that hold deep mysteries beneath their glacial skins.
- 🌌 Mirror Frost Moons – Highly reflective; can bounce signals or confuse scanners.
- 🐚 Subsurface Sea Vaults – Beneath the ice lie oceans, thermal vents, and possible fungal leviathans.
- 🧊 Cryo-Shrines – Frozen Myco-Spiritual sanctuaries, often preserving pre-collapse relics.
💨 Thinveil Moons
Overview: Dusty, atmosphere-starved moons that often hide things too dangerous or weird for the main world.
- 👁️ Whisper Moons – Perfect for surveillance, secret bases, or gravitational experimentation.
- 🌫️ Wraithshells – Ethereal, ghost-rumored moons with barely-there air and strange echoes.
- ☄️ Debris-Ringed Orbits – Moons surrounded by orbital junk, failed landers, or ritual wreckage.
🍄 Spore-Touched Moons
Overview: Moons that have been biologically claimed, altered, or corrupted by fungal life—whether by accident or design.
- 🍄 Caprise Colonies – Entire lunar surfaces converted into fungal ecosystems or cities.
- 🦠 Myco-Mutated Shells – Evidence of rogue terraforming or failed genetic colonization.
- 🌿 Biolume Hollows – Glowing jungles and cave systems teeming with evolved life.
🔥 Volatile Moons
Overview: Geologically unstable moons in the throes of violent change, rich in power but dangerous to approach.
- 🌋 Lava Ventscapes – Molten rivers, volcanic chaos, and rare mineral veins.
- 🌡️ Tectoshift Slabs – Constant seismic activity, drifting surface plates, collapsing terrain.
- 🌪️ Ash Veil Moons – Choking spore storms, soot-choked skies, and fire fungi.
🛸 Anomalous Moons
Overview: Moons that bend the rules—of gravity, orbit, appearance, or logic. Some defy all known classification systems.
- 🌀 Obscure Orbitals – Tilted or wild orbits, sometimes appearing and disappearing.
- 🎭 Mimic Moons – Copycat moons that shift shape or visual signature when observed.
- 🧩 Time Drift Moons – Time behaves strangely here. Memory loops and paradox echoes are common.
💧 Atmospheral Moons
Overview: Rare, moon-scale bodies with actual atmospheres—some nearly breathable, others barely tolerable.
- 🌲 Breathable Exospheres – Support fungal colonies, forests, or ancient architecture.
- 🐾 Semi-Toxic Cloudspheres – Life adapted to toxic air; requires gear, but rich ecosystems exist.
- 🫧 Mistbound Forests – Dense fog, strange weather, and mega-spore lifeforms dominate the terrain.
🧱 Construct Moons
Overview: Fully artificial or significantly engineered moons built by advanced civilizations or unknown cosmic forces.
- 🛕 Hollowworld Shells – Massive moon-sized bunkers, simulation chambers, or interstellar staging areas.
- ⚙️ Sporeforge Platforms – Moons used as biomechanical factories or cap-tech assembly stations.
- 🧠 Archive Cores – AI-operated moons storing data, memories, or… something still alive in there.
📘 How to Use This Codex
This guide can be used by Myco-Patrons, creators, explorers, and worldbuilders to:
- 🌍 Create custom moons for adventures, stories, or campaigns
- 🔁 Convert other moon data into compatible FFMV moon types
- 🎲 Use as a procedural moon generator for games, randomizers, or encounter builders
- 🧬 Expand lore, add depth to planetary systems, and integrate moon-based plot points
Remember: Every moon in the Myco-Verse has a purpose—even if that purpose is just to warp time, whisper your name in your dreams, and launch spore-cannons at passing cargo ships for fun.
