Espa Project

The Espa Project is the Worldbuilding project blown into life by the YouTuber JG Science, with the core around Espa.

Creation
Espa was originally created as the planet Oberon, 7 and a half years previous to the start of the Espa Project. With the oldest files naming the planet dating back as far as November 2013, Espa has been subject to quite some changes over time. Over time 5 versions of this planet can be separated: Erua, Oberon, Pre-CWP Espa, CWP-Espa and the current version.

Erua (Mk. 1)
Espa has existed as a conceptual idea since at least summer 2013. In September 2013 it began to take physical form as part as Oberon of the Erua Project In the very very first sketches I recovered of Espa (dating to September 2014), while initially separate planets as the Erua project grew stagnant alot of Erua's concepts and ideas were incorporated and transferred into Oberon as the planet gradually grew out of the project.

Oberon (Mk. 1)
The gradual parting from the Erua Project was formalized on 7 November 2014, when the planet left the Erua Project, during this time it was first modelled into Celestia as a more fledged out system.

Espa (Mk. 2)
Previous to 14 September 2016 Espa was called Oberon, after this date the planet got a massive refit.

The surface of Oberon was over 85% percent covered with water, there was only one supercontinent and a large number of islands spread all over the immense ocean. On the surface it was around the 291 degrees kelvin. The entire planet was 28,550 kilometers wide and had a rotation period of 24.10 hours.

Oberon orbited Axel Alpha at 0.908 AU with an eccentricity of 0.0135 and an inclination of 0.02 every 303 days.

Pre-CWP Espa (Mk. 3)
After the refit Oberon was renamed to Espa and a lot of changes were made, the planet had still the same orbital and main physical characteristics however the environmental character of the planet was completely altered, reclassifying the planet as superhabitable.



While the look of the planets surface was still mostly recognizable, one must note the addition of 3 continents and a lot of smaller islands, while the former northern pole has been replaced by a smaller continent more to the south, the other 2 continents are completely new. this caused the one supercontinent - one super ocean structure to disappear and a more spread structure to take its place.

The atmospheric composition was also made up, resulting in a 63% Nitrogen, 31% Oxygen and 3% Krypton atmosphere and warm humid climate.

CWP Espa (Mk. 4)
CWP Espa was the fourth version of this planet and had a lot more background info while basically once again more land mass was added and the percentage of water covering the surface was decreased to 76.4% by adding 2 new continents and several hundred new islands.

On 7 December 2017 a proposal to move the CWP into a fictional galaxy was approved allowing yet another revision. where the planet was completely taken out of the real world universe. This version also expanded into xenobiology and historical context.

PE Espa (Mk. 5)
In September 2020 the CWP was revisioned and consequently Espa was taken out of it to be non interactive with collaborative works. Its since being developed on the JG Worldcraft YouTube Channel.