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In settings taking place on a planet, the planet is generally in one piece.
In a
Maybe magic or science has [[Gone Horribly Wrong]], causing an [[Earthshattering Kaboom]], or maybe something else bad has happened, but a former planet is now broken into small pieces, floating through space. If this trope is used as a setting, these pieces will usually have settlements of some sort on them (not to be confused with [[Asteroid Thicket
Unlike a [[Floating Continent]], a
If the pieces are somehow hovering in an atmosphere with gravity, that's [[World in the Sky]].
Has nothing to do with a [[Land of the Shattered Empire]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Scrapped Princess]]'': {{spoiler|The land which the work take place on is actually a big landmass broken off from Earth by aliens.}}
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* ''[[The Shattered World]]'', and its sequel, ''[[The Burning Realm]]'', by [[Michael Reaves]].
* Many [[Science Marches On|older SF books]] mentioned that the Solar System's asteroid belt is the remnants of a rocky planet Phaeton. See also Real Life section.
** In ''[[Stranger in
** In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Space Cadet (novel)|Space Cadet]]'' the heroes find that Phaeton was destroyed in a nuclear accident.
** In [[David Weber]]'s ''[[Empire From the Ashes|Dahak]]'' series alien invaders hit it with a big rock to destroy a First Imperium military base.
*** Many more asteroid belts are found in other systems {{spoiler|left after Fourth Imperium's civil war}}.
** In [[Fredric Brown]]'s ''Letter to a Phoenix'' the rebellious colony on the fifth planet was destroyed with the planet.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* One high-level adventure for the ''[[Mystara]]'' D&D setting brings the heroes to what's left of Old Alphatia, a planet destroyed by feuding wizards two thousand years ago. As these same wizards had previously enveloped their entire solar system with breathable air, some of the orbiting shards of their world are found to still be populated.▼
* In ''[[Spelljammer]]'', the Astromundi Cluster with its asteroid leftovers of the two collided planets may qualify. Also, the elves managed to break a few planets into those. And homeworld of [[Mad Artist|the Reigar]] (they [[Earthshattering Kaboom|went a little overboard]] with performance art themselves), though "currently" it's a [[Origin Story|legend]] rather than a known place.
▲* One high-level adventure for the [[Mystara]] D&D setting brings the heroes to what's left of Old Alphatia, a planet destroyed by feuding wizards two thousand years ago. As these same wizards had previously enveloped their entire solar system with breathable air, some of the orbiting shards of their world are found to still be populated.
* ''[[Race For The Galaxy]]'' has one of these, but it's generally one of the least useful cards to play on your tableau, as it's worth both very few victory points, and generally doesn't provide any resources at all.▼
▲* [[Race For The Galaxy]] has one of these, but it's generally one of the least useful cards to play on your tableau, as it's worth both very few victory points, and generally doesn't provide any resources at all.
== [[Toys]] ==▼
* In [[Bionicle]], {{spoiler|the planet of Spherus Magna split into Bara Magna, Aqua Magna, and Bota Magna due to the Shattering}}.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* The planet in ''[[Star Fox Adventures]]'' had this happen, and the main quest is to put it back together before it gets ''more'' shattered and destroys the whole system with it.
* The PS2 game ''[[Vexx]]'' was set on an exploded planet, various parts of which are scattered across the sky, with each level being a different one. there is a definite downwards direction, with it being possible (and infuriatingly easy) to fall off the edge.
* The Great Spiral in [[Wizard 101]] is one of these held in a [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|spiral]]. Each island rock or rock cluster is called a world with a unique theme and races. Transport between the worlds of the spiral happens through [[Cool Gate
** It was created when the grandfather tree using the pieces the first world that was shattered by a war between the three great races.
* Outland, the remains of the planet Draenor shattered by demonic energies, is the main setting for the first expansion of [[World of Warcraft]].
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* After [[Earthshattering Kaboom|blowing up a planet]], you can colonize the resultant asteroid field in earlier games in the ''[[Space Empires]]'' series. You are unable to colonize asteroids anymore as of SEIV. Note that you can also create planets in the games, and you can accidentally ([[Video Game Cruelty Potential|or intentionally]]) create a planet out of the asteroid colony.
* On is shown in ''[[Tachyon the Fringe]]'' in a [[La Résistance|Bora]]-controlled mining sector. It is likely that Bora themselves did it in order to better mine the planet's resources.
* ''[[Star Trek Online]]'': There are are a large number of these in the various systems in the game. Too many to list. Notably the Romulus system.
* The Age of Spire from the fourth ''[[Myst]]'' game: According to the [[All There in the Manual|supplemental materials]], it was a planet whose magnetic core became unstable, which repelled large chunks of metal (and lots of attached rock) right out of the planet. Enough time has gone by that the collective gravitational attraction of the chunks towards the center has reached equilibrium with the magnetic repulsion, long enough that the giant floating fragments have enough gravity to have an atmosphere and even some flora.
* The world begins much like this in ''[[Legend of Mana]]'' - various lands were ripped up and turned into artifacts, which it falls upon the protagonist to piece back together however they prefer. (Of course, they say from the beginning that it's [[All Just a Dream]], so...)
* ''[[Bastion]]'', full stop. As you traverse through the assorted levels, the ground underneath the Kid's feet comes together and falls apart at the slightest whim, even disregarding his habit of wantonly smashing everything he sees into bite-sized chunks.
* ''[[Ar
* In ''[[The Tone Rebellion]]'' the goal is to reassemble your broken planet.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* The world of Remnant in ''[[RWBY]]'' has a Shattered ''Moon'' in its sky.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* The French-Canadian cartoon ''[[Skyland]]'' takes place on a still-habitable shattered Earth
* ''[[Transformers]]'': Cybertron, while not completely shattered, does have some chunks missing out of it.
▲== [[Toys]] ==
▲* In [[Bionicle]], {{spoiler|the planet of Spherus Magna split into Bara Magna, Aqua Magna, and Bota Magna due to the Shattering}}.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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** A now-discredited theory held that the Earth spun so fast in its early days that a globule fissioned off, forming the Moon.
** Currently the [[wikipedia:Giant impact hypothesis|Giant Impact Hypothesis]] is the big one. It's oddly not all that different from the fission theory. A Mars-sized object hit the Earth about 4.4 billion years ago and threw out enough material to form the Moon.
* In a previous theory of the formation of [[
* Some of the chunkier rings of the Solar System's Gas Giants may have once been fragile moons, torn apart by impacts or tidal forces. Some of the stranger moons appear to have formed from some of these large fragments colliding and having enough mutual gravitational attraction to stick.
* Early space-probe images of Miranda, one of the moons of Uranus, depicted such a patchwork of terrain that it's been theorized that this small moon was once shattered, then re-coalesced from its scattered pieces.
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