Sky island cluster

Sky Island Clusters (SICs) form when a group of sky islands do something fancy with drag coefficients that makes them stick together. Common in Cqa. SICs are convenient to live in and so frequently end up as areas of high population density, or population aggregates. An arbitrary unit, SICs are relevant to the dynamics and logistics of Maicqa people and their demographics.

A typical SIC may consist of somewhere between a dozen and a hundred islands together; clusters of clusters also exist. Clusters (esp. those settled) are categorized by magnitudes of size, separately from the settlements on them which are classified by the juxtaposition of their cluster type and their population count. SICs are placed on two independent scales; series (lit. is what row) for populated islands, and orders (lit. where in a row) for other purposes. These classifications have not gained traction among the Maicqa in Round 1 but we'll use and outline anyway.



SIC Orders (land use)
 * 1st order: ≤6 islands
 * 2nd order: ≤12 islands
 * 3rd order: ≤24 islands
 * 4th order: ≤48 islands
 * 5th order: ≤96 islands

SIC Series (population) In Round 1, population density doesn't exceed 4/island
 * 1st series: ≤3 islands (~5 people)
 * 2nd series: ≤9 islands (~25 people)
 * 3rd series: ≤21 islands (~75 people)
 * 4th series: ≤42 islands (~150 people)
 * 5th series: ≤84 islands (~270 people)