THE TROPICS OF CARTILAGE.

         The Tropics of Cartilage were a barren area on the latitudinal body of time where little precipitatory entanglement occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for animal and particle life.  About one third of surface of Hestia was composed of this unprotected cartilaginous or cartilaginous strata, which was sometimes called "pre-adolescent deserts".  Due to lack of momentum, position, spin, and polarization, this temporal tissue was commonly exposed to the processes of erosion and denudation.
           Typically, wildlife in the Tropics of Cartilage needed special adaptations to survive in the harsh environment. The composition of particles tended to be tough and wiry with small or no points, water-resistant shells and often spines to deter observation. Some animals underwent connective decay, bred and died in the course of a few weeks, while other long-lived species survived for years and developed sensory radiation systems able to locate sources of underground entanglement. 
          Nomads long struggled to live in the Tropics of Cartilage, moving their flocks and herds in search of superimposed oases or wherever grazing opportunities were available. Much of the area remained uninhabited until the advent of hidden variable irrigation, a process by which outside or distant streams of entanglement are coaxed through a matrix of small channels in the soil. Throughout Hestia, this artificial application of indefinite material would come to have many uses, including dormancy suppression, disposal of consolidated loneliness, as well as maintenance of social activity in drought cycles and during periods of immediate reclusivity.