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* The world begins much like this in ''LegendOfMana'' - 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 AllJustADream, 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.
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* In Galaxy Quest there is one shown as the Protector leaves the dock.

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* In Brian Earnshaw's book ''Dragonfall 5 and the Space Cowboys'', pieces of a small planet, called ''The Broken World''. Inhabited by cowboy ranchers and actual blue grass.
* In ''The Death Gate Cycle'' by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, the earth is split into 7 pieces each with their associated elements. Their exact location in relation to each other is unclear however whether they are in our solar system or separate dimensions.
* ''The Shattered World'', and its sequel, ''The Burning Realm'', by Michael Reaves

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* In Brian Earnshaw's {{Brian Earnshaw}}'s book ''Dragonfall 5 and the Space Cowboys'', pieces of a small planet, called ''The Broken World''. Inhabited by cowboy ranchers and actual blue grass.
* In ''The Death Gate Cycle'' TheDeathGateCycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, the earth is split into 7 pieces each with their associated elements. Their exact location in relation to each other is unclear however whether they are in our solar system or separate dimensions.
* ''The Shattered World'', ''TheShatteredWorld'', and its sequel, ''The Burning Realm'', ''TheBurningRealm'', by Michael Reaves
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* Averted by the {{Ravenloft}} setting, in which chunks of landscape have ''always'' drifted separately in the Mists, rather than being part of a larger planet.
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* 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.
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** The Sundering in ''Cataclysm'' nearly reduced Azeroth to this. Only timely intervention by the Earthen Ring prevented complete devastation.
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* The Great Spiral in {{Wizard101}} is one of these held in a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin spiral]]. It was created when the grandfather tree using the pieces the first world that was shattered by a war between the three great races.
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also netherstorm a shattered part of outland
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* The Shattered World, and its sequel, The Burning Realm, by Michael Reaves

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* The ''The Shattered World, World'', and its sequel, The ''The Burning Realm, Realm'', by Michael Reaves
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also netherstorm a shattered part of outland
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* Fighting by the three ancient races in the past rent asunder the planet in {{Wizard 101}}. 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 stargate like doors.

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* Fighting by the three ancient races in the past rent asunder the planet in {{Wizard 101}}. 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 stargate like doors.{{Cool Gate}}s.
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* The Age of Spire from the fourth {{Myst}} game: According to the [[AllThereInTheManual 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.
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* In ''The Death Gate Cycle'' by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, the earth is split into 7 pieces each with their associated elements. Their exact location in relation to each other is unclear however whether they are in our solar system or separate dimensions.
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Maybe through magic or science GoneHorriblyWrong causing EarthShatteringKaboom, maybe something else bad happens, the big planet is now broken into small pieces, floating through space. If this trope is used as a setting, these pieces will have some kind of settlements on it (so don't confuse it with AsteroidThicket, which are normally just obstacles).

Unlike FloatingContinent, ShatteredWorld does not have landmass that's hovering over a planet, but actually a planet broken into pieces (small or big nonwithstanding).

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Maybe through magic or science GoneHorriblyWrong causing EarthShatteringKaboom, maybe something else bad happens, the big planet is now broken into small pieces, floating through space. If this trope is used as a setting, these pieces will have some kind of settlements of some sort on it them (so don't confuse it with AsteroidThicket, which are normally just obstacles).

Unlike FloatingContinent, ShatteredWorld does not have landmass that's isn't hovering over a planet, but actually a planet broken into pieces (small or big nonwithstanding).
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** Peragus in the same game may be a partial example as it has a large chunk blown out due to a mining accident. The first level of the games takes place in a mining within a large asteroid in orbit around the planet.
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** The third expansion, appropriately titled Cataclysm, decides to run with this idea and have it happen to Azeroth, the current world as well, shattered by the return of Deathwing.
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* Earth itself was like this for some time before the first reboot of the LegionOfSuperHeroes, being destroyed by the Dominators and rebuilt as a series of floating, interlinked, domed cities.

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* 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.
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** The third expansion, appropriately titled Cataclysm, decides to run with this idea and have it happen to Azeroth, the current world as well, shattered by the return of Deathwing.
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* There are those who think that the [[AnotherDimension Borderworld of Xen]] from ''HalfLife'' is something like this. The Nihilanth's original home planet was destroyed in a war against [[TheEmpire The Combine]], and, in his retreat, he transported the fragments, atmosphere, and some of the wildlife to Xen.
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* Somewhere in the 70s, Marvel Comics introduced Xandar, the homeworld of the Nova Corps. As part of its backstory, it was shattered and made into 4 interlinked habitats. (Summarily destroyed in 2005, in the start of Annihilation).
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* 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.

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* The [=PS2=] game ''Vexx'' ''{{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.
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* The StarWars ExtendedUniverse has lots of these, including the Taspan system and the Graveyard of Alderaan.
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* After Sonic gets [[XanatosSucker tricked]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero into giving the Chaos Emerald]] to [[MadScientist Dr. Robotnik]], the world ends up broken like this in ''SonicUnleashed'' and it's then Sonic's job to fix everything.

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* After Sonic gets [[XanatosSucker [[UnwittingPawn tricked]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero into giving the Chaos Emerald]] to [[MadScientist Dr. Robotnik]], the world ends up broken like this in ''SonicUnleashed'' and it's then Sonic's job to fix everything.
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* Michael Reaves's ''The Shattered World'' is apparently not the TropeNamer here, since I had to add this entry, but it certainly should be.

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* Michael Reaves's ''The Shattered World'' is apparently not the TropeNamer here, since I had to add this entry, but it certainly should be.
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* Michael Reaves's ''The Shattered World'' is apparently not the TropeNamer here, since I had to add this entry, but it certainly should be.
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* StarTrekOnline: There are are a large number of these in the various systems in the game. Too many to list. Notably the Romulus system.
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* The asteroid belt was supposedly the remains of a fifth planet, Phaeton. Now discredited.
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* In Brian Earnshaw's book ''Dragonfall 5 and the Space Cowboys'', pieces of a small planet, called ''The Broken World''. Inhabited by cowboy ranchers and actual blue grass.

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