Did we ever see the Andalite homeworld?

[Yorick Brown]

Either in the chronicles or the Animorphs books?

[Duff]

Ellimist chronicles but its before they get any technology and arent fully evolved

[Nomad Frog]

and we see pieces of it but not the real thing, in AC.  When they create the new planet, it's one-third Earth, one-third Yeerk Homeworld, and one-third Andalite homeworld, if I'm not mistaken.  Even if I am, they still carry pieces of it in their domeships, thusly the domed part.

But no, not the homeworld itself, in person.

[Yorick Brown]

We should have had a flashback on Ax back in the homeworld or something like that. I would ahve liked to ahve seen it described.

Also, a name would have been nice. Was it so hard to call the planet Andal or something like that, Applegate?

[AniDragon]

I believe Applegate once answered that most races wouldn't name their planet after themselves. Realistically, it would probably be named whatever the Andalite word for "ground", "earth", or "dirt" is.

[zaprowsdower]

I think it's called
Lopadotemachoselach ogaleokranioleipsan odrimhypotrimmatosi lphioparaomelitokat akechymenokichlepik ossyphophattoperist eralektryonoptekeph alliokigklopeleiola goiosiraiobaphetrag anopterygon.

[Chad32]

I think I was given a decent enough description of the Andalite homeworld. At least enough to give some idea of what it's like.

I wonder how Andalites dug their scoops, though. I take it the real things are much bigger than the one Ax makes on Earth.

[zaprowsdower]

I always had trouble really imagining what the heck scoops look like. ???

[Duff]

oh in AC elfangor has a hallucination or dream or something of his tree and his home scoop, still not actually on the planet but gives us a description
even tho they never have a real scene on the planet they talk about it alot, give a pretty good picture of what its like

[Nomad Frog]

Yeah, what with the asparagus trees and everything...though I can never remember more than that, for some reason, 'cause I was always trying to picture a gigantic asparagus spear popping up from -- isn't their grass blue?

[Estelore]

*nods*
Jah. Blue grass. Either it's part of Kentucky, or it uses Copper-based chemicals instead of Chlorophyll.

[morfowt]

in book 5 ax says the andalite home world is similar to earth only with more grassland and less ocean.

[Nomad Frog]

*nods*
Jah. Blue grass. Either it's part of Kentucky, or it uses Copper-based chemicals instead of Chlorophyll.

*snickers* I dunno, Kentucky looked pretty green when I went through it a week ago, so I'm thinking the second option, for the summer at least.

[Gafrash]

Don't they give name to things like the way the water interacts with the landmarks...?

Hmmm... Me and my imagination... I imagine the Andalite HWorld with one or two major oceans, but lots of continental plains, valleys and plateaus and forest, with little ice in the poles, and their atmosphere would create a mostly temperate climate.
Because of their 3 bird species, I dare say that they wouldn't have 1/5 of the rich of Earth's fauna. But then again, they also have life in one of the Andalite moons.... so who knows.
I would also see them agglomerated in cities that somewhat mimicked their 'herd' days and reflected their decent and optimistic nature. Advanced glass and metallic 'Domeship-like' structures at their centers, combined with residential scoops and lots of tall ornamental grass common to each area, little pollution (lots of composting)... Not sure if they would have so much automobiles or such within the cities. I would imagine they would use their crafts to travel more between the long-distant cities.
I always pictured morph-dancers and tail-exhibition-fighters at the inside of a massive oval scoop. Walls made of Ramonite would be their curtains. And their schools could have been held at large slightly-inclined slopes, where massive scoops were the classrooms and the teachers would stay uphill.
OH! The game Driftball is also something I always wondered how they play... Was it some anti-grav ball they had to play in teams using their tails as hockey-sticks???? Heheheheh!

[morfowt]

hey, I think the cover of the andalite chornicles is the andalite homeworld. see the trees in the background? they look like the asparagus-like trees that ax described in book 4.