diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a3b61a7..2201054 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -43,11 +43,12 @@ python3 -m http.server 8080
 - Game screen with a basic top-down ship: **click anywhere to fly there**
   in the current system's open space (system boundaries/jumps come next)
 - **The home planet** — the player's Terran world — in the system you
-  start in: a 1024 px disc rendered 1:1 from frame 0 of
-  `assets/images/planets.png`. The ship spawns ~150 px (edge-to-edge) off
-  its rim in a seed-derived direction (same galaxy ⇒ same start), may fly
-  in as close as 50 px from the rim, and can never cross it — a planet is
-  solid (tuning in `data/planets.json`)
+  start in: a 1024 px disc rendered 1:1 from the `assets/images/planets.png`
+  spritesheet. Which Terran face it shows (frames 0–2) is a
+  seed-deterministic pick, so the same galaxy always yields the same home
+  world. The ship spawns ~150 px (edge-to-edge) off its rim in a
+  seed-derived direction, may fly in as close as 50 px from the rim, and
+  can never cross it — a planet is solid (tuning in `data/planets.json`)
 - Camera gently trails the ship; the **parallax starfield** streams past
   while it flies and the view slowly recenters (≈1.5 s) once the ship
   comes to rest
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diff --git a/data/planets.json b/data/planets.json
index a205f5d..64d10d6 100644
--- a/data/planets.json
+++ b/data/planets.json
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 {
-  "_comment": "Planet visuals + home-planet rules. texture is a spritesheet of frameWidth×frameHeight frames (frame 0 = top-left); frames maps a planet name to its frame index. homePlanet is the player's world — always present in the system the player starts in. scale = world pixels per sheet pixel (1.0 = 1:1, so a Terran world is 1024 px across on screen). A planet is a solid disc: the ship may approach to shipClearance px (edge-to-edge) from its rim but can never cross it. spawnDistanceFromEdge = how far (edge-to-edge) the ship starts from the home world's rim.",
+  "_comment": "Planet visuals + home-planet rules. texture is a spritesheet of frameWidth×frameHeight frames (frame 0 = top-left); frames maps a planet name to the sheet frames it may be drawn as — the generator picks one per planet (seed-deterministic). homePlanet is the player's world — always present in the system the player starts in. scale = world pixels per sheet pixel (1.0 = 1:1, so a Terran world is 1024 px across on screen). A planet is a solid disc: the ship may approach to shipClearance px (edge-to-edge) from its rim but can never cross it. spawnDistanceFromEdge = how far (edge-to-edge) the ship starts from the home world's rim.",
   "texture": "assets/images/planets.png",
   "frameWidth": 1024,
   "frameHeight": 1024,
   "scale": 1.0,
   "frames": {
-    "terran": 0
+    "terran": [0, 1, 2]
   },
   "homePlanet": "terran",
   "shipClearance": 50,
diff --git a/dev/planet.test.mjs b/dev/planet.test.mjs
index a8ec670..be50a32 100644
--- a/dev/planet.test.mjs
+++ b/dev/planet.test.mjs
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ const check = (label, cond) => {
 };
 
 const { Planet } = await import(pathToFileURL(join(__dirname, '../js/entities/Planet.js')).href);
+const { Rng } = await import(pathToFileURL(join(__dirname, '../js/utils/Rng.js')).href);
 
 // Off-origin on purpose: proves nothing is baked to (0, 0).
 const planet = new Planet({ add: { existing: (o) => o } }, 100, -50, 0);
@@ -64,6 +65,33 @@ check(`texture key is the spritesheet (got "${planet.key}")`, planet.key === 'pl
 check(`keep-out = radius + clearance + ship radius (got ${minDist}, want ${512 + clearance + shipRadius})`,
       minDist === 512 + clearance + shipRadius);
 
+// --- 1b. Frame pools: terran has 3 faces, pick is seed-deterministic ------
+{
+  const pool = config.get('planets.frames.terran', []);
+  check('terran frame pool is [0, 1, 2] (got ' + JSON.stringify(pool) + ')',
+        JSON.stringify(pool) === JSON.stringify([0, 1, 2]));
+
+  // Same seed ⇒ same pick (worldgen determinism), and every pick is a
+  // member of the pool.
+  const a = Planet.frameFor('terran', Rng.derive('seed-x', 'planet', 'home'));
+  const b = Planet.frameFor('terran', Rng.derive('seed-x', 'planet', 'home'));
+  check(`frameFor is deterministic per seed (got ${a} and ${b})`, a === b && pool.includes(a));
+
+  // Across seeds, all three faces actually get picked (uniform pool).
+  const seen = new Set();
+  for (let i = 0; i < 90; i++) {
+    const f = Planet.frameFor('terran', Rng.derive('seed' + i, 'planet', 'home'));
+    if (!pool.includes(f)) { check(`frameFor stays in the pool (seed${i} got ${f})`, false); break; }
+    seen.add(f);
+  }
+  check(`frameFor covers the whole pool over seeds (got ${[...seen].sort().join(',')})`,
+        seen.size === pool.length);
+
+  // Unknown kinds / bad pools fall back to frame 0.
+  const fallback = Planet.frameFor('gasGiant', Rng.derive('seed-x', 'planet', 'home'));
+  check(`frameFor unknown kind falls back to 0 (got ${fallback})`, fallback === 0);
+}
+
 // --- 2. Outside the keep-out circle: untouched ----------------------------
 {
   const s = ship(planet.x + minDist + 10, planet.y);
diff --git a/js/entities/Planet.js b/js/entities/Planet.js
index bccff64..ef90cb4 100644
--- a/js/entities/Planet.js
+++ b/js/entities/Planet.js
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ import { config } from '../config/Config.js';
 /**
  * A planet: a static world rendered from the shared spritesheet
  * (data/planets.json → texture; `frameWidth`×`frameHeight` frames, frame 0
- * is the top-left, and `frames` maps names like "terran" to frame indices).
+ * is the top-left, and `frames` maps names like "terran" to the sheet
+ * frames that kind may be drawn as — the generator picks one per planet).
  *
  * A planet is a SOLID DISC. Its collision radius is half the scaled frame
  * (the world fills its frame — a Terran world is 1024 px across at
@@ -20,15 +21,30 @@ import { config } from '../config/Config.js';
 export class Planet extends Phaser.GameObjects.Sprite {
   static TEXTURE_KEY = 'planets';
 
+  /**
+   * Pick a sheet frame for a planet of `name` from its pool in
+   * data/planets.json (`frames`), using the given Rng so the choice is
+   * seed-deterministic (same seed ⇒ same world). A pool that is just a
+   * single number (or a missing/empty pool) falls back to that number,
+   * else 0.
+   */
+  static frameFor(name, rng) {
+    const pool = config.get(`planets.frames.${name}`);
+    if (Array.isArray(pool) && pool.length > 0) return rng.pick(pool);
+    return Number.isFinite(pool) ? pool : 0;
+  }
+
   /**
    * @param {Phaser.Scene} scene
    * @param {number} x — world x of the planet's center
    * @param {number} y — world y
-   * @param {number} [frame=0] — spritesheet frame index (data/planets.json → frames)
+   * @param {number} [frame=0] — spritesheet frame index (usually from Planet.frameFor)
+   * @param {string} [name=''] — planet kind, e.g. 'terran' (data/planets.json → frames)
    */
-  constructor(scene, x, y, frame = 0) {
+  constructor(scene, x, y, frame = 0, name = '') {
     super(scene, x, y, Planet.TEXTURE_KEY, frame);
     scene.add.existing(this);
+    this.name = name;
 
     const scale = config.get('planets.scale', 1);
     this.setScale(scale);
diff --git a/js/scenes/GameScene.js b/js/scenes/GameScene.js
index c261bde..02a88ba 100644
--- a/js/scenes/GameScene.js
+++ b/js/scenes/GameScene.js
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ export class GameScene extends Phaser.Scene {
   }
 
   preload() {
-    // The planet spritesheet: frameWidth×frameHeight frames, frame 0 = the
-    // Terran home world (more worlds slot into later frames).
+    // The planet spritesheet: frameWidth×frameHeight frames; the first
+    // frames are Terran worlds (see data/planets.json → frames).
     this.load.spritesheet(
       Planet.TEXTURE_KEY,
       config.get('planets.texture', 'assets/images/planets.png'),
@@ -44,10 +44,12 @@ export class GameScene extends Phaser.Scene {
     this.createSystemHud();
 
     // The home planet — the player's Terran world, always present in the
-    // system they start in. It sits at the world origin.
+    // system they start in. It sits at the world origin. Which Terran face
+    // it shows is a seed-deterministic pick from the terran pool, so the
+    // same galaxy always yields the same home world.
     const homeName = config.get('planets.homePlanet', 'terran');
-    const homeFrame = config.get(`planets.frames.${homeName}`, 0);
-    this.planet = new Planet(this, 0, 0, homeFrame);
+    const homeRng = Rng.derive(this.galaxy.seed, 'planet', 'home');
+    this.planet = new Planet(this, 0, 0, Planet.frameFor(homeName, homeRng), homeName);
     this.planet.setDepth(5); // above the starfield (depths 0–2), below the ship (10)
 
     // The ship — a short hop (~150 px, edge-to-edge) from the home world's