====== Some Clarifying Comments on some of my stories ======
[[./memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4890|YoungConlanger]] wrote: [[./viewtopic.php?p=346909#p346909|////]]2025-10-11T16:39:06+00:00 **Spoiler:** Above is quite cool! Plus I think it give more "cool reference" bonus points because I at least was not aware of how we misconceptualized the Solar system. The only problem is that the if it's not 180 degrees, Newhome & Yih are going to attract each other much more, so it might actually lead to a planetary crash... You know what? I'll do a small simulation in Universe Sandbox & tell you what happens in that scenario.
[[./memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4873|lurker]] wrote: [[./viewtopic.php?p=333943#p333943|////]]2024-07-27T00:52:37+00:00 Here are the stats for Focus and Yih that I calculated last year. None of the other bodies at Focus have any hard math behind them. I've kind of moved away from hard math worldbuilding as I've found it's really easy to paint myself into a corner. Focus: Mass (solar) 1.02 radius (solar) 1.01 luminosity (solar) 1.07 lifetime (solar) 0.95 temp (solar) 1.01 HZ inner (AU) 0.99 HZ outer (AU) 1.42 HZ width (AU) 0.43 HZ? 1.04 frost line (AU) 5.02 Yih: distance from Focus (AU) 1.30 orbital period (earth years) 1.47 mass (earth) 0.90 radius (earth) 1.01 surface gravity (gees) 0.88 density (g/cm^3) 4.81 escape velocity (m/s) 10557.27 Rotations per orbit 528 Earth hours per rotation 24.38973064
I'm glad I actually searched for it myself rather than asking you for it. I'll make an edit w/ the results of my not-too-scientific experiments. **Edit:** The simulation ran for a few thousands of in-sim years & both planets orbited the star alright & never crashed into each other. Though it assumed Newhome us the same as Yih, but I guess it's still possible because I don't remember you saying Newhome is very different from Yih in terms of mass. A bit sorry for being a geek. :-)
Oh hey I forgot I had Universe Sandbox on Steam. I should try to build out Focus. I don't have anything defined other than Yih and Focus itself. I've been thinking I'd just keep it simple and have all the rocky planets be more or less identical to Yih, maybe varying by 10% in some aspect here or there. One tidbit about Hearthside is that they use aerosols in the atmosphere to keep the day side cool. I mentioned in the Outlander thread that, at least to people at Moonlitter and in the Outer Belt, planets and other bodies are divided among those that cannot be terraformed at all, those that can be terraformed and can also be actively climate-controlled, and those that can be terraformed but are too big to allow active climate control. Gaseous bodies lige gas and ice giants and brown dwarfs have another word. ---- On another topic, here are some clarifying comments on some of my stories. In the House of Friendship, Aurora has to stop herself from returning the priest's smile. Especially in the early days, yinrih would try to mimic human facial expressions to compensate for the fact that humans don't pick up on yinrih pheromones. Yinrih unfamiliar with human customs would also default to mirroring human body language where possible "just to be safe". Since yinrih have very canine features their attempts at smiling look like a snarl. Yinrih already use their ears as secondary indicators of emotion, and learn to be more deliberate about ear position to clue humans into how they're feeling. In The Spacer Confederacy, the representative from the Federal Council floats across the threshold of the colony and into the airlock of his own shuttle before beginning his lecture to Graypelt. That's because he's technically no longer inside Wayfarers' Haven and isn't subject to its norms and can speak freely. If, hypothetically, Wayfarers' Haven had something akin to blasphemy laws (which don't exist in the Bright Way but the councilman doesn't know this) they could kill him with no repercussions if he said something wrong as long as he's inside the colony. The Spacer Confederacy is made up of mutually antagonistic groups who only agree on one thing, that they want self determination, and they hate each other just little enough to come together to protect that singular common goal. I often think of the SC as a federal system with an authoritarian federal government but libertarian state governments. The Federal Police are how the SC maintains that delicate balance, and their methods aren't gentle as can be inferred by the scar on the Councilman's muzzle. Exactly how this works out, how colonies manage to keep to themselves and don't grab more than their fair share of resources, especially under such a hyperlibertarian system, is yet to be determined, other than that the Police keep everyone in line through fear. Like the councilman says, if you stay in your corner and obey what few laws do exist, you won't get a visit form the cops. And as I said before, it's entirely possible this system is just as dysfunctional as it probably sounds, but I hope it's dysfunctional in a way that makes for fun worldbuilding and not just breaks the suspension of disbelief. {{tag>meta}}