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Re: Sky People's solar system

From:Arek Bellagio <zadar@...>
Date:Monday, January 18, 1999, 21:46
        In fact, I want to know how you make the planet's revolution delays.
I've
>got a good idea for the planet of the Sky People (their sun is a little >hotter than ours, so their planet is slightly farther from their sun than >ours), but I don't know how to make it with the other 11 planets of this >solar system. I don't know how to make it with the two satellites of the >Sky People's planet either. So everybody's help is welcome.
What, first, do you mean by revolution delays? You dont really need much help; all you have to do is to create a solar system, and at least make it seem real in a common sense. For example, I have developed an entire (though not complete in all aspects) civilization around my conlang, Zadri. I've created an alien race, their customs, home, and have set it into the future (roughly around the same time as Star Trek)= =20 For example of the solar system: It contains two stars; a binary pair. One is a star darker and larger than hours, which provides more heat than it does light (similar to a dark glowing ember). The other is a smaller, brighter star, which gives off more light than it does heat. Thus, to accomodate for the larger amounts of light and heat from the center of the system, I placed the most habitable planet, Zadar IV, about the halfway between Mars and the asteroid belt is from our sun. So, it contains a rather Earthlike environment, but because there is still a great amout of heat, the planet in general is similar to our equator; lucious jungle, rich vegetation, but few plains and dry valleys (due to the larger water content on the planet).=20 There are 12 planets total in the Zadaran System; the closet planet is a dry, dead rock. The second is a deadly sphere of massive volcanoes and oceans of lava. There are thick clouds of 'smoke' that hover about the planet, but because there is very little atmosphere, the clouds dissipate into space. The third planet is habitable, but no life other than the plantlife which has adapted to the heat can survive. The planet has one of the lowest orbits in the system, below the red giant's equator. Thus, most of the planet sees the darker, hotter red sun. In conclusion, thick vegetation survives in the 140=B0 F heat. As aforementioned, the fourth planet is habitable. The fifth planet is also habitable, inhabited by a separate race. The planet is very green and vegetous, with large spans of valleys and rivers, with four, very large oceans. The sixth planet is habitable, but is much colder than the three, and thus is similar to the climate of say, the Sierra Nevadas of California (and about the climate Alaska just above (and below) the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn [as they would appear on earth]). The seventh planet is a ball of ice, similar to iceworld of Hoth in the Star Wars saga. No life has been spawned there, but life can survive if protected by basecamps or subterranial colonies (again, similar to Star Wars). The eight planet is a failed star; it is about 1/3 larger than jupiter and is totally gaseous. And, finally, the ninth through twelfth planets are iceous dead rocks; the eleventh is a blue gas giant. So, basically you have to have common sense; the farthest planet obviously would not have life, and the first probably wouldn't either. Hope this helps and hope this'll give you enough info! :) In conclusion, ~Arek - zadar@wco.com ....Zefir siela al noktu an, subrondeo: desur sola mis laramissos= dusondan?.... - Amao vas.