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.