I'm all over that...it may be a bit cliche, but I think I could definitely play it off pretty well...Isn't that something? I come here for the orbital collision detection, and end up with a campaign plot.
At least a plot that I can build up to for schedule completion at end of heroic tier...
Now...what would really be cool is if I can somehow use astrosynthesis or some other program to create these orbits to make sense, so I can create a visual aid maybe? Anybody got any ideas?
If you make the planet bigger - I think I read it was about mars-size, then you could increase the planets gravity enough to influence the moons, yet have the moons far enough away so that the moon's gravity will not, as a rule be able to greatly influence the planet. At least not till all of the moons are in the right position / conjunction to cause the mass destruction. It sounds good to me.
Hmnnnn got me thinking now
Its a little bigger than mars...what I need to do is make the moons smaller for sure.
Here's what I got...you can see the moons are pretty small, and not that close to the planet in comparison to earth's moon. (Look at Arsala and its 8 moons)
Code:Aran Spectral Class: A7V Mass: 2.042 sol Radius: 1.77 sol Luminosity: 12 sol Planets: Versala, Remoralon, Arsala, Kerasalon Versala Planetoid Distance: 87,894,222 km Radius: 2452 km Gravity: 0.01G Orbit Period: 115.05 days Rotation: 37 hrs Remoralon Distance: 140,456,234 km Radius: 3406 km Gravity: 0.49G Orbit Period: 232.4 days Rotation: 28 hrs Inhospitable Moons: Reilihan, Bailierron Reilihan Distance: 37,049 km Radius: 1781 km Gravity: 0.28G Orbit Period: 2.19 days Rotation: 0 hrs Inhospitable Bailierron Ring Distance: 46,136 km Ring Width: 541 km Arsala Distance: 188,039,300 km Radius: 3955 km Gravity: 0.7G Orbit Period: 360 days Rotation: 20 hrs Habitable Population: Unknown Moons: Empaloran, Fastidius, Urlora, Levior, Balnan, Menestra, Earanuil, Consecra Empaloran Distance: 184,232 km Radius: 456 km Gravity: 0.08G Orbit Period: 17.44 days Rotation: 12 hrs Inhospitable Fastidius Distance: 234,543 km Radius: 562 km Gravity: 0.1G Orbit Period: 25.05 days Rotation: 17 hrs Habitable Population: 120 Urlora Distance: 323,434 km Radius: 532 km Gravity: 0.08G Orbit Period: 40.56 days Rotation: 38 hrs Habitable Population: 2,000 Levior Distance: 356,733 km Radius: 531 km Gravity: 0.05G Orbit Period: 46.98 days Rotation: 53 hrs Habitable Population: 12 Balnan Distance: 378,943 km Radius: 354 km Gravity: 0.05G Orbit Period: 51.44 days Rotation: 74 hrs Habitable Population: 80 Menestra Distance: 398,922 km Radius: 687 km Gravity: 0.13G Orbit Period: 55.56 days Rotation: 47 hrs Habitable Population: 160 Earanuil Distance: 456,372 km Radius: 762 km Gravity: 0.11G Orbit Period: 67.98 days Rotation: 59 hrs Habitable Population: 642 Consecra Distance: 523,432 km Radius: 465 km Gravity: 0.07G Orbit Period: 83.5 days Rotation: 0 hrs Inhospitable Kerasalon Distance: 222,139,403 km Radius: 5574 km Gravity: 0.86G Orbit Period: 462.24 days Rotation: 85 hrs Habitable Moons: Ernodenden, Onstu Ernodenden Ring Distance: 10,748 km Ring Width: 390 km Onstu Distance: 270,363 km Radius: 377 km Gravity: 0.07G Orbit Period: 19.89 days Rotation: 119.2 hrs Inhospitable
Last edited by Robbie; 06-15-2008 at 07:21 PM.
I still would maintain that if your friend registered his copy of AS and is willing to be a go between for a few days, that the AS/FM mailing list is THE best place to present this. The mailing list is active in spurts and if I remember correctly (Fractal Mapper and AstroSynthesis both share the same mailing list) there are at least a few astronomers and NASA type people who are regulars on the list. There are some really smart guys over there on that list who should be able to answer this question fairly quickly(though perhaps not the answer you want.)
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I've gotta say, while I don't remotely believe in astrological stuff, I also don't believe in magic, so hey...
In a fantasy setting I'd be all for astrology. Magic could readily be aspected by astrological conditions. In a science-fiction/science-fantasy setting like something out of Jack Chalker you could have some sort of ancient alien artifact on one of the moons that has, "magical," effects on the planet when the moon is in conjunction with another moon with it's own artifact. The magic goes away... and comes back... and goes away again periodically. There's a reason why the were-critters come out at a full Menestra.
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