[PoD] Drinax location

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cunningrat

Banded Mongoose
The Drinax system star is an M1V red dwarf. Its Goldilocks zone extends to 0.24 AU: therefore, that's the farthest Drinax can possibly be from the star.

Any of you ever notice that this places Drinax 0.23 AU inside the star's jump shadow? That's more than a day at typical trader's 1G speed.

Now I have to figure out whether to make this a thing in my campaign. On one hand, it neatly explains why Drinax has almost no trade moving through it. On the other hand, it'll be a pain in the butt for the players to deal with.
 
The adventures don't seem to factor it in. The scout ship in Ihatei would have zero chance of outrunning the Harrier to a safe jump distance if it did.

The PCs would be less bothered by it for the same reason: 24h for a Thrust-1 ship would be ~10h for the Thrust-6 Harrier. It's still a considerable distance, but it also gives them a better chance to intercept things when they need to, which comes up several times during the campaign.
 
I’d just go ahead and make it a class K or G star. Not just to fix the jump shadow issue, but also because Drinax used to be an Earth-like garden world with grasslands and forests, which is extremely unlikely if not impossible in a class M system.
 
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