Tenacious-Techhunter
Mongoose
Titus-Bode’s useful rule of thumb clearly suggests your star systems are too overloaded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titius–Bode_law
The Cyrranus System from Battlestar Galactica
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Tom Kalbfus
Mongoose
Maybe, but the Cyrannus System wasn't my idea, it is just my interpretation of what I was given by the show and that map.Tenacious-Techhunter said:
Tenacious-Techhunter
Mongoose
Just because the map is nice looking, that doesn’t make it useful. Ignore the science at your own peril.
Tom Kalbfus
Mongoose
The point was to adhere to the original map. One thing I take issue with is the Trojan planets in the Helios Delta System. (In the upper right corner of this map.)Tenacious-Techhunter said:
There are two Trojan planets Canceron and Aerilon, you can see them better in this map here:
I am told that he central body needs to be really massive in order to hold the Trojan objects in their place, maybe Hestia needs to be a red dwarf to have the gravitational influence to hold those two planets in their places. A red dwarf has at least 80 Jupiter masses or more, the light it would shed is not much, I think I would want to place Aquaria in orbit around the star Hestia, rather than have it pass by in a separate orbit. Lets assume Hestia is a star type M9 V, the dimmest one on the Traveller chart, it would probably throw Aquaria out of this system due to its gravitational influence, but I could make Aquaria its own planet oribiting around it, and it will be in a nice stable orbit, with one side tidally locked with Hestia (the Hearth fire). The near side would be warmer than the far side, which would never see Hestia.
Tenacious-Techhunter
Mongoose
The two Trojan planets at the Lagrange Points of Hestia are certainly ambitious, but not impossible. Making Hestia big enough should solve the problem, and, since it only has to be 25 times bigger, it probably is fine the way it is. The Trojans are not “held in place” by Hestia; the issue is more whether Hestia was big enough soon enough for that Lagrange Point to accumulate the necessary materials for two planets. Regardless of Hestia’s size, anything that can be found there is stable.
Smaller reddish stars are your friend for this project; they have extra-large, extra long-term stable habitable zones, even though those zones are closer in.
Smaller reddish stars are your friend for this project; they have extra-large, extra long-term stable habitable zones, even though those zones are closer in.
