PHASE 1 TURN 5
0416e - Tyr
Tyr is a dim twinkle in the nightsky from Old Earth, barely visible on a clear night.
A class M main sequence star, small and exceedingly common. These relatively cool stars often mass only a fraction of Old Earth's sun.
0615a-A - Janus
Janus is a trinary star system about 8 lightyears rimward from earth. The eponymous star represents Janus, the father of time in one of the old Greco-Roman Pantheons. Janus has gone super-nova in the past half a million years and has yet to subsume its small neighbor, Venilia.
A low-to-medium mass star in a late phase of stellar evolution, a red giant has exhausted the supply of hydrogen in its core and switched to hydrogen fusion in a shell around the now helium core instead. While the star itself is huge, the outer envelope has a lower temperature, giving the star its characteristic hue.
0615a-B - Juturna
Jutuna represents the first wife of Janus, spurned in her old age by Venilia. She was the Goddess of fountain, spring and the lifeforce of the universe.
A K-type main-sequence star, also referred to as a K-type dwarf or an orange dwarf, is a main-sequence (hydrogen-burning) star of spectral type K and luminosity class V. These stars are intermediate in size between red M-type main-sequence stars ("red dwarfs") and yellow/white G-type main-sequence stars.
0615a-C - Venilia
Venilia represents the second wife of Janus, the Goddess of the winds and the sea. Venilia is a cool brown dwarf, and was likely a gas giant orbiting Janus at a comfortable distance before the latter went supernova. The expansion of Janus into a red giant has slowly been siphoning gases off of Venilia for millenia.
This brown dwarf is a sub-stellar primary mass which has not reached sufficient temperature to fuse hydrogen though it radiates appreciable electromagnetic radiation due to gravitational compression. Smaller brown dwarfs are categorized with gas giants on a somewhat muddled spectrum rather than a definitive threshold. The magnetic fields of a brown dwarf are powerful and potentially tumultuous compared to small planets.
0617b - Basar
Basar is visible in the Wolf's Jaw constellation. For decades, astrographers thought Lycaon and Basar were a binary system. The truth was only revealed when an observatory not in the Sol system was fixed on the location.
Slightly cooler and smaller than Old Earth's sun, this class K star most resembles Alpha Centauri B. It is particularly stable, burning on the lower end of the main sequence for tens of billions of years and thus considered a likely host to life-bearing and terraformable planets.
0717a - Lycaon
Lycaon is a newborn star in an active nursery - sufficient density of gasses in the Wolf's Jaw Nebula have compressed and ignited sometime within the past thirty thousand years - well within humanity's lifetime.
A typical F-class yellow-white star has a mass of 1.4 times greater than Sol and are around 1.5 times the radius. They have a lifespan of around 5 billion years before the hydrogen runs out and the star goes supernova.
0717a - Wolf's Jaw Nebula
The Wolf's Jaw Nebula is visible from the night sky on Earth - only as a shadow that passes in front of Lycaon every year around the same time.
A nebula is a distinct luminescent part of interstellar medium, which can consist of ionized, neutral or molecular hydrogen and also cosmic dust.
0918a - Sindhu Nebula
The Sindhu Nebula is like a river in the sky from Earth. Sindhu's eponymous parallel on Earth is home to great civilizations; Sindhu itself is a barren wasteland of frozen gasses and lightyear-spanning hyperstorms.
A nebula is a distinct luminescent part of interstellar medium, which can consist of ionized, neutral or molecular hydrogen and also cosmic dust.
2004d - Cixin
Cixin is your typical red dwarf, nearly imperceptible in the night sky. It is around 12 lightyears coreward from Sol.
A class M main sequence star, small and exceedingly common. These relatively cool stars often mass only a fraction of Old Earth's sun.
PLAYER | BASE CP | 2d6 CP | BANKED CP | TOTAL CP | POGS | SP |
TerrisH | 25 | 10 | 7 | 42 | | 0 |
Erez87 | 25 | 7 | 5 | 37 | | 0 |
Eltain | 20 | 7 | 9 | 36 | | 0 |
Traveller76 | 25 | 8 | 13 | 46 | | 0 |
NinjaCow64 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 34 | 1-0.5=0.5 | 1 |
Lord of Elves | 20 | 8 | 80 | 108 | 2 | 1 |
OOC:
Result of MINIGAME 1:
Bonus points applied to BASE CP.
Winner of TBD incentive is 0615a - Janus. Applied future plans to hex - stars Venilia and Juturna.
REQUEST:
For future submissions, can you include in the text the "theme" of the object you are placing.
Example, in my placement of Cixin I specified that the name is Chinese in origin.
This helps me write flavor text and may inspire future submissions neighboring the hex.
I will update the map again on Friday 5/19/23 after 8 pm est.
If all orders are in before then, and also I have a few free minutes, I will update ahead of schedule.
Otherwise, I will update on schedule with or without all participants.