StarNES: Updates Without Number (Epoch I)

[mayor]

I thought so but the name/planet combination is needed for the plotline. (yes my planets have a plot line )

 

[Terrance888]

I'm just trying to make clusters of systems whose names sound familiar. See Nocturna/Lacuna and such stars.

 

[Eltain]

Edit: The wormhole in 0420 Nim Frauling is labeled wrong. It goes to 2320 Miyabi, not 2302.

 

[nutranurse]

Corrected for the next update.

 

[nutranurse]

Alright, as I have 12/17 orders in I am setting the deadline for Update V orders for:

28.3.2012 Midnight (i.e. tomorrow at 24:00) GMT-4.

 

[SouthernKing]

SK: 43 GC
8 GC into making a large asteroid field in Varynx (2209), 8 GC into making a large asteroid field in Kraton-Kamulon (2309) (27 GC left)
20 GC into placing two medium planets around Kraton-Kamulon (7 GC left)
6 GC into placing three moons in Kraton-Kamulon; 2 around the habitable world and 1 around the other one (1 GC left)
Bank 1 GC.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Nutranurse, do you mean tonight? or tomorrow night? (I always get confused)

 

[Eltain]

11:59 PM on the 28th of March.

Probably.

 

[nutranurse]

Tomorrow night, as midnight is always on the same day (it's not till 12:01 that it transitions to the next day!)

Just assume that when I say "Midnight of Friday" or something I mean 12:00pm (i.e. what comes after 11:00pm).

Jesus, I can see why people elsewhere in the world use the 24-hour system.

 

[Tambien]

Bank All

 

[nutranurse]

Oh, Tambien, if you go over the last two pages you'll see some pretty cool ideas we've come up with that I'm going to implement this turn. It might not be a bad idea to put them into Space Seed!

 

[spaceman98]

100GC¤ to spend
In hex 1120, create three stars, the triplet
Give the system 2 medium and one small rockey planet
Put an asteroid field around Taman, large 8gc
Bank the rest

 

[nutranurse]

Is the system name "Triplet"?

 

[Tambien]

Oh, Tambien, if you go over the last two pages you'll see some pretty cool ideas we've come up with that I'm going to implement this turn. It might not be a bad idea to put them into Space Seed!

Will do, thanks!

 

[SouthernKing]

Suggestion: Blue stars, if they undergo a supernova, should have a 50-50 chance of turning into a neutron star or black hole.
I don't know how well this would work in game, but I'll put it out there.

 

[nutranurse]

Nah, black holes are monstrous forces of destruction in this NES--having every other blue star potentially become one would mess up the balance.

 

[SouthernKing]

Make it maybe, 20-80 or thereabouts?

 

[nutranurse]

I'd make it lower, to be honest. 5/95 for Black Hole/Neutron Star, mainly because I am hesitant to have that much chance for wide-scale destruction of a black hole's extent. Remember, they destroy the hex they spawn in and have a 50% chance to destroy the hexes around them.

Also, for the supernova→nebula thing, originally the supernova automatically lead to a nebula, but that's not the case anymore. Would it be more appropriate to have it be 5/60/35, with that being Black Hole/Neutron Star/Nebula, or would it make more sense to have nebula formation be the more common result in the aftermath of a supernova? I may love scifi with all my heart, but my knowledge of astronomy is pretty much relegated to a single 100-level course I took last year.

 

[Tecknojock]

A nebula is almost always formed by a supernova or hypernova.

Nova (Standard sized star) = White Dwarf (No nebula as much of the remnant gasses remain around the core because the explosion isn't violent enough to throw them away.)
Super Nova (Large Star) = Neutron star or Pulsar + an ejected nebula.
Hyper Nova (Very large star) = Black hole + Nebula + Gamma ray burst

 

[nutranurse]

So, what, a neutron star+nebula system? That's... interesting. It certainly changes some of my plans for how warp-drive would function in epoch iii... Or perhaps not! I'll go with Supernova→Neutron Star+Nebula (large percent for this) or a black hole (small percent for this).