 January 26, 2011 - 10:14pm | Refer to: Fochrik System Brief WIP. First off, in the chart I left out the orbital period as I still need to convert them from earth years to GST Now I also have this attached note from Tom S.: For Forge, you could maintain an atmosphere. It might be thick and heavy with a lot of CO2 somewhat like Venus or it could be thinner. It's not really my area but you would definitely have a lot of wind rushing from the dark side to the lit side due to major convection in the atmosphere. The “habitable” area would be in a strip along the terminator. The orbit is perfectly circular so there would be some oscillation of Fochrik in the sky and variations in temperatures. Outside of that, you'd need to be in domes or underground. (note in Tom's email communication with me he specified that he was not convinced that Forge's orbit was stable but he did run the sim for a million years and it was good) Question 1:which begs the question of which way do we take the atmosphere? thick with high CO2 or thin Something that did occur to me was that with high winds it could explain while the economy is both Resource and Industrial- with landing being such a pain they refine resources and only ship finished goods Question 2: No doubt the other planets, being in a long inhabitted system, would already have names. So any candidates for humma sounding planet names? We have Hum, and Larg but Forge sounds like a translation to me in light of its proxity to the star and its economy. Question 3: I'm thinking that the humma should already have attain crude space flight prior to being discovered by the CFM- giving them a head start on populating Forge and a chance to deport the boon'sheh to Larg (as a side note I've started to think of Larg as the Humma word for cold) Note: question 3 has more to do with the history page but that is part of the same section as the system brief so I'll leave it here. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 January 27, 2011 - 8:11am | Actually, it's the little innermost planet that may not be stable. Forge is just fine. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
January 27, 2011 - 3:01pm | my bad I misread- cool though. we'll call it stable and let it go at that. BTW the topography of the system has already suggested details of the system's history to me. again thanks for the help Tom/terl I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 January 27, 2011 - 5:10pm | Actually, it's the little innermost planet that may not be stable. Forge is just fine. Tom, when you mentioned Forge oscillating, you did mean in the same fashion as Io oscillates, right? If so, wouldn't that lead to volcanic activity similar to Io's? " 'Beware the Beast, Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." |
 January 27, 2011 - 5:30pm | Forge could be a Human translation of a Humma word for a forge. Something guttural and hard to pronounce in Human this the Human word is used. The name could be derived from the primary industrial metal working use of the planet's economy. -iggy |
January 27, 2011 - 5:35pm | Forge could be a Human translation of a Humma word for a forge. Something guttural and hard to pronounce in Human this the Human word is used. The name could be derived from the primary industrial metal working use of the planet's economy. I'm sure you mean the Pan Gal word.  I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
January 27, 2011 - 5:43pm | Since it is in an elliptical orbit, it's orbital speed varies over the course of a year. Its rotation period equals its orbital period so it always keeps one face toward the star (just like to moon to the earth). However since the orbital speed varies over the year and the rotational speed doesn't the star does appear to move just a little over the course of a year (i.e. wobbling back and forth). We see the same thing with the moon. Although the same face is always towards us, since it is also in an elliptical orbit and inclined to the equator, we can actually see about 59% of the moon's surface from the earth as the exact part we see around the edges changes month to month as it oscillates around. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
January 27, 2011 - 6:23pm | names for the un-named planets: Erg, Kerrarg, Glack, Horrarg, Gark RE: Forge if its to be high winds I plan to list x (100-200) number of wreck sites on the surface and most are HS 1-3, the wrecks date mostly from before the CFM showed up and the humma got their hands on better tech. at least one is a massive hole from a nuclear explosion- poorly understood and watched atomic drive got out of control, if it had had a proper drive program then the worst result would have been a slagged drive but instead it went "boom"- that one has no wrekage at the crash site. Treasure hunting on Forge will be a some what time honored practice. and this could be the basis for a "layover adventure"- quick one session adventure because enough of the group is a no show OR the beginning of something bigger. With the high winds I would assume they would be more intense near the terminator from day to night which is also closer to the habitable zone thus any ships landing might need to land oposite the star for better conditions but then we'd be talking about intense cold so I was imagining a large canyon as a star port and a subway or a mono rail toward the terminator and the habitable zone. for a number of reason some of the wrecks would be very difficult to get to and loot, too close to the terminator and the wreck actually ocilates into the sun light- not good for biological survivability, and some are out there on the coldest parts of the planet and the extreme cold is hard on humma and equipment making them just difficult to get too and when found they're covered in CO2 ice. about 30% are not well charted where they went down. Thus its almost cliche that a new arrival on Forge will be offered a treasure map to a lost wreck carrying fabulous wealth from a salty old humma with health problems and thats why he cant claim the treasure himself. Its so bad that a proverb sprung up: "Beware of Forgites offering treasure maps." Naturally you dont have an NPC tell the players the proverb till they have actually parted with some credits for the "map" then said NPC laughs at them. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
