 February 5, 2012 - 9:52pm | This may not be practical in play but would be fun to explore. The game at present assumes that all four races have the same daily cycle of sleep and awake. This implies that all four races developed on worlds with a galactic standard day. What if this is not true and the races developed on worlds of different day lengths and maybe even developed cycles unrelated to their world's day. Vrusk could follow a cycle that is not sunlight related as they are adapted to life underground. They may only need sleep in relation to the amount of exertion they do. A vrusk taking it easy may be able to stay up for 100 hours then sleep 10 and be good to go another easy 100. But a vrusk that is working as a rock hauler may only go 10 hours before needing it's 10 hours of sleep. Yazirians could follow a 30 hour day and find day light helps bring on sleep while darkness helps rouse them from sleep. Dralasites could be active during the daylight hours but also have a temperature dependence. They get drowsy when the temperature drops below 10C and don't rouse from sleep easily until the temperature is above 15C. Their natural day could be 22.35 hours. Humans could be just like use for simplicity sake. This could be fun for role playing but a pain to keep track of. -iggy |
 February 5, 2012 - 10:26pm | And don't forget that all the planets have different rotation cycles and natives, especially on the long settled ones will have adapted to that planets cycles. For example, Pale has a rotation period of 50 hours. For the First Sathar War novel I'm writing, I've divided that into a "day cycle" and a "night cycle" each of 25 hours where half of each cycle is spend working and the other off, basically two 25 hour days although it is completely light for one and completely dark for another. 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 |
February 5, 2012 - 11:03pm | Would the core four fully adapt to different worlds? Put an Earth human on Pale, would he adapt (or his children) to being awake for 25 hours then sleep some portion of the other 25? Or would they just have to have a 25 hour light day and a 25 hour dark day which would be 17 hours of awake in the day, 8 hours asleep in the day, 17 hours awake in the night, 8 hours asleep in the night, repeat? I believe the races would adjust to the local time within some amount of tolerance +/- of their natural developed rhythm. But I feel that there is limits on how short and how long they would go for awake and asleep. -iggy |
 February 6, 2012 - 6:59am | I agree, I think there are limits to adaption, physically but I think they will adapt practically, putting up blackout curtains, getting use to a day of light and a day of darkness etc. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 6, 2012 - 8:24am | Exactly. I think they would just have to adapt and do just as iggy said: have to have a 25 hour light day and a 25 hour dark day which would be
17 hours of awake in the day, 8 hours asleep in the day, 17 hours awake
in the night, 8 hours asleep in the night, repeat This is the route I'm going for Pale. If it were say a 20-30 hour day, they might adapt over a few generations to the natural cycle of the planet but beyond that, something else might be required. For Pale, splitting it into two 25 hour days seemed to make sense. 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 |
 February 8, 2012 - 10:44pm | A suggestion for research for this. Look for refernces to Peple living in the Artic Circle. There are light and Dark issues there. That goes for down below in the Antarctic too. I would agree with "iggy" too. They would adapt biologically to a point. A human only needs so much sleep. |
February 8, 2012 - 11:08pm | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm. Here is aninteresting article on biorhythms. Maybe this will help with your research. there is a cool picture of the human Circadian rhythm there too. |
