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Old March 11th, 2011, 01:30 PM   #49
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Default Re: Colonial Fleet star system Cyrannus

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Originally Posted by WarMachine View Post
Remember that the Home System is a multi-stellar group, of at least a trinary. This will greatly increase the depth of the Goldilocks Zone.

However, making them all moons of inner system gas giants is problematic if there are multiple gas giants....Unless, of course, you drop it to a single giant in a stable orbit, and one or two independent planets....

...But then, there is the problem of dialogue in SOASW, specifically Omega: "..Cylons launching against all outer planets..." (emphasis added) -- how to account for that?

I think that three suns, spread relatively far apart, each with its own planetary mini-system, is a better option. Basing this on the Terran system, there would be at least two "normal" planets around two of the stars, leaving room for an inner system gas giant around the third, with a constellation of "terraformable" [sic] moons.....
WarMachine could you sketch out your ideas on a piece of paper and scan it?

You're the person who seems to have the know-how to make this work, the rest of us seems to be in the dark,

If we can see a rough visual of how the worlds might exist in the trinary system, it will help the artists with their visualisations.

The suns are probably called Cyrannus Alpha, Beta and Delta, we know Caprica, Virgon and Sagittara orbit together around one of these suns, so that's some sort of starting point.
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