Depends, but I’m hoping for a strategy games around factions of the species we’re making. It would be a much more ordinary one with a lot less voting.
Edit: will be closing any non tied polls shortly
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I mean I’d be happy for it’s early history of evolution and its tectonic plates that way one can spread of a biota or where a kingdom/empire lies realistic speaking
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Mhmm definitely at least some evolution, but hopefully we can skip some of it, that tends to take millions of years
Edit: added tiebreaker polls, and the Red Dwarf system is a carbon-rich one so if you haven’t voted on it’s closest planet, do so! make something interesting.
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Genetic engineering and mechanical evolution?
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Sorry huh? Like is that a thing we’ll be doing or what did you mean ?
Edit: reminder, five planets are tied right now, and the tiebreakers could use some votes.
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Btw outer system two might need you as the tie breaker death unless someone randomly joins in on the vote cause it’s all 6 on different part causing the tie and red dwarf 1 got untied
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All the polls are closed! if you scroll up to the top i edited my original topic post to include a summery of the solar system. Now, we have to know a few things about the moon and it’s gas giant.
First, how extreme are the years? I’ll do this in two parts, and i considered them contingent on each other. How extreme are the summers, and how long are they (which will define how extreme the winters are).
- Dangerously hot ((very shallow) water may boil if the moon’s atmosphere isn’t dense enough and days are long)
- Toasty (lots of seasonal deserts and rain forests, UV means seasonal cancer risk)
- Warm (plants love the sunlight but it doesn’t harm much, poetically halcyon)
- Temperate (perfectly fine temperature but I wonder about how cold winter gets…)
- Cool (Permanent snow caps, maybe ice sheets, maybe other moons are icy moons)
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edit: this is the average, it will get hotter or colder in ice ages or the opposite.
Additionally, moons of gas giants are often tidally locked, lengthening days and preventing half the world from seeing the pretty gas giant. What prevents this?
- Eccentric orbit, makes sense given the nature of our moon but is annoying and will still have long days
- Orbit retrograde, makes sense given we’re a captured planet, extremely dangerous and weird
- Orbital resonance, other moons and us keep the pull of the gas giant in check
- Just be tidally locked and deal with it.
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Might be wrong but isn’t there an orbit where two moons tug each other as they move around the planet causing them to switch places?
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OH interesting… I don’t think so but I’ll look it up? edit: yep nasa says so. That scares me.
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It’s either two moons of Saturn or Jupiter which basically moves around the gas giant and every I think 5-7 years? They switch places by one tugging it up while the other tug out edit, fascinating stuff ain’t it?
On a site note however boy rainforests no matter what will have a grow fast and live young outside natural areas when it becomes hot and humid around them
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Alright, done some quick research. Not an option. Our moon is way too big. The dynamic works with itty bitty moons and saturn sized gas giants, not huge moons and saturn sized gas giants, or in fact normal stars and normal planets. It might work with a planet and a tiny star, or a good sized moon and a huge gas giant, but not with our ratio of masses, not at all.
Yeah I was imagining rain forests to go dormant and only like a few frost resistant plants stay around.
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Tie breaker polls should be made in a new post.
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Yeah, I’m sure scrolling and such is annoying 
will do so in the future.
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Dead all ties are broken it seems, You can look for yourself but its chilly earth, dead planet, ice in the last ones [and red dwarf was hot jupiter I think]
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No, it’s because people won’t see it otherwise, only 3 people voted in those.
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Yeah I closed them because I needed them over. I likely would have done a reminder message or something but that would be double posting. I may not make some new detailed polls for a few days, and at least today, because of a recent hand injury, I’m in no place to type one handed (I’m a righty, right hand has a half dozen fun new gashes and a broken finger). Presently at the hospital, so that’s fun. Very boring. Get back to y’all tonight or perhaps a few days from now.
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Alright, the poll for how to stabilize the orbit is very tied. Sadly, anonymous voting is on, and I can’t just ask the opinion of the one person who voted for something else, so we have to do a whole tiebreaker vote.
- orbital resonance
- orbit retrograde
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We have a retrograde moon! I gotta do some math, apologies, but uh, I’ll get back to you. Orbital mechanics time, wishing I had payed attention in the few astronomy and physics class I’ve taken. Hopefully the Internet will be gracious and the math will be simple. At least orbital period is just the semi-major axis.
Edit: someone respond please, so It does notifications for others
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so you want one of us to ping others by responding here, or what do you mean?
Doesn’t @everyone ping everyone that posted in the thread it was used?
Not sure about that tho.
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