07-16-2015, 04:41 AM
Ooh, thanks. That looks like a good source to have on hand.
Last night in bed, as I was drifting off to sleep, I kept obsessing over this system and had a couple more thoughts, which started out reasonable and got increasingly dream-like.
On the serious side, one potential big effect could be any presence by prehistoric xenosophonts. They could've xenoterraformed a planet, maybe allowing the main world of the contact system to be rather more hospitable. Looking around the EG, the best candidates for visiting xenosophonts are these guys: http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4a646e52ca80b , who might've put life on one of the colder worlds a couple billion years ago, or http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4b6d2e7446c5a , who could've been present 196 million years ago. Or there could be a more local xenosophont that isn't in the timeline. There could even have been a Muuh outpost, like even the Solar System apparently had, though not one that would've been discovered until more recently.
I was nearly asleep when I had the other thoughts, which was that the system could have an outpost from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Let's not do that.
Last night in bed, as I was drifting off to sleep, I kept obsessing over this system and had a couple more thoughts, which started out reasonable and got increasingly dream-like.
On the serious side, one potential big effect could be any presence by prehistoric xenosophonts. They could've xenoterraformed a planet, maybe allowing the main world of the contact system to be rather more hospitable. Looking around the EG, the best candidates for visiting xenosophonts are these guys: http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4a646e52ca80b , who might've put life on one of the colder worlds a couple billion years ago, or http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4b6d2e7446c5a , who could've been present 196 million years ago. Or there could be a more local xenosophont that isn't in the timeline. There could even have been a Muuh outpost, like even the Solar System apparently had, though not one that would've been discovered until more recently.
I was nearly asleep when I had the other thoughts, which was that the system could have an outpost from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Let's not do that.