11-18-2017, 07:15 AM
(11-18-2017, 05:10 AM)stevebowers Wrote: It looks good so far; just a few questions - why did the Beamriders take more than 40 years to start colonisation? I tend to count the colonisation date as being close to the time that the first ships arrive in-system, but I suppose the Beamdiders would have been more concerned with establishing space habitats and beamrider infrastructure first.
1.13 gee is high, but not remarkably so - this seems a fairly hospitable world. If it is a carbon world then there would be little water on the planet- but if an oxygen atmosphere were established, there would be plenty of fuel to burn. Do we want to make it a carbon world, or just a lifeless Gaian?
Are we talking about the first or the second wave of colonization? Not sure where you get "took more than 40 years to start colonization" from. My timeline was roughly:
529 AT – link completed from Yang to Singpad (Ross 128), with the first beamrider ships leaving Yang
553 AT (24 years later) – first beamriders colonise Lohim (Ross 128 b), due to the time it takes to travel there. They soon start the terraforming of Lohim and constructing beamrider infrastructure.
621 AT – Great Expulsion starts
late 650s to late 680s – Expulsion refugees arrive on Lohim.
I assumed a travel time of about 40 years from Earth to Lohim, and 20 years from Yang to Lohim.
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Having a lifeless Gaian world here, rather than a carbon one, fits better with my plans, but of course it depends what others want.
And as for the gravity– current measurements give the planet a mass of >1.35 Earth masses (according to Wikipedia). So 1.13g seemed like the lowest figure I could realistically choose.
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I'm a bit too busy this weekend to be writing but will post a draft of the article in the Encyclopedia Galactica forum next week.