Greetings, people of OA

[Rho Ophiuchi]

1. Going by Gaia’s latest data release it seems Rho Ophiuchi is roughly 450 ly away. Starships during the early Federation can fly at around 0.2c, increasing to 0.35c towards the end. It being colonized by 1700 AT is impossible. For comparison, Spica, a star 250 ly away, was colonized in 2499 AT.

The population of the initial colony must be large enough to maintain a self sustainable economy. It’s not clear how many people is needed though, so I’ll leave the details to others, and/or later.

2. Feel free to check out the page on the Ran system to get a general gist of what you could do. If you write pages and pages about many of the elements within a system, you might consider a ‘hub’ page like this, with links to all relevant pages.

Hello The Astronomer,

With the data you have provided, ~2800 AT as a starting date should work, then. Thank you for informing me of the problem. Also, thank you for linking me to Ran to get an idea of the structure of how to organize a system like this.

Sincerely,
Rho Ophiuchi