D&D 5E (2024) Building A Contemporary Fantasy Setting For 5.5E

[Azzy]

While Barsoom is portal fantasy (and set in 1866), Barsoom is part of a shared universe that includes the Carson Napier of Venus stories (he builds a rocket and attempts to fly to Barsoom in 1931 but crashlands on Venus instead).

Sounds like someone didn't study orbital mechanics.

 

[SkidAce]

Sounds like someone didn't study orbital mechanics.

I'm not a rocket scientist, but could they both have been at the other ends of their orbits from earth...putting them in the same direction relatively?

 

[Reynard]

I'm not a rocket scientist, but could they both have been at the other ends of their orbits from earth...putting them in the same direction relatively?

 

[SkidAce]

Yeah!

 

[Tonguez]

Sounds like someone didn't study orbital mechanics.

The story does say Carson Napier made a miscalculation by forgetting to adjust for the moons influence and gets caught in the gravitational pull of Venus. So yeah he wasnt too good at orbital mechanics