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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2460607" data-attributes="member: 3649">Yeah, we don't know much about the terraforming tech used to make the Wedonverse moons shirt-sleeve habitable. Normally bodies like Titan would be too far from the Sun to terraform, but with giant mirrors to angle more sunlight to them it might be possible. A gas giant with a hotter internal termperature than Jupiter ofr Saturn has might be doable as well since it would radiate more heat out to the moons, though we don't have any indication that any of the worlds in this place orbit a gas giant - it would be kinda hard to miss the giant planet dominating the sky.  Having the 'inner worlds' orbit a close gas giant would be doable, and you could have at least a couple in the fairly narrow band of habitability for humans (a hotter star will also have a slightly larger habitation band, I think - in general, though, it's easier to handle cold than heat). That could give you 20 or more worlds, some of which might be Earth-sized garden worlds while the rest are the barely-habitable scrub-covered wastelands we normally see on the show: planets made that can support life, if grudgingly.  There are weirder possibilities, some of which would probably have required construction by a vastly advanced race: five planets that orbit each other without a central star, weird stuff like that.  Now, most of this assumes that the Titus-Bode law is really a law, which as far as I know (it's been a long time since I've read most modern astronomy) it still seems to hold true. That's the thing that states that the orbital placement of planets we see is the way it probably is elsewhere - the last two or three planets we found in our system followed that law after it was proposed. Though I think Pluto doesn't? Anyway, Titus Bode might NOT old true, which means you could have planets bunched closer together in a star's habitable zone. That would be a very, very, very good thing for us.</blockquote>

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