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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7418501" data-attributes="member: 6925649">One obviously needs some notes on each world one intends to use. for instance, here is a world I created:Hex AO BJ Forseti:Starport E - Frontier installation; Diameter 7 - 6,860 miles (11,038 km); Atmosphere 5 - Thin; Water surface 9 - 92%; Population 2 - 214 humans; Government 0 - No government structure; Law level 0 - No prohibitions; Tech Level 5 - Industrial age; Distance from primary 0.54 AU; Primary type M0-9 IV, V, VI; Distance of wormhole from primary 50 AU; <a href="http://www.solstation.com/stars/barnards.htm" target="_blank">http://www.solstation.com/stars/barnards.htm</a>It has a population of 214 people, it has a thin atmosphere, so you don't need a space suit, just a strong pair of lungs, there is no government here and no law effectively, there are some unspoken laws of course, the people who live here would not like you stealing from them for instance, they would tend to want to get even if anyone did, a kind of live and let live attitude exists here. There aren't many people here, there are just a bunch of people who'd like to get away from it all, they grow their own food, have some table top industrial capacity, machine shops for producing parts to repair their internal combustion engines, for things like tractors and such. There is a community leader, everybody knows each other, and this person is the most popular person in town, and is the town's founder in fact, and since no one else lives on this planet, this is effectively the World Government. How would you explain this? There is a wormhole that connects this system to the Solar System, but maybe its a secret wormhole, its at a separate location from the main stargate. Wormholes can be hard to find after all, there is a lot of space to search. the planet itself is kind of valuable, you can live on it without any sort of life support equipment, and it is a convenient location from Earth, and there is the discovery of the ringworld, someone might want to investigate that. Perhaps someone did. Maybe this whole planet is top secret because of that.The planet is tidally locked to a red dwarf, but the planet's orbit is not circular, so what happens is that while the planet rotates at a constant rate, its rate of revolution changes with distance, and distance from the star varies, as other neighboring planets pull it out of its circular orbit. At the day/night terminator, the red sun will appear to bob up and down above and below the horizon producing periods of night and day that exist no where else on the planet.</blockquote>

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