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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 8050384" data-attributes="member: 6920268">Science Nerd player (nearly as bad as me)I guess it is down to how the ancient device functions? Is it imposing planetary correspondences to some existing physical planets to modify how reality works? Is it modifying reality and the planets are a visual side-effect? Is it locked to 8 planet slots + the world its on and a sun? Can it do other geometry?I was assuming that each planet was an expression of the connected plane through the device. I assumed this as it fits the planet / plane bits being smaller in the gyre, planes being possibly manifestable as moons as well as planets implying they are not of fixed geometry, and the planets being manifested as different aspects of the plane when in different positions. I should have confirmed this by seeing if Av had different geography when it was Life and when it was Death. However these are only assumptions and assuming you can only have one planet and then bending geometryto fit it into the sky is equally valid (and possibly more fun). So we may be able to get a mobius strip, Klein bottle, torus, orbital, ringworld, dyson sphere or other weird  "planet" configurations.For example If we do have single objects with pseudo-orbital mechanics there are some different possible options for how this affects the planes.In the rela world 2 of saturn's moons Janus & Epimetheus swap orbits every 4 years in a stable fashion[MEDIA=youtube]r9PSimuA9a8[/MEDIA]This could be expressed as 1 plane in 2 planet positions as I talked about or or as 2 planets with the same plane aspects swapping primary and secondary position in a cycle.So if we happened to be insane we could possibly build a configuration as follows:Death: Bathory (Water & Death) Vampire NunsWater: Hunlow (Water & Death) PiratesWhich swapped every X orbitsPossibly resulting in a world where pirates went into monastic seclusion every x years <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />We might also be able to do Kempler Rosette, or other werid n-body orbit configurations <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Although we might need to make sure all the planets mass the same for that,This is my favorite, as I reckon it would provide planetary warding bonuses. Although it would make Westeros weather look normal and rational.[ATTACH=full]124259[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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