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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kemrain" data-source="post: 2481743" data-attributes="member: 12153">It's that time again. Time to beg the astro- and planetary physicists to come out and tell me how wrong I am- and explain how my ideas could work.  I'm playing in a Stargate campaign here on the boards, and as my boyfriend is the GM I get to help him be creative. I'm working on some interesting planetary systems for use in said game.The first one I'm looking at is an inhabited moon circling a large gas giant.I want the planet to be dark, at least where the near-humans live. The environment I'm looking for is a fungal rainforest on a world shrouded in very dim twilight, with colored lights in the sky when the clouds part (a rare occurance). I figure the gas giant would give off a lot of radiation, so the moon would need a strong magnetic field, but that and the cloud cover wouldn't block all of it, so the inhabitants would need to be radiation resistant. That's easy to accomplish as the backhistory of these people involves some genetic manipulation by the Goa'uld (making them rad-resistant but require a certain ammount to create some of the enzimes they need to digest food- synthesizable but not by them as they're now primitive). I figure the moon has become tidally locked, and the human inhabitants would be on the part of the world that would get the least sunlight. (I need this world to be dark nearly al lthe time)I figure the 'plants' that live on this would would 'photosynthesize' with the non-visual part of the EMS that would be given off by the parent planet, so they wouldn't be true fungus like we have on earth, nore plants like we're used to. This part is flavor, and isn't terribly important.The main things I want to establish are this: How long could a world like this support life? (It could have been brought here long ago, and not have been generated here.) What sort of super technology, if any, would be required to make this world livable for it's inhabitants? If this part of the world is a rainforest biome, what might the rest of the world be like?Any assistance that can be offered would be greatly appreciated. I know you folks are brilliant, and can help me make this work scientifically.- Kemrain the Physics-rific.</blockquote>

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