We are the moon.

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Two pages and no mention of Arthur C. Clarke's books?! Amazing! Want a good descriptive image of a gas giant turned sun? Well, look no farther than 2010: Odyssey Two, 2061: Odyssey Three, and 3001: Final Odyssey. Jupiter transformed into a star, turning half of Europa into an Earth-like ocean planet(minus the oxygen, of course)

 

[Ferret]

Sounds cool, but the moon then becomes a planet, that doesn't go arround a planet, but orbits the new Sun.

 

[Torm]

Probably, since Sol is the name most astronomers use. Sun has become a sort of a noun, rather than a name, for any star around which planets orbit. Like you'd say "Tattooine twin suns" when discussing Star Wars or things like that. Sol is the first name for our sun.

I've seen the same thing used for Luna and moon.

Exactly.

Of course, some people call our star Blito, but I won't even get into that.

 

[wizardoftheplains]

I placed the Code of Unaris Roleplaying game on Earth's moon, around a billion years ago. It had yet to settle into the orbit it has now. During creation, I spent a lot of time dealing with issues of gravity and such. In the end, I put an element inside the core of our moon called Arcanium. It's a radioactive element that decays over time. It starts as a super-dense element but loses density as each half-life occurs. So Earth's moon starts with Earth-normal gravity, which lessens over millenia. The radiation it gives off also helps supply the moon with magic.

A moon map can be downloaded at www.goldleafgames.com for free. Just look in the download section. I used our moon as the basis of the map, then had Eric Hotz do the artwork. He did an incredible job.

Gary

 

[Kemrain]

Bilto? Bilto?! Even Google is confused by that... What kinda name is that for an enourmous ball of superheated gas held in check only by the gravity of it's gratuitous mass? Bilto... Now I've heard everything. Go into it!

- Kemrain the Fearful.

 

[Torm]

b-l-i-t-o, not b-i-l-t-o. It's a reference to the Mission Earth series of books, and Scientology.

 

[Quip]

How about something more exotic than a gas giant or brown dwarf? Like, say, a superdense chunk of neutronium, blasted off a neutron star eons past, that has somehow fallen into orbit around a normal star and aquired a life bearing moon? The orbit around such a thing could be very short, since it takes up far less space than a gas giant. It may even be shaped irregularly.

But then, I have no idea what kind of tidal forces or radiation you'd get off such a thing. But it is something different.

 

[Ferret]

This is based on only GCSE level science, but....

1) It would be tiny, about head sized, and 2) Yes it would spew Radiation.

 

[Kemrain]

b-l-i-t-o, not b-i-l-t-o. It's a reference to the Mission Earth series of books, and Scientology.

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Err..

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- Kemrain the Lesdixic.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

This is something I need to think about myself. My homebrew is a planet nine times the size of earth with nine satellites, eight moons and one moon-planet. It makes me wonder how certain mechanics might work.