Mamorien Wrote:Update: I took the habitability data on Myrr and Nea!son^ma from IST1 and ran it through the world-building steps in chapters 4 and 5 of Fourth Edition GURPS Space, plugging Epsilon Eridani's characteristics (mass, luminosity and so on) into the "Advanced Worldbuilding" portion of the process, and worked out that Myrr has to be orbiting at about 0.54 AU to have the stated temperatures. ...Which puts it closer to the star than anything JPL has discovered in orbit around e Eridani - but that can be handwaved away by the fact that there are two asteroid belts in the system, making observations difficult. (http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/1 ... the-Making]More NASA/JPL artwork.)
We are being astronomically accurate where possible, right?
Hmmmmm... two asteroid belts in the system... and it's a relatively young system, too... this might mean Myrr sees many close-approach asteroids, which would colour the Meeranon "racial personality."
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