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08-11-2020, 12:46 AM | #32 |
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Mars had an atmosphere massive enough to keep oceans liquid four billion years ago despite the lower solar emissions, so it could have easily developed life much earlier than the Earth (Earth is a much larger target for planetoids than Mars, so life may have been rebooted a number of times on Earth). If Mars had early photosynthetic life, the sequestration of the carbon dioxide may have doomed Mars, as photosynthetic life may have caused Mars to get cooler faster than Sol was becoming brighter.
It is possible that we could find an analogy to early Mars orbiting cooler and/or younger stars. Despite the low gravity, the lower blackbody temperature may allow for the retention of a massive atmosphere for longer around cooler stars, even to the point of developing sapient life. Of course, it is quite difficult to detect such planets with our current technology. |
01-16-2021, 05:20 PM | #33 | |
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I was going through some back issues of The Path of Cunning netzine and issue #2 has a superb 25-page article on WW2 dogfights. My first through was "This would make for some exciting SW starfighting dogfights." Just in case it's helpful for OP or any later readers. |
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Later on, rather than just saying "yeah, Lucas goofed on that one", they tried to find some way to rationalise it. This lead to the "maneuvering around black holes" that we ended up with in the novels and is now canon, and also results in Star Wars FTL making less sense than 40k FTL, and that is the one where you travel between stars by surfing the waves of hell itself. Quote:
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In my personal headcanon I go for the WEG approach as it is the one that I feel makes the most sense in the world we are presented. A galaxy that can be crossed in hours essentially makes a resistance movement like the Rebellion impossible, as any target you might attack would be literally seconds away from help, and the economics of how interstellar transport works seems to imply it is more like making a journey by sail than a journey by car. Quote:
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01-18-2021, 07:40 AM | #35 |
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It was an odd decision. Unfortunately, the original series is still the best of the lot, as the sequels, while superior in every respect to the prequels, still having massive problems. Strangely enough, the worst film of the sequels 8, was not Abrams fault, as it was written and directed by Johnson, who was rightly booted from the franchise afterwards. I have no idea what Disney was thinking giving a Star Wars movie to a scrubb, but the House of Mouse often makes such mistakes.
Honestly, I just assume that the original movies skip the boring stuff and get right to the action. After all, even if hyperdrives are capable of traveling 1,000,000 times the speed of light, they would take over two months to cross the galaxy. Of course, some hyperspace routes are going to be faster than others, and more well known than others, and the majority of the systems in Star Wars seem unconnected to the known hyperspace routes. |
01-18-2021, 03:23 PM | #36 | ||
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To the OP: I find it best to just go "it takes X time to travel from sector to sector in the same "belt" (Core Worlds, Outer Rim, Mid Rim, etc.) or from belt to successive belt (Core to Colonies, Colonies to Inner Rim, Inner Rim to Expansion Rim, etc.; with 5 crossings from Tatooine in the Outer Rim to Alderaan in the Core). Well mapped routes (f'rex: the Perlemian Trade Route, Corellian Run) should halve the time. Whether it is possible to use sublight drives to travel in realspace from system to system (Hoth to Anoat to Bespin) is up to the GM. Pseudovelocity drives may help if you wish to permit realspace intersystem travel across several lightyears. The Star Wars universe is not internally consistent, and never has been. I find it best to go with the amount of consistency that works for your game and let certain things fall into "tall spacers' tales".
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01-18-2021, 06:54 PM | #38 |
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Since the number of systems in the Old Republic was in the millions, we see only the smallest fraction of them in the movies, TV shows, video games, and books (especially since everyone seems to want to visit Tatooine for some ungodly reason).
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01-18-2021, 08:05 PM | #39 | |
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Although I can understand people coming back repeatedly for Jabba the Hutt, that saucy old minx. |
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01-18-2021, 10:43 PM | #40 |
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I would honestly rather go to Hoth.
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