Help! Notable locations for "local" space opera setting

tshiggins · 01-29-2011, 12:02 PM

You may want to take a look at the system HD 69830. It likely has a gas giant located in its habitable zone, and an asteroid belt closer in that is about 20 times as large as the one in our solar system.

Put a moon around the gas giant, and you may have a habitable world. The presence of such a massive asteroid belt makes it a great location for an extensive mining effort, with which a habitable moon could trade and support.

The game, Halo 3, put an intelligent race of ETs on just such a moon, in that system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_69830

01-29-2011, 12:02 PM	#12
tshiggins Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Denver, Colorado	Re: Help! Notable locations for "local" space opera setting You may want to take a look at the system HD 69830. It likely has a gas giant located in its habitable zone, and an asteroid belt closer in that is about 20 times as large as the one in our solar system. Put a moon around the gas giant, and you may have a habitable world. The presence of such a massive asteroid belt makes it a great location for an extensive mining effort, with which a habitable moon could trade and support. The game, Halo 3, put an intelligent race of ETs on just such a moon, in that system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_69830 __________________ -- MXLP:9 [JD=1, DK=1, DM-M=1, M(FAW)=1, SS=2, Nym=1 (nose coffee), sj=1 (nose cocoa), Maz=1] "Some days, I just don't know what to think." -Daryl Dixon.