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| Holiday | 19 Nov 2012, 03:57 PM Post #1 |
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[These notes were taken and modified from the Wikipedia entry 'List of Firefly Planets and Moons'.] The Verse is also known as 34 Tauri (2020). In 2020 Earth astronomers discover that 34 Tauri, up until that time thought to be a single star, was actually a cluster of five stars and several brown dwarfs, and soon numerous Earth-sized planetary bodies are discovered. Plans to colonize the system were underway by the 22nd century when conditions on Earth become so bad that it can no longer support human life and humanity needed to find a new home. Terraforming technology, tested on Earth's moon Luna and the planet Mars, was eventually developed to a level capable of increasing the surface gravity of a moon-sized body to around 1G (Earth standard) and hold surface water and atmosphere necessary to sustain life. The system has five stars and seven brown dwarf/protostars. All the stars orbit the White Sun, (also called 34 Tauri (2020) A, or Bai Hu (White Tiger) by the Chinese), which is a class A0 giant, 2.5 times bigger than Sol and 80 times as bright. The "Central Planets" are the terrestrial worlds that orbit the White Sun. Farther out in this system the Red Sun (a class G5, also called 34 Tauri (2020) B, or Zhu Que (Red Phoenix)) and Georgia (class G0, also called 34 Tauri (2020) C, Huang Long (Yellow Dragon)) share an orbit and worlds orbiting these stars are referred to as "Border Planets". The fourth star Kalidasa (class F5, also called 34 Tauri (2020) D, or Xuan Wu (Black Tortoise)), and its planets orbit next. After that, the fifth and last star Blue Sun, (class F0, also called 34 Tauri (2020) E, or Qing Long (Blue Dragon)), and its planets orbit. Worlds orbiting these last two stars comprise "The Rim". Planets too far away from the biozones of the main stars are sustained for habitability by a series of protostars. The protostars Qin Shi Huang and Lux orbit the White Sun. Murphy orbits Georgia. Himmbjørg and Heinlein orbit the Red Sun, Penglai orbits Kalidasa, and Burnham orbits the Blue Sun. All of the terrestrial bodies were terraformed and made to have a standard atmosphere and gravity in order to be capable of supporting human life. The planet Miranda was speculated to be a "black rock" – a planet where no life exists or is possible. A generic explanation (that the terraforming did not hold) is offered to explain it, indicating that this simply happened some times while the terraforming process was occurring. |
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| Holiday | 19 Nov 2012, 05:24 PM Post #2 |
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[This list is not comprehensive, it is simply put together from the Wikipedia entry 'List of Firefly Planets and Moons'] The Central Planets noted as 'non-Core' are those that orbit a protostar of the White Sun, but are far enough away in the system to be considered a Border Planet. Protostars are not habitable themselves. Central Planets/Moons: Ariel Bellerophon [moon: Parth] Bernadette Liann Jiun Londinium Osiris Pelorum [non-Core, protostar orbit] Persephone [non-Core, protostar orbit] Santo [non-Core, protostar orbit] Sihnon Border Planets/Moons: Aphrodite [protostar orbit] Athens [moons: Whitefall, 3 others] Boros: [moon: Ares] Ezra Greenleaf: [moon: Dyton] Hera [protostar orbit] Harvest [moons: Higgins' Moon, 1 other] Jiangyin Kerry Lazarus [protostar orbit] Lilac [Blue Sun orbit, classified as Border Planet] New Melbourne Paquin [protostar orbit] Regina Shadow [protostar orbit] Silverhold [protostar orbit] St. Albans Three Hills Triumph [protostar orbit] Rim Planets/Moons: Aberdeen Angel [moon: Zephyr] Beaumonde Beylix [moons: 3, unknown] Constance Deadwood [moons: Haven, 1 other] Highgate [moon: Perth] Miranda [uninhabitable, protostar orbit] Muir Newhall [protostar orbit] Salisbury Verbena Whittier [moon: Ita] |
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