First of all, my congratulations to the Watsons.
> From: [email removed] (John Driver)
> Okay, so there are only four orbits available. What do I do when I
> roll four gas giants, three empty orbits, planetoid belts, etc for this
> system? There is simply no place to put them all.
>
> 3) What happens when you roll all the habitable zones as being empty?
> Scrap the system and start over?
What I usually do when I generate systems after published data is that
I adapt the results to fit what I already know.
Say for example that I have a system like this:
Dusbur 1023 C445685-A S [classes ignored] 615 K1 V
I start by rolling for orbits (-2 for a K) and rolls 6, -2 this is 4.
Since there is 5 GG's and 1 belt, that is too little so I increase the # of
orbits to 6.
A K0 V has 2 inner 1 habitable and the rest outer orbits. GG's should be in
outer orbits, and belts preferrably just inside a GG, so the total number of
orbits has to be increased to 7 (one GG in the habitable zone, and the belt
just inside it). Then I roll for the sizes of the GG's.
The system now looks like this:
primary K1 V
0 I ?
1 I belt
2 H SGG
3 O LGG
4 O SGG
5 O SGG
6 O SGG
Then I roll for number of moons, getting 0, 10, 5, 2, and 6. This is a
problem because the mainworld has to be at orbit 2. If it had been larger
than the maximum size of a SGG moon (6), I would have put it as a captured
planet at 1.8 to 2.2 aprox, but since it is smaller than this, I put it
as a moon to the SGG in orbit 2 even though it shouldn't have any moons, and
add two rings just for the hell of it.
If the players want to know what's at orbit 0, or the sizes of all moons,
I'll generate it when they ask.
(BTW: looking at the probabilities, the rounded relation between the
number of rings, size S moons and size 1+ moon are:
For LGG's: 10/10/80
For SGG's: 10/30/60 )
> 4) Step #13-20, Orbit Zones
> Say I have a G3 star. Do I round down to G0, or do I use G5?
Whichever you think fits the story best IMHO:)
> 5) This one really gets to me. For a number of the steps in the
> Mainworld
> Generation and Extended System Generation systems, it is possible to roll
> values outside of those listed, and most of the time you are not told
> what
> to do when this happens.
There's a lot of "-7"'s missing in that chapter.
> INTERNET: [email removed] (John Driver)
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