Phew, nervewracking
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Long-term exposure to that much gravity would likely lead to organ failure, followed by death. Someone needs to explain the limitations of the human body to the procedural generation engine.
There are upsides to it, you would have always an excuse why you weight so much 
"But how did you survive?"
"Over the years, I built up an immunity to lethal gravity."
Larry Niven wrote some short stories about human colonists on a 3.0G planet (Jinx, orbiting Sirius A, is a massive moon of a gas giant). Short lifespan due to heart failure, very strong otherwise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known_Space
"Jinx, orbiting Sirius A, is a massive moon of a gas giant (simply called Primary), stretched by tidal forces into an egg shape, with surface gravity at the habitable areas near the limits of human extended tolerance. The poles lie in vacuum, the equatorial regions are Venus-like (and inhabited only by the Bandersnatchi); the zones between have atmosphere breathable by humans. Jinx's poles become a major in vacuo manufacturing area. Jinxian humans are short and squat, the strongest bipeds in Known Space. But they tend to die early, from heart and circulatory problems. There is a tourist industry which provides substantial useful interplanetary trade credits for the Bandersnatchi, who allow themselves to be hunted by humans under strict protocols."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known_Space
"Jinx, orbiting Sirius A, is a massive moon of a gas giant (simply called Primary), stretched by tidal forces into an egg shape, with surface gravity at the habitable areas near the limits of human extended tolerance. The poles lie in vacuum, the equatorial regions are Venus-like (and inhabited only by the Bandersnatchi); the zones between have atmosphere breathable by humans. Jinx's poles become a major in vacuo manufacturing area. Jinxian humans are short and squat, the strongest bipeds in Known Space. But they tend to die early, from heart and circulatory problems. There is a tourist industry which provides substantial useful interplanetary trade credits for the Bandersnatchi, who allow themselves to be hunted by humans under strict protocols."
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Given what we've learned about the human body in the last 100 or even fifty years, I think we'll be able to do quite a bit to exceed some of it's limitations in the next 1300.
Quite a few fantastic aspects to the Elite setting. People being able to handle 50g+ of short term acceleration and live on 7g+ worlds is not anywhere near the top twenty most implausible.
Fifty generations of intensive genetic manipulation and quite a bit of help from cybernetics.
At 200 lbs times 4.5 g's is 900 lbs, like somebody said, if the landing didn't kill you and disable the ship, your circulatory and respiratory systems would literally collapse.
But of course, we have gravity compensators built into our ships/life support to counteract the gravitational forces, right?
But of course, we have gravity compensators built into our ships/life support to counteract the gravitational forces, right?
If we've got artificial gravity in our ships we can have anti-gravity in the planet based stations.
We don't.
That's why they don't let us out of our chairs.
I make my "home" base on a 4.28 G planetary station.
Easy landing, just cut Flight Assist and drift in.
Easy landing, just cut Flight Assist and drift in.
I wondered why I kept spilling my cup of tea.
Bob Lighthouse
Banned
Good reference, the "known space" books (1960s-present) were hard sci-fi classics back in the day. I first enjoyed the books around the time of Frontier and FFE. Whenever I come across the high-G planets in ED I often remember "Jinx" and the big but shorter squatty people. Normal "flatlanders"(earthers) had to scoot around in assist vehicles, and the Jinxians would be amused by tourists in passing. Only the jinxians and enhanced earth-human fighters were able to go hand to hand against the kzin (giant cat people/appeared in Star Trek animated episode "The Slaver(tnuctipin) Weapon"(1973)/"Man-Kzin Wars" book series/ ripped off into "kilrathi" in WC)
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We have high enough technology for clones in the game lore, so I would expect enough genetics to make it liveable and future generations to thrive there, although whether they could still be considered normal humans would be a question.
Add the suite technology we have to deal with high Gs and its feasible to run a colony high G. But with all the new options we have found exploring I can't see why new colonies would choose hi-G other than those from current colonies with it looking to expand to what they now consider normality
Wouldn't it help if ou lived submerged in liquid?