It will be long enough that life could grow (if it hasn't already) and reach for the stars before the star swells large enough to do any damage.
BTW how far from Sag A* is it? You might have the closest ELW to Sag A*. Get your name in the records!
haha not even close. I was 7 kylies from Sag A when I discovered this system record is like 3.2 ly. And I don't think life will have time to evolve here. Even though this star is in it's infancy it has a very short life span. I weep for it's future [sad]
Herbigs are messed up in game - they should be much larger than they are, and contracting towards their main sequence size, not growing to it. Similarly they contain all the mass they will ever contain (barring weirdness) so a 5.8 solar mass Herbig will join the main sequence as a B star of (off the top of my head) around 2 or 3 solar radii. A real Herbig protostar becomes steadily hotter but not significantly more luminous as it progresses along its
Henyey track towards the main sequence but Elite's Herbigs are very much less luminous than the main sequence stars they become - which is to say that a real world in a habitable zone around a Herbig wouldn't find itself scorched when the star reached the main sequence, whereas one in Elite would be burned to a crisp. Of course, a real world wouldn't have time to be even vaguely Earth-like as we understand it.. ...not would it get the chance to become Earth-like in the whole lifespan of a B star.
Yeah I didn't know much about Herbigs before today, being doing some research and even though I know they are not high value targets and I am playing catch up I took a lot of time today exploring many Herbig Ae/Be systems because they fascinated me. Got lots of cool pictures and a near death experience out of the deal, though no more ELW, which I was not really expecting. I did find an ammonia world and a purple gas giant, so that was pretty cool. Thanks for your input, enlightening as always.
The only plausible way I see an ELW orbiting such a star is as a captured planet. That would make it an extremely unique situation since it would probably mean it was an ELW before it was captured, which also means the process of being taken from the orbit of one star and into another did not disrupt it sufficiently to kill its environment, plus the new orbit by a miracle was not so elliptical that it disrupted the environment either. It would have to be a very very special case.
I had that thought too. I don't know of any other examples, but I would think even in this game that ELW around stars like this are extremely rare. There were many, many other objects in this system too, 8 T.Tauri stars, 7 gas giants, and 6 or 7 high metal content worlds(one terraform) I guess it's possible that it was a rogue planet that was captured by the Herbig, but agree if so it's a very special case.
*side note: In real life Milky Way I thought it was impossible for ELW to exist in the bulge anyways due to massive star quantity, increased gas ionization, and the increased radiation. But I think it's cool they are in this game.
Use the link in my sig to find the fate of this planet. Set the mass to roughly 5.8, the distance to ~0.1 AU and wind the clock forward until oblivion. Shouldn't be more than a couple hundred million years. Not much complex life would form in that short window.
KABOOM! my thought exactly when I first opened the system window for the first time and saw it.
