Hmm. This is a first (for me)

Traveller_GG

Traveller_GG
Landing on a terraformable world.

I guessed it would be possible but it never occurred to me that a TC would have no atmosphere:

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Well, it's a bit bleak but I guess you could have romantic nights here once you can actually breathe.
 

AJW

AJW
Any chance of a few details? If not the actual location, then at least some sort of indication as to their properties? What sort of star? Mass? Surface temperature? G?
 

[VR] optimal_909

[VR] optimal_909
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61.33 ls from the main star, which is apparently an M-class.
I didn't cash in yet, so I'd keep it as a secret. I stumbled upon it relatively early on my journey, I guess it is about 8000ly away from Sol.
 

Traveller_GG

Traveller_GG
AJW said:
Any chance of a few details? If not the actual location, then at least some sort of indication as to their properties? What sort of star? Mass? Surface temperature? G?
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Will do when I sign back on. The system has 4 water world's so I'm keeping its location to myself for now.
 

Scal

Scal
It's also tidally locked. I'm really surprised that is terraformable at all - I wonder how they actually go about terraforming...
 

Sysmon

Sysmon
Scal said:
It's also tidally locked. I'm really surprised that is terraformable at all - I wonder how they actually go about terraforming...
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Have you read Greg Bears Forge of God? One way of going about terraforming might be to rip apart a few icy bodies and toss them at your rock. Some of the vapour should stick and you'd end up with an atmosphere.

Might need some tweaking after the initial bombardment.

:D S
 

metatheurgist

metatheurgist
Sysmon said:
Have you read Greg Bears Forge of God? One way of going about terraforming might be to rip apart a few icy bodies and toss them at your rock. Some of the vapour should stick and you'd end up with an atmosphere.

Might need some tweaking after the initial bombardment.

:D S
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Yes. I've spent more time than I should have wondering what things in the Solar system I could throw at Mars, how many I should throw and whether or not people would complain if things went missing. :)
 

Traveller_GG

Traveller_GG
AJW said:
Any chance of a few details? If not the actual location, then at least some sort of indication as to their properties? What sort of star? Mass? Surface temperature? G?
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Class M star 1.298 Billion years old, 0.2773 solar masses, 0.4664 solar radius, surface temp 2,741k

0.1107 earth masses, 3072km radius, 0.48g, surface temp 238k, 66.6% rock, 33.4% metal. Orbital period is 129.3 days

Parked right next to 3 Water worlds, 2 of which are also tc.

System has 3 metal rich worlds, 6 tc planets, and 4 water worlds. Bit of a golden find really.

Oh and the landable tc world has cadmium and germanium on it!
 

AJW

AJW
Just found one myself:
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Yup, definitely landable.
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I suspect they may not be that rare - I've not generally looked at scan results for non-atmospheric planets in any detail, and could easily have missed the 'terraformable' bit. Not that I've been scanning many no-atmosphere planets on this trip anyway: I'd not have scanned this one if it wasn't for the water world further out
 
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marx

marx
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the only thing that's needed for a planet to be a terraforming candidate in Elite is to be within the star's habitable zone. (Or stars', in case of multiple stars that are close enough.) At times, you can get some pretty hellish worlds that are still candidates. But these atmosphere-less planets do have a metallic core, so I'd assume they also have a magnetic field. With that in place to protect the planet's atmosphere from being "blown off" by its star, I think it would be easier to terraform a planet without an atmosphere than it would be to terraform one with, say, an atmosphere of 100% sulphur dioxide with a surface pressure of 150 atm.

Then again, Mars has been terraformed centuries ago in Elite, so I'd expect that by the 34th century terraforming technologies are very advanced. And if they did involve the earlier quoted suggestion of bombarding the planet with some icy bodies, that would be pretty cool. After all, why spend credits on landing all that mass gently when you could just deorbit them and let them crash?

Hm, a thought just occurred to me. According to lore, humans probably first ticked off Thargoids by starting to terraform some ammonia worlds of them. (Veliaze.) I wonder if they did that with some orbital bombardment too.
 
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Traveller_GG

Traveller_GG
marx said:
Then again, Mars has been terraformed centuries ago in Elite, so I'd expect that by the 34th century terraforming technologies are very advanced. And if they did involve the earlier quoted suggestion of bombarding the planet with some icy bodies, that would be pretty cool. After all, why spend credits on landing all that mass gently when you could just deorbit them and let them crash?

Hm, a thought just occurred to me. According to lore, humans probably first ticked off Thargoids by starting to terraform some ammonia worlds of them. (Veliaze.) I wonder if they did that with some orbital bombardment too.
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We went to war with the Thargoids over a snowball fight?
 

marx

marx
Now that would make for a fun GalNet headline. But yeah, pretty much. In a nutshell: humans begin terraforming an ammonia world, Thargons appear, keeping their distance. Humans begin oxygenating the atmosphere, Thargoid motherships appear. A trigger-happy commander orders an attack on them. Soon after, war breaks out.
 
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