I discovered a terraformable water moon.

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On my trip to get the required 5k light years for engineering, I found a terraformable water world orbiting a non-terraformable high metal content world that's about 2k light years from the bubble. I've heard of water worlds orbiting gas giants, but a water world orbiting a hmc? not only that but the moon terraformable but not the planet it orbits? how rare is that?

It's in system Prua Dryoae AY-F d12-8 if anyone wants to have a look themselves

(also got a discovery on a proto-langrange cloud over 4k light years, not bad for a noob eh?)
 

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goemon said:
nice! is the hmc landable? maybe it will have a good WW-rise?
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I'm not sure, though I'm leaning towards no, it has a gravity of 6.4g, a surface pressure of 15.5k atmospheres and a surface temperature of 1665K. I don't think an srv can handle that much :p
 

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You can even find Earth-like worlds as moons orbiting a large non-terraformable HMC. I've found several of them. Here's one I prepared earlier. ;)
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So while a WWTFC moon orbiting a non-terraformable HMC might be "rare", there would still be plenty of them found in the galaxy so far. Earth-like worlds (and, by extension, terraformable water worlds) are actually more common around large HMCs than around gas giants. I have found 194 ELWs; seven of those have been moons. Five of those Earth-like moons were orbiting non-terraformable HMCs, the other two were orbiting terraformble HMCs. None were orbiting gas giants.

There is an explanation for this: terraformability (and Earth-like-ness) requires a moon to be above a certain size (it needs at least 0.4 Earth-gravities). And the Stellar Forge algorithms are biased against making large moons of gas giants. It still happens sometimes, but you're much more likely to find an Earth-sized moon orbiting a HMC than a gas giant.
 

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Sapyx said:
You can even find Earth-like worlds as moons orbiting a large non-terraformable HMC. I've found several of them. Here's one I prepared earlier. ;)

So while a WWTFC moon orbiting a non-terraformable HMC might be "rare", there would still be plenty of them found in the galaxy so far. Earth-like worlds (and, by extension, terraformable water worlds) are actually more common around large HMCs than around gas giants. I have found 194 ELWs; seven of those have been moons. Five of those Earth-like moons were orbiting non-terraformable HMCs, the other two were orbiting terraformble HMCs. None were orbiting gas giants.

There is an explanation for this: terraformability (and Earth-like-ness) requires a moon to be above a certain size (it needs at least 0.4 Earth-gravities). And the Stellar Forge algorithms are biased against making large moons of gas giants. It still happens sometimes, but you're much more likely to find an Earth-sized moon orbiting a HMC than a gas giant.
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nice finds, thank you for the info.
at least 0.4 as in not 0.1 correct? and is it 0.4g or 0.4 earth masses?
 

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Exists said:
nice finds, thank you for the info.
at least 0.4 as in not 0.1 correct? and is it 0.4g or 0.4 earth masses?
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The actual mass of the moon is irrelevant for terraformability calculations; it's the surface gravity that's important. And it needs to be above 0.4 (but below 2.0).
 
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