Notes from GDs

It is past time to start putting numbers to some of the things within Novaris’ Lore Book. Things like population counts, sizes of planets, sizes of ships, travel times, types of work that’s being done.

Numbers tell stories for those creative and mathematically inclined to see them.

The purpose of this document is to brainstorm what this data will look like as I build this system from the ground up to imitate Stellaris but in a more flexible way.

List of information needed:

• Star Size (inheriting star type from real life)

• Stellar Body Size/classification

Star Classifications:

To rip off real life:

Temperature - A way to identify where it is in its lifespan from a macro perspective. (Letters in our systems)

A number - which says with more detail how hot it is, indicating where it is in this stage (letter) with 0 being new to this stage and 9 about to enter its next stage.

Luminosity - Demarcated by Roman Numerals, tells the luminosity and by proxy its size. Given its strength (temperature) its luminosity can vary. Lower lumin stars spread that energy over a larger surface area, where higher lumen stars have much lower space to emit that energy making them much smaller.

This information is very useful for determining stark habitability changes and now gives me some hard writing to do.

I know that the Rigna-et’s home star is likely a M or maybe a K star. (Latest and 2nd latest stage and coldest).

Depending on the needs of the Asida, which will matter for this, I can range from 0-9 for some systems. I imagine that Rigna-et only systems will be 4-8 while shared systems will be 0-3.

Because they are M or K class, this also means they will be off the main sequence. Species in these systems should be more concerned with finding new places to live because in the not so cosmic distance future, their current planet will be destroyed.

K classes are more rare and warmer than M class which are cooler but one of the most prominent star types outside of G classes.

With this information, Asida shared systems are K class, and Rigna-et only are M class.

Both of these types tend to be dwarfs, meaning that they have shrunk from their last cycle.

What this tells me about the Rigna-et people is that they were once (in ancient history or even prehistory, or even pre Rigna-et) a more tropical world that became colder as their sun shrank. The life on the planet adapted, growing the ability to store fat more efficiently and getting hairier.

Combining some things we already know about the Rigna-et, they are very traditional and technically slow people due to their religion and indifference to ruler style. We now know that they are a very old society that has managed to prevent corruption very well. In order to move as slow, or rather deliberate, with their technology this slowly given that their home star is no longer main sequence suggest mastery of their life style. This could also explain the sudden advancements of space technology. 1) Their gods have seemingly returned and compelled them to advance. 2) their star is dying, moving gradually to warmer biomes will help them readapt to main sequence stars and prolong their species survivability. This further explains why they’re willing to colonize less than ideal colonies. They’re favoring long term survivability over short term comforts, even if the time tables they’re on consider 10 thousand years as short term.