Planet Crowdsource: Admin Note

I haven't given up on this, but I've been on a great roll with Shadow of the Red Vixen and I hope to get it completed to send off to Beta readers in the next couple of weeks. I'll see if I can't get the latest pol posted today or early tomorrow.

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Planet Crowdsource: Our Friend the Sun, and the Mighty Seas

Previously on Part Two of Planet Crowdsource, we asked what the nature of the world our habitable moon was orbiting. The overwhelming choice was for a Jupiter sized gas giant with 53.3% of the vote, with 20% going for a Saturn sized world, 13.3% for a large rockball, and 6.7% for a equally sized companion world or something Exotic.

I found seawasp's suggestion of having the moon revolve around an energy spewing white hole sufficiently intriguing that I'll include it as part of our next poll. This is going to be several polls trying to determine the type of star and some starting details of our planetary surface.

Note: we're most definitely not going to have a single biome planet, but the nature of the planet's surface may make it lean rather heavily towards simplified space opera clichés classic memes.

First off: Star type. We'll assume the slightly more exotic ones are either far enough away to not fry life on our little planet, or another reason will make itself known as to why life survives.

[Poll #1869021]

While the Avengers was, in fact, a nigh perfect movie, I do have two small notes to make.

1. Judging from the ConRail train seen at the beginning of Natasha's introduction, the Russian Mafia seems to have made some disturbing inroads into western Pennsylvania.

2. Did anyone else besides TV Tropes notice that if a plane launched off the Helicarrier's upper angled deck, it would get sucked straight into a gigantic jet turbine?