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

[jeriendhal]

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]

Comments

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

I'd say an F8v, nearing the end of its time on the main sequence and making the inhabitants nervous, might be interesting.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

I was going to say Flare star, but that would be getting too close to Medea. Parched, and mountanious, with tectonically generated chasms and rift valleys, sounds like fun :) sheer canyons carved by the few rivers as tectonic blocks get pushed up and down by the slowly evolving tidal interaction with other moons...