New World WIP - Eurosivarae

[Greason Wolfe]

So I've worked out some of the astronomy details. I'll have to see how this data works into any astrology aspects for the inhabitants of Eurosivarae. Mind you, these details are not quite written in stone just yet, but some of them (particularly the stellar data and orbital distance of Eurosivarae, itself) will definitely be playing a factor in how the world climates develop when I get to that stage.

So here goes;

Eurosivarae Astronomical Data

Class                   : G2V
Mass                    : 1.01 Sol
Radius                  : 1.008 Sol
Luminosity              : 1.0354 Sol
Number of Known Planets : 13
Solar System Population : 1

Known Planets

Para Nu (to be renamed)
     Distance: 47,995,439 km
     Radius: 1995 km
     Orbit Period: 66 days (0.19 years)

Pipel Tau (to be renamed)
     Distance: 61,614,771 km
     Radius: 2216 km
     Orbit Period: 96 days (0.27 years)
     Atmosphere: None
     Known Moons
          Pipel's Halo (Ring)

Gisvahala
     Distance: 77,338,046 km
     Radius: 2837 km
     Orbit Period: 135 days (0.38 years)

Einimeir
     Distance: 95,758,936 km
     Radius: 5696 km
     Orbit Period: 186 days (0.53 years)
     Known Moons
          Einimeir's Inner Halo (Ring)
          Einimeir's Outer Halo (Ring)

Eurosivarae
     Distance: 146,231,890 km
     Radius: 6921 km
     Density: 0.99
     Gravity: 1.07G
     Orbit Period: 351 days (1.00 years)
     Rotation: 24 hrs
     Mean Temp: 285K/12C/54F
     Atmosphere: 0.87 atm, Breathable
     Known Moons
          Ematu (Moon)
               Distance: 254,510 km
               Radius: 2232 km
               Orbit Period: 13 days
               Rotation: 0 hrs
          Toravae (Moon)
               Distance: 414,303 km
               Radius: 3633 km
               Orbit Period: 27 days
               Rotation: 0 hrs

Tatsu
     Distance: 199,899,906 km
     Radius: 3712 km
     Orbit Period: 561 days (1.51 years)
     Rotation: 21.3 hrs
     Known Moons
          Tatsu's Halo (Ring)

Maaraas
     Distance: 233,449,450 km
     Radius: 4524 km
     Orbit Period: 708 days (2.02 years)
     Rotation: 18.5 hrs
     Known Moons
          Grantiphy (Moon)
               Distance: 322,037 km
               Radius: 161 km
               Orbit Period: 35.37 days
               Rotation: 1021.9 hrs

Eeravalle
     Distance: 272,727,561 km
     Radius: 8469 km
     Orbit Period: 894 days (2.55 years)
     Rotation: 13.1 hrs
     Known Moons
          Bavirsas (Moon)
               Distance: 31,590 km
               Radius: 1107 km
               Orbit Period: 0.41 days
               Rotation: 0 hrs

Sponchio (Gas Giant) (to be renamed)
     Distance: 438,078,166 km
     Radius: 29458 km
     Orbit Period: 1820 days (5.19) years
     Rotation: 12.2 hrs
     Known Moons (None Identified as of yet)

Paka (Gas Giant)
     Distance: 925,204,999 km
     Radius: 96339 km
     Orbit Period: 5586 days (15.91 years)
     Rotation: 5.8 hrs
     Known Moons (None Identified as of yet)

Monthu (Gas Giant)
     Distance: 2,825,454,900 km
     Radius: 16981 km
     Orbit Period: 29811 days (84.93 years)
     Rotation: 23.6 hrs
     Known Moons (None Identified as of yet)

Caenaar (Gas Giant)
     Distance: 4,579,123,313 km
     Radius: 32424 km
     Orbit Period: 61506 days (175.23 years)
     Rotation: 15.9 hrs
     Known Moons (None Identified as of yet)

Muhene
     Distance: 6,819,775,272 km
     Radius: 5199 km
     Orbit Period: 111789 days (318.49) years
     Rotation: 26.5 hrs
     Known Moons (None Identified as of yet)

As for how this looks from the "heavens" please refer to the image below.

On a side note, the number 3 will be playing a significant role in things for the Eurosivarae setting. A trinity of creator divinities, a three part cosmology set-up, several divine events that occur in 3s and so on. As an idea of how far reaching this is, each planetary orbital period (in days) is divisible by 3. There will be, of course, some anomolies (such as the closer moon, Ematu which has an orbital period of 13 days, but that, actually falls in line with the number of months defined for the world while the second moon, Toravae, orbits Eurosivarae every 27 days, or once a month. Obviously, there's still quite a bit of work to accomplish along these lines, but it is coming together slowly and surely. In a day or two, I hope to get back to work on the actual mapping. I've discovered that if I focus in on that aspect of world creation too much, I tend to get overly frustrated with things and end up forcing issues instead of letting them flow naturally.

GW

P.S. Sorry about the code tags, but wanted to make sure the details laid out properly for ease of reading.

[Greason Wolfe]

A minor update for now.

As mentioned earlier, there were a couple areas that I felt were a bit crowded. They didn't really show up until I was looking at the spinning view of the world, so I did a little work on them to see if I could open things up a bit more. I also worked in a few island chains in a couple areas to make up for the land loss. On top of that, I did a bit more continental trimming to break things up just a bit more.

Much to my surprise, I found an area that may become the new Vallee Mystique. I don't recall seeing FTPro produce such an area in the past, but I suspect it is quite likely that such areas have been produced and I simply missed them in the process of cycling through worlds. In any event, it struck me as being very Crater Lake (Oregon) or Mt. St. Helens like, so when I go to re-create the elevation file, I'll have to save this area (detailed in the second image) and make sure it passes through to the next level.

All in all, I'm still generally happy with where things are going and the next step is going to be that re-building process to get a little more variety in the elevation file and, in essence, build up some coastal region mountains and interior flatlands to better represent the concept of continental drift and fault line activity.

GW

P.S. I'll upload the new spinning view upon request for those who wish to see how this round of editing makes things a little less cluttered.

[Greason Wolfe]

Lots of editing going on as I rebuild the elevations here, and I needed a brief break from the effort, so I thought I'd see what FTPro thought about the climates from its own point of view. In the long run, and once I have the answer to a question I posted in the Software section, I'll likely do a lot of adjusting to the temperatures and rainfall values to get things looking like I want them as far as world climates go. In the meantime, here's what FTPro thought the climates should look like based on Joe's climate model included with the Terraformer add-on.

GW