GlyphGryph: So
GlyphGryph: Today
GlyphGryph: I want to discuss
GlyphGryph: LORE
Ultimuh: LORE!
GlyphGryph: And SETTING
Frastur: L'ORE
Frastur: L'OR
GlyphGryph: We have all worked a bit on personal character stuff
Frastur: FRENCH GOLD.
Ultimuh: L'URR
GlyphGryph: But what is the WORLD like, you know?
Frastur: Many planets
GlyphGryph: That's a damn good question, and I'm working on it
Frastur: DOubtlessly.
***Vorthon isn't quite done yet. :/
GlyphGryph: So I thought I'd share what I know
GlyphGryph: For one.
GlyphGryph: Scale
GlyphGryph: Things in Aetherjam are... smaller
Frastur: Galactic.
Ultimuh: ah yes, Scale
GlyphGryph: For example
GlyphGryph: Things like Suns
GlyphGryph: Are actually smaller than the planets which orbit around them
Frastur: What
GlyphGryph: Also planets don't orbit
Frastur: How would that work.
GlyphGryph: They are closer!
GlyphGryph: But the celestial form is fixed.
Frastur: YOU JUST COMPLETELY RUINED MY SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF.
GlyphGryph: Thanks to the Aetherdrag
GlyphGryph: Things like orbitting would be impossible
Frastur: So seasons aren't possible
Frastur: Therefore there is no life anywhere.
GlyphGryph: However, the suns aren't matter, and aren't effected by the aetherdrag, and thus orbit around the planets
GlyphGryph: You don't need seasons for life
Ultimuh: Frashtur: It's a fantasyish setting
GlyphGryph: See: The Equator
scriver: ...
GlyphGryph: Things are also a bit closer together.
Frastur: I thought people would notice the lack of seriousness on my part.
GlyphGryph: The suns tend to orbit clusters of planets.
scriver: Read up on equatorial seasons, Glyph
GlyphGryph: Scriver have you lived on the equator?
Frastur: There are seasons
Frastur: Hot and dry
GlyphGryph: They are fake seasons
Frastur: And hot and wet.
Ultimuh: Lets just say an ancient wizard did it
GlyphGryph: The gods fixed the planets in the firmament
GlyphGryph: Anyways there CAN be seasons
GlyphGryph: Because the suns orbit the planet clusters
scriver: You can't just arbitrarily decide that some seasons are fake and some aren't
GlyphGryph: They have no mass or physical form of their own
GlyphGryph: And thus are unaffected by the aether drag
Ultimuh: please lets not argue over trivialities
scriver: ...But I'm tired and arguing with Glyph is fun.
GlyphGryph: But many planets are relatively the same all year around, and thats fine because the life on them adapted to those conditions
GlyphGryph: Some planets have... well, far more extreme seasons.
GlyphGryph: This means within a planetary cluster, planetary travel is fairly simple. Planets are much smaller and much closer together.
GlyphGryph: some places have planets that are VERY small
GlyphGryph: But most planets have about the surface area of England
GlyphGryph: Some are quite a bit larger.
GlyphGryph: Russia-sized maybe.
Frastur: Luxembourg-sized-
Frastur: xD
Vorthon: Any gas-giant sized ones?
GlyphGryph: A few are just basically glorified asteroids that managed to snag a semblance of atmosphere.
Vorthon: Ooh! Are there any clusters where all the planets share one atmosphere?
GlyphGryph: All of them have fairly normal gravity.
GlyphGryph: Mostly because gravity is only generated by one substance.
GlyphGryph: And the planets tend to form around that substance.
Frastur: Jam?
GlyphGryph: Sure
GlyphGryph: Hahah
GlyphGryph: At the core of every planet is a solid Jamcore
Frastur: And the crust is made of PB
Frastur: No
GlyphGryph: And yeah, Vorthon, there are clusters where the planet atmospheres overlap
Frastur: The mantle
GlyphGryph: Heheh
Frastur: The crusts are mabde of wheatloafs
Frastur: *loaves
Vorthon: So there's places where everything's like one big sky?
Frastur: And now I'm hungry.
GlyphGryph: Regardless, these Jamcores have a fixed range, and simply don't exert gravitational pull beyond that.
GlyphGryph: It's pretty solid based on the mass of the core and tapers off towards the edges.
GlyphGryph: The problem with planets that have an overlapping atmosphere
GlyphGryph: Is that they need to make sure their gravity bubbles
GlyphGryph: DON'T overlap the opposing Jamcore
GlyphGryph: As that would be bad.
GlyphGryph: If it overlaps the other planets surface though
GlyphGryph: You get locations of almost neutral gravity
GlyphGryph: Allowing the ability to jump from one planet to another with a decent jump.
GlyphGryph: Or a launch of some sort if it's not quite overlapping.
Frastur: STRONGjumps
Ultimuh: Super Mario Galaxy
GlyphGryph: I wouldn't know I haven't played that game.
GlyphGryph: But maybe!
GlyphGryph: Does this all seem reasonable so far?
GlyphGryph: Cosmologically speaking?
Ultimuh: Sure
Ultimuh: I mean, I can imagine it
scriver: Hrhehe. Cosmos.
Frastur: So yeah
Frastur: Like SMG
Frastur: Except suns instead of black holes.
GlyphGryph: The suns are basically heat light generators but aren't really made of "stuff"
GlyphGryph: And their routes are fixes
GlyphGryph: *fixed
GlyphGryph: Rather than attached to the cluster
GlyphGryph: Meaning some clusters can have rather EXTREME seasons
Ultimuh: So what would happen if one went straight towards one of these suns?
GlyphGryph: You'd probably burn up once you got close enough.
Ultimuh: ah
Ultimuh: same as regular suns
Vorthon: What if you had protection?
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GlyphGryph: Then conceivably you could fly right through the middle and out the other side without a problem
GlyphGryph: As long as you avoided the central point
GlyphGryph: From which the heat and light emenates
GlyphGryph: If your "protection" is some sort of shield, and that point ends up INSIDE the shield
GlyphGryph: Well
GlyphGryph: Lets just say it would suck if you ran out of fuel in the path of an approaching sun
GlyphGryph: Or if your pilot lost the ability to Jam
GlyphGryph: Some places are surrounded by dozens or hundreds of smaller suns, giving them sort of an eternal twilight with a sky full of stars.
GlyphGryph: Any questions or suggestions so far?
Frastur: My god!
Frastur: It's full of stars!
Vorthon: Wait.
Ultimuh: Well I got nothing, sounds good so far
Vorthon: Are there things like water worlds, desert worlds, etc.
Vorthon: *?
GlyphGryph: Yes
GlyphGryph: With such small worlds
GlyphGryph: They tend to be a bit less varied
Frastur: Naboo says hi.
GlyphGryph: The only constant is a solid Jamcore
Frastur: Naboo says bye.
Ultimuh: heh
GlyphGryph: To exert the equivalent of gravity force
Frastur: Those jamcores
Vorthon: So no worlds where you can bounce around like on the moon? D:
Frastur: Can they be mined and used for whatever?
GlyphGryph: There could essentially be cloud worlds without much trouble too
GlyphGryph: Vorthon, of course. Gravity power is determined solely by the size of the Jamcore
GlyphGryph: A small jamcore means low gravity
GlyphGryph: And yes, Frastur, they can be mined. It isn't easy
Frastur is now known as JamMiner
GlyphGryph: Much more common is just taking a whole smaller jamcore
GlyphGryph: For use in a Gravity Engine
GlyphGryph: Combining them is fairly easy
GlyphGryph: Getting them back apart
GlyphGryph: Not so much
GlyphGryph: Unlike everything else, where gravity over distance is fairly constant until the cut off point
GlyphGryph: Jamcores attract each other far more strongly not the CLOSER they get, but the longer they spend within each others range.
JamMiner: No
JamMiner: So
JamMiner: Jamgravity
JamMiner: Is constant
JamMiner: Across a certain distance
GlyphGryph: It peters off a bit at the edges.
GlyphGryph: Sort of fuzzy out there
GlyphGryph: But that's the exception and isn't because it's weaker per se
GlyphGryph: But just less... dense
GlyphGryph: But thats all fancy science magic stuff
GlyphGryph: For most purposes
GlyphGryph: Yes, it's constant
GlyphGryph: But you have a bit of forewarning that you are about to hit a gravity well
GlyphGryph: Once you're in it, though, it doesn't change
GlyphGryph: Also, Jamcores are immune to a Trancers jamming powers
GlyphGryph: I've just decided.
GlyphGryph: Meaning stations with Gravity engines
GlyphGryph: Can't be moved.
GlyphGryph: Nor can planets be jammed.
JamMiner: How do you move a jamcore then?
GlyphGryph: Blink it
JamMiner: Ah.
JamMiner: That's why they're hard to separate, right?
GlyphGryph: Right
GlyphGryph: Even moving them physically is pretty hard
GlyphGryph: Unless you're attracting it with another larger jamcore.
GlyphGryph: Which is basically just asking for trouble.
JamMiner: Jam romance
JamMiner: Rojamce
Ultimuh: Jamrance
GlyphGryph: Blinking a smaller jamcore into the gravity well of an inhabited planet
GlyphGryph: Is frowned upon
Ultimuh: Jamance
Ultimuh: Jamce
GlyphGryph: And when I say frowned upon
GlyphGryph: I mean
JamMiner: Terrorism?
GlyphGryph: Unambigously execution worthy
GlyphGryph: *ambigously
Ultimuh: I sense plot
JamMiner: Hok, rather.
JamMiner: *Hook
Ultimuh: yeah, plot hook'
GlyphGryph: Heh
GlyphGryph: Plot hook?
JamMiner: So, that it for the setting's astrography?
GlyphGryph: Or knowing my players and laying out consequences in advance?
GlyphGryph: Who could say!
***JamMiner eyes scriver <_<
GlyphGryph: But yes
GlyphGryph: That is my setting cosmology