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[Screech9791]

Code: (Terrain Vote) [Select]

Shattered (1) KJP
Jagged (6) Glass, MSH, NG, Chaoskl21, Blood_Librarian, 0cra
Rough (0)
Smooth (0)
Immaculate (0)

[Nirur Torir]

I'll be a voice of dissent. Smooth will have us evolve to be more enduring, and force life to evolve to deal with the radiation instead of only dealing with it in bursts. More flatlands should mean a much better pop cap, and we should have a vastly easier time with controlling a large pre-space empire.
In the far future, Chaos cultists won't have ready-made hiding spots everywhere across our homeworld.

Code: (Terrain Vote) [Select]

Shattered (1) KJP
Jagged (6) Glass, MSH, NG, Chaoskl21, Blood_Librarian, Ocra
Rough (0)
Smooth (1) Nirur
Immaculate (0)

[Funk]

Code: (Terrain Vote) [Select]

Shattered (1) KJP
Jagged (7) Glass, MSH, NG, Chaoskl21, Blood_Librarian, Ocra, Funk
Rough (0)
Smooth (1) Nirur
Immaculate (0)

[Tyrant Leviathan]

Code: (Terrain Vote) [Select]

Shattered (1) KJP
Jagged (8) Glass, MSH, NG, Chaoskl21, Blood_Librarian, Ocra, Funk, TL
Rough (0)
Smooth (1) Nirur
Immaculate (0)

[Ardent Debater]

Code: (Terrain Vote) [Select]

Shattered (1) KJP
Jagged (8) Glass, MSH, NG, Chaoskl21, Blood_Librarian, Ocra, Funk, TL
Rough (0)
Smooth (1) Nirur
Immaculate (0)
The planet, a jagged shell clinging to a molten core, looping around a hellish star as oceans churn stone and are cleaved apart when the continents shift in turn. It is one in numberless multitudes, notable only in that it's numbered among the few tens of thousands fated to give rise to thinking life, and can stand proud, as its progeny emerged from no machination of the Old Ones yet to be born, but from the murk, evident in and of themselves, adhering to a purpose that they, and they alone will choose when they venture out into the vicious cosmos. Whether they will rise to the challenge with the tenacity of a feral beast made mindful or bend and crumble beneath the weight of what awaits them remains to be seen. What matters now is the sky over the mountains.

How many moons will the life-forms to grow here one day perceive, with senses wholly familiar or unknown and utterly loathsome to man?

None: Above lays only the tapestry of stars, a soft blanket shrouding the world and sparing its shores the rigor of tides even as the sun's searing radiance chokes it. However, this is a false comfort as there is nothing to shield from meteorite strikes but naked luck, the calculation of time from the celestial spheres is made difficult, and when night falls, it does so with a stygian totality unknown to humanity.
One: Solitary and immense in singularity, a titanic sphere orbits the world in microcosm of its own orbit around the sun, as Luna unto Terra. Apart from the rare eclipse and steady, predictable flow of tidal waves, the lunar circle undergoes shifts that make the keeping of time intuitive, and while many nights are dark indeed, most have some lingering light in concert with the petty satellite's current phase.
Two: Unusual but far from unheard of, two moons twist and turn in a cyclic motion around the world, catching asteroids with a fraction more reliability than one could alone and between the two of them, forcing the oceans into a rapid shifting of tides to and fro and keeping the surface below awash with luminescence, day or night, to the life-forms here, true darkness is an alien and unthinkable thing.
Many: Bizarre but not absurd, three or more satellites orbit the world in a rhythmic dance that will doubtless see the fields of astronomy and theology one and the same, even as they drive the seas to spastic madness and ensure that, be it day or be it night, the world is lit at a frenzied intensity that would require some form of protection for frail human optics, lest exposure see their lens damaged beyond repair.

Spoiler:  The Home System (click to show/hide)

Location: The Galactic South
Sun's Radiation: Harsh
Home-World's distance from Sun: Middling
Home-World's Size: Large
Home-World's Topology: Jagged
Home-World's Number of Moons: To be determined

[IncompetentFortressMaker]

Code: (Number of Moons Vote List) [Select]

None (0)
One (0)
Two (0)
Three (1?) (write-in sort of thing) IncompetentFortressMaker
Many (1?) IncompetentFortressMaker if Three isn't a suitable proposition
Yes, my vote is mildly uncertain and the naming of the "votebox" may be a tad fancy, but so be it.

[Glass]

Code: (Moon(s) vote) [Select]

None (0)
One (0)
Two (1) Glass
[Three] (1) IFM
Many (1?) IFM

[Kilojoule Proton]

Code: (Moon(s) vote) [Select]

None (0)
One (1) KJP
Two (1) Glass
[Three] (1) IFM
Many (1?) IFM

[Rockeater]

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Code: (Moon(s) vote) [Select]

None (0)
One (1) KJP
Two (1) Glass
[Three] (1) IFM
Many (2?) IFM, Rockeater

[Glass]

I'd like to note that I'm pretty sure that having more moons will mostly mean that there's semi-frequently a moon in front of the sun during the day and always something reflecting the sun at night. It won't be very luminescent nights - they cannot reflect more than the sun would shine without somehow focusing the reflections, which will be improbable - but rather something more akin to perpetual twilight.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Code: (Moon(s) vote) [Select]

None (1) MetalSlimeHunt
One (1) KJP
Two (1) Glass
[Three] (1) IFM
Many (2?) IFM, Rockeater

[Lidku]

Code: (Moon(s) vote) [Select]

None (1) MetalSlimeHunt
One (2) KJP, Lidku
Two (1) Glass
[Three] (1) IFM
Many (2?) IFM, Rockeater

[Naturegirl1999]

Code: (Moon(s) vote) [Select]

None (1) MetalSlimeHunt
One (2) KJP, Lidku
Two (1) Glass
[Three] (1) IFM
Many (3?) IFM, Rockeater, NG

[Ardent Debater]

Code: (Number of Moons Vote List) [Select]

None (0)
One (0)
Two (0)
Three (1?) (write-in sort of thing) IncompetentFortressMaker
Many (1?) IncompetentFortressMaker if Three isn't a suitable proposition
Yes, my vote is mildly uncertain and the naming of the "votebox" may be a tad fancy, but so be it.

Spoiler:  GM Note (click to show/hide)

Voting for Three specifically is perfectly fine, if Many passes, I'll roll 2d3, and then roll that many more d3s to determine how many satellites there are, since a Large planet can handle quite a few, assuming they're smaller than Luna.

I'd like to note that I'm pretty sure that having more moons will mostly mean that there's semi-frequently a moon in front of the sun during the day and always something reflecting the sun at night. It won't be very luminescent nights - they cannot reflect more than the sun would shine without somehow focusing the reflections, which will be improbable - but rather something more akin to perpetual twilight.

Spoiler:  GM Note (click to show/hide)

That's a fair point, but the constant exposure would damage eyes adapted to handling the reflection from a single moon and as many as eight or nine, potentially more, each reflecting the same amount of the sun's light would make the night (and day) sky much brighter. Imagine stepping outside during the night and there being five moons, two full and three in a crescent, it'd be comparable to broad daylight, and a sky-full would cause eye-strain. Maybe not immediate or on par with a welding arc, but nothing sustainable in the long run without protective gear. I'm no astronomer, but I am trying to cover all of the planet's bases and keep the consequences of your choices as reasonable as I can.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

What I know for sure is that orbit eccentricity increases steadily as the number of relatively-large satellites increases. If our own system is any indication, even a Super-Earth with five moons is going to have some wild orbital systems.