[Ace]

In lieu of the little fiasco with the trailer, I've been attempting to reach and and have more people give their input on the Twilight forums at FreeSpace Watch.

I hope that the frequenters of HLP will take a shot at deciphering the cryptic clues on the site that could lead way to uncovering the mystery of the campaign's plot and post their thoughts in the various threads on our forum.  

Thanks, and keep up the modding ladies and gents!

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[Setekh]

I've been paying attention and I think I must say it is excellent work. I can't wait for those few *cough* 'problems' *cough* to be sorted out. *nudges Ace*  

[Ace]

Well *cough* Kazan *cough* better make a new .vp construction suite that actually lets FS2 recognize the table files, right Kazan?  

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[quid]

cool

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[NeoHunter]

I saw the trailer. Looks promising and exciting. Will it be out by this May?

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[NeoHunter]

Please refer to this picture first:

   

Okay. Now, from what I'm seeing, Chiron and Acheron are going to get some pretty nasty asteroid bombardment from the Kabulov asteroid field. That's because they are literally passing through it. Then Acheron's moon, Peracles, will also be passingt through it. Would that make it impossible for it to sustain life? What if a huge asteroid wiped out life on it like an asteroid wiped out the dinosuars?

Possible?

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[Setekh]

Depends... from the illustration, we have no idea of the size of the asteroids and the asteroid density.

[NeoHunter]

But as long as a planet is passing through an asteroid field, there's bound to be a collision, right?  

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[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
Depends... from the illustration, we have no idea of the size of the asteroids and the asteroid density.

[NeoHunter]

I read that the first time. Hee

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[Sushi]

Also depends on the thickness of the atmosphere on the given planet. Thicker atmosphere means more asteroids do nothing but make pretty fireworks.

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[Jabu]

The planets have been rotating there for millions of years, they're probably nothing but craters these days. Unless it's year is VERY long  

[NeoHunter]

Then I guess Peracles has a very think atmosphere then all else it cannot even support life if ever few 20 years or so a meteor shower occurs and a big one passes through the atmosphere and BANG!

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[Ace]

Actually this has all been thought out, I have the actual specs of the planets posted on the Twilight forum.  

The inclination of Kabulov's belt means that the blunt of the debris is never encountered by any planets within the system.

Acheron's gravational fields also deflect a great deal of Kabulov's belt which is a remnant of a protoplanetary disk which drifts at it's current distance due to a cataclysm with Ikeya's companion early in the system's development. (this cataclysm is why Typheous is the way it is, and why most of the would-be planets soon found themselves shifted to Acheron which relatively is at the lagrange point of the companions, during it's formation at the very least.)

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[Jabu]

 

Originally posted by Ace:
Acheron's gravational fields also deflect a great deal of Kabulov's belt which is a remnant of a protoplanetary disk which drifts at it's current distance due to a cataclysm with Ikeya's companion early in the system's development. (this cataclysm is why Typheous is the way it is, and why most of the would-be planets soon found themselves shifted to Acheron which relatively is at the lagrange point of the companions, during it's formation at the very least.)

Umm... what?

[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by Ace:
Acheron's gravational fields also deflect a great deal of Kabulov's belt which is a remnant of a protoplanetary disk which drifts at it's current distance due to a cataclysm with Ikeya's companion early in the system's development. (this cataclysm is why Typheous is the way it is, and why most of the would-be planets soon found themselves shifted to Acheron which relatively is at the lagrange point of the companions, during it's formation at the very least.)

I understood that, but you could have worded it much better.

[NeoHunter]

 

Originally posted by Ace:
The inclination of Kabulov's belt means that the blunt of the debris is never encountered by any planets within the system.

Acheron's gravational fields also deflect a great deal of Kabulov's belt which is a remnant of a protoplanetary disk which drifts at it's current distance due to a cataclysm with Ikeya's companion early in the system's development. (this cataclysm is why Typheous is the way it is, and why most of the would-be planets soon found themselves shifted to Acheron which relatively is at the lagrange point of the companions, during it's formation at the very least.)

So, what do you mean by "inclination of the Kabulov Belt"? I'm a bit lost here.

And when you mentioned "protoplanetary disk", is it the disk that can be seen when the star is just formed and is surrounded by a disk that later makes up the planets??

Please explain in a more......simpler form. Thanks!  

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[Ace]

Inclination is the degree which the belt is "off center."

Protoplanetary disk is exactly as you said.

Yes, I could have worded in in mono-syllabic words, however I assumed that most people would understand if I actually did use some vocabulary.  

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[Sushi]

Inclination is how far off-plane the orbit is. Here's a handy little diagram showing about where the asteroid field is relative to the planets(from what I've read.)

     

Anyways, this means that the orbits only pass through the asteroid field twice a year, so they are only able to collide with the 'stroids for a short time- so the chances of being struck with a Big One are not good.


[EDIT]Should be fixed now...
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[NeoHunter]

I still see no picture.

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