[Starks]

Come on, 50% of the stars in the universe are estimated to be binaries... Capella had a MASSIVE companion star.

[Mars]

The binary companion is actually two stars, G class dwarfs.
You could actually also point out that Alpha Centuri is a trinary system, Deneb is a huge blue-giant more than an astronomical in radius, Gamma Draconis is an orange giant, and Epsilon Pegasi is an orange-supergiant, also Bernard's Star (the second closest star from the sun) and Wolf 359 (the third closest star from the sun) are tiny red dwarfs.
Basically, FS2 isn't too good with that kind of thing.

[Shade]

Who knows? Maybe the shivans don't like binaries and had already blow it up before we got there. Or perhaps someone just didn't think to check whether Capella had more than one star before making his mission.

[Backslash]

Working on this already.  Though that post doesn't make it clear, Lightspeed's star system templates also include notes on the proper types and amounts of suns.  So it will be fixed...

Apparently Capella is a quaternary (4 stars).  Whoa.

[StratComm]

Don't give the missions more stars.  Planets around binary stars are not likely at all, and yet there are planets in (most) realspace missions.  Nevermind that you'll be altering the lighting in the missions dramatically by doing so.

[WMCoolmon]

Contract negotiations fell short when a reality TV show offered the other three a better deal...

[karajorma]

The binary companion is actually two stars, G class dwarfs.

Actually Capella is a quaternary system consisting of two G class stars both over 7 times bigger than the sun and two M class stars which are both smaller.

When looking up nearby starts this site is great

[Nuclear1]

Nevermind that you'll be altering the lighting in the missions dramatically by doing so.

Ugh... can't anyone imagine the headache? Bank one way, "Oh, God, my eyes!"; bank another, "Oh, God, not again!"

It's like JAD all over again.

[antar05]

Wouldn't that only happen if you were BETWEEN the stars? There is one FS2 mission with a binary system, and they basically just merge into one star model.

[Descenter]

I'm guessing it just all depends on the locations of the stars.

[FireCrack]

The two main stars are .6 AU away from eachother, so considering the brightness of them, any habitable area of capella would see them as one (and thus their gravity could be thaught of as one, thus alowing planets to have relatively circular orbits)


The other two stars (small class M red dwarfs) are about a light year away(and orbit together, as a smaller binary system), so they'd be extremely dim and have very little gravitational effects on orbiting planets.

[Wanderer]

0.6 AU = 90 x 10^6 km while the radius of different spectral type G stars is pretty close to 1 x sun radius which is about 1.4 x 10^6 km so there is still nearly a difference by two orders of magnitude. It would be amazing if those could be seen as one from a distance where 'lifezone' exists.

[karajorma]

The visual comfort zone around both stars is 11.7 A.U.s Make of that what you will.

[aldo_14]

Or perhaps someone just didn't think to check whether Capella had more than one star before making his mission.

Galloping guppies Batman, he's onto something!

Spoiler:

Sorry.  I just wanted to say 'galloping guppies'....

The visual comfort zone around both stars is 11.7 A.U.s Make of that what you will.

Sunglasses?

[Eightball]

"I thought we finished installing sun shields on those fighters..."

[Eishtmo]

Well, um, you see, the reason is, uh. . .

NEVER ASK THAT QUESTION!

[S-99]

Oh man, the only time stars become unbearably bright is when you run the smart shader HDRish.
All of a sudden you're fighting, the fighter fly's through the light of the star, and the blinding light is actually pretty disorienting.
All of this considering when you look at the sun in the sky it's pretty blinding.
4 suns would kick my ass with fake hdr in fs2
Also considering that stars aren't blinding at all without fake hdr:p
Give capella 4 suns:)
That would be ****ing awesome
Besides, when only one of them goes nova, it still takes out capella anyway.
All the shivans would need to do is target the star closest to the inhabited areas of capella.
And scientists by amazement have discovered planetary systems with multiple suns
Who cares if it screws up the lighting of a mission:p
Lighting is different based on every different system you go to anyway:p
And distance to the star of course:)
SWEET

[phreak]

Because supernova-start only works if you have one sun in the mission and it doesn't work with any more.

[Descenter]

That seem pretty pathetic coding for a supernova to only work with one sun missions.  Someone should fix that then if that is the case.

[karajorma]

You offering?