On Thursday 2004-01-15 21:22, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Trent Shipley wrote: > >> We still miss one. > >> > >> Alpha Centauri would be the 2nd lease. IIRC, at the time of Sundiver > >> Earth had 3 colonies. > > > > Good. So you do not care that the Alpha Centuri colony is Class-A, or > > are you proposing that is it Class-B? > > It could be anything. Probably a world in _far_ worse shape than > any other, but not a dead world like Mars or Venus. > > > Please tell me more about the Alpha Centuri colony -- or at least more > > about our current knowledge on the Alpha Centuri system. > > A double-star system, where one is Sunlike, the other smaller than > the Sun, but both could have Earth-like planets in the ecologically > viable zone. > > Proxima, the third star, is so far away and so small that it doesn't > count. > > Alberto Monteiro
It's going around the Sun-like star. What is the star's name? What is the other part of the double star? Is it close enough to influence climate on our new colony? It's your baby. Give it a name -- Portuguese maybe (or nonsense derived from Portuguese). And pick a secondary leasehold type, I won't do it for you. (I figure anything around Alpha Centuri was colonized during the Beauracray and is currently a Class-T lease.) Bear in mind that I think A-Class leases don't really count against the Galactic average of 10.6 leasholds per race. Of course any type of lease would let us square the idea that Terragens should have 10 leases. A- : Not considered a good terraforming candidate by Galactics. Eg. Mars or anything worse. A: Terraforming candidate. A+: Easy terraforming project. (Usually a down-graded B grade planet thanks to political pressure on the GIM. Terragens couldn't swing that.) B-: Needs LOTS of bio-remediation. Powerful clans get these leased on A-Class terms. B: Bio-remediation project. B+: Easy bio-remediation project. Powerful races try to get these leased on Class-C terms. C-: Unpleasant C grade planet. Often an upgraded B-grade planet. C: Desirable, ecologically diverse and stable homeworld. C+: Exceptional candidate for colonization. A garden world. (Don't pick this. We are told Calafia was Earth's first lease on a garden world.) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
