Captain Joy schrieb: > Here's my first attempt to provide this list with a randomly generated > star system. Please feel free to comment--good or bad. I can see that > the tables' formatting is a mess. For those (few) of you that care, > you can copy and paste the info into a word processor and set tabs to > your desire. > > Planetary Record: Puparkin β > Quite nice and potentially helpful! Thanks for the contribution!
But I have some issues. First I am used to Roman digits for the planets of a star (Puparkin I, Puparkin II, Sol III) instead of Greek letters as you used them. Greek letters are usually used for naming the stars in a multi-star system (like Puparkin Alpha for the main sun and Puparkin Beta for Cub). In astronomy charts, the Greek letters are also used for denomination of the stars in a constellation (? Sternbild), ordered by their apparent size (the largest/brightest is Alpha, the second is Beta and so on). For multi-star systems (or more exactly, for two-star systems) I also know the habit to name the main star with Major and the second with Minor (Puparkin Major is the main star and Cub is Puparkin Minor). Next I miss some data on the table: As the planetary orbits are usually not circles, but ellipsis, they have two "diameters", or a least a factor is given how much larger one is compared to the other. Next I miss the length of a planetary year and the length of a planetary day. Regards tquadrat -- Thomas Thrien Obermarkstraße 3 Berghofer Mark 44267 Dortmund Allemagne Tel. +49 231 7285456 Mobil +49 171 5289503 Geo 51° 28' 12" N 7° 32' 17" E _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
