Brown Dwarfs
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If I recall correctly:
A gas giant ranges from "World Size" 14 to 100 or so.
A "T" brown dwarf would be around size 128, and 14 to 24 Jupiter masses appx.
An "L" brown dwarf would be around size 150, and 25 to 30 Jupiter masses appx.
A dim M-class star would mass 75 Jupiters or more.
So, a brown dwarf could be a fraction of the brightness of an M-class star. Hard to read by, I suppose, and perhaps there's no habitable zone.
A gas giant ranges from "World Size" 14 to 100 or so.
A "T" brown dwarf would be around size 128, and 14 to 24 Jupiter masses appx.
An "L" brown dwarf would be around size 150, and 25 to 30 Jupiter masses appx.
A dim M-class star would mass 75 Jupiters or more.
So, a brown dwarf could be a fraction of the brightness of an M-class star. Hard to read by, I suppose, and perhaps there's no habitable zone.
That's a good place to stick an out-of-the way station, for sure.
Other places include deep space... if you can use a fusion plant to create a light source...
Peter Schutze
SOC-12
wavelengths would be very low on the spectrum, heavily favouring the infrared
as I understand it there would be almost no hope of a earth sized planet surviving inside any potential "liquid water zone" but any planet modelled on jupiter or saturns moons should be possible as would a asteroid belt
as I understand it there would be almost no hope of a earth sized planet surviving inside any potential "liquid water zone" but any planet modelled on jupiter or saturns moons should be possible as would a asteroid belt
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I started there I just hoping someone who was closer to the field would have done a little more preprocessing of the data presented there.
There is apparently an article on just this subject one SJGs JTAS site. Good thing I am a member still...
Qstor2
SOC-13
Yeah its by Malefant who used to post on this site. It's been highly recommend on the SJG GT boards as one of the best articles from JTAS.
Mike
ThunderChilde
SOC-13
In MTU the prolifacy of Brown Stars is a fact, and the charted route of identified systems with any fuel sources is a tightly held secret. The old days of captains keeping private charts, and sharing thier secrets with a trusted few if at all is again a reality. Then again, MTU is based in the frontiers of the Imperium, largely outside its borders.
Deeper in this would be a secret kept by the Scout Service and the Navy for it strategic importance. In places an alternate route or shortcut would be publicised. If a page is lifted from the Terran Trade Authority universe, there may be unmanned emergency fuel and lifesupport stations in some of these systems.
Deeper in this would be a secret kept by the Scout Service and the Navy for it strategic importance. In places an alternate route or shortcut would be publicised. If a page is lifted from the Terran Trade Authority universe, there may be unmanned emergency fuel and lifesupport stations in some of these systems.
Icosahedron
SOC-14 1K
A lot depends on what you want from your game. Realistically, I doubt if an average Brown Dwarf would provide a fuel source itself, the gravity would be too high for you to approach even if you could tolerate the radiation. However, there may be a ring system you could slowly extract ice from. I'm not sure about gas giants in the system.
An orbiting station could probably use some form of IR solar panel to power itself directly from the BD and could serve as a HQ for a fuel-belter operation.
IMTU BDs exist in quantities, both in blank hexes and as additional occupants of occupied hexes, but for the reasons quoted above, are effectively useless - but I don't want to use them, I'm just handwaving an acknowledgement of their astronomical existance. You obviously have other plans.
It would be interesting to read that Malenfant article, the guy knows his stuff - as he never failed to remind us - but I'm not going to join yet another forum to do it.
An orbiting station could probably use some form of IR solar panel to power itself directly from the BD and could serve as a HQ for a fuel-belter operation.
IMTU BDs exist in quantities, both in blank hexes and as additional occupants of occupied hexes, but for the reasons quoted above, are effectively useless - but I don't want to use them, I'm just handwaving an acknowledgement of their astronomical existance. You obviously have other plans.
It would be interesting to read that Malenfant article, the guy knows his stuff - as he never failed to remind us - but I'm not going to join yet another forum to do it.
I'm not using them as fuel sources, but as stepping stones for limited jump ships.
Icosahedron
SOC-14 1K
Just curious:
If they're not fuel sources, why do you need them? Do you sign up to the 'jump must end at a star' school? Why not just jump to deep space if you have fuel reserves aboard?
If they're not fuel sources, why do you need them? Do you sign up to the 'jump must end at a star' school? Why not just jump to deep space if you have fuel reserves aboard?
Renaissance Man
SOC-12
Wow -- a brown dwarf in every hex? This changes everything. I wonder what percentage would have viable fuel sources? Pirates would LOVE these things.
