Dino Planet

[LemnOc]

Based on the knowledge of this esteemed group, which system would best host the really Big Biology, enormous critters?

Based on a few clues in the Colonial Atlas, I'm thinking Syuhlahm.

 

[McPerth]

Highland, where the ravvers live (see Challenge 44).

 

[rgrove0172]

yeah, I thought about the Ravvers too!

 

[LemnOc]

Yeah. I forgot about the ravvers. Cool beasts.

But Highland is a bit off the beaten path for what I want to do. Soldiering on....

 

[epicenter00]

Supposedly there's "Giant Lizards" on Wolf 242B - big enough that the English made a huge hunting rifle to deal with them.

Oddly enough, you'd think that'd be sufficient to make the world fascinating, but you don't really hear anything else about it that world except for that throw-away gloss under the 12-81 rifle.

 

[LemnOc]

Supposedly there's "Giant Lizards" on Wolf 242B - big enough that the English made a huge hunting rifle to deal with them.

Oddly enough, you'd think that'd be sufficient to make the world fascinating, but you don't really hear anything else about it that world except for that throw-away gloss under the 12-81 rifle.

Hm, that sounds interesting. I can't find Wolf 242 on the Near Stars table. Wolf 424??

 

[epicenter00]

Hm, that sounds interesting. I can't find Wolf 242 on the Near Stars table. Wolf 424??

Er. Yeah, Wolf 424. The blurb is this odd throwaway line in the gloss for the Rockwell "12-81" Magnum. "The rifle was originally designed to provide a weapon with a high first-round killing capacity against the giant lizards of Wolf-424B-1..."

I mean, it's a strange line in general. I suspect the copy for the weapon was written long before anyone started on the Colonial Atlas or anything like that. Given that they went to some lengths to ensure there weren't Earth organisms on other planets in 2300, and suddenly, "giant lizards."

But besides that, let's face it. It's the boyhood dream of many to go to a world with dinosaur-type creatures running around. Wolf 424B appears to be that place.

 

[LemnOc]

But besides that, let's face it. It's the boyhood dream of many to go to a world with dinosaur-type creatures running around. Wolf 424B appears to be that place.

Yes; 424 is an unlikely place for big biology, another improbably productive red flare dwarf, although as a close binary ...maybe.... Close enough to Sol to make it a safari junket for bored dilettantes, though.

From a plotting perspective, I'm starting to lean toward a weird experiment of the Pentapods gone horribly wrong on BC-4. Where there's a will, there's a way.

 

[shaunhilburn]

Yes; 424 is an unlikely place for big biology, another improbably productive red flare dwarf, although as a close binary ...maybe....

I'm writing the Wolf 424 sourcebook. While doing the research for it, I've come to the conclusion that flare stars and red dwarfs are unfairly castigated as a stellar trash heap.

 

[LemnOc]

I'm writing the Wolf 424 sourcebook. While doing the research for it, I've come to the conclusion that flare stars and red dwarfs are unfairly castigated as a stellar trash heap.

Hope you'll share your sourcebook when completed.

 

[shaunhilburn]

Hope you'll share your sourcebook when completed.

It'll be a few years; it's very much a work in progress that stalls intermittently. I used the Aurore Sourcebook as a template, but something of that scope is way too ambitious; Wolf 424 will end up much smaller. I'll be lucky if I can stretch it to 30 pages with artwork.

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It definitely fits the bill as "Dino Planet".