PC's from low gravity worlds

[Supplement Four]

Where did you get that temperature? Behind the Claw claims that the temperature is Normal.

World Builder's Handbook, by way of Heaven & Earth.

The canonical star class (M7 V) has to be wrong, since that would make Alell tide locked.

According to the info in H&E, it's a binary system, with two weak stars.

 

[rancke]

World Builder's Handbook, by way of Heaven & Earth.



According to the info in H&E, it's a binary system, with two weak stars.

Yes, that's what Regency Sourcebook says: a class M7 V and a class M7 D. I don't have The Spinward Marches Campaign with me here, but almost certainly it says the same (the UWP data in RgS are mostly the same as that of SMC; it did make a few changes (though not nearly enough, IMO), but I don't think it changed any stars to M-class).

The thing is, stellar classes were added as an afterthought and as far as I can tell, no one bothered to correlated stellar classes with UWPs. They just took the known stellar distribution of our galaxy and randomly assigned stars to each system. As a result, you have dozens and scores of worlds with biospheres orbiting M-class stars, irregardless of the fact that by CT rules M-class stars only have outer orbits -- places too cold to have biospheres.

IMO this is a genuine bona fide discrepancy; something that warrants a canon retcon. YMMV.

GT:Far Trader allows planets to orbit close enough to M-class stars to have life, but that creates another problem: any world old enough to have evolved a biosphere that orbits in the life zone of a class M star will be tidelocked .

Getting back to Alell, Exit Visa shows an earth-like world that rotates. On the principle that canonical text trumps canonical UWPs I will claim that Alell does not orbit a Class M7 V star. In the OTU, that is.



Hans