So the Maghiz is a huge darrian triggered superflare. Something we have no records of Sol ever pulling off. The records include ice core samples and other paleontological records either. We do have records of massive die-offs in the form of coal deposits among other signs, but no record of any solar flare being part of any extinction event on earth. Not even for the big 5 and the description of the Maghiz puts it as worse than anything earth has EVER experienced.
A 'G' star is generally too stable, although a freak occurrence may be possible.
But a 'M' dwarf is known to have let loose with a superflare. Perhaps the experimentaion that triggered the Maghiz was on the companion star instead?
GJ 3685A is a red dwarf that let loose a massive flare
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/galex-053105.html
Although it wouldn't be as canon OTU described it, Darryen's system has a M1 D star in it.
GJ 3685A is M4 D, isn't it?
Canon description sounds like a massive CME actually hit the surface!
The following is from the Traveller wiki entry...
WTF!
80% kill of all the population?
And the remaining 20% could start rebuilding without worry of follow-on effects such as, I dunno, ecosystem collapse? Climate collapse?
unless the flare was a super-secret anti-darrian homing flare, that'd imply 80% kill of all vertebrates and even 80% of all life
That's far worse than Permian-Triassic event when 70% of all vertebrates died over a period of years/decades/centuries?
Only this happened in the space of 3 days!
And 3 weeks for the CME to hit after the initial pulse? shouldn't that be 1-5 days
And of course, the proton storm would be traveling at a big percentage of 'c' considering the energies the would be required for the carnage described...ozone damage and radiation in less than 15 minutes after the first visual indications.
And the pulse can be felt out to 6 parsecs?
WTF?
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This is closer to what I expected but bigger with most of the die-off happening over time as ecosystems crashed after ripped open ozone layers, UV deaths and climate changes crippled the world's carrying capacity just as badly as the initial pulse crippled technology.
http://www.breadandbutterscience.com/SSTA.pdf
Clearly, canon fails massively
AUUUURRRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!
This has to be pure fantasy!
A 'G' star is generally too stable, although a freak occurrence may be possible.
But a 'M' dwarf is known to have let loose with a superflare. Perhaps the experimentaion that triggered the Maghiz was on the companion star instead?
GJ 3685A is a red dwarf that let loose a massive flare
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/galex-053105.html
Although it wouldn't be as canon OTU described it, Darryen's system has a M1 D star in it.
GJ 3685A is M4 D, isn't it?
Canon description sounds like a massive CME actually hit the surface!
The following is from the Traveller wiki entry...
These flares generated a huge electromagnetic pulse that blew all electronic components on Darrian. About three weeks later the physical wave front of expanding gas reached Darrian. When it hit, the last of superheated gases struck like a blowtorch, temporarily raising local temperatures to 250° and higher. The Maghiz destroyed whole areas of Darrian, scalding basins, evaporating shallow seas, burning forests and grasslands, and destroying populated areas. Fortunately, the flares lasted only three days. At the end of those three days, the surviving 20 percent of Darrian's population came out and began rebuilding.
WTF!
80% kill of all the population?
And the remaining 20% could start rebuilding without worry of follow-on effects such as, I dunno, ecosystem collapse? Climate collapse?
unless the flare was a super-secret anti-darrian homing flare, that'd imply 80% kill of all vertebrates and even 80% of all life
That's far worse than Permian-Triassic event when 70% of all vertebrates died over a period of years/decades/centuries?
Only this happened in the space of 3 days!
And 3 weeks for the CME to hit after the initial pulse? shouldn't that be 1-5 days
And of course, the proton storm would be traveling at a big percentage of 'c' considering the energies the would be required for the carnage described...ozone damage and radiation in less than 15 minutes after the first visual indications.
And the pulse can be felt out to 6 parsecs?
WTF?
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This is closer to what I expected but bigger with most of the die-off happening over time as ecosystems crashed after ripped open ozone layers, UV deaths and climate changes crippled the world's carrying capacity just as badly as the initial pulse crippled technology.
http://www.breadandbutterscience.com/SSTA.pdf
Clearly, canon fails massively
AUUUURRRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!
This has to be pure fantasy!