Verse Map: White Paper Available
POSTED BY: Lemming
UPDATED: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 07:42
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Shiny!
Thanks for the link Lemming. Just downloaded it.
More source material for my Serenity game. 
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Jewelstaitefan, I'd put the bar in the teaser of The Train Job on St. Lucius, the third and smallest moon orbiting Beylix. Beylix is a terrestrial planet with rings -- the only one in the Verse, I think, and St. Lucius is definitely a "little moon."
When in sunny Overlook, on St. Lucius, stop in at Frank's Place, raise a glass of the local fruit wine with Frank and the gang, and toast Unification Day! (Just leave your brown coat at home.)
Chris
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About the figures from the spreadsheet, you could just post them here for now, and we'll catch the new version when it's released.
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Originally posted by ElectricLion:
Jewelstaitefan, I'd put the bar in the teaser of The Train Job on St. Lucius, the third and smallest moon orbiting Beylix. Beylix is a terrestrial planet with rings -- the only one in the Verse, I think, and St. Lucius is definitely a "little moon."
When in sunny Overlook, on St. Lucius, stop in at Frank's Place, raise a glass of the local fruit wine with Frank and the gang, and toast Unification Day! (Just leave your brown coat at home.)
Chris
The world with rings does not need to be terraformed/inhabited.
The other listed world with rings is New Canaan in Blue Sun.
As discussed in the Map of the Verse discussion thread over in Episode Forum, St Lucius is the closest match to what was shown onscreen, but even when Kalidasa (Beylix) and Georgia (Ezra) are at greatest proximity, it is till more travel time than what seems to occur on screen. That is why it would work better with a world within reasonable travel time, limiting it effectively to Georgia System.
Thanks for your input.
Did you have a loctaion for Kowlonshi (Kaylee's place of birth) or Kowlon Fed Base (where Safe script says Mal is to drop off Badger's proceeds from th cattle sale)?
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OK, I wanted to ask a few questions after checking the White Paper, some thing were not covered and my recall of astrophysics may be rusty.
Looks like the Blue Sun system orbits White Sun in a clockwise direction, viewed from the Map of the Verse, and all other systems orbit counterclockwise, correct? Does this mean that all bodies within these 4 inner systems also orbit counterclockwise around their primary, or do they orbit clockwise, or are there some exceptions either way?
Regarding Mr. Universe's location in Comm Ring 2 Station 2e being +150 degrees of Kalidasa, does this mean he is 150 degrees clockwise of Kalidasa? Is that correct?
Does Blue Sun system orbit in a plane perpendicular to the rest of the verse's plane, as shown on the Map? In which direction do these orbit move? Clockwise while looking thru the Blue Sun into the White Sun? or CCW?
And I didn't see any listing yet of the orbital duration of the Suns, will we need to wait for the next version, or might it get posted someplace like here?
If my guesstimations are correct, speed of light is about 7.2 Au/hour. The White Paper mentions the travel speed of the Exodus averaged about 1/3 of light, so that would be about 2.4 Au/hour. Was there some limitation on the max velocity? was it for maneuverability amid unexpected interference (uncharted asteroids, meteor showers, etc), was it also a limitation among the verse circa 2500, or was greater velocity allowed and practical?
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Originally posted by ncbrowncoat:
My only question is how long will it take to download.
100 pages of text is nothin'. Back in the really old days of 2400 baud modems, we used to figure 1 full page of pure text ( or 1 full screen , even I can't remember which.) as 2 K bytes. A megabyte would hold a complete NOVEL over 300 pages long. MPEG video plays back at about 10 MB per minute.
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bumpies for Qs.
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