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Effects of the Kohana Supernova
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Fred
Retired Staff
You could just do nothing about it. I'm fairly certain no one gave a damn until you pointed it out. Gloss/ignore the event and move on with your regularily scheduled roleplay.
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Well, whatever would happen would need to happen with Albini and Tami as far as Yamatai is concerned. Kenichi's Star is also affected, though this is something more tied to independant plots, if I'm not mistaken.
Map-wise, you could look into shifting the position of the Ayame nebula as it gets pushed/blunts the shockwave with its mass.
Honestly? I'm not sure anything can be done about it but have people batten the hatches and try to weather the natural disaster as best as they are able. Space is vast, wondrous and dangerous, and dwarfs even mighty Yamatai.
This is the reason why people should be reticent to blowing up stars: it catches up with you eventually. It's rich motivation to not screw around with that kind of warfare. I think this is important.
The Kohana supernova isn't the only concern. There's also the Taiie supernova, and the swath of destroyed systems Uesu left in the wake of his exodus too.
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Well, whatever would happen would need to happen with Albini and Tami as far as Yamatai is concerned. Kenichi's Star is also affected, though this is something more tied to independant plots, if I'm not mistaken.
Map-wise, you could look into shifting the position of the Ayame nebula as it gets pushed/blunts the shockwave with its mass.
Honestly? I'm not sure anything can be done about it but have people batten the hatches and try to weather the natural disaster as best as they are able. Space is vast, wondrous and dangerous, and dwarfs even mighty Yamatai.
This is the reason why people should be reticent to blowing up stars: it catches up with you eventually. It's rich motivation to not screw around with that kind of warfare. I think this is important.
The Kohana supernova isn't the only concern. There's also the Taiie supernova, and the swath of destroyed systems Uesu left in the wake of his exodus too.
Supernova remnants don't go the speed of light — nowhere near it. According to crapsource wikipedia, the shockwaves travel at maximum about 10% the speed of light. So if we want to be realistic, this could not be a problem. Or we can just put some bubbles around the systems with that crazy voodoo magic the Star Army has.
Fred's first statement seems most appropriate in regards to the roleplay. Kohana was handled years ago. Our GMs are busy enough as is. We are all in plots and enjoying ourselves. If we wanted to make a big deal about this, we should have done so years ago.
Wes, if you want it as a plot point or something, go nuts. I just don't see people having time for it.
Wes, if you want it as a plot point or something, go nuts. I just don't see people having time for it.
To my way of thinking, even if it should be moving at near that speed, energy particles would be traveling close to that. But they spread out over distance, over the distance of light years how concentrated would they be. The barrier at the edge of a solar system is by its a nature a protection from many of 'hazards' about the most I would say is some disruption of communications, between planets, perhaps even some spectacular energy displays across the night sky as the energy wave passes over that barrier.
Abwehran Commander
Inactive Member
Tourists in Albini are in for a hell of a sun burn.
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Since the Kohana star was a sun-like star, it shouldn't have gone supernova anyway. At the time, James just wanted to wipe out his faction.
How about we just retcon to say it was a huge solar flare that wiped out all life on planet Kohana instead of an actual supernova? Does that work for everyone?
How about we just retcon to say it was a huge solar flare that wiped out all life on planet Kohana instead of an actual supernova? Does that work for everyone?
Correct. They can be claimed.
Let's say it was a very small supernova with very limited effects and range, such that it's not a danger to other star systems, only powerful enough to wipe out the planets in its own system. Okay?
Fred
Retired Staff
Wes said:
I don't mind - I'm fine with that. When I had Melisson destroy the Taiie system, I really wasn't thinking about long-time repercussions of it so much as the shock value for the PCs that helped set the NPC up as the eventual final antagonist of my plot.
I guess my storyboarding classes made me much more inclined toward dramaturgy than science.
I do think, however, that it's a shame to never portray the environmental dangers of space or show that destroying star systems is bad. For a space roleplay, it seems like we spend an awful lot of time focusing on the 'army' fighting part, and less on the 'star' part. Otherwise we might as well be roleplaying on sailboats, and/or flying airships. xD
When's the last time we took note of comets, detailed star systems in more way than just planet count and sundry details? Battened down the hatches due to poor 'space weather'?
Soresu
Well-Known Member
Honestly? I'd like to see those systems Uesu nuked to kingdom come be nothing but slag pits. Not even capable of supporting bacterial life. The amount of firepower brought to bear would've shattered moons, cracked planets or even snuffed out stars (Which is a big no no.) So claiming them has little value beyond a lot of obsidian made from aetheric and plasma fire.
Most of the elements would've likely been smashed to atoms so they'd hold little resource value unless someone has billions of imaginary space dollars to fling at huge collectors. So yeah. I want to see devastation for once, glassing is fine, but with this it'd show the power of the weaponry we have and give the PCs a bit of demonstration of what they're messing with and its potential for misuse.
Most of the elements would've likely been smashed to atoms so they'd hold little resource value unless someone has billions of imaginary space dollars to fling at huge collectors. So yeah. I want to see devastation for once, glassing is fine, but with this it'd show the power of the weaponry we have and give the PCs a bit of demonstration of what they're messing with and its potential for misuse.
Yes, but we decided not to mess up the other stars around it.
