Some Fun Facts! Or At Least, Facts That I Think Are Fun.

Some fun facts! Or at least, facts that I think are fun.

While the largest star system by physical reach is Fomalhaut (several lightyears in radius) and the largest by number of component stars is V1054 Ophiuchi (5 stars), the largest by planetary count at the current time is actually Eta Cassiopeiae, aka Valhalla-Folkvangr, with a grand total of 20 documented major planets. Originally I'd planned for that honor to go to Alpha Centauri, but alas, ε Cas has more stable orbital space to shove planets into. Inevitably, this will change as I move further out into alien territory where I can keysmash names.

Large systems are fairly uncommon, but so are solitary stars! Most zero-planet systems are those with a brown dwarf as the central body, because the formation of substars lacks many key factors that trigger planetesimal formation in solar nebulae. Most true stars have at least one to three planetary companions, though more than five is rare -this is partially because larger stars, which are more likely to have a greater number of planets, are also fairly rare.

In the course of NAMING all these worlds following the convention of using mythological names, I have referenced nearly three dozen real-world mythological traditions! It's made me appreciate all the more just how much cultural history the real world is steeped in.

Diaspora worldbuilding update:

I have now documented 420 planets on the DSP master spreadsheet. Nice.

Of course, at the moment they're almost all just a name with simple annotation, but still! Current total is 224 individual stars (and substars) documented, in 164 systems! I passed the 25-ly boundary and I think I'm getting close to the edge of known space (barring RCC systems far beyond the USSC frontier, naturally).

Here's a peek at what the sheet looks like! This is just the first page, documenting the stars. I have separate pages for each system and a linked list document with planetary annotations.

#DOUG #HEY DOUG YOUVE MADE IT BIG

YEAH I SURE HAVE HUH

it's overwhelming but there is honestly something kinda nice about knowing that nearly twelve thousand people (and counting) think I'm funny

had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing

real image of OP

my hungry ass could never work at astrophysics

Diaspora worldbuilding update:

I have now documented 420 planets on the DSP master spreadsheet. Nice.

Of course, at the moment they're almost all just a name with simple annotation, but still! Current total is 224 individual stars (and substars) documented, in 164 systems! I passed the 25-ly boundary and I think I'm getting close to the edge of known space (barring RCC systems far beyond the USSC frontier, naturally).

Here's a peek at what the sheet looks like! This is just the first page, documenting the stars. I have separate pages for each system and a linked list document with planetary annotations.

Fictional spaceplane project

Next Generation Space Transportation orbiter Pacifica, delivering three brand new Proteus printer-assembler drones to SBSP station building site.

The way I’d drop everything to make an actual play with the caveat that everyone in the group is named Bee. I’d allow some variance like we can have a Bumble, a Hornet, Your Wasps and Yellowjackets of the world. All are acceptable, but the prime shit is Bee, Bea etc.

We could call it the Hive Cast or something. And we’d rotate GMs every now and then, and it’d be on the audience to figure out who’s who cuz we’re all bees. It’d probably be shorter arcs so we can rotate players (cuz ideally we want a lot of Bees). Imagine a moment of a GM giving an excellent narration of Urban Horror or something and then followed up by

“Okay Bee I need you to roll 2D6”

Followed by the sounds of unanimous passive agreement and upwards of 8-12 6 sided dice clanking on various tables at the same time only for the GM to go “No No I mean the Bee who plays the werewolf” and then a sea of “oh okay! Sorry Bee” “oopsies” “damn and it was a good roll too”

Its to funny. I’d watch it. I’d make it! Hell my names Bee let me be the first GM!

I don’t ask for clout frequently Tungle.io

But I need this one to breach containment. I need to meet my hive. My black and yellow alcove is in need of social enrichment