Re: [TML] More meteoric reentry thoughts Tim 29 Jan 2018 08:59 UTC
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 02:11:14AM -0500, Caleuche wrote: > One option would be to only place habitable worlds around a tiny > fraction of stars, and calibrate that number such that there are > about 11000 systems in the sphere surrounding Capital with a radius > of 129.5 parsecs. That has the side effect of making the frontier > much larger - the whole surface area of the sphere rather than the > arc length of the 2d circle. The more serious side effect is that it means the average distance to the nearest habitable star system is about 6 parsecs instead of just a bit more than 1. Most ships will need to make 3 or 4 jumps. - Tim