New Release for “Architect of Worlds”
Just a very quick note, for folks who aren’t my patrons and don’t follow me on Facebook. Earlier today, I released a new interim draft of the world-design sequence document from Architect of Worlds. It’s available for free on the Architect of Worlds page on this site.
This is probably the last version of this material I’ll be releasing for free – other sections of the book are exclusive for my patrons, and the book itself is slowly moving toward being ready for final draft and release. I’m kind of hoping that 2022 is the year I finally finish this project.
Still, if you’re interested in this kind of scientific geekery, feel free to have a look.
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I’ve been getting a lot out of Architect of Worlds as a revamp to the star system generators I’ve made previously following the Classic Traveller Book 3 and Book 6 procedures. As I work on this I found an interesting “edge case” in step 11, that I’d be curious to hear your thoughts about. I generated a low-mass solo star system with a single terrestrial planet in the middle zone (formation orbit 6) and 2 leftover oligarchs in formation orbits 4 and 5. The migration factor was quite low (0.0563) and so both oligarchs migrated to within the inner edge. Both survived to be parked at the inner edge (which is 0.02 for this M6V star), but having the two in the same orbit seems rather unlikely. It would be easy to simply keep the first, or the most massive of these, but I’m also considering combining their masses (0.15 and 0.13) which would have them form a terrestrial planet because that seems plausible to me. What do you think is the most realistic way to handle this case?
I’ve actually addressed this case in the current draft, which I’m guessing you don’t have, but here’s how it works. If any planets end up inside the disk inner radius, you roll for each one – there’s a 50% chance that the first planet is destroyed (that is, it falls into the sun), otherwise it’s placed at the disk inner radius and the rest of the inner planetary system is spaced out from there. If the first planet doesn’t make it, and the second one is also about to migrate inside the disk inner radius, the same happens, and so on. In your case I’d guess one or both of the oligarchs might be destroyed during planetary formation, else one of them would end up at the disk inner radius and (if they both survive) the second would end up at a wider radius, most likely with an orbital resonance going on.