Architect of Worlds: the “Special Cases” Outline
A quick taste for what I’ll be working on this month. This is a section of the eventual book that will cover “special cases” in the design process, things that stand as exceptions or as extra details outside the main body of the world design sequence.
Hopefully this will end up being enough material (10-15 thousand words or more) to justify a new release for my patrons this month. Actually, now would also be a good time for any of my readers to suggest anything else that might fit into this section. Drop me a line if there’s some special topic that you want to see addressed that isn’t in this sketch outline.
Special Cases in Worldbuilding
- Generating Stars in Unusual Regions
- OB Associations
- Open Clusters and Stellar Associations
- Inter-Arm Space
- Galactic Halo
- Unusual Stars
- Massive Main-Sequence Stars
- Neutron Stars
- Black Holes
- Flare Stars
- Planetary Systems for Non-Main Sequence Stars
- Brown Dwarfs
- Subgiant and Giant Stars
- White Dwarfs and Stellar Remnants
- Planetary Systems for Multiple Stars
- Special Features for Planetary Systems
- Asteroids and Comets
- Planetoid Belts
- Kuiper Belt
- Oort Cloud
- Rogue Planets
- Trojan Planets
- Unusual Worlds
- Ammonia Worlds
- Carbon Worlds
- Chthonian Worlds
- Lava Worlds
- Fine-Tuning World Climate
- Effects of Orbital Eccentricity
- Effects of Obliquity
- Effects of Daily Rotation
- Effects of Altitude
- Effects of Local Geography
- Tide-Locked Worlds
4 thoughts on “Architect of Worlds: the “Special Cases” Outline”
Is it worth having a sidebar for common sci-fi tropes and how to tweak the system to generate them? The two I can think of are habitable Earth-mass moons of gas giants, and terrestrial planets with multiple large moons, neither of which I’ve worked out how to generate – and I suspect that’s because whilst they look good on screen they’re not scientifically plausible (hence the system won’t generate them)?
That’s not a bad idea – I could have a page or two about “edge cases” that are common in SF but probably not so common in the real universe. That also reminds me of something else I thought about including in this section: how things in the sky look from a world’s surface.
I want to echo the hell out of all of this and have one very specific subquestion of this:
How visible will a companion star be in the day when the planet orbits around just one star?
This looks amazing and I eagerly await what you come up with!
Stop posting and take my money!
Seriously, I am so looking forward to this product.