It should be noted that yes a white dwarf in the coarse of its life cycle,
as astrophysics understands it, would wipe clean the planets when the nova
goes off. However remember that Traveller is a SciFi game and there are at
least 1 previous race to the current galactic species (Ancients/Droynes or
Primorials) that reached a technology level that while it may take a bit
Terraforming entire worlds was completely within their stated technology
capabilities for the setting.
So from an irl scientific point of view worrying about if the data makes
sense is all well in good, however things not making sense on at some
level, is a built in story/plot possibility.
Science says that X should be this way and its not, why? So begins
countless rompts through space.
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:50 PM, constantine_thomas_uk <
> wrote:
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> Do you still have pretty much every binary star companion being a white
> dwarf? Do you still have habitable worlds orbiting white dwarfs or being in
> close binaries with white dwarfs in them? (Regina - an iconic system -
> can't exist as described. The white dwarf companion would have fried the
> system when it was in its red giant stage).
>
> Did you change *all* of the world sizes to match the atmospheres (so
> vacuum worlds are asteroid belts now?). That's not a very elegant solution
> to the problem. Have you changed the worldgen to prevent it from generating
> the nonsensical atmospheres in the first place?
>
> So now the Marches are have a lot of larger mainworlds and have fewer
> small mainworlds? Does this match the statistical distribution that the
> worldgen produces, or is this another case of the iconic sector not being
> generated using the standard worldgen rules?
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>
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