Obsidian Shade Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 HoiWhat do you think of this "new" rock in the solar system? Coul be a "gate" for the Abbies on their way to Earth.Sedna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Umoja Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 It's funny because someone on a Transhuman Space mailing list also mentioned this point as being proof that the Oort Cloud exist, and could be a potential stopping point for people travelling to the outer point of the solar system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brilyn Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 It's funny because someone on a Transhuman Space mailing list also mentioned this point as being proof that the Oort Cloud exist I wasn't aware that there was any doubt that the Oort cloud existed.......? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Watson Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 It was a theory that most astronomers believed, since there was really no other place for comets to come from.With the discovery of Sedna (which is Andes backwards, if anyone wants to use that as some sort of plot point), the Oort cloud is more or less confirmed. It's also likely that it's very much different than we thought.Originally, we thought it was a fairly thin "shell" around Sol. But now it looks like it might be a lot thicker, and more "flattened" in nature. Sort of like the galactic disk, but in miniature. The inner reaches may not be too far from Pluto. This revised Oort cloud probably formed with the rest of the solar system disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezekiel Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Well, it is Andes backward but they chose it 'cause it's an Inuit God(sea, storms et al) Dunno why they stopped the tradition of using Greek Gods though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brilyn Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Dunno why they stopped the tradition of using Greek Gods though... (Pssst....... Roman gods....... Yes, basically the Greek gods with a different namebadge, and a facelift, but they're the Roman names.....)I suspect that they're not named after Roman gods anymore 'cause we're pretty much out of Roman gods, and it's the 21st centuary now.That, and the insidious PC-BS has probably infected the Astonomy community..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezekiel Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Did you know that the Big Bang was initially going to be called the F*cking Huge Master Kaboom!Bloody PCs... ::wink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gideon Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Well, also the new celestial object has not been properly defined as either a planet or a planetoid. So using another tradition's deity is the safe bet, if its just a planetoid with an irregular orbit, then no Roman gods will get angry. ::biggrin It was, after all, a god from the Oort cloud that threw a large comet at King Jupitor (aka Zues) back in the 90s (and you thought it was an accident!?). It may have been Sedna, and he might have been trying to hit the Bulls-eye on Jupitor's belt. ::tongue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprocket Posted March 17, 2004 Share Posted March 17, 2004 Hmm... Sedna might be a bit too much of an obvious place for Aberrants to use as a base in the Trinity Era. ::unsure After all, there's an official mention (in one of the Darkness Revealed books- can't recall exactly which one at the moment) of the Seventh Legion going on Aberrant hunts out there in the Oort Cloud. A smart Aberrant would avoid Sedna, and would look for an as-yet-undiscovered-by-Terrans planetoid somewhere else in the Oort Cloud.OTOH, Sedna would make an excellent secret base for the Daedelus League circa 2015 or so. ::devilangel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezekiel Posted March 17, 2004 Share Posted March 17, 2004 My take on it is why have a base on a far away planet when you can go to the Blight and be in the middle of it all? Or undersea, or near the Esperanza crash...Plenty of hiding spots nearby, no need to go looking at the other end of the solar system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Umoja Posted March 17, 2004 Share Posted March 17, 2004 Okay, let me get this straight.We have Pluto which is a part of the Kuipter Belt (which is a bunch of asteroids) this merges with the Oort Cloud. The Oort Cloud supposedly stretches light years, and merges with the Oort Cloud of another solar system (Alpha Centauri). So in Trinity the Chinese vessel that went to KLG spent most of it's time in transit travelling through this cloud. So it technically never was in deep space empty space.What about the theory of miniblack holes (following THS) what is Sedna was actually a miniblack hole with a rocky exterior? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdue Posted March 23, 2004 Share Posted March 23, 2004 ::offtopic I suspect that they're not named after Roman gods anymore 'cause we're pretty much out of Roman godsWell, there are a few left to pick from, but as Pluto is the god of the underworld you can't really get any lower ::devil But it is a shame they have moved away from the roman gods., and it's the 21st centuary now.Well that's no reason for not believing in them ::halo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprocket Posted March 24, 2004 Share Posted March 24, 2004 Re: Sedna as mini-black hole w/ rocky exterior-Hmm... Okay, so you've got a miniature black hole inside Sedna. Now just suppose that a few of the true aberrants among the Colony's minions (as opposed to the sub-Aberrant fomori knockoffs) have fairly high ratings of the Gravity Control power. ::blink Is this starting to sound like a recipe for disaster to anyone else? ::wacko ::wink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Umoja Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 It sounds lucious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprocket Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 ::devilangel Thanks. Yeah, that's just what a Trinity game could use: a potentially Earth-destroying threat that for once doesn't have an evil mastermind behind it. Even the Colony would blanch at setting a full-blown black hole loose in the Solar System- he does want to keep Earth intact, after all. And all it would take is one little mistake by one of those gravity-controlling aberrants... ::rolleyesHmm... OTOH, that particular scheme might appeal to the Doyen who want to wipe out humanity wholesale. ::wink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayre el KaBeer Posted April 4, 2004 Share Posted April 4, 2004 Hmm... OTOH, that particular scheme might appeal to the Doyen who want to wipe out humanity wholesale. Only half do... ::rolleyes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprocket Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 That actually depends on how far along one's Trinity campaign is in the timeline, from what I've been able to tell from the latest Trinity books. Once the Proxies (the Patsies? ::tongue ) finally get a clue as to how the Doyen have been both manipulating them and restricting their psionic development, the biomass will hit the rotary blades. After having their formerly-compliant human tools turn on them, I can see a good case for the Doyen as a whole becoming hostile towards humanity. IMHO, anyways. ::laugh ::wink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minerva Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 Damn... they didn't name the new planet after me... and I was so hoping... ::tongue ---Min Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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