Subject: Majik.planet.system
From: hook (hook@u.washington.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 14 1999 - 05:10:16 EEST
proposal for majik system I have a proposal for the solar system of majik that I hope others take seriously. It is that majik is actually a moon of a gas giant planet that circles a sun. The reason for this is simply for just cool value and nothing more. I also propose that the gas giant that majik orbits has rings like saturn. Please check out this web site "http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/Images/artwork/" and see for yourselves. I mean if a player looks up in the sky and sees a ringed gas giant they will know this is not earth. Also eclipses would be common and last for a day or two. I know Beregar proposed a 6 mouth day with a six month night and it was dismissed because of adverse weather effects but we can have something similar with this system proposal some nights would be prolonged for a day or two in the spring and fall also some nights would be brighter when the gas giant is full like when the moon is full but even more so. I see this as a good compromise. As for the two moons of Majik we could have them as other moons of the gas giant or keep them as moons of majik. If you study the PNG image i have supplied you will notice that i have made majik's orbit to the gas giant perpendicular to the gas giants orbit to the sun. This makes it so that the eclipses are not a weekly event but rarer occurring only in the spring and fall. I would also make the orbit of Majik around the gas giant seven days this would put some substance to seven day week which on earth has no astronomical significance. I do realize that at the moment Majik has a sun that orbits it. Obviously my proposal if accepted would negate this. The reason I do not like the orbiting sun majik system is that i doesn't add any thing to the game experience. It could be that it is easier to code. If that is the case then i pull back submission. Other then that an orbiting sun seems to give nothing to the game playing experience. While the gas giant moon system i have proposed would heighten the experience greatly. So please look at the cassini/nasa web page and the pictures and imagine yourself exploring Majik hunting down dragons etc. with a giant ringed sphere hovering in the sky above you. "http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/Images/artwork/" If you like this proposal then please tell me i would be happy to work on it further. I can get precise calculation as to when the eclipses occur distances orbit times etc.. If this proposal is not liked I am fine with it but i would like to get something done as to the nature of Majik 's planet because it has a huge significance on the writing of race desc. People and plant and wildlife are tremendously effected by the moons orbit, lengths of days, lengths of years seasons, tides, etc. If you doubt this then explain why the human female menstrual cycle is a month long? This is IMPORTANT stuff we need precise time lengths and reasons for them. Joshua hook@.washington.edu
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