Northstar (world)/RSDT-Allarton Survey/meta

(Notes 2017)

Alternative Interpretation:
For those wishing to preserve the "Ringworld" of this system within the context of a more canonical campaign, one can always presume that the "ringworld" being referred to is an "Orbital" or "O-Ring" megastructure of the Iain Banks "Culture" type. Allow the listed diameter of "Dia=J" of the ringworld to be a normal progression of the UWP EHex-digit, yielding a diameter of J= ~19,000 miles (18,600 miles = 0.1 light-second) for the orbital, and place this orbital at approximately 1.0 AU from the central star.

• Wikipedia: Niven Ring (circum-stellar megastructure) - {Diameter: Tens/Hundreds of Millions of kilometers}
• Wikipedia: Orbital (Banks Orbital) - {Diameter: Hundreds/Thousands to Millions of kilometers}
• Wikipedia: Halo / Bishop Ring (habitat) - {Diameter: Hundreds/Thousands of kilometers}

Possibilities:

1. The "Ringworld" is a large "Bishop-Ring" in orbit about a planet at its geosynchronous altitude.
2. The "Ringworld" is a very-large "Orbital" in a non-circum-stellar orbit about a star (i.e. NOT a Niven-Ring).
3. The "Ringworld" is a circum-sub-stellar "Niven-Ring", but orbiting a brown-dwarf.
4. The "Ringworld" (Niven Ring, Bishop Ring, or Orbital) is actually in orbit about another star within the same hex which is NOT a companion-star of the Northstar system (i.e. it is a nearby but independent star) that otherwise has no resources or worlds. Since Jump-maps typically only list useful or habitable systems and omit stars/systems of no use except as astrogational obstacles, the old survey noted the resources of the planetoids in the primary system (and only noted the ringworld alone in the alternate system), the two records got confused in the substandard survey publication as the survey of a single system, the one having both the resources and the ringworld, the other having no worlds or resources. Later surveyors found the resources in the primary system, but no ringworld, and had no reason to go to the other system, and hence it has been overlooked and relegated to myth or fabrication.

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• --WHULorigan (talk) 15:10, 21 March 2017 (EDT)

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