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Orbital descriptions get far more complicated in a polystellar system. Two or more stars can really change the radiation intake on what might be a '''As''' or '''Va''' world. The gravitational and radiative relationships can get quite complex. The fairly safe assumptions made in a monostellar system are absolutely no longer safe in a polystellar system. | Orbital descriptions get far more complicated in a polystellar system. Two or more stars can really change the radiation intake on what might be a '''As''' or '''Va''' world. The gravitational and radiative relationships can get quite complex. The fairly safe assumptions made in a monostellar system are absolutely no longer safe in a polystellar system. | ||
| − | I have defaulted to a '''Co''' climate code on '''As''' and '''Va''' worlds in the absence of instruction or clear guidance. A | + | I have defaulted to a '''Co''' climate code on '''As''' and '''Va''' worlds in the absence of instruction or clear guidance. A Fr climate code is just as possible. The natural tendency of water in an intrasystem or even transystemic location is as frigid ice. The vast majority of the interstellar medium is well below the freezing point of water, even considering variable pressures, cosmic radiation, and other variables. You have to get pretty close to a star before frozen water is no longer a given. |
'''Ic''' is not well defined. It reads ''ice-capped'', but is it ''ice-capped'' (poles) or ''ice-covered'' (frozen through)? An '''Ic''' world under the T5 definitions could easily be '''Co''' or '''Fr'''. When I write to you that the T5 materials are often unclear, that’s what I mean. Even if you insist that some of those citations are really quite clear. They don’t draw distinctions and the orbital data has acknowledged limitations, even before we consider polystellar systems, which are quite common and a serious factor, not some ultra-rare circus spectacle. I do regret that this often causes you consternation. | '''Ic''' is not well defined. It reads ''ice-capped'', but is it ''ice-capped'' (poles) or ''ice-covered'' (frozen through)? An '''Ic''' world under the T5 definitions could easily be '''Co''' or '''Fr'''. When I write to you that the T5 materials are often unclear, that’s what I mean. Even if you insist that some of those citations are really quite clear. They don’t draw distinctions and the orbital data has acknowledged limitations, even before we consider polystellar systems, which are quite common and a serious factor, not some ultra-rare circus spectacle. I do regret that this often causes you consternation. | ||