[X] Maintain current tempo
[X] Rendezvous with the planetesimal (requires 25%, plurality)
[X] Retain core heat (further use will induce a geological coma, decreases volcanism)
Clearly, I don't agree that we have enough water, because I am voting to get more ice, thus increasing the amount of water we have. What constitutes "enough" is purely personal voter preference.
Sun hasn't yet fully ignited (at least to my understanding), and this is pretty much the last chance we get to get a large mass infusion for us and our moons without fucking up a lot of work because live already started.
For me the aim is turning us into a super earth while getting some of our moons a good amount more mass, doubt they will get enough to get a dense enough atmo on their own but getting one or two to around earth moon sized would be nice, + a lot more mass for our rings.
Also a nice mirror to actual earth history with the 2 near earth sized planets crashing into another to from earth + moon.
[X] Maintain current tempo
[X] Export core heat (use with strong consensus will boil off oceans and instigate another round of crustal remodeling, increases volcanism)
[X] Expel gas (requires ~10% to cancel out incoming gas)
13 total votes for this turn.
4 votes for the crash/collision.
100/13*4=~30-31%.
Still happening, and that is just for the total vote because not everyone voted on the orbital stuff.
13 total votes for this turn.
4 votes for the crash/collision.
100/13*4=~30-31%.
Still happening, and that is just for the total vote because not everyone voted on the orbital stuff.
I have a couple of questions about our atmosphere, after having voted to reject gas
What is the surface pressure right now? How easy will it be to loose atmosphere in the future? And what is the maximum pressure life can live under?
Also does anyone want to create a CO² ocean? Triple point is 5.2 bar, -56°C, and the critical point is 72.8 bar and 31°C
I have a couple of questions about our atmosphere, after having voted to reject gas
What is the surface pressure right now? How easy will it be to loose atmosphere in the future? And what is the maximum pressure life can live under?
Also does anyone want to create a CO² ocean? Triple point is 5.2 bar, -56°C, and the critical point is 72.8 bar and 31°C
Live has a stupidly high tolerance for pressure if it is constant.
See things living under 10km+ water.
Overall will see how things look like after the collisions but i personally will try for lots of water coverage (50+%) overall shallow oceans (<2km) with hopefully lost of medium-sized land masses.
In exchange for heat, this sounds like a good way to get some island chains going. Though with the frequent earthquakes and tsunamis this might also cause I'm unsure of how long an island will last.
Anything increasing volcanism won't just do(?), the plates mashing and grinding against each other would help too. Admittedly take it with a gain of salt, I don't study plate tectonics but what I do know about them has this sounding alright.
[X] Maintain current tempo
[X] Rendezvous with the planetesimal (requires 25%, plurality)
[X] Increase weathering (releases CO2, decreases roughness)
...you know, I wonder when we are. Considering the amount of metals available to us, and the radioactive material too, we are clearly orbiting a population I star, and so the universe will broadly resemble Earth's, but besides that?
is this happening while alt-earth is forming somewhere else? (9 billion years post big bang)
Is the Sun long dead and this is the tail end of G type star formation? (~1 trillion years post big bang)
Sometime in-between?
[X] Move to a higher orbit...
-[X] ...and set up a collision with the planetesimal (requires 50%)
[X] Geological: Push plates to increase our above-water land mass and make our seas go deeper
-[X] And maybe give us some really nifty and majestic mountain ranges and highlands, too.
[x] Rendezvous with the planetesimal (requires 25%, plurality): 38.5%
[X] Look around in more detail (Far-far away, see how far into space you are able to see): 15.4%
[X] Orbital: Move to a higher orbit: 15.4%
[X] Collect more ice: 7.7%
[X] Collapse... -[X] self: 7.7%
[X] Expel gas (requires ~10% to cancel out incoming gas): 7.7%
[X] Look around in more detail (Specify target(s)): Try to examine our star and see how long we have until it ignites: 7.7%
[X] Geological: Brace for impact...: 44.4%
[X] Increase weathering (releases CO2, decreases roughness): 22.2%
[X] Retain core heat (further use will induce a geological coma, decreases volcanism): 11.1%
[X] Export core heat (use with strong consensus will boil off oceans and instigate another round of crustal remodeling, increases volcanism): 11.1%
[X] Geological: Push plates to increase our above-water land mass and make our seas go deeper -[X] And maybe give us some really nifty and majestic mountain ranges and highlands, too.: 11.1%
With a collision with the local planetesimal all but inevitable, you brace for impact, nudging your moons away from any place likely to get hit. Your quarry, on the other hand, makes no such preparations, and as you get closer, it becomes clear a fairly substantial icy moon is in the way, but it's a bit too late to make any corrections. You crash into it and swallow up most of its core. Barely deflected by the impact, the long-awaited, long-dreaded moment arrives when you slam into the planetesimal dead on, and molten rock splatters everywhere.
When the ejecta from your impact cools down a bit, you take stock of your situation. Your new accreted mass is approximately twice what it used to be, and floating about you as a cloud is about enough material to form an entire planet half your former size. The planetesimal that once occupied this orbit seems to have gathered an incredible amount of gas and an unexpectedly low amount of ice relative to dust. The latter has the result that your density after the collision has increased slightly. Your surface is molten once again, but your gravity is such that hydrogen won't be leaving your gravity well unassisted.
Checking through your moons, you find that you've gained at least one moon, two moonlets, and quite a few rings in the hubbub. All your moons seem to have feasted on the glut of material thrown up beyond collapsing capacity, but Inky seems different enough compositionally that it's not very clear how much of your closest moon is made up of Inky's material. Your moons are now as follows from nearest to farthest:
Inky?: A surprisingly warm, dense, and massive moon that seems to have been in the splash zone during the impact despite your best efforts.
Satellite II: A fairly large ball of rock with a surprising amount of carbonates probably derived from your crust.
Blinky: Blinky has grown quite a lot and seems to have captured quite a bit of ice. The rings above and below Blinky's orbit are spectacular.
Pinky: Pinky has undergone another resurfacing event and seems slightly larger than before.
Clyde: Clyde has a few more impact craters, but little has changed noticeably.
Satellite VI: A loose, irregularly shaped moonlet of ice
Satellite VII: A moonlet of dust and ice on a highly inclined orbit
Having gotten settled in your new orbit, you look as far into space as you can see. The next orbit out is about twice as far from the sun as you currently are. Based on the color of the ice there, it seems there's a lot of methane and hydrogen sulfide ice. Further out, nearly four times as far from the sun as you currently are, a substantial giant planet is well on the way to depleting its orbit of material, and the center of mass between it and your shared sun is quite clearly above its surface. A lot of the ice there is visibly red. Beyond that point, it's hard to tell what, if anything, is going on, but it appears there are other stars beyond the veil of sluggish, ancient ice. Some, bright blue and white, are likely younger than even some of your moons, and others, dim and red, have probably seen countless stars wink in and out of existence. Some, happy and yellow, are in the primes of their lives, spinning about with commpanions ignited and unfusing alike, and others, swollen with the ash of eons, will soon reach the ends of theirs. Beyond that lie entire galaxies much like the one your infant sun inhabits. Some are close and large enough they dwarf even your moons in apparent diameter, while others, giving off light far older than even the star that gave rise to your cradle, are mere pinpricks barely distinguishable from noise.
The short of it is space appears to be very big.
You also look more closely at your own star to try guessing how long it will take to ignite. It'll probably take up to 14 (give or take 2) turns unless you decide to sit back and let time pass.
Now that observations are complete, you collect even more ice, and it sticks around in your rings and cloud of material. A small amount of gas also made it in in addition to all the material you obtained from the merger.
You also begin moving up and away toward the next orbit. It might be premature to do so now, but if you don't anticipate too much material falling on your surface, it could be a good time to plan out plate boundaries. With your greatly increased mass, ice and gas alike have begun streaming in at greater rates, and for gas in particular, a larger margin will be required to expel it should you not want the gas.
Average air temperature Freezing 🞀––––––o🞂 Boiling
Average sea temperature Freezing 🞀––––––o🞂 Boiling
Average asthenosphere temperature Dead 🞀––––––o🞂 Molten
Time controls:
[ ] Maintain current tempo
[ ] Let time pass (requires 80% support)
Orbital controls:
[ ] Move to a higher orbit
[ ] Move to the planetesimal's L5 clump (requires 50%)
[ ] Move to a lower orbit
[ ] Collect more gas
[ ] Expel gas (requires ~20% to cancel out incoming gas)
[ ] Collect more ice
[ ] Expel ice (requires ~10% to cancel out incoming ice)
[ ] Collapse...
-[ ] self
-[ ] moon
-[ ] rings
[ ] Look around in more detail (Specify target(s))
