[X] Start work on using your moons and ring system to collect some of the gasses, dust and Ice that would normally go to you into them to help with controlling our mass.
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[X] Start work on using your moons and ring system to collect some of the gasses, dust and Ice that would normally go to you into them to help with controlling our mass.
[X] Start work on using your moons and ring system to collect some of the gasses, dust and Ice that would normally go to you into them to help with controlling our mass.: 47.1%
[X] Collapse... -[X] self: 17.6%
[X] Move moons into stable orbits to avoid crashes.: 11.8%
[X] Look around in more detail (Future, because why not?): 5.9%
[X] Collect more ice: 5.9%
[X] Orbital: Collapse Moons -[X] Feed Galaga to Blinky -[X] Feed Qubert to Pinky -[X] Feed Frogger to Clyde: 5.9%
[X] Expel gas (requires ~20% to cancel out incoming gas): 5.9%
A final supermassive eruption blasting up incredible amounts of lava (some of which ends up in orbit!) marks the end of another age of molten lava seas. With a solid, insulating crust rebuilt, water and carbon dioxide are free to condense into a deep world-spanning ocean of rapidly salinizing water and liquid carbon dioxide dotted by steep volcanic islands and underlain by large, slowly moving plates. Further reduction in convection will shut plate tectonics down.
You redirect as much of your orbital debris into your rings and moons as possible, and most of it ends up going to your moons with some still-notable quantity still deorbiting or going to your rings. All this applies to the ice and gas you've recently captured, having outright encouraged the ice on the one hand and having neglected to expel the gas enough on the other. An unusually large molten moon with a very water-rich atmosphere and a negligible metal core is your new innermost moon, and it masses about as much as one of your earlier planetesimals prior to the collision. A stray pile of ice, in contrast, is your newest outermost moon. Naturally, you continue arranging all your moons into stabler orbits less likely to resonate the wrong way and crash. Despite this, Galaga and Frogger continue to try to ram into Blinky and Clyde with some encouragement on your part. Of this generation of moons, Qubert alone appears to be in a stable orbit.
You look into the future and see your sun igniting in a great flash that blows away virtually all of the gas in the system and pushes the frost line out a lot further than it currently is (maybe just inside your previous orbit?). Ponderous gas and ice giants move slowly about in orbits higher than yours, and in your depleted wake, a large terrestrial planet with a thick atmosphere of greenhouse gases dominates the inner system. Your own future is less certain, but one of being a small giant with buried deep under incredible amounts of hydrogen and surrounded by a court of eclectic moons captured from everywhere in the system seems fairly likely given current trends.
Support for letting time pass appears to be increasing rapidly. It might not be too long until the system advances to an age of well-defined planets with more or less stable compositions orbiting a star of fusing hydrogen.
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
[ ] Expel gas (requires ~20% to cancel out incoming gas)
[ ] Collect more gas
[ ] Expel ice (requires ~10% to cancel out incoming ice)
[ ] Collect more ice (requires ~10% to cancel out incoming ice)
[ ] Collapse...
-[ ] self
-[ ] not self
-[ ] moon
-[ ] rings
[ ] Look around in more detail (Specify target(s))
Geological controls:
[ ] Export core heat (use with strong consensus will boil off oceans and instigate another round of crustal remodeling, increases volcanism)
[ ] Retain core heat (further use will induce a geological coma, decreases volcanism)
[ ] Increase weathering (smoothens terrain, reduces atmospheric CO2)
[ ] Decrease weathering (roughens terrain, increases atmospheric CO2)
[X] Maintain current tempo
[X] Export core heat
[X] Expel gas (requires ~20% to cancel out incoming gas)
Athenosphere temperature looks concerning here, and I want to avoid becoming a Gas Giant. So I am not in favor of acclerating time until we can stabilise into a habitable Super Earth.
[X][Orbital] Keep redirecting the incoming mass and the one we expel into our rings and moons as possible without it falling back on us.
[X][Geological] See if you can't create along the shallower parts large amounts of Hydrothermal vent.
On one hand, more stabilizing our mass (will change vote needed to expel gas or Ice if that doesn't get enough).
On the other, try to start creating more of the places that are candidates for some of the first to live on earth.
With a solid, insulating crust rebuilt, water and carbon dioxide are free to condense into a deep world-spanning ocean of rapidly salinizing water and liquid carbon dioxide dotted by steep volcanic islands and underlain by large, slowly moving plates
Looking at this and the image of the crust we might want to slowly get rid of some of the water, so the oceans gets less deep, for more land on one hand and more shallow oceans on the other (shallow parts are the most biodiverse and active).
You look into the future and see your sun igniting in a great flash that blows away virtually all of the gas in the system and pushes the frost line out a lot further than it currently is (maybe just inside your previous orbit?)
So looks we need to do some last migration for long term liquid water and us not turning into snowball, best to do that slowly as to balance it out with the other stabilizing we have to do.
[X] Maintain current tempo
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[X][Orbital] Keep redirecting the incoming mass and the one we expel into our rings and moons as possible without it falling back on us.
[X] Decrease weathering (roughens terrain, increases atmospheric CO2)
[X] Maintain current tempo
[X] Move to a lower orbit
[X][Geological] See if you can't create along the shallower parts large amounts of Hydrothermal vent.
[X] Maintain current tempo
[X] Collect more ice
[X] Retain core heat (further use will induce a geological coma, decreases volcanism)
I'd recommend maintaining our current orbit and only lower if we seem in actual danger of becoming a snowball since our greenhouse gases are likely to keep our water liquid well into the frostline.
I'd recommend maintaining our current orbit and only lower if we seem in actual danger of becoming a snowball since our greenhouse gases are likely to keep our water liquid well into the frostline.
The atmo heat will only last so long, more so with us now slowly working to get rid of some of said atmo (and after that some of the ice so stop being an ocean world). Also if you look at the Atmo temps comparing this and last turn you will see that pretty hard drop.
Moving closer is pretty much mandatory, more so if we want photosynthesis to happen.
Well apart from getting rid of some of our atmo so less greenhouse gasses and a likely good amount of water/ice, so we have landmasses instead of single islands.
This is because we actually have a crust again instead of our entire surface just being lava.
It seems like we have generous amounts of greenhouses right now. If our atmosphere temp continues to drop and/or we actually do expel large amounts of greenhouse gases and/or photosynthetic life seems likely to actually maybe develop soon we can consider moving down. But right now it seems premature and might cause our oceans to boil? Which the seem close to doing currently.
This is because we actually have a crust again instead of our entire surface just being lava.
It seems like we have generous amounts of greenhouses right now. If our atmosphere temp continues to drop and/or we actually do expel large amounts of greenhouse gases and/or photosynthetic life seems likely to actually maybe develop soon we can consider moving down. But right now it seems premature and might cause our oceans to boil? Which the seem close to doing currently.
Considering we are pretty damn close to a dead asthenosphere (and the reason why the export core heat is happening).
I don't think we will have to worry about boiling our oceans, as they will start to cool down more on their own with the atmo temp falling pretty damn hard.
The big thing is that our most abundant greenhouse gas at the moment seem to be looked into CO2 oceans as they hit the critical mass going by the update, so dealing with that will be a FUN exercise.
With a solid, insulating crust rebuilt, water and carbon dioxide are free to condense into a deep world-spanning ocean of rapidly salinizing water and liquid carbon dioxide dotted
(Orbit Controls)
[X] Expel gas (requires ~20% to cancel out incoming gas)
(Geological Controls)
[X] Export core heat (use with strong consensus will boil off oceans and instigate another round of crustal remodeling, increases volcanism)
