Turn 42: You are a super-Earth returning to the remnants of the asteroid banquet with rapidly growing moons and a rapidly thinning atmosphere
6 ZeV Proton
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- UTC-8
- Pronouns
- He/Him
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Atmospheric controls said:
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Postimg: 504
Inky and Blinky get presents of more ice! Following the absorption of primordial ice lying around and your own processed volatiles, Blinky has reached a size threshold allowing for much faster accumulation of material, and Inky isn't far behind. Your disk is once again wiped clean of unreserved material, but this time around, you manage to add to your rings instead of withdrawing from them. It's anyone's guess as to what will happen to the ice in your rings, but your moons seem to be drooling over the loose volatiles they'll evolve after some time on the warm side of the frost line. They've been good regardless, so you nail down their orbits enough that they'll probably survive most any one-off perturbation. Your rings also benefit from the stability afforded by fixed moon orbits, and given that you formed them in a relatively dust-rich regime not too far from where you are now, most of their mass is refractory dust even if most of their volume is ice.
You also expel ridiculous amounts of gas, directing most of it at your moons and rings, and your surface pressure drops considerably. You're probably a bit under 1/3 of the way to your goal at this point, and the pressure is reaching the point where if water were heated to boiling (as opposed to evaporating calmly), most organic compounds wouldn't promptly decompose or melt.
Your geological projects are so many and diffuse that tragically little progress gets made on them. Of course, "tragically little" in a planetary context is still pretty big, and you still get a few large crystals and patches of metamorphism, and mantle convection continues to slow down even as atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to fix itself in rock whether chemically or tectonically. Hydrothermal vent stability seems to be tied less to cave sheltering than to the accessibility of fresh lava, but a few vents are now cloistered in caves as well. Creating a pocket of water and carbon dioxide in your mantle turns out to be exactly how a lot of eruptions happens, and you end up with a few more eruptions than usual as a result.
As for your mountains, which are still very much in flux but rise to about 5km, the air at the summits is still very thick but only about a sixth of the pressure at sea level.
Finally, you investigate your potential for life and find that it has a good chance of sticking around and just needs time to get established if you're in a safe orbit.
You spin up faster as you continue your descent and begin exiting the low-density band. You're pretty close to the frost line based on the composition of the material around you, and you can once again specifically collect dust without all the ice around it. Gas, on the other hand, is increasingly a rarity thanks to the relatively new solar wind, but you're currently in the process of removing it, so that should be fine.
Meanwhile around Mobius, Qubert has been busy grabbing all the leftover ice it can find lying around. It's grown to Inky's size but is almost certainly a lot lighter given its ice-rich composition. Maybe it's for the best most of the dense dust there has already been captured by Mobius and Donutsteel?
Gauges of interest (not to scale!):
Average air temperature
Freezing 🞀–o–––––🞂 Boiling
Average sea temperature
Freezing 🞀–––o–––🞂 Boiling
Average asthenosphere temperature
Dead 🞀–––o–––🞂 Molten
Average surface air pressure
Trace –––––🞀–––––––🞂–––––o Crushing
Land area: 20-25%
Average air temperature
Freezing 🞀–o–––––🞂 Boiling
Average sea temperature
Freezing 🞀–––o–––🞂 Boiling
Average asthenosphere temperature
Dead 🞀–––o–––🞂 Molten
Average surface air pressure
Trace –––––🞀–––––––🞂–––––o Crushing
Land area: 20-25%
Your sphere of influence:
| Name | Size | Atmosphere | Surface | Hygrosphere | Mantle | Core |
| (You) | Magnificent | Very thick, CO2, N2, He, CO, Ne, CH4, SO2, H2 | Ocean | Water, CO2 | Silicates | Metallic |
| Inky | Small | Very thin CO2, N2, Ne, CH4, SO2 | Ice | (Frozen) | Water, silicates | Rocky |
| Blinky | Medium | Thin CO2, N2, CH4, Ne | Ice | (Frozen) | Water, silicates | Rocky |
| Pinky | Small | Trace CO2, N2 | Ice | Frozen | Silicates | Small rocky |
| Clyde | Small | Very thin CO2 | Ice | None | Silicates | Rocky |
Temporal controls (vote once):
[ ][Tempo] Maintain current tempo
[ ][Tempo] Advance! (requires 80%)
[ ][Tempo] Look around in more detail (Specify timer(s))
Orbital controls (vote once):
[ ][Orbital] Move to a higher orbit
[ ][Orbital] Move to a lower orbit
[ ][Orbital] Expel ice
[ ][Orbital] Collect more ice
[ ][Orbital] Expel dust
[ ][Orbital] Collect more dust
[ ][Orbital] Accrete to...
-[ ] self
-[ ] not self
-[ ] moon
-[ ] rings
[ ][Orbital] Do not collapse more material onto ourself
[ ][Orbital] Look around in more detail (Specify target(s))
[ ][Orbital] Spin faster
[ ][Orbital] Spin slower
Atmospheric controls (vote once):
[ ][Atmospheric] Expel gas x2
[ ][Atmospheric] Expel gas
[ ][Atmospheric] Collect more gas
[ ][Atmospheric] Collect more gas
[ ][Atmospheric] Look around in more detail (Specify target(s))
Geological controls (vote once):
[ ][Geological] Export core heat (increases volcanism)
[ ][Geological] Retain core heat (decreases volcanism)
[ ][Geological] Increase weathering (smoothens terrain, decreases atmospheric CO 2 )
[ ][Geological] Decrease weathering (roughens terrain, increases atmospheric CO 2 )
[ ][Geological] Look around in more detail (Specify target(s))
Naming things:
[ ][Names] Name things
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