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You are a cloud of dust (Riot? Quest)

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    • Scheduled vote count started by 6 ZeV Proton on Feb 27, 2024 at 12:59 AM, finished with 15 posts and 15 votes.
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    6 ZeV Proton threw 2 6-faced dice. Reason: Look around Total: 2
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    6 ZeV Proton threw 1 6-faced dice. Reason: Next orbit density Total: 6
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    Turn 8: You are a salty migrating sphere of spicy molten rock and metal with a disk of dust and gas and a satellite
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    • [x] Collapse: 21.1%
    [X] Move to a higher orbit -[X] normally: 36.8%
    [X] Look around in more detail (Anything interesting or abnormal): 10.5%
    [X] Move to a higher orbit -[X] and aim for a collision!: 31.6%

    Concordance: 80.7%
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    There is clear agreement that you should move to a higher orbit but a very narrow split between doing so to cause a collision with the planetesimal already occupying it or letting it be. Ultimately, the less exacting trajectory wins out, and you make it onto its orbit without incident.

    Looking around your new position, there is once again an abundance of gas and dust to collect, and even after significant settling, nearly half of your mass still floats about orbiting you. Your satellite seems to be frustrated in its efforts to cool down by continuing bombardment, but at least it's not always completely molten. Looking upward, you spot plenty of bright dust grains that haven't been incorporated along with a couple density waves that look like they could collapse into planetesimals if left to their own devices long enough. Maneuvering to capture the planetesimal you're intruding on isn't out of reach but would probably take a long enough time that something massive could really get rolling up there.

    [ ] Move to a higher orbit
    [ ] Move to a lower orbit
    [ ] Crash into the planetesimal in this orbit
    [ ] Collect more gas
    [ ] Collect more dust
    [ ] Collapse
    [ ] Look around in more detail (Specify target(s))
     
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    • [X] Move to a higher orbit

    Ice. Gas.

    6 ZeV Proton said:
    Looking upward, you spot plenty of bright dust grains that haven't been incorporated along with a couple density waves that look like they could collapse into planetesimals if left to their own devices long enough.
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    Huh so if I'm understanding right, here abouts would be best to get multiple satellites. Or some rings.

    "[ ] Crash into the planetesimal in this orbit" looks to be a multi turn endeavor(?) that at the end has our gravity making things clump up as a side effect. I think.
     
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    • Scheduled vote count started by 6 ZeV Proton on Feb 28, 2024 at 12:34 AM, finished with 16 posts and 14 votes.
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    6 ZeV Proton threw 1 6-faced dice. Reason: How long did the crash take? Total: 1
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    • Turn 9: You are a Venus-sized salty migrated sphere of spicy molten rock and metal with a disk of dust and gas and at least two satellites
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    • [X] Crash into the planetesimal in this orbit: 42.9%
    [X] Collapse: 28.6%
    [X] Move to a higher orbit: 14.3%
    [X] Collect more gas: 7.1%
    [X] Look around in more detail (Anything interesting or abnormal): 7.1%

    Concordance: 71.7%
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    For better or for worse, your hunger overtakes you, and you end up arranging a collision with the planetesimal in this orbit. It goes off flawlessly, and in a striking display of good fortune, takes up considerably less time than expected. After another song and dance that sees most of its consolidated material scattered between your cloud of loose material and your molten core, you have at least one more satellite of negligible mass forming from the biggest surviving chunks still gravitationally bound to you. Aside from this acquisition and the absorption of some gas, this has been a good day for collapse, and you make significant progress on clearing your immediate surroundings. The matter bound in your core now outmasses loose, orbiting material roughly twofold. It's becoming a lot easier to retain gas too, and it feels like even slippery, inert neon will have a hard time escaping your clutches when all is said and done and your surface cools down enough.

    Not too much has change since the last time you looked around in a nearly identical environment in no small part thanks to your speedy capture. Your current orbit is fairly average in density and composition based on your past experiences. Above you are belts of bright dust and increasingly lightweight gases, and below you lies your former, largely depleted home and fairly dense, compact planetesimals on the way to becoming whatever comes next. The star at the bottom and center of it all, still swaddled up in a blanket of relatively tepid gas, still hasn't quite figured out just how to ignite just yet, but its time may be coming soon. What next?


    Event: Leap day!

    Leaping to a higher or lower orbit is temporarily more effective!​



    [ ] Move to a higher orbit
    [ ] Move to a lower orbit
    [ ] Collect more gas
    [ ] Collect more dust
    [ ] Collapse
    [ ] Look around in more detail (Specify target(s))
     
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