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Post by Pawel on May 5, 2024 14:30:21 GMT
Good news, everyone! - as Prof Farnsworth likes to say. I took a peek and it looks like the planetary stats frame will make it into the final PDF in the end! This wasn't present in the original "A View From Orbit" preview, but it looks to have been added now. It pleased me greatly.  |
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Post by doublea on May 5, 2024 23:26:31 GMT
Hey, that's great news, it was definitely missed! It's these little details that make Blue Planet such a rich science fiction setting, at least I think so.
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Post by neil on May 6, 2024 11:24:35 GMT
And we have names for the other planets in the system! (Even if the formatting's off for the λSep IV heading, and all the standard form notation.)
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Post by Pawel on May 6, 2024 11:27:01 GMT
And we have names for the other planets in the system! (Even if the formatting's off for the λSep IV heading, and all the standard form notation.) Good catch, Neil! I'll make a note to mention this to Jeff, as soon as the pre-final full PDF is ready. |
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Post by lupmet on May 6, 2024 14:15:25 GMT
Wouldn't this be better to present in a table? And adding "per cent of Poseidon or Earth equivalent"? I can calculate it myself but would it be beneficial to get a reference to percentage of Earth or Poseidon for radius and mass? Would orbital velocity add anything? I can calculate it but more fun to read…?
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Post by Pawel on May 6, 2024 14:32:24 GMT
Wouldn't this be better to present in a table? And adding "per cent of Poseidon or Earth equivalent"? I can calculate it myself but would it be beneficial to get a reference to percentage of Earth or Poseidon for radius and mass? Would orbital velocity add anything? I can calculate it but more fun to read…? To be fair, that pdf shows as last modified in February, so the end result is likely to look different. I reckon we'll know soon enough. Per Alan's words, we should be a couple weeks away from the full pre-final PDF. |
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Post by lupmet on May 6, 2024 16:09:44 GMT
Wouldn't this be better to present in a table? And adding "per cent of Poseidon or Earth equivalent"? I can calculate it myself but would it be beneficial to get a reference to percentage of Earth or Poseidon for radius and mass? Would orbital velocity add anything? I can calculate it but more fun to read…? To be fair, that pdf shows as last modified in February, so the end result is likely to look different. I reckon we'll know soon enough. Per Alan's words, we should be a couple weeks away from the full pre-final PDF. That was why I thought I should comment upon it now… 😏 We do not have this version, right? |
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Post by Pawel on May 6, 2024 16:56:53 GMT
To be fair, that pdf shows as last modified in February, so the end result is likely to look different. I reckon we'll know soon enough. Per Alan's words, we should be a couple weeks away from the full pre-final PDF. That was why I thought I should comment upon it now… 😏 We do not have this version, right? Not just yet no, but I thiiiirst for it! It will be with us soon.  |
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Post by doublea on May 7, 2024 21:00:14 GMT
Hey you know I think I asked this before, or we talked about it, but is there a section anywhere in the book that talks about the population breakdown of Poseidon (plus orbit and such)? Like, about how many Natives, Colonists, Hybrids, Cetes, etc? Or is that data kind of interspersed in the text? That would have been a smart chart to include had I thought to ask about a year ago.
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Post by Pawel on May 8, 2024 8:55:51 GMT
Hey you know I think I asked this before, or we talked about it, but is there a section anywhere in the book that talks about the population breakdown of Poseidon (plus orbit and such)? Like, about how many Natives, Colonists, Hybrids, Cetes, etc? Or is that data kind of interspersed in the text? That would have been a smart chart to include had I thought to ask about a year ago. Hmm, some settlement descriptions do mention newcomer vs native population differences, but in most cases all we get is a number and the settlement's general flavour. There used to be this table back in 1st edition, but again, just overall colonist quantities with no differentiation.  |
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Post by neil on May 8, 2024 9:32:11 GMT
The lack of information on Cliffside still surprises me. Cliffside is huge for Poseidon: only Kingston and Haven are larger, and everywhere else is about half the size of Cliffside. Yet I don't think there's any official information on it longer than a couple of sentences!
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Post by Pawel on May 8, 2024 9:36:32 GMT
The lack of information on Cliffside still surprises me. Cliffside is huge for Poseidon: only Kingston and Haven are larger, and everywhere else is about half the size of Cliffside. Yet I don't think there's any official information on it longer than a couple of sentences! Oh yeah, I agree! I keep thinking for example, that, given its size, it must have a spaceport. Which would give us five spaceports on Poseidon: Haven, Harmony, Al-Mamlakah, Simushir and Cliffside. But only four of those are mentioned in the books. |
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Post by doublea on May 8, 2024 16:58:37 GMT
Oh wow, hah, great memory Pawel! I didn't even think to dig back into 1st edition. As for Cliffside, you know it may be a blessing in disguise, that allows one major settlement that the GM can customize for their own needs in their game, instead of having all of the game's big locations 'fixed'. |
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Post by Pawel on May 8, 2024 17:15:35 GMT
Oh wow, hah, great memory Pawel! I didn't even think to dig back into 1st edition. As for Cliffside, you know it may be a blessing in disguise, that allows one major settlement that the GM can customize for their own needs in their game, instead of having all of the game's big locations 'fixed'. Yeah, this might very well be the intention, Aaron! Every company town in the books has a particular theme, which is both awesome and perhaps slightly limiting to some GMs. Cliffside might very well be everybody's build-a-corp-u/dys/topia! |
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Post by doublea on May 9, 2024 17:56:28 GMT
So I was doing some digging and both discovered where Pawel found the settlement population charts, as well as another chart which is super cool: The inter-settlement travel distance chart! Not sure if it's still useful in Recontact as the maps have been adjusted but perhaps this might be a worthy side project for a future Undercurrents?   |
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