Do you guys believe this moon could support life?

[EVILoHOMER]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/m...f47a317e44.jpg

Firstly I dunno what crazy orbit they're all following but that small moon would no way support life. It's far too small, it would have had it's atmosphere blown away by the closest star as it's core wouldn't have sustained heat for so long. Now if the moon is being pulled and stretched constantly then it would show signs of volcanic activity. The planets/Moons around it are far more likely to sustain life and yet they appear not to. They're all in same distance from the sun and would not have lost their heat to space any where near as fast as that small moon would have.

I just find the sky highly unrealistic.

[Johari]

Future wormhole space magic. I ain't gotta explain jack.

:P

[Toppopia]

The green and blue moon can support life, but it depends on what kind of life, because from my hours of reading about every planet in the Mass Effect 2 and 3, there are about 3-4 different environments that can support life that doesn't suit humans. So yeah, it can support life, the other two.. don't know, would need a closer look, the far right doesn't look like it, and the big one is too cloudy to see.

[AThreatToYou]

We don't know how big that planet is, how big that moon is, how far away it is.

[Trafalgar]

No way to tell distances, sizes, etc, from that picture, but those two smaller bodies do look closer than our moon (but could be exaggerated), and the large blue object is massive in appearance but clearly not giving off any light, so it isn't a star. Probably an ice giant or gas giant.

Perhaps Auraxis, and the two small objects visible in the picture, are all moons orbiting the large blue object (which may be a gas/ice giant), which we can assume is Jupiter-sized or larger?

If Auraxis is smaller than Earth, perhaps Vanu's people left an operating artificial gravity generation system for some reason, or perhaps it has a denser core than Earth, making it more massive than a moon normally would be. Or perhaps they're just particularly large moons orbiting a particularly large giant, possibly orbiting a particularly large star (but larger stars burn out faster, not that the star's mass or metallicity could have much effect on the gameplay besides determining how strong potential solar flares and magnetic storms and the like might be, if they were implemented).

Edit: We are thinking the same thought. :V

[NCLynx]

That's actually their home planet, everyone is just to busy fighting to realize the wormhole didn't take them as far as they think.

[Jimmuc]

the big one has to be a gas giant and the other moon has craters so no life on either but Auraxis and the other unknown planet. from the looks of things i'd say Auraxis and the other two planets circle the gas giant.


sledgecrushr beat me lol

[RandomNPC]

Originally Posted by NCLynx

That's actually their home planet, everyone is just to busy fighting to realize the wormhole didn't take them as far as they think.

[Sledgecrushr]

Ok here is my take on that picture. Auraxis is actually a moon itself and us and that other planetary looking body are all circling around a hot massive planet like jupiter. It would explain why the game world is only a hundred kilometers diameter?

[Sledgecrushr]

Whats cool about this is the possibility of hundreds of habitable moon sized bodies in the same area.

[Littleman]

Originally Posted by Sledgecrushr

Whats cool about this is the possibility of hundreds of habitable moon sized bodies in the same area.

I do believe this coincides with SOE's 5 year plans in eventually introducing multiple worlds to fight over.

The blue/green body clearly is a terran world, capable of supporting Human life. The small white body to the lower right is more akin to our moon.

And that big thing in the background is likely a gas giant. You know, PS1 has some continents/planets with a gas giant in the sky box, this is probably a throw back to that concept. And to be honest, it helps remind us we're on an alien world. I would dare say it's even artificially crafted with the sole purpose of observing us... or creating the ultimate soldiers for whatever the hell might be far more dangerous and advanced than the Vanu.

We're fighting over Auraxis, though we've probably colonized multiple bodies capable of sustaining life in the 200 some-odd years (IIRC) since Auraxis was discovered.

[Sledgecrushr]

It would be neat that if we were to visit that moon that it would be another auraxis server fighting an endless war. And that when they looked into there night sky they would see our moon traveling above.

[Jimmuc]

Originally Posted by Sledgecrushr

It would be neat that if we were to visit that moon that it would be another auraxis server fighting an endless war. And that when they looked into there night sky they would see our moon traveling above.

the other planet is the euro server! lol

[PsychoXR-20]

Originally Posted by EVILoHOMER

I just find the sky highly unrealistic.

It's nice to know I am not the only one who thinks this. Being a sci-fy buff and an astronomy buff, this is one of that areas that to me, is very important. It's all about making the atmosphere of the game believable, and the current sky is a little iffy in that regard.

In order for this sky to be even remotely believable, it means that Auraxis is a moon. The massive object that is only ever seen as a very think crescent has to be a gas giant, anything else and the entire Auraxian system would cease to exist, as that object and Auraxis would have been decimated by tidal forces. (for fun, if that object were the size of our moon it would be some 30k km away from Auraxis, 10 times closer than our moon is to Earth.

Originally Posted by Trafalgar

No way to tell distances, sizes, etc, from that picture, but those two smaller bodies do look closer than our moon (but could be exaggerated), and the large blue object is massive in appearance but clearly not giving off any light, so it isn't a star. Probably an ice giant or gas giant.

While sort of true, we can guesstimate using the known sizes of objects in our solar system. For example, if we take a picture of our moon, and put it in a screenshot, and scale it to a size that looks right, we know have a basis to use for every other object. When you do this you find that the rocky moon is visually about three times as big as our moon. We can hypothesize two scenarios then, if that moon is the same size as our moon than it's three times as close. If it's the same distance as our moon than it's three times as big. Both of these could be wrong, because it is impossible to know exactly without the devs telling us the size of the moon or the distance of the moon. However it is clearly large enough to have coalesced into a nice sphere, so we can assume it is of sufficient size (not a super close asteroid sized moon like Mars)

If either of the above two hypotheses are true than that's bad. If the moon is as far away as our moon, than that "moon" would be bigger than Auraxis (which I suppose isnt too bad since Auraxis itself is already a moon) and if it's the same size as our moon than it would be three times as close and the tidal forces of an object being that close would wreak havoc on Auraxis.

I don't even know where to start with the other garden world orbiting that giant object, but everything I know tells me that planet is wrong. Make it way smaller and put it behind the gas giant and you might have something that's believable.

Just throwing my own wishes and suggestions, in here, but I say get rid of the two smaller moons and put something a little more fantastical in the sky, either give Auraxis a ring system (image how cool that would be if certain continents at certain times of the day were shadowed by the rings) or give the gas giant a ring system. If you ever get to the point where you give the moons phases that could also be very cool having for a few days bright nights as the world is illuminated by this giant.

All I know for sure is that at best, the current night sky feels cluttered.

[Toppopia]

I hope we can see nebulas and other cool space objects like that, imagine the devs making a sky soo awesome, that people actually stop fighting just to look up and see how amazing it is.