Do you guys believe this moon could support life?

[Soothsayer]

That's no moon!

[Sledgecrushr]

Originally Posted by Soothsayer

That's no moon!

It kind of has to be a moon.

[Toppopia]

Originally Posted by Sledgecrushr

It kind of has to be a moon.

I think hes meaning its a Death Star, unless he isn't, then i think he may have finally gone crazy with waiting for beta.

[Trafalgar]

It's a Budong!

But no.

[Zulthus]

See, that's the cool thing about fiction... nothing has to make sense.

[Rbstr]

I don't find it particularly unrealistic. You can't tell size or distance from the shot.

We've got up-close experience with 9 planets out of so many it's practically uncountable. We have no idea whether what we've got is average or exceptional.
It's not crazy to think a binary planet system exists or there are large gas giants with moons that are Earth sized.

[mintyc]

Originally Posted by 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.

that big planet could be a super sized gas giant with earth sized moons.

also a planets ability to maintain an atmospheare is not just dependant on its size. the size and strength of its magnetic field plays a huge role as it delects radiation and the solar wind.

the composition of a planet also has another effect other than its magnetic field as the gravitational pull is dependant on mass, so the dencity of the planets composition plays a role in dictateing the planets gravitational field.

so it is not imposible to have a small planet with a high consentration of dense metalic elements that give it a more powerful megnetic field and a higher gravity than you would expect.

but the best explination for the sky box is probably, its sci-fi and it looks pritty.

[Malorn]

Nanites.

[Trafalgar]

The problem is that once that gas giant goes above a particular mass it isn't a gas giant anymore, and you can only hit 75-80 jupiter masses before it becomes a star and starts to fuse hydrogen. Anything big enough to have moons with earthlike gravity is probably going to have to be a large brown dwarf, if it's even possible for a brown dwarf to have satellites that massive and that close together (though brown dwarfs do not fuse hydrogen, or anything else after a few million years, if they ever fused anything at all, e.g. deuterium).

An alternate explanation, of course, would be that the habitable moons have artificial gravity generators either installed by Vanu's civilization or the TR (I would doubt the TR would have the tech to do that).

Wikipedia on brown dwarfs:

They occupy the mass range between that of large gas giant planets and the lowest-mass stars; this upper limit is between 75[1] and 80 Jupiter masses (Mj). Currently there is some debate concerning what criterion to use for defining the separation between a brown dwarf and a giant planet at very low brown dwarf masses (~13 Mj), and whether brown dwarfs are required to have experienced fusion at some point in their history. In any event, brown dwarfs heavier than 13 Mj do fuse deuterium and those above ~65 Mj also fuse lithium. Some planets are known to orbit brown dwarfs: 2M1207b, MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, and 2MASS J044144‎b.

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A remarkable property of brown dwarfs is that they are all roughly the same radius as Jupiter. At the high end of their mass range (60–90 Jupiter masses), the volume of a brown dwarf is governed primarily by electron-degeneracy pressure,[4] as it is in white dwarfs; at the low end of the range (10 Jupiter masses), their volume is governed primarily by Coulomb pressure, as it is in planets. The net result is that the radii of brown dwarfs vary by only 10–15% over the range of possible masses. This can make distinguishing them from planets difficult.
In addition, many brown dwarfs undergo no fusion; those at the low end of the mass range (under 13 Jupiter masses) are never hot enough to fuse even deuterium, and even those at the high end of the mass range (over 60 Jupiter masses) cool quickly enough that they no longer undergo fusion after a period of time on the order of 10 million years. However, there are ways to distinguish dwarfs from planets:

The entire wiki article on brown dwarfs.

[Meatball Mobeus]

...I have no idea if this could be right.. BUT....

Maybe that moon is a little farther away than we think it is, so perhaps its not so small after all?

[ODonnell]

Originally Posted by DjEclipse

I believe that moon is Vanu Sovereignty property.

It is, and it and all the Vanu will be stepped on and scraped off our boots like the ants that they are.

[capiqu]

Those two moons can stay the same size, but they can not orbit in front of the bigger moon if you want to make it realistic. Then u can say the bigger moon looks so big because its closer. The 2 other are smaller because they are farther away but they must appear to pass behind the bigger one.
If we take it that the big moon is really the planet and auraxis and the others moons, then that should affect Auraxis day night cycles.

[cBselfmonkey]

At least in the original Planetside Auraxis was found to be an artificially created world. Complete with a super computer core and contients that could 'teleport' across intergalactic distances. Therefore I'd be willing to bet that any 'weirdness' found in its star system probably just means that the entire thing was created, or at least altered, by the Vanu.

...That or SOE just doesn't care about Cosmology :P

[qbert2]

It may be possible, we don't know the focal length of the camera.

[Ratstomper]

Originally Posted by cBselfmonkey

At least in the original Planetside Auraxis was found to be an artificially created world. Complete with a super computer core and contients that could 'teleport' across intergalactic distances. Therefore I'd be willing to bet that any 'weirdness' found in its star system probably just means that the entire thing was created, or at least altered, by the Vanu.

...That or SOE just doesn't care about Cosmology :P

I'm actually really curious to see what they kept of the old lore. The ability to respawn was actually a side effect of using the warpgates as well, not some cloning mechanism like I had originally thought.