Re: Darkspace - Planet Orbits

I'm working on other stuff (mostly trying to get the SJ Wiki knocked into 
shape so that I can upload the Darkspace canon info onto it), but these 
numbers you knocked out are great.

In case you didn't see elsewhere, I just rechecked my own notes and noticed 
I had introduced an error. So these planets are al intact ones rather than 
belts, but your numbes will still work. I've adjusted your text (but not 
your stats).

From: "Charles Taylor" <nerik@?????????.?????.??.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Darkspace - Planet Orbits
>

>I've come up with a set of orbits for Verinspace/Darkspace

All planets orbit in a counter-clockwise direction.

Planet          Track     Orbital Radius            Travel Times
==================================================================
Sun             Centre         0                          0
Planet 1      Inner 1   21.236 million miles      5 hours
Planet 2      Inner 2   39.344 million miles      9½ hours
Verin          Inner 5   99.013 million miles      1 day
Planet 4      Inner 8   152.194 million miles     1½ days
Planet 5      Inner 12  239.695 million miles     2 days 9½ hours
Planet 6      Inner 14  270.489 million miles     2 days 17 hours
Planet 7      Outer 2   964.014 million miles     9 days 15 hours
Planet 8      Outer 4   1,785.084 million miles   17 days 20½ hours
Planet 9      Outer 7   2,615.482 million miles   26 days 3½ hours
Sphere Wall Outer 14  5,230.964 million miles   52 days 7½ hours

>We still need some names though ;-)

We know that the planets are either unihabitable or not home to sentient 
life during the Verinspace era. We also know that there are undead on Verin 
during the Darkspace era. As already said, I'd like to use a 
"genisis-fireball" to give each planet a birth/rebirth.

I think, that I'd like to come back to this after a while and work on these 
planets one at a time. I think that giving each planet a god, and then 
spinning stuff off of that, would work well.

I think that looking at the word "Verin" to see the sort of culture we can 
try to infer from it could help.

I just looked it up on the Internet and a very badly sourced article on 
Wikipedia claims Verin is the name of a demon lord:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verin_%28Dungeons_%26_Dragons%29

If anyone has time to research this and look for related material it could 
help us a lot. Maybe the 9 planets could all be named after demon lords and 
other outsiders instead of gods. The article says that Verin is mentioned in 
the Planescape supplement: "Faces of Evil: The Fiends", so if Loki is 
reading perhaps he could skim read the book and look for him.

Another two uses of the word Verin are a city in Spain and a character in 
The Wheel of Time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%ADn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verin_Mathwin

"My name is Bruin Shambrath -- you killed my father -- prepare to die!"
David "Big Mac" Shepheard
Virtual Eclipse Role Playing Club
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/virtualeclipselrp/links/d20_system_001071937434/Spelljammer_001071430476
http://spelljammer.wikia.com/
http://www32.brinkster.com/virtualeclipse/

They might also be useful for inspiration, although I'd prefer to avoid 
lifting things from a modern book like The Wheel of Time.