ICON Species Database Weekly Posts

[Phoenix]

If the first image was flagged I'm not sure what's going on, however the first part of a multipart was flagged I know what is going on and have fixed it.

[Phoenix]

Redwood, I seem to have misplaced that e-mail you sent - but I did have a chance to read over it. Three of the systems stick out to me, the first was IIRC second from the last in the primary list, in reality it has one huge gas giant in an outer orbit that could account for the secondary gravity well affecting the planet's orbit giving the extreme seasonal variation. The other one I cannot remember where it was in the list has a heavy particle belt (stellar rings) system wide with a few known gaps that could be where planets are located. The debris could be the cause of the seasonal variation. The last system was the last one you mentioned, a binary Orange/Yellow (IIRC) with no other information I could locate online. Add a slightly destabilized planetary orbit and I think we're close enough.

Related side question, are there any stellar nurseries around romulan controlled space. I think that may be the only way you could end up with a red/blue stellar companionship. If a young star is ejected with a follow up capture to an older star.

[The Tatterdemalion King]

Related side question, are there any stellar nurseries around romulan controlled space. I think that may be the only way you could end up with a red/blue stellar companionship. If a young star is ejected with a follow up capture to an older star.

Unless one or both are artificial : P

[Phoenix]

I see a more recent capture being slightly more (I don't believe I'm saying this) realistic; some kind of an event that could happen within the next few hundred years, without disrupting our current knowledge of astronomy. As for being artificial, there really is no evidence of such an event, the Vendorians from what I've turned up and created to fill the gaps lack said technological capabilities nor is there evidence of a predecessor species in the system.

My wild theory:
Vendor System Today: Type M star with a few worlds, one being a Class-N (Pelagic) Homeworld of the Semi-aquatic Cephalopod Vendorian species.

Vendor System TOS: Type M with captured companion Type B, some of the planets get destroyed by gravitational shearing while surviving planets take up a new orbit. The former Class-N planet now swings between a near Class-G (Desert) to a near Class-N; yet remaining within the tolerance levels of a Class-M (Habitable). The Vendorians being natural shape shifters adapt socially and technologically to survive. The mentioned “deceitful way of life” becomes more than just a predator/prey technique, but a full blown survival tool against an increasingly hostile environment.

As I said, just a wild theory.

Edit:
To explain the lack of Vendorian presence in the TNG/DS9 timeframe (100 years later), the binary system could have continued to destabilize rendering the system uninhabitable, killing off the species.

[redwood973]

Phoenix, I still have the e-mail so no worries there--I'll be able to figure out which stars you mean. With all the busy from T-giving and X-mas I never got around to checking out those other options I had talked about looking into. Perhaps this week.

[Phoenix]

Phoenix, I still have the e-mail so no worries there--I'll be able to figure out which stars you mean. With all the busy from T-giving and X-mas I never got around to checking out those other options I had talked about looking into. Perhaps this week.

He he, had it not been for sites like Trek RPG and a few others I visit I would have lost my mind over the last few weeks of festivities.

[redwood973]

I find myself with plenty of time on my hands; and needing something to occupy my mind for few hours a day to keep from going crazy I've spent the last few days reading through some of the old posts here in the ICON section of the boards.

I'll be posting a few things as ideas come up and get polished into a presentable format.

Phoenix, if you're still interested I have plenty of time to star hunt for a system to use for the Vendor. I still have the old e-mail I'll use as a starting point, but I may just begin anew since it's been so long.

Capt. Lundgren, are you there sir? When you have time can you send me private message as to where we're at on the Species Database on making it available to the public and what you need from me? I have some old messages from you to go through still; but as it's been some time since working on the project I'd like to get your current thoughts. Thanks!

[Phoenix]

Redwood;
At the moment I cannot access my e-mail account due to a minor short in my mother board or power supply (repair team is unsure). Hopfully I should be getting back up to my back-up (laptop) system in the next week or two. As for the old information, well that system (the PC) is in even worse shape (kid's drink BAAAD).

[Cpt. Lundgren]

Capt. Lundgren, are you there sir? When you have time can you send me private message as to where we're at on the Species Database on making it available to the public and what you need from me? I have some old messages from you to go through still; but as it's been some time since working on the project I'd like to get your current thoughts. Thanks!

First message sent. Maybe not really answering your question in it though, as I need to refresh the mental cache a bit.

[redwood973]

Well, I had to spend some time getting my notes reorganized but that's finally done. Now I can finally get around to some work on the database!

[Fugazi Grrl]

I have a half-dozen aliens to put up here. I thought I'd share the ones I've done for ICON in this thread. But... I can only attach 5 at a time. #6 will come in another post.

I hope these will work for the Databanks.

Owen - if you can't copy the text out of the PDF files, for the site, let me know and I'll send you plain text.

[Fugazi Grrl]

The Troyian

[Owen E Oulton]

No problemo. I'll just post the .PDFs up as-is.

Thanks muchly.

[redwood973]

Some very interesting work FASAGrrl. I'm not familiar with the Eeiauoan or the Sivaoan species. What are they from?

I'm almost ready to post a few myself. It's been a task getting all my notes back into some form of order. They've gotten scattered about a bit since I've lasted taken up the task of the database, but my corebook of world/system creation I finally got into order. And the current datasheet I'm almost done with is one from scratch which I'd not originally intended to make.

As a side note it's interesting how much knowledge we've gained about our own star system since starting the database. When I started this the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud were very little know or understood, but during this lull I've had there is more information on the Kuiper Belt than everbefore and they believe they have actually identified posible items belonging to the Oort Cloud--the first steps in bringing it out of the realm of possibility into that of fact!

[Tobian]

Sounds all very cool, looking forward to the next issue!