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[Rokas]

Yeah, but it looks cooler this way.

Just sayin,' I'm all for bein' a stickler to facts... But if you don't use your Artistic License sometimes, they revoke it.

[Kerry Skydancer]

I've said the same thing before, Tom. Ralph seems to like the idea that they're in locked orbits, somehow... they always appear in the sky as paired crescents when we've seen them.

[Earl McClaw]

Ralph seems to like the idea that they're in locked orbits, somehow... they always appear in the sky as paired crescents when we've seen them.

Maybe the orbit each other? Then as a pair they orbit Questworld? (Anybody care to work out the orbital mechanics and gravimetrics?)

[Tom Mazanec]

Actually, this would probably work. The best scenario would be for Airith to orbit a class G giant star...this would minimize perturbations on the system and make it more stable (as an astronomy major in college, this would bother me with issues over stellar evolution and biological evolution, but Ralph is a creationist IIRC). The problem is that Ralph said one orbits in ten days and one orbits in thirty days IIRC. Years would also have to be like weeks, just an arbitrary twelve months. Otherwise, a year would span a lifetime.

[Atarlost]

Or they could just use a solar callendar.

[Tom Mazanec]

If they use a solar calendar in my scenario, the years would last decades or even centuries. Giant stars are huge, but also almost as thin as air except at the center, so they only mass about as much as the sun would. That is why they would not perturb the Airith-forget the name-forget the other name system. The system would be way out there. It would cause a LONG time to orbit the sun, however.

[Tom Mazanec]

I just realized something. The moons would also have to be farther from Airith for this to work. What they call years may be our "months". They may orbit in 360 days and this could be made to work.