Tales from Rodentèrra

[Lao Kou]

toot sweet!

A fun song in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and a bilingual play on words that I didn't get until, like, just now! Facepalm -- durrr!

I'd still love to see such a beast in the wild...

Such a beast in the wild is a four-way screen of unmanageable banshee-screaming heads on your cable news network.

Heightened conversation, in evening wear, with pocket ashtrays and little glasses of digestive sherry, is so much more where I should like to see this going, hm?

[elemtilas]

toot sweet!

A fun song in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and a bilingual play on words that I didn't get until, like, just now! Facepalm -- durrr!

I'd still love to see such a beast in the wild...

Such a beast in the wild is a four-way screen of unmanageable banshee-screaming heads on your cable news network.

Heightened conversation, in evening wear, with pocket ashtrays and little glasses of digestive sherry, is so much more where I should like to see this going, hm?

We can't have our dainty and eat it too?

Oh, well...

...pass the sherry, luv.

[Egerius]

Rodentèrra is currently being re-written.

Here is the current state of things:

• Four habitable planets orbit around a sun-like star (about 20% larger than ours), in a solar system of 12 planets.

• Four genera of (yet partially) unspecified species have been exported into space, each made a planet their home, gained human-level sentience and developed societies at exactly the same level, in a timeline going about 16 million years from present: Avians, Rodents, Canines, Felines

• The planets have their own, native fauna, which hasn't progressed far into sapience, didn't evolve past marsupials (we have thylacines (feral and domesticated) and platypus cheese).

• Interplanetary travel is common, but rather expensive.

• Tech level: Rodentèrran aesthetics are somewhere in the 90s, the tech level is mid-late 2000s. The Intel processor path was skipped at the Pentium stage. Instead, Imagine all this in one. No smartphones yet.

• No flying cars (at least on Rodentèrra)…

Edit: A few words regarding the timeline.

[TBPO]

Here is the current state of things:

• Four habitable planets orbit around a sun-like star (about 20% larger than ours), in a solar system of 12 planets.

An 8 planet system is very rare, and a 9 planet system would be an anomaly. A 12 planet system is so unlikely as to be unrealistic.

[eldin raigmore]

Here is the current state of things:

• Four habitable planets orbit around a sun-like star (about 20% larger than ours), in a solar system of 12 planets.

An 8 planet system is very rare, and a 9 planet system would be an anomaly. A 12 planet system is so unlikely as to be unrealistic.

And I don’t think a sun-like star could have more than two habitable planets.

[WeepingElf]

Here is the current state of things:

• Four habitable planets orbit around a sun-like star (about 20% larger than ours), in a solar system of 12 planets.

An 8 planet system is very rare, and a 9 planet system would be an anomaly. A 12 planet system is so unlikely as to be unrealistic.

We don't know which kinds of planetary systems exist; the observation of extrasolar planets has revealed that there are many kinds of planetary systems unlike our own - hot Jupiters, super-Earths, and so on - so there seems nothing wrong to me with a system with 12 planets. Yet, four planets within the habitable zone of a Sun-like star is quite an amount - while we don't know how wide the habitable zone actually is (it of course depends on the question of which kind of organism - surely, extremophile organisms may thrive in a wider range of conditions than higher animals), but at least for higher animals like humans or Egerius's beastfolk, it is probably quite narrow, and there are perhaps more systems where it falls entirely within the gap between two planetary orbits (one planet is too hot, the next too cold) than ones with two planets within it (let alone four). A large gas giant within the habitable zone with four Earth-sized moons is perhaps a better bet if you want four habitable worlds within one planetary system.

[Arayaz]

Here is the current state of things:

• Four habitable planets orbit around a sun-like star (about 20% larger than ours), in a solar system of 12 planets.

An 8 planet system is very rare, and a 9 planet system would be an anomaly. A 12 planet system is so unlikely as to be unrealistic.

And I don’t think a sun-like star could have more than two habitable planets.

A while back, I did some calculations for Khemehekis to put two habitable planets around one star. It was very unlikely, and felt contrived to me — four might be technically possible, but I would strongly, strongly advise against it.

[VaptuantaDoi]

Add a fifth habitable planet.

[eldin raigmore]

Suggestion:
Have a double-planet near the inner boundary of the habitable zone.
They could be Earth-sized or Venus-sized, and orbit each other.
As a couple, they would orbit your star.

Then, near the outer boundary of the habitable zone, have a gas giant with at least two habitable satellites between Venus-sized and Mars-sized.

That would give you four habitable bodies.

….

You could vary the details.

….

Anyway: Good luck!

[Egerius]

An 8 planet system is very rare, and a 9 planet system would be an anomaly. A 12 planet system is so unlikely as to be unrealistic.

I'm a sucker for numbers divisible by 4, 8, or 16.
So I'll make it 16 just out of spite, got it.
According to this: https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/how- ... host-star/
... a solar system can have up to 7 habitable planets if the star is large and bright, and if there's no gas giants in the system.

However...
A large gas giant within the habitable zone with four Earth-sized moons is perhaps a better bet if you want four habitable worlds within one planetary system.

I didn't even think of this. Though I'd be afraid of the orbiting planet-moons taking a hit or two from asteroids...
Also Pluto was a planet until they demoted him in 2006, maybe Rodentèrra & Co. didn't get there yet with their own Hadesoids...