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A way for me to understand and name things in this game.

Update: Fuck it, why bother? It’s unreasonable to have a personal journey.. the interface just sucks. There’s no concept of getting back to where one was. I hear waypoints might work, so I’ll give that a shot.. but perhaps in the next galaxy or some such.

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2016-08-21 update ∞

system – spiralofhope-counter-star-pirates-asteroids-race-notable

• notable – Are there any planets which are particularly notable?

planet – spiralofhope-counter-hazards-storms-notable

A breakdown ∞

• Stars

  • (unknown)

• Pirates

  • High, medium, low
  • High will have space battles right when the player warps in!
  • Low will have them only if the player has valuable cargo

• Asteroids

  • Notable minerals

• Race

  • Vy’keen
  • Gek

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• Hazards

  • Heat

• Storms

  • yes/no

• Notable elements

  • High/low carbon, plutonium
  • High gold/whatever

e.g. safe, water, high carbon/plutonium

Saying “I once saw titanium crystals”, without them being anywhere else, isn’t good enough to note.

A starter list ∞

TODO

The classification system (so far) ∞

I hope that this could be a simple series of numbers, each position describing a section on this page.

• Beginning with spiralofhope
• So people can look up that name and discover what the rest of it means.

• Maybe I could have them spaced by a character, like -

  • spiralofhope-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1

• If - isn’t allowed, I would use something obviously different than a number, like v

  • spiralofhope-1v1v1v1v1v1v1v1v1v1v1v1

• Maybe I should mark position numbers like

  • spiralofhope-1-1-11-21-31-41-51-61-71-81-91-101
• Maybe I would have to crunch it down even further, by using use letters and numbers (0-9,A-Z,a-z) in order to have more than 99 items per slot. That would be 10+26+26 = 62 possible codes per slot.

• For each classification version, I would need a separate document like this.

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1. Classification version
2. Counter
3. Star type – TODO
4. Asteroid belt type – TODO
5. Race – TODO
6. Race fiction – TODO
7. Pirate classification
8. Station classification
9. Guardians (in space) – TODO
10. Planets
11. Life – TODO

12. Guardians (on the planet) – TODO

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1. Classification version

   • The version number of the classification system that I used to label that thing.

2. Counter

   • The number of the thing I named. An incrementing number for which I’ll include in a list to possibly give more details on.

3. Star type – TODO

   • The type of star.

4. Asteroid belt type – TODO

   • The type of asteroid field, probably based on its resource(s).

5. Race – TODO

   • 1-4, for each of the four (known) races.

6. Race fiction – TODO

   • The race type.

7. Pirate classification

   • Their aggression levels and activities.

8. Station classification

   • Describes the number of them, and other details.
   • I’m uncertain if/why this would be needed.

9. Guardians (in space) – TODO

   • Those guardians which monitor things.

10. Planets

    • The type of planet, and details on its resources.

11. Life – TODO

    • What general sort of life, if any.
    • I’m uncertain how to go about this.

12. Guardians (on the planet) – TODO

    • Those guardians which monitor things.

Star type – TODO ∞

• Stellar classification

  • Sub-brown dwarf

Asteroid belt type – TODO ∞

I don’t know if any of these sorts of things are nameable.

• Asteroid

• Asteroid belt

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Race – TODO ∞

There are four known races.

Race fiction – TODO ∞

Each race will have various factions. Details are not yet known.

Guardians (in space) – TODO ∞

TODO

Planets ∞

• Exoplanetology

• List of planet types

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• Carbon planet (theoretical)

  • More carbon than oxygen.
• Chthonian planet
• Circumbinary planet
• Coreless planet
• Desert planet
• Dwarf planet
• Earth analog
• Eccentric Jupiter
• Exoplanet
• Extragalactic planet

• Gas giant

  • Sudarsky’s gas giant classification
• Helium planet

• Hot Jupiter

  • Similar to Jupiter, closer to their sun.
  • aka aster planet, epistellar jovian, pegasid, pegasean planet
• Hot Neptune
• Ice giant
• Inner planet
• Iron planet
• Lava planet
• Mesoplanet
• Mini-Neptune
• Minor planet
• Ocean planet
• Outer planet
• Plutoid
• Protoplanet
• Puffy planet
• Pulsar planet
• Rogue planet
• Sub-brown dwarf
• Sub-stellar object
• Super-Earth
• Super-Jupiter
• Terrestrial planet

• Trojan planet

Other notable ∞

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical astronomical object

• List of potentially habitable exoplanets

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• Protoplanetary disk
• Centaur (minor planet)
• Dwarf planet
• Minor planet
• Plutoid
• Substellar object

• Double planet

  • aka binary

Classification in fiction ∞

• Armada 2525 – (1991 game)

  • Armada 2526 – (2009 game)

• Galactic Civilizations

  • https://galciv.fandom.com/wiki/Planet_class
• Master of Orion – (1993 game) style?

• Star Trek

  • Class M planet
  • https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Planetary_classification

Life – TODO ∞

I might need to learn more about what’s nameable in the game.

Guardians (on the planet) – TODO ∞

Resources – TODO? ∞

I don’t know if any of these sorts of things are nameable.

1. Silicon

2. Stuff for feul

Other – TODO? ∞

I don’t know if any of these sorts of things are nameable.

• NPC things
• Buildings

• Factions