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Originally posted by astro: **here is an image of a galaxy believed to be similar to our own (we can't see ours from the outside, so other methods are required to determine its shape):
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mikee wonders if there are some people in that galaxy discussing the very same thing with a picture of ours
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I guess that the names of star systems are liable to change once we reach them. For example, if we landed on a planet in the vicinity of Procyon, and found that a bunch of friendly aliens already lived there, we might discover their name for their world and start using it. Maybe that's why most of the distant star systems in EV:O bear no relation to those in my astronomy book.
What would happen next though? Human history suggests that whichever culture has the upper hand, militarily and technologically, will very rapidly come to dominate the other. We should count ourselves very lucky that the Miranu are a peaceful race, and the Strands are kept busy warring among themselves.
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Originally posted by VoinianAmbassador: **I guess that the names of star systems are liable to change once we reach them. For example, if we landed on a planet in the vicinity of Procyon, and found that a bunch of friendly aliens already lived there, we might discover their name for their world and start using it. Maybe that's why most of the distant star systems in EV:O bear no relation to those in my astronomy book. **
Good point. And as a mercenary travelling stars where earth has no military prescence, you'd pretty much have to use alien name.
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Tau Ceti was a planet from the game Marathon that I have so proudly clocked along with Marathon II
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Originally posted by Glenn: Accident or intentional? (/B)
Here's another weird one: In 1904 John Jaques and Son Ltd. produced a board game called: Minoru, the New Race Game Coincidence, or did they have access to an early version of EV:O?
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About EV being graphically correct, and EVO not being, if they made EVO like that it would be too much like EV
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The EV universe IS more realistic. First off, Ambrosia decided to make real systems, because they could. When EVO came around, they couldn't just use the same names and same systems and all that, because it would be the same game with different objectives, in other words, BORING! Names like Sol, Sirius, Centauri, Procyon, Altair, and a bunch of others, I can't remember right now, but those ARE REAL STARS!
Also, there are 3 types of galaxies, though I forget the names of the types. The three types, I think are: Flat, 3D like, and Scattered (meaning parts are flat, parts are 3D, just a buncha stars all over the place). We are a flat galaxy.
Also, I know this sounds really stupid, but the picture of the star even looks like a Miranu Freighter. Same colors, a weird tail on the end. Just a weird observation I made.
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EV is far more astronomically correct than EVO. EVO has very very few things named after actual stars.
That doesn't really mean anything. In EV, the galaxy is peopled primarily by humans, so of course human names are used for the stars. However, in EVO, alien-inhabited systems will be named by the aliens, so of course they aren't named after actual stars.
Dude, Tau Ceti is a star, not a planet. And it's real.
Originally posted by Giule: That doesn't really mean anything. In EV, the galaxy is peopled primarily by humans, so of course human names are used for the stars. However, in EVO, alien-inhabited systems will be named by the aliens, so of course they aren't named after actual stars.
Yeah, but even the systems near Sol are made up (Bakka, Liat, etc.)
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Who says that the inhabitated systems in EV:O have to be ones we have discovered now? Most of the stars we have named now probably do not have any habitable planets, therefore as mankind started colonizing the stars we found others that probably aren't noticable from Earth, but have habitable planets.
Simply, the inhabitated systems of EV:O are more likely to not be our currently named stars, but rather, star systems that were the easiest to be colonized.
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(This message has been edited by Allenthar (edited 03-08-2001).)
Who says that the inhabitated systems in EV:O have to be ones we have discovered now? Most of the stars we have named now probably do not have any habitable planets, therefore as mankind started colonizing the stars we found others that probably aren't noticable from Earth, but have habitable planets. Simply, the inhabitated systems of EV:O are more likely to not be our currently named stars, but rather, star systems that were the easiest to be colonized.
I have to say I disagree with you there. First off, recent discoveries are showing that it is quite likely that most stars have planet systems.
The other point I have to make is that all the UE systems would be close enough to us to have existing names.
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