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Leej
March 28th, 2006, 05:11 PM
Those ASBs are at it messing with the solar system again- however this time they have quite a long thought out multi staged plan....

Step 1 : Versions of Mars, Venus and Neptune from three different alternate timeline are switched with Earth of about a million years ago. The Earth in these dimensions is dead weight and is left alone- it will probally retain a full life bearing ability in Mars' orbit and probally be reduced to microbes elsewhere at best. What the ASBs do, do though is terraform Mars and Venus to Earth like conditions in their most standard fantasy terraformed form- Venus as a relativly warm world full of jungles and oceans, Mars as a fairly cold forested world with its one big northern ocean, island elysium and two big southern seas.

Step 2 : Again in a alternative Earth many of the patented ASB rings of fire appear around classical Greek cities of little note (i.e. not Athens and Sparta- mostly just smaller ones only the most extreme of Ancient Greece nerds have heard of). These cities are transplanted to a bunch of islands in the far south of Venus which have a mediteranian climate.
Elsewhere on Venus they grab from yet another alternative Earth a tonne of pre-Mongoloid invasion Australoids from SE asia and plant them about the place.
Also they place a small amount of some height of their civilization Mayans in the middle of the jungle somewhere.
The year in the Venus everyone is transported to is 5,000 BC.

Step 3 : Now for Mars: Following the procedure set with the Greeks they this time grab some towns and villages from late Roman Britain (i.e. 'King Arthur' times). These are placed on Elysium.
Again following the 'grab the underdog ethnic groups!' pattern they grab some Capoids from before they were booted out of most of Africa and fill most of the land with them.
Down near the Hellas sea they place the Indus Valley Civilization and on Tharsis some Japanese also from about the same time as the Brits.
Again its 5,000 BC.

Step 4 : Not much happens here, its just a lead on to thye big step. The sky on all three worlds suddenly turns orange and swirly (bad description I know- think of Highlander 2, I know its a bad film you don't want to think of but...just do it). This lasts for exactly a year- 1500 AD according to our calenders...

Step 5 : The orange haze finally lifts and...Blimey WTF?
The inhabitants of all three inhabited planets look into the sky and see Neptune.
The ASBs have set up the solar system so that Mars, Venus and Earth are all totally stable moons of Neptune which is a stable satalite of the sun. The moon is brought along too and Neptune's moons are still there. Mars' moons can come too but they are a bit pointless.


So what the hell happens?
A lot to mull over I know - the development of civilizaiton on Venus and Mars alone is dodgey never mind the orange skies and the new solar system.

Midgard
March 28th, 2006, 05:23 PM
You might want to replace Neptune with Jupiter - Neptune is just not massive enough to retain three moons of Earth's, Venus' and Mars' mass, unless ASBs are going to somehow change that too - given that Neptune is the least massive of gas giant worlds of our Solar System (and some think it may be a different kind of a planet due to it being obviously much lower in mass than Jupiter and Saturn, and having more in common with Uranus, which is similar, albeit a bit larger, if slightly less massive than Neptune), it will need much extra mass to retain such large moons - along with Earth's moon and Neptune's existing satellites, such system may be rather unstable, as the mass of satellites may be a very significant fraction of the main planet's mass, and since it is not one major satellite, but at least four (Neptune's moon Triton is more massive than some planets), it would make for very complex celestial mechanics, to say the least.

Leej
March 28th, 2006, 05:36 PM
nah, Jupiter would be noticable if it went missing in many ways. Also its a bit too big and imposing- and the radiation it gives off.... Not nice.
Also I like blue.

True it is unlikely Neptune could get such large stable satalites naturally (though not impossible) but the ASBs do make everything stable with the largest weird effects being the occasional higher then the (already high) norm when two planets pass near each other.

Lets say that the planets balance each other out to fix the wobbles that would come about from having a double planet.

Leej
March 30th, 2006, 10:25 AM
Midgard killed it before it was born :(

Bump?

Regular Earth suddenly finds itself in a mini-system looking up at a dozen 'moons' including some obviously containing life- and of course the big 'blue sun'.


Incidently to stop things getting too messed up- the lunar orbit of Earth equates to the planet's orbit around the sun such that we are always on the light side