Re: GZG Star List with Planetary Data

From: "Rick Rutherford" <Rick@esr.com>

> A couple of months ago, I wrote a perl script to generate solar
systems
for
> every star within 15 parsecs of the Sun.

BRAVO SIR!

> Of course, I made sure that every
> non-M-class star has at least one planet that's capable of sustaining
human
> life, because it makes the games more fun when you can have enough
colony
> sites for everyone.

BD+38°2285 ? I know the OU claims useless systems, but this one's
supposed
to be one of the good ones... I'm not sure I like a "garden world" on
every
non-M system, but what the heck, why not?

BTW GJ 1004 would be a typical OU claimed system, apart from the
inhabited
ones.
GJ 1292 would be one of the very best of these "fixer-uppers". Anything
with
a "garden world" on it is likely to be claimed by someone else OR
claimed by
the OU but the good planet leased to someone else, the OU confining
itself
to the rest of the system.

:) A friend of mine has put the list up on his web site:
>
>	  http://wam.umd.edu/~ddr/

Excellent site. I'd suggest that this list (or an improved one) be
linked to
by
the GZGpedia and become not-Canon.

> You will note that some of the political affiliations are out of date
--
I'm
> afraid I don't know who has claimed what, so I stayed with the
political
> affiliations listed in Winchell Chung's spreadsheet, and didn't go any
> further than that.

Could you please update it? Maybe put it in a spreadsheet?

> If anyone finds a mistake, or would like to add something that I
missed,
> PLEASE let me know and I'll update the list. Any comments are welcome!

At first glance you've missed a lot of M-class stars as far as I can
see.
Now agreed, they're probably planetless, but they should at least get a
mention.

BS 5072 3
Orbit Dist. Type Diam. Grav. Pressure Water % Climate Tilt Moons
3 1 Garden 10780 0.54 Standard Oceans 94 Cold 11 1
vs
SOL 3 ie here
3 1.00 Garden 7926 1.00 Standard Oceans 74 Temperate 12 1

0.54 Gravity??? What's it made of? I'd expect 1.3+ since it has what,
twice the volume of Earth? Even without an Iron core, I don't see this
as being right.

But frankly, the concept is 100% wonderful, and the execution 99%
wonderful.
So I feel churlish nit-picking. All I can say is THANKS!!!