>>43905623Rod vision’s more sensitive than cone vision so that makes sense! I should do more reps on other possible photopigments to see if I can give my people a more extended visible spectrum
In both /vnug/ I always try to imagine how living in unusual conditions might have an effect on the people! (although I guess /vnug/ in the main setting’s more mundane considering actual people live in similar climate) since the environment probably determine our body and mind more than anything else. Then again space /vnug/ probably retains enough technology that it has always been able to maintain a somewhat familiar indoor environment even if it might not always be consistent. One interesting thing about the difference in lighting’s that warning lights in space /vnug/ would be blue instead of red because in addition to human eyes being the most sensitive to blue, it’s also a color that’s rarely seen under Sestag’s starlight so people raised in the system will learn to identify blue light as something artificial i.e. safe
I’m also trying to brainstorm the other planets in the system since I think I should move manmade stuff like technology into a central rentry about space /vnug/ instead of putting them in planet lore. So far I decided that the system will have a super Mercury orbiting the closest around the star (barring a vulcanoid belt) with enough iron in the system to create fields of graphite and diamond. It would have lakes and rivers of iron and nickel carbonyl if not for the fact that the substellar hemisphere’s as hot as an industrial oven. I think that means the metal carbonyl will be concentrated around the twilight zone as it rains down in the region where temperature's vaguely habitable. Then again the atmosphere’s almost non-existent due to the intense solar flares and is mostly carbon monoxide that snows down further into the midnight zone. I think it might end up being space /vnug/’s solid and liquid mining center since it has ample supply of metal and carbon, energy from the sun (assuming solar panels won’t get destroyed by solar flares and stellar wind), and it not having an atmosphere means taking off to the outer planets would be trivial. It might also use the excess energy to power orbital laser arrays that can be used to facilitate solar sail transport
Another planet would be a gas dwarf/super Earth further away from the star. Its average temperature is like -170 F so it should look pastel pink with a ring which I like! I imagine it to be a major source of helium-3 during the early days of space /vnug/ in space (maybe superseded by a larger gas giant further out? It would also help prevent it from migrating too close to the star and destroying all the terrestrial planets) but it might have since become a major trading hub with the outside world as it’s less vulnerable to solar flares and has abundant hydrogen, helium, and water for resupply
