>>43611165Okay, time to spec bio plants that are pink to reflect UV rays. I do enjoy the idea of mostly nocturnal wildlife, with a few species occupying diurnal niches with specific adaptations. I had some ideas for animals with metallized shells that would be able to reflect most of the light instead of absorbing it, but creatures that recover from them are fun too. Maybe animals that continuously grow ablative plating that they shed often as it becomes UV-damaged? Or maybe they're constantly sweating a substance that absorbs harmful rays, I think hippos do something like that to deal with the sun.
I think I need to do more thinking on the climate side, on one hand it seems like it could be modeled with just a kind of inverted green house effect, on the other hand maybe if the lower atmosphere is kept cooler but the higher atmosphere has less chuubanite and gets hot, weird stuff could happen. Since on the Earth the lower atmosphere tends to be warmer than upper (until you get to the thermosphere anyway, iirc).
>>43612071>>43612266>>43613123If some writers would like to agree on a certain shield tech and archive that, that is good, but I don't think this really needs to be formalized in the ground truths. If another writer would like to use another method, other writers are free to acknowledge it or not. Imo any hard scifi tech (confined plasma, electromagnetic fields, circulating particulate clouds) is fine, and we can informally agree on one patanatural technique if we wish.
