From: adam.w.krajewski@gmail.com   
      
   Okay, so this is answer to Mr Feergerson.   
   I really don't wanna use this type of backstory, I want to go with what I have   
   started, the connection to LOTR universe, which I will explain soon. And   
   important thing to note, I started designing this universe as a kid while   
   playing with Legos, and    
   after some time I started reading Atomic Rockets, and that strongly affected   
   realistic aspects of technology. Also, when I watched a movie, or was   
   interested in one area of science, I added new things to it.   
   Yes, they are kinda like Venus and Mars, the one closer to star I always   
   imagined as being something like lifeless Earth, just a bit hotter, with trees   
   and plants farmed on sandy plains, with trees protecting plants from wind,   
   rivers, and mountainous    
   areas where the mining facilities are located. The second one is colder,   
   although when I was thinking about it, firstly I imagined a multi layered   
   forest (influence of watching Avatar ;)), so maybe it's better to swap it with   
   this hotter planet.    
   Billions of years so that the life on Arda could exist and evolve and two   
   other planets didn't throw planetoids at each other. The only planet with   
   intelligent life is Arda, and humans are there naturally, with ecosystem same   
   as Earth. The sandy one    
   definitely needs creating the soil, while the forest covered, having its   
   animals, bacteria etc would be hard to colonize cause of completely diferrent   
   lifeforms. I am now thinking  that making this planet was mistake and it may   
   be better to just scrap it    
   and change to next lifeless rock that needs to be terraformed.:v   
   Well, that's what I thought with these positions, seems that there needs to be   
   some *aliens/magic* intervention (remember the connection to LOTR :p). Oh, and   
   I didn't mention that Arda actually has a Moon of considerable size. And also,   
   I was thinking    
   about putting an asteroid belt around Arda, in my mind it was always on very   
   close orbit and was very dense, at least in some places, almost Star Warish   
   dense, but that's probably strongly unrealistic. But, it could be a temporary   
   cloud of rocks, made by    
   a small moon that got blown up and created a ring, what do you think? The sole   
   purpose of the belt in my plays was to give first space explorers materials   
   for setting bases and make some interesting space exploring, jumping from rock   
   to rock, drilling    
   into them and also give to the first space battles a feel of stealth.    
   Bigger star seems quite reasonable to me, I really like this idea.    
   I don't want these planets to orbit a gas giant, the travel time between them   
   is to be a few months if using a chemical rockets.    
   Firefly Verse was partly an inspiration for me, but I need to know if such   
   distances are possible without all stars being in dual systems or orbiting   
   central objects, but of course some of them may be like this. On the other   
   hand, it's prettt good idea,    
   and I think that finally I will include many star systems + lone stars +   
   binary stars in it.   
   The McGufinnite part seems well thought for me.   
   Antimatter factories were made first on Arda, they helped in exploring other   
   star systems, and were brought to these star systems to produce antimatter for   
   further exploration and easier refueling for transport ships.   
   The BH could be controlled by Arda I think, being used for some special   
   purposes, link transporting some big cargo like you said, or as capitol ships.    
   I need to think about these arms manufacturers,  it's definitely idea worth   
   looking at.    
   I didn't know somebody already used "Arda" as name for science fictional   
   planet, but keep in my mind that my one is named like this because it actually   
   is rhe same Arda as it was in Tolkien's works. Here comes the time to explain   
   the connection of my    
   universe to LOTR: In Tolkien's books, almost all action takes place on west   
   part of a big continent. In Silmarrilion part of it gets flooded and stays the   
   Middle Earth with Hobbits, Mordor, Rings and stuff. The part that is on far   
   east is called Rhun,    
   but it is never stated what's behind it.    
   And here starts my story. On far east exists a civilization that is not   
   hampered in its technological advance as their Western friends. And Middle   
   Earth finally disappears from the map at the end of the days, what looks for   
   the eastern people like a    
   solid meteorite hit. Magic stuff starts to disappear from the east, races   
   diferrent to humans start to decay, space exploration starts.    
   Oh, and dwarves are a main motor of technological advance, and take part in   
   colonizing these two other planets that are in the system. But they eventually   
   die out and give some space to Man :D   
   So that's the connection, please just don't laugh haha   
   Mikkel, 0something0, Greg, I will respond to your comments, but it is 00:29 in   
   my country so I really gotta get some sleep before school ;) I go to sleep   
   that late for some time now, and I think my constant headache isfrom that xD   
      
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