I have a friend who studies astrobiology and planetary science as her master degree, so I thought it would be a good idea to talk with her about the actual science related to our topic. Even though our concept is fictional, it is rooted in reality with all the different gravity and tidal equations that were used.
We mainly spoke about how to make certain elements more accurate. The biggest thing being what would orbit our central planet. In all solar or planetary systems, planets will orbit a star as it has a bigger mass. A big mass doesn’t always equate to a bigger sized planet. Yanis and I had mainly been discussing making planets orbiting another, but that’s not really a thing that happens. The solution she suggested was to either change the planets to moons, as they do orbit planets and influence the tides, or make the “earth” a star to make it gravitationally correct and gives us the opporunity to make planets, but then we lose the tide aspect (which is integral). She did also tell me that there are different types of moons, which would work with our idea of having orbs with different characteristics.
Lastly, she showed me a website that can map planets and gravitational pull, so you can see how exactly they would orbit based off of mass, sizer, etc. This might be useful, but we don’t have any defined values right now for any planet, so we will see how that can factor into it.
