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Old January 17th, 2001, 09:37 PM
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Default Re: New stellar manipulation component idea

Maybe it should take multiple ships to move a planet.

Wouldn't moving a star bring the planets with it? Which also raises the question of what happens to any moons of the towed planet? I guess they would come too...

I think stars would be too big to move (not that planets are tiny things either, but stars are several orders of magnitude bigger.)

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