The sun just went NOVA...

[Taz-in-Space]

I just ran into a little trouble in a recent game where I lost an important strategic system to a
what I believe was a nova... The system in question was of course destroyed, with only asteroid fields left.
question #1: since the system doesn't have a star, the planet maker I built will not change the asteroids into planets - is there any way to rebuild systems without suns in them?
question #2: the system that was destroyed had a few huge planets with moons around them - one of them now shows 3 huge-sized asteroid fields
in one sector; is this common or a fluke?

Bye the way, I was well on my way to winning the game until this happened (my #2 system!) ... now the challenge is back!

[Fyron]

You can rebuild the star. This will allow you to build new planets.

[Taz-in-Space]

Thanks, will try that. (sigh) Another expensive ship to make... And in the middle of a war...

[Lisif Deoral]

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Originally posted by Taz-in-Space:
question #2: the system that was destroyed had a few huge planets with moons around them - one of them now shows 3 huge-sized asteroid fields
in one sector; is this common or a fluke?

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A long time (and some patches) ago I successfully created 3 large planets from 3 asteroid fields which were in the same sector - so I suppose it's rare, but normal.

A trinary large planet system would cause incredible sunsets... and probably also nightmarish gravity changes.

[Suicide Junkie]

and probably also nightmarish gravity changes
The only gravity you will feel is from the stellar object you are standing on.
You'd have some funky mulit-tier tides, nothing major, just odd patterns.

[Bman]

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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
and probably also nightmarish gravity changes
The only gravity you will feel is from the stellar object you are standing on.
You'd have some funky mulit-tier tides, nothing major, just odd patterns.

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It would take a while to get used to all of the seismic activity as well.