Little bit OT but SEIV related

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Introduction: As most people here know, the humanity has greatly increased the knowledge of nearby star system composiotions: Due to the progress in astronomical devices and software development, we can detect massive planets orbiting stars (sorry, I do not have a link in hand but it a very hot topic in SETI today andt somebody else can surely supply the most recent link on the subject). The limitation of our instrumentations restricted us to the detection of very strange systems: planets size of Jupiter or more orbiting star in distance inside mercury orbit, and by Jove, they are all arond us . It does sound something like a place totaly hostile to the life as we know it, but what do we know ?

For example (yep, it is the most "scientific" proof I have), in my Last SEIV Proportions game I started as my "non-canon" Tholian race (crystalline, methane gas giant) just on the top of the star. Here is JPEG picture:

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As you noticed, my start is fabulious: two "grean star" gas giants !! It promises a very interesting game, but, finally, my question is :

Is is possible that any sort of intelligent life possible in such enviroment ? If you answer yes, be aware that at least a dozen of places for such incomprehensive civilizations exist inside 40 parsecs sphere around Earth ...