Gas giants Good or Bad?

[Resident Alien 2]

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Originally posted by TerranC:
No offence to everybody here but...
Frankly, colonizing a Gas Giant is unreal.

I know it's a game but this has always ticked me off: races such as us can't colonize gas giants because it would get crushed by the immense pressure and its wind velocities would flail a colony around the planet so many times...

Energy beings (if there are ones) would be able to survive but carbon based lifeforms wouldnt be able to survive the elements of a gas giant.

Maybe build a station to mine it but the idea of colonization is farfetched.

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True for carbon based lifeforms that are usually associated with rocky planets.

However in SE4 you might be playing a very alien race that could live on a Gas Giant. I have read a number of novels that propose life on gas giants (e.g. Wheelers by Ian Steward and Jack Cohen)

In a science fiction based 4X game anything should be possible.

[ 30 January 2002: Message edited by: Resident Alien 2 ]