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thevizir — Asil System Chart
Published: 2011-04-09 09:50:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 2479; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 57
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OMG NEW ARTS FROM TEH COMMIE CANOOKIE!Now that that's out of the way... lookie what I made! A chart of the Asil System, the sythen incarnation of the Solar System - the star is named Asaa, and 'il is the sufix demeaning possession in the sythen language, ergo Asil - system belonging to Asaa! I am so smart, smrt!
Anyhow, used the program known as StarGen to generate this system here in what I believe to be a fairly realistic and scientific method - ran through a few hundred before I got one that I liked. Star had to be orange, and there had to be a cold, terrestrial planet able to support life - which lower Gs and a thicker atmosphere to boot. Found it!
So this was the system that was settled on... a bit more crowded than the Solar System, but that just makes it more interesting! I only put down the moons for the planet Cirundi, because, well... I'm lazy and really didn't want to figure out whether or not Zan had 60 moons or not, and what the names of Qali's dozen would be. Nofun.
Anyhow, planets are to the scale of (one pixel/30)^2= their size in earth radii. Yay! However, space inbetween planets is nowhere near accurate... Adana is 0.29 AU from Asaa, Cirundi is 0.68, and Riq is 41.7. Accurate scale? Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahno.
Also, for the names of the planets, well... the obvious route would be to throw in another planet and start naming the system after the 13 gods... however, the 13 gods already have zodiac constellations named after them, so yeah... that wouldn't work. So looked for other options... elements? Syth have five - fire, ice, wind, stone, and wood. Making up an additional six seemed like a reach. Spirits? There are millions... how could 11 common ones be chosen? Ergo, decided that - in official, modern sythen science at least - the planets were named after legendary figures - emperors, kings and the like. While each individual culture might have their own specific tradition and mythology behind the planets, in the common tongue and in the scientific field, they would refer to the planets by the names of historical figures.
So we have Adena, an early halling shaman and religious leader; Vaiyoo, founder of the great Vaiyoodo Imperium which at its height ruled most of the brunish lands for a thousand years; Dragar, legendary warlord who united the western kith around him and lay the foundations of the Dragar Republic (detailed elsewhere in this gallery); Qali, the legendary shamanwho lead the bead people on their voyage to the eastern isles; Istuur, prophet and general who is credited with the Istuur Crusade, which lead to the eventual formation of the Theocracy of Istuur; Ryu, Emperor of the Islands of Ryukush, united the isles against both invasions from the Drago-Qal Empire and the Vaiyoodo Imperium, a lineage which continued to the fall of Cirundi; Thaal, the legendary Matriarch of Clan Orone who founded the settlement which would one day grow to be Cirundi's largest city; Zan, primordial leader of the brun who established the first great city - and whose name lives on as a common word for city throughout the brunish languages (see Y Zaan, To Xia, In Hiiza); Nurra, the bead matriarch who brought the early bead clans out of their isolated villages and united them to found the great city of Nahaara; Uhmaar, halling warlord who united the halling clans against the expanding Dragar Republic, and lead the march against them - the march that would lead to the republic's fall; and Reiq the Conqueror, the kith chieftain who would unite the southern "ice clans" and lead one of the greatest fleets of ancient Cirundi, successfully sacking both Nahaara and Orone over his lifetime.
As for Cirundi, Alashar, and Idreal... well, the mother, father, and guardian of the syth have a story far beyond what this little speal could reveal.
Finally, yeah looks like Cirundi's a bit see-through. It's not - those are cities. What happens when the planet in question has an industrialized population of 1.5 billion complete with megacities, highways, oil refineries, and all...
So yeah, something new, different, interesting. I tried to make this as realistic as possible, though I know there's plenty to nitpick, from colouration to rings to any other number of scientific flubs. I'm a journalist, not an astronomer, so yeah... screwups are inevitable
Anyhow, tell me what you think!
As always, the syth, Cirundi, and the Asil System belong to yours truly,
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Just from working with StarGen and similar things, your knowledge of astronomy and astrophysics likely outstrips my own. So I'm afraid the most insightful thing I have to say of their arrangement is: ooh, lookit the purdy planets.
Also, I very much like using heroes (in the classical sense, at least) for the names of the planets. Makes for an appropriate bit of homage paid to such impressive historical figures. With the constellations named after the gods, there's even some nice symbolism in play:
A constellation is made up of stars, collectively possessing power that may well outstrip that of Asaa, and existing on a scale most mortals cannot truly imagine. Like the zodiac gods, for all their power, they are distant things, and exert only a subtle influence on mortalkind, if the patterns that make them up are perceived at all.
A planet, given that relationship, describes a sythen hero well, having far less in the way of potency than even a single star, but having at least as visible an impact as many of them. A planet is certainly larger than life, but far closer to Earth Cirundi.
... Unless I've forgotten something big about the cosmology, which is far from impossible. ^_^o
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