a) The game is modded to the core (Alien jump gate, Chugoku jump hole in NY)
b) Red Giant -- Blue Supernova
c) Alaska-New York jump gate in NY
d) Kusari Naval Forces Gunboat in NY
e) Supernova shouldn't last longer than a few days
f) Tell me what to think, 'cause I can't decide yet...








CMPT XPBATCKOJ [![![!

ahem..that doesn't look much like a supernova, to me.

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A supernova occurs sometimes when a star explodes or the star just dies out. If it was a supergiant that would make more sense.

"You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you cant pick your friend's nose."

Han Solo - "What an incredible new smell you've discovered [!"

I know, but a supernova would look more like a massive explosion of gases. That just looks like a large, blue star.

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All I can say is one does NOT want to be in the neighborhood when a star goes supernova. When that happens, it destroys EVERYTHING in the star system.

That is a blue supergiant star which is destined to go supernova eventually because of its mass and will leave behind if not a blackhole than at least a neutron star. A supernova (the explosion of a star caused by its massive gravity which can no longer be offset by radiation due to starfuel depletion) however is a process that will only last a few seconds.


blue supergiant
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A hot, massive, luminous star that is in an advanced post-main sequence stage of evolution. The best known example is Rigel. See supergiant for more details.

© David Darling
http://www.angelfire.com/on2/daviddarling/bluesuper.htm

supergiant
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With the exception of hypergiants, the brightest, largest kind of star. Supergiants have luminosities of 10,000 to 100,000 solar luminosities and radii of 20 to several hundred solar radii (about the size of Jupiter's orbit). The two commonest types are red supergiants, exemplified by Betelgeuse and Antares, and blue supergiants, exemplified by Rigel. When a star of at least 15 solar masses exhausts the hydrogen in its core, it first swells to become a red giant. But when it reaches the stage of helium-to-carbon burning, by the triple-alpha process, it expands to an even larger volume. This much brighter, but still reddened star is a red supergiant. Through a vigorous stellar wind, red supergiants steadily lose their extended atmospheres and turn into smaller but much hotter blue supergiants. A blue supergiant may then develop a fresh distended envelope and revert to the red supergiant phase. Both types, red and blue, can explode as supernovae. This came as something of a surprise to astronomers, since stellar evolution theory had long taught that supernovae always come from the red variety. However, the great Supernova 1987A was found to have had a blue supergiant precursor.

© David Darling
http://www.angelfire.com/on2/daviddarling/supergiant.htm

Thinking..........................................................?!

So, what you're saying is that this is a FUTURE supernova...
Kinda like future hams in "Discworld"...






CMPT XPBATCKOJ !!!

Edited by - Cpbuja on 12-05-2003 00:01:41

ya, the jumpholes and ships in NY are confussing....

The effect of a supernove will equal to the freelancer original intro where the nomad came and blew the hell out of sun..