I've seen a screen shot showing twin stars/suns (and very nice it was too) so does that help?

The Sirius star cluster a.k.a the entire map

The end of Starlancer has the 5 sleeper ships heading out... towards Sirus area. 800 years later, folks have expanded a little.... must be all the sleep they stored up... ;p Double suns in one screen shot but during the demo, I for one didn't notice the other stars names... my mouth was drooling over the graphics and game play I was seeing. This was last summer/early fall. Hope that helpsl.

There isn't actually a system called Sirius for some reason, but the entire sector is named the Sirius sector. Maybe they just forgot the name?

yeh man i know the story

But in the old intro it said that they were going to the sirius system.. which should be one of the 48.... but if there isnt one called sirius, then there's no point in worrying!

thanks for the replies
Sirius Sector sounds kinda cool

Isn't the star Sirius larger and hotter than our sun? There might not be any habitable planets circling it. Since it's the brightest star you can see from Earth it would definitely be the brightest star in the Sirius sector, hence the name of the sector.

Let's get those missiles ready to destroy the universe!!

hey good point...
never thought of that!

thanks

Check this out. Maybe DA did some homework!

From ScienceNet:

Sirius A is an a type A1 star, 27 times the Sun's luminosity. Sirius B is a white dwarf with 0.02 times the Sun's luminosity. You can consider Sirius B as in a very elliptical orbit around Sirius A (actually they both orbit their common centre of mass) with the distance between them varying from about 7 to 28 AU - where 1 AU is the distance between Earth and Sun. 7 AU is about the distance from the Sun to Jupiter and 28 AU from the Sun to Neptune.
Planetary system formation in a close binary star system is considered very unlikely with current theories - the companion star would act on a grander scale than Jupiter in our Solar system: throwing planetesimal building blocks out of the whole system (into the Kuiper Belt in our case) and disrupting the formation of planets.

It is also considered that only stars with less than 1.5 x mass of Sun may have planets around them (there is a noticeable increase in angular momentum for stars of higher mass - as though they haven't shedded it by losing it to a planet forming nebula. Sirius A is 2.3 x mass of Sun).

IF there were planets around Sirius A they would have to be in very close orbits around A or they would be in "figure of 8" orbits around A and B - combined with the widely varying A-B separation.

A Type A star would have a large habitable zone (where water can exist as a liquid on planets) but it would probably be farther out than any planets could be that orbited Sirius A alone. Sirius B would have no life zone because it would have earlier swelled into a red giant star - roasting any planets near to it and then disrupted any other planets' atmospheres, etc. by throwing out its outer layers when it became a planetary nebula - affecting nearby planets around Sirius A alone as well, incidentally. A white dwarf has ceased nuclear fusion and is cooling so is useless for heat/light as a parent star for planets around it.

On balance, planets in a life zone around Sirius A are considered VERY unlikely.



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ah coolies, wonder why they called it the Sirius Sector though

I'm really interested in this!

The sleeper ships probably went in the direction of the Sirius stars. The size of the sector makes it so that it can't be close to the earth at all, so it must be beyond the Sirius system itself.

There are two star systems in the game, more than one, so DA hasn't been entirely factual, but it's an awesome game If they were being totally real, the game would be extremely slow, and planets would take forever to get to one from the other. As it is now, the planets are more like the distance between the earth and the moon. Also, the suns are about the same size as the planets (a bit larger) and the planets don't move. But I'm trailing off. This game is not about realism, but about fun and adventure


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nah i know its not about realism
if it was, i agree it would be really boring unless it was real and you were there

I thought there were 48 Star Systems... not 2..

You could easily make 48 Mini Systems... which i thought they had done, maybe im mistaken. I Thought each system had its own sun..

There are 48 star system, each system with it's own star. Some systems dont have planets, some do, some systems don't have habiable planets, some do. But there is stuff to do, and stuff to see in every system. The number of locations is high.

So it's not 2 star systems, it's 48

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tan Hauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die.

Actually, some systems have 2 stars.

so wait let me get this straight, there are more than 2 stars in FL? because as far as i know a star system and a solar system are the same thing, so you could call our star system the Sol System, (think freespace), and there are way too many planets to orbit around only 2 stars in FL, im more confused now than i was before

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