Star Citizen: Loremaker's Guide to the Galaxy - Tamsa & Min Systems

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   [Music] go hi everyone welcome to another segment of lore makers Guide to the Galaxy if you are unfamiliar with this um this is a look at the Star Citizen Universe a member of the lore team goes through a system we discuss science and story ideas and we talk about the direction we want systems to go so that they will one day be available for you the player in Exquisite space

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   detail so today we have earth right here there it is very shiny uh we're going to do TSA so let's go TSA is the only known system that has a black hole at the center um now a black hole is a region of SpaceTime that exhibits strong gravitational effects and nothing can escape from inside it which includes light electromagnetic radiation particles big bennies machines potatoes photons that kind of thing so we got a little Corona of captured light here that turbulent

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   created which I think looks pretty cool honestly so tamsa was discovered in 2943 by B new Explorer Kofi bet Thelma and they named the system after a math artist called tamso wheel like that's her her art name that she picked for herself her art has been described as mathematical poetry it has also been described as a beautiful Precision of uh a beautiful Nexus of precision and Chaos that's what that's what the critic said yeah and uh I think that's pretty appropriate for a system with a black hole in the center all right now now back to black holes I used to think that black holes were kind of scary I thought they were Cosmic vacuums that would one day suck up the entire universe and we would all die crushed

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   in really strong gravity and we would but that's that's just not what that's not what black holes are and that's not how they work uh you can sort of think of them as super Dent zombie Stars they are no longer Stars they're the remnants of a dead star at least the Stellar black holes are and they have very very very strong gravity but they're not going to suck up the whole universe they have stable points at which celestial bodies can exist and can orbit in a you know a regular manner just like planets Orit our sun unless you go past the Event Horizon here uh which is basically the point Beyond which you can't escape the black hole and you are doomed to get sucked in and and just

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   stay there and possibly view the birth and death of the universe through time dilation that's pretty cool I wouldn't do it though so oh so black holes that are formed in case you don't know they're formed through the gravitational collapse of massive stars like this one was once a type O star which is a blue Giant star um once the mass of the star collapses after it burns through its fuel Fuel and the starts temperature isn't high enough to prevent it from imploding under its own weight um the mass basically condenses into this tiny tiny tiny tiny thing that we've never seen really but we know exists and creates these gravitational time space anomalies which are super cool um black

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   holes are way more complex than I can describe at this time uh there's a book I've been thinking about reading called black holes and time warps by K Kip Thorn looks cool I think that that would be that would satisfy my black hole knowledge seeking desires so as I said this is a planetary system tamsa one is way out here it is a cthonian planet I don't think we've discussed cthonian planets yet they are essentially the remains of the cores of gas giants the atmosphere of the gas giant was Stripped Away through hydrodynamic escape and it left just the this this super dense core that's probably rich in metals and minerals and would be you know oh man so cool I

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   wonder what we could mine there however tamsa is still off limits because it's being assessed by the fair chance act it was it was discovered pretty recently you know 2943 so you know once the fair chance act concludes that maybe life isn't developing in a black hole system maybe Mining rights could be explored which I think would be pretty cool and now it's not the only planet in the system there is one more if we Zoom way out tamsa 2 over here it's a gas giant um it's about the size of Jupiter as uh you well you can't see because it's not to scale but what I mean is about the mass of Jupiter it has a thick atmosphere and a dense core and like its planetary sibling over here TSA one

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   it was a rogue Planet these are both rogue planets that were captured by the gravity of the black hole Now tamson 1 was probably ejected from its system in a noval like ofen which probably contributed to it losing all of its atmosphere tamsa 2 however was ejected from a system through means unknown because it still retains its atmosphere um we don't know yet scientists and the the verse are still trying to figure out exactly why it still has its atmosphere where it came from and only time will tell figuring out what became of this planet system now since TSA is so small even though it's super super interesting I think that we do have time today to do one more system which is another really

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   interesting uh system it's called Min this one is a rogue Planet much like the rogue planets that were captured by tamsa it was ejected from its system through means unknown and it's just kind of tearing its way through space with four moons that it's picked up in its Journey it was discovered discovered at 2473 in an unlikely Nexus of jump points which is let's see how many jump points are in the system we have one two we have two jump points which is just wild because it's it's a planet like most jump points that we know of converge around Stars no one knows why this planet has picked up jump points it's a cool science mystery of

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    the stair citizen universe so it's Jupiter Mass same as tamsa 2 uh it generates its own heat much like our planet our gas giant Jupiter does through the Kelvin Helm Holtz mechanism which means as the surface of the planet cools the pressure on the planet drops and the surface shrinks which in turn heats the core of the planet it's like somewhere in the 600k range science science uh its first moon right here Min onea is an uninhabited Rocky Moon that has been strip mined long time ago there aren't any resources available uh no one is sure whether it Formed with the accretion

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    dis that created Min one or whether it was just picked up in min's journey through space could be an interesting question to answer Min 1B is one of the most interesting moons in space in my opinion It Against All Odds is somewhat inhabitable because it has an incredible amount of geothermal energy that makes liquid water available on its surface now it is still really cold and it's not ideal for human habitation but but a couple of settlements have in fact been built up here uh what's putting those settlements into Jeopardy is the recent discovery of bioluminescent bacteria on the bottom of the ocean that clusters around the hydrothermal vents that help heat the

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    planet and so there is currently a debate going on about whether or not to apply the fair chance act to this system uh cynics say that the reason that it hasn't been done yet is that there really aren't any valuable resources here since the whole system was strip mined ages and ages ago so people are like oh well the government's not going to want to invest money in assessing this system because why would they what money do they stand to make so might might be bad for the bacteria on men B however there are still some scientists there researching it uh so they'll they'll find out more about it in time one hopes min1 C is very much like men 1A it is the smallest of men's

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    moons uninhabited Rocky totally strip mind very small and where are you Min min1 D I know I saw you somewhere there you are this guy is another tiny baby moon it's not as small as a lot of the others it's uh smaller than 1B but it's bigger than 1 C it's pretty you know it's an all right place place it's covered with impact craters so if anybody wanted to know much about the history of the system they could probably do some digging into the impact craters and figure some stuff out geologically which I think would be awesome so there we go that's men unlikely Nexus of two jump points Rogue

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    planet with moons tearing throughout the system just being interesting in space with its cool inhabitable barely inhabitable Moon so that is it for this week's La amers Guide to the Galaxy thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed this incredibly sciency tour of two of the most interesting small systems in the verse [Applause] goodbye