Talk:Isogen-5

According to the article, "Isogen-5 is an exceedingly rare, extremely unstable variant of isogen found only in blue bright star (Type O1) systems."

I've looked also at the Chronicle: World on Fire and so I'm assuming that this bit of information comes from the chronicle which states:

""Every affected system had a Type-O star," the scientist stated. "And it appears that every single one of them had an identical event."

President Foiritan was beside himself. "‘Identical'? Where else is the loss of life so high—"

"Seyllin was the only world with a notable population," the advisor muttered. "Blue-star systems tend to be devoid of surface life, it's just too—""

However, Seyllin (and every system with Shattered Planets) actually has an A0 Blue Star. Thus both this page and the chronicle are inaccurate. --Faulx 12.22.2011

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Okay, so looking through the chronicle again, I noticed the quote

""This is no ordinary flare," the CONCORD representative stated. "That much material bring thrown off is characteristic of a supernova, only there isn't enough of it to suggest that a total collapse is imminent. But the ejected plasma is following this new magnetic field at incredible sublight speeds.""

And It occurred to me that perhaps the star has switched from O1 to A0 as a result of the ejected mass; however, I've done some looking up on the expected masses for O1 and A0 stars. Mintaka (O1-3III), one of 3 stars making up the western most point of Orion's Belt, for example is 20 solar masses. Meanwhile, Rigel A and B, two stars composing the point of light at the south east corner of Orion, are both B9 (one step above A0) stars and have 2.5 and 1.9 solar masses. So for these O1 stars to become A0 stars they would have had to drop around 90% of their mass during the Seyllin Incident. If this were the case, the sudden drop in gravity combined with the outward pressure of the solar winds/photon pressure of the event would have thrown every orbital body in system (especially the shattered planet which, assumedly, was struck with a bolt of plasma comprising 90% of the suns' mass) outward into space. Clearly this has not been the case as planets, moons, belts and stargates. are all still there years later.

Now there is just one other bit from the chronicle that seems relevant

"Theirs would be the irony of being trapped in the dark, when somewhere above them the hottest sun in the cosmos was hurling radioactive fire upon them."

Since 01 stars are definitely the "hottest stars", I'd like to modify by my earlier conclusion that these references to 01 stars are mistakes by saying,... Either the references to 01 stars in the chronicle are mistakes or all the shattered planet stars need to be retconned to O1 stars (or near O1.. something with enough mass to continue to hold the local solar system together). It would probably be easier to change the ficton of course. Although the "show info" window on most stars in the game are also showing incorrect information, so an in game fix is needed anyway. Though if you're considering that option, I'm sure Arek'Jaalan would NOT like the stars to be made into anything other than O1's since Project Tesseract is already well underway. -- Faulx 0740 12.26.2011

Keep in mind that all of these stars underwent massive disasters that included ejection of a significant amount of mass; that's why the planets are shattered, after all. What would happen to a star's spectral class after such an event is likely to be drastic. --ISD Caleb Kang 17

22, 26 December 2011 (UTC)