On 8/27/2016 12:06 PM, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
> One could rank by social / population factors because most people are
> going to want to jump into the system as close to the mainworld as
> possible.
>

	This has been the the general rule I've seen applied previously. The main world
has always been the world with the largest population. And center of the
Imperial government for the world (i.e. the starport) has been on the main
world. I know of a couple of non-canon examples of main world being around the
far companion.

 > When working with multiple stars I think I caught a game system
 >  error in the rules. This was partially, but not completely addressed
 > by the errata unless I missed something. When you generate a system
 > using the CT rules you can end up with a system whose orbital companion
 > star is more massive than it's primary. If the two stars aren't a close
 > binary couple, I'm assuming that orbital dynamics makes such a system
 > unstable. I feel very safe in that assumption but I will still ask: Is
 > this a correct assumption?
 > [Q] Does my assumption that the heavy companion, light primary system
 > isn't stable hold up?
 >
In the real world, the two stars are orbiting a common barycenter. Where that is
depends upon the mass and distance between the two stars. So this won't happen
unless the IISS team doing the survey is really drunk.

 > [Q] Did I miss something in the CT rules that was supposed to prevent
 > this from happening in the first place?
 >
 > [Q] Is there a mechanism in the T5 rules to address the situation or
 > did I miss something that prevents it?
 >
	Can you show me a defined set of circumstances where this occurs in the T5
rules. I'd love to post it to the T5 Errata thread. At least this way it will be
raised as an issue to be addressed.

	I know that even after the T5 Second Survey review there are a few of these
cases still left in the supposedly officially reviewed data.

 > [Q] Is my fix, swap the heaviest star into the primary slot, reasonable?
 >
	I would say yes.

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