On 1/7/2017 5:24 AM, Richard Aiken wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Douglas Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com
> <mailto:xxxxxx@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 1:34 AM, Timothy Collinson
>     <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk <mailto:xxxxxx@port.ac.uk>>
>     wrote:
>
>         Are you going to define what doesn't make sense?  Either I'd not
>
>         necessarily know a garden world orbiting an M9v isn't going to
>         happen
>         (and you may wish to exclude me from the project on grounds like
>         that)
>         or I'd do my best to come up with a reason why it *was* happening.
>
>
>     Since I'm coordinating, I'll make initial judgements. The easiest
>     thing to do with that M9v system is to change the star. Make it a
>     K8V and you'd still have an interesting place, but one where the
>     local star puts out enough energy to support life as we know it.
>
>
>
> Couldn't you use orbital mirror arrays to concentrate sunlight on an
> iceball, melting it into a habitable planet? This doesn't have to be a
> Darrian or Ancients thing. The mirror array could date from the
> Swordworlds' temporary expansion or from the First Imperium. It wouldn't
> require very high tech.

The question then becomes why would anybody /bother/, when there are
lots of other options available to a civilization with interstellar travel.

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