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Originally posted by Coel:
What if the "Verse" is a system composed of 19 regular stars orbiting a quark star?

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Originally posted by Skywalken:

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Originally posted by Coel:
What if the "Verse" is a system composed of 19 regular stars orbiting a quark star?

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Please elaborate more on this theory.

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Originally posted by TDBrown:
-Then Quark would probably charge an outrageous rental fee....

oops! Wrong series

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-Then Quark would probably charge an outrageous rental fee....

oops! Wrong series :

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As far as I can tell the planets are orbiting around nothing!?!? I can't make much sense of it.

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Originally posted by Coel:

The teacher's map in the movie could also be just showing the "capital" world of each star orbiting the hypermass. There might be more than 19 stars (binaries or trinaries) too.

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Originally posted by Coel:

The only way to "hide" Miranda would be to have it in a marginal system where nobody goes that often.

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Another thing, if everybody is in the same system, then how everybody "forgot" Miranda? I assume that people are still using telescopes to navigate and there are tens of thousands of telescopes in use at any one moment. The only way to "hide" Miranda would be to have it in a marginal system where nobody goes that often.

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After all, the Alliance is trusted by those with the means to explore. But, those that don't trust them are living hand to mouth. So, they aren't exactly in a place to go on flights of fancy.

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Originally posted by nbz:

and those that don't trust the government become a feast.

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And I imagine that every astronomer knows of the existence of miranda, like everyone who studies a map can find this or that Island, but that doesn't mean they know it was a habitable planet.

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