The Dorastis Stellar System: Take II, and the Moons of Ardis.

Back in 2017, I composed a post titled ‘The Dorastis Solar System,’ attaching a Facts and Figures Chart below it. Since then, I had returned to that post multiple times to correct a few errors before eventually giving up. There was always something I found a little off every time I went back to examine it. Since then, I managed to look over it a few more times until finally deciding to give one more update before attaching it here. As was stated there, so here, I used such software as AstroSynthesis and Gravity Simulator to make sure the system was remotely viable, along with world-builders.org for several equations to establish further realism.

 For miscellaneous things, such as orbital eccentricity, magnetosphere, radii extension, and solar intensity, this was done through a combination of studying real-world examples and equations (specifically solar intensity), to give the numbers displayed on the chart. I also had to rethink natural satellite placement such as moons (if any,) around the first and second planets in the system utilizing concepts such as Lagrange Points and the Hill/Roche Sphere.

Two things of note. First is the use of a G4V Star (Sol is a G2V,) for the parent star. I’ve periodically considered a K0V, but with the figures generated below, it wasn’t viable. Secondly, both the masses and Mean Orbital Velocities have been updated. Hopefully, this is the last time (for a long time,) that I will remotely bother to correct anything.

Another facts and figures table that I'd been working on was for Nersis and Kesis, the moons of Ardis, where ‘Chronicles of Ardis’ takes place: 

Colloquially referred to at times as the Red and Orange Daughters for their predominant coloration, Nersis and Kesis were somewhat modeled on Jupiter’s moon Io, with Nersis being volcanic and Kesis quiescent. Though they were balanced using Earth (as was the rest of the Stellar system for that matter,) it worked. Other equations were done utilizing fxSolver; it was something of a blessing to find. 

Much like Jupiter and Io, Ardis and Nersis have a similar relationship, whereby thanks to tidal heating, is not only volcanically active but contributes to the overall size of the Ardan magnetosphere, nearly doubling it and imparting an overall elliptical appearance to its structure due to plasma loading. Book II goes into a little more detail regarding all of this, which, along with the edited/revised version of my first book and the third one will hopefully come up soon to be crowdsourced and hopefully released…

Meanwhile I still very slowly and agonizingly press on with Book IV.