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I have built a website to automate the procedures in the Architect of Worlds book by Jon Zeigler.
The URL is: aahench.pythonanywhere.com

Star systems and 3D star maps can be randomly generated.
Every world has a map.
The output URL can be saved and shared to re-generate the same result.
Starsystem Generator
aahench.pythonanywhere.com
WHAT IF
An intelligent species evolving here might be large, heavyset and well insulated.
Like smart polar bears, perhaps.
Ocean travel would be essential for them to expand.
Crossing frigid seas with perpetual winds and icebergs everywhere.
Imagine Viking polar bears sailing under dancing suns.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Orbits both stars.
They can be up to 10° apart from each other in the sky.
That means dual shadows at times.
The stars look smaller than our sun.
Large moon can eclipse one or both.
Slow rotation, days are over 120 hours long.
So eclipses last much longer than on Earth.
Sometimes two in one day.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:09 PM
"Galactic Survey" system:
aahench.pythonanywhere.com/system?loc=D...
Binary, G stars, habitable planet, pre-sapients.
112 pc away; below, spinward, coreward.

A-B-I is heavy world.
Has thick atmosphere, high oxygen, cold & 90% ocean.
Equator almost freezes. But mild seasons.

#sf #worldbuilding
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February 3, 2026 at 2:09 PM
WHAT IF
His idea was possible in a brown dwarf atmosphere.
A brown dwarf is in some ways a super-sized gas giant.
Could life arise within such a star?
A far-ranging species might find this system. Find life.
A station could orbit the star to study the life.
With a base on the planet for support.
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January 12, 2026 at 4:48 PM
A lonely, empty world on the edge of inter-galactic space.
But, the two companion stars 25 AU away have surface temperatures
that allow liquid water to exist, maybe even have clouds and rain.
In 1976, Carl Sagan wrote a paper on possible Jovian life:
gwern.net/doc/biology/...
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gwern.net
January 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
"Galactic Survey" system:
aahench.pythonanywhere.com/system?loc=-...
Trinary, w/ brown dwarfs & just 1 planet.
In halo, 15 kpc above Earth.

Planet is Mars-sized, w/ massive frozen ocean.
No atmosphere or life.
Sun is bright as the full moon.
Deep red or magenta, not white.

#sf #worldbuilding

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January 12, 2026 at 4:46 PM
A win is a win,
no matter how small.
So cherish each one.
You can’t win them all.
👍
January 8, 2026 at 3:11 AM
WHAT IF
An ocean species develops psychic abilities.
Strong enough to reach across space and contact others.
New friends somewhere in distant waters.
Sharing knowledge, helping each other advance.
Could they together learn to make portals?
To swim from sea to sea; one vast ocean among the stars.
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January 6, 2026 at 6:14 PM
"Galactic Survey" Section:
aahench.pythonanywhere.com/section?loc=...
Cube 3 parsecs across each side. 27 pc^3 with 20 systems.
83 pc away; above, rimward, anti-spinward.

A tight cluster, 7.1 billion years old.
Many worlds have pre-sapient life. Most are in massive oceans.

#sf #worldbuilding

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January 6, 2026 at 6:13 PM
If their instinct is to migrate to avoid hot/cold temps,
what does that do to urban populations? To national borders?

If they hibernate for months to wait out extremes,
how does an economy still function?
When most of its workers are asleep?

Will old rivalries flare up, seizing opportunity?

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December 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
With an unstable axial tilt,
creatures are likely adapted to climate shifts
and extreme seasons.

WHAT IF
The pre-sapients became intelligent.
And built a civilization while the tilt was low
and the climate was stable.

Then the tilt shifted. A global climate disaster.
How would they react?

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December 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"Galactic Survey" system:
aahench.pythonanywhere.com/system?loc=D...
G4 star. 1 suitable! w/ pre-sapients.
95 pc away; above, rimward, anti-spinward.

A-II has 1.5G, 19°C avg. temp, and breathable air.
BUT 70° unstable tilt makes seasons extreme.
Even equator almost freezes.

#sf #worldbuilding

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December 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Galactic Survey" system:
aahench.pythonanywhere.com/system?loc=D...
Trinary, F9/K7 & distant Y0 brown dwarf.
18.5k pc away, 120° anti-spinward, in Scutum-Centaurus Arm
Found by Kira Hunter.

B-IV is tide-locked but companion gives day/night cycle.
It shifts temperature +/- 5°C.

#sf #worldbuilding
December 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
From site Sci.News:
Archaeologists Discover Earliest Evidence of Fire-Making

It says previous date of first fire-making was 50,000 years ago. New find is from 400,000 years ago. Much earlier. And the materials were likely used by Neanderthals, not Homo Sapiens.

www.sci.news/archaeology/...
Archaeologists Discover Earliest Evidence of Fire-Making | Sci.News
Archaeologists have unearthed 400,000-year-old heated sediments and fire-cracked flint handaxes alongside two fragments of pyrite -- a mineral used in later periods to strike sparks with flint -- at B...
www.sci.news
December 15, 2025 at 5:19 AM
"Galactic Survey" system:
aahench.pythonanywhere.com/system?loc=D...
Binary, G6 & white dwarf. 1 habitable world w/ pre-sapients.
61 pc away; above, rimward, spinward.

20+ planets & moons have deep ocean-bound pre-sapients.
Social creatures like whales, in massive frozen oceans.

#sf #worldbuilding
December 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In the old TV series "Sliders", the "Eggheads" episode has the characters arrive in an alternate world where a mind game competition is the top form of entertainment instead of physical sports.
December 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Habitable C-II is tide-locked, so temperatures are stable. But it has no oceans.
The highest life is just mosses so the oxygen is thin.
And it experiences episodic resurfacing. Where large-scale eruptions overturn the crust.
Humans living here would face very different challenges than on B-III.

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December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Suitable B-III orbits the sub-giant in an eccentric orbit.
And is close enough to the giant for its heat to make a difference.
So this planet has dramatic seasonal temperature changes.
Its animals and pre-sapients may hibernate to avoid the extremes.
Humans would need heavy air-conditioning.

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December 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"Galactic Survey" system:
aahench.pythonanywhere.com/system?loc=D...
4 stars, w/ giant & sub-giant. 1 suitable, 1 habitable planet.
75 pc away, anti-spinward.

Suitable planets have average temporature/atmosphere near Earth's.
But other factors can make them difficult homes.

#sf #worldbuilding

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December 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
WHAT IF
Could carbon-silicate life be deep in the molten balls?
Living cells replicating, evolving.
With lava in place of water, inside crystal shells.
Would complex multi-cellular life be possible?
Might there be plants and animals?
With carborundum skin, diamond bones, and lava in their veins?
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November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
WHAT IF
The gas from the giant contains H, C, O and heavier elements.
The lava balls provide an energetic liquid medium.
Where elements can mix and form molecules.
Could complex molecules grow and survive?
Could they develop auto-catalyic features?
Could life possibly arise in this environment?
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November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"Galactic Survey" system:
aahench.pythonanywhere.com/system?loc=D...

Semi-detached binary. K2 giant venting to M7 dwarf.
46.6pc away, above & coreward.

Dwarf has asteroid belt. Giant is close enough to melt rock.
So asteroids are steaming balls of red-hot lava within gas.

#sf #worldbuilding

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November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Whoever it is, it's nice having someone else to help explore the galaxy.

By itself, Sector D0:78 (aahench.pythonanywhere.com/sector?loc=D...) has 11,097,569 systems that can be discovered.
Only 24,336 of them have been surveyed so far.

The galaxy is a big place. 😀
GS: Sector
aahench.pythonanywhere.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Notable "Galactic Survey" system:
aahench.pythonanywhere.com/system?loc=D...

Binary. A-III habitable w/ 2G gravity, 68 hour day, big N ice cap, pre-sapients.
1288 pc from Earth, rimward.

Found by user "GAB" on 2025-09-07.
Other system with habitable planet is only 6.4 pc away.

#sf #worldbuilding
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM