How does Solar provide life to the Lylat System?

[SlippyMasterRace]

Solar is hot as 9000 degrees, but this isn't specified which, it could be Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin(Unlikely). Solar's size has never been specified. Is Solar hot enough to give life to all the planets of the lylat system? Also can life be sustained on the planets right next to Solar, while also keeping life on the outer planets?

[ArwingFan]

Lylat(the star from SF2, not the system) could provide the life while Solar could be a planet or just a small, weak star.

[Storminator]

Since Solar is techincally a planet still in its molten, early formation, I'd say the heat could possibly help with developing life. That said, its a fairly small planet, being smaller than Corneria but bigger than Katina (As seen in this comparison chart I did: http://imgur.com/gallery/uO8Es)

[Ori]

ArwingFan is right there-- Lylat is the star itself. Solar, however... It's not really confirmed or denied in the series, but it's not really clear whether it's a planet or something else. My personal theory that would probably suit Solar's case is that it's a hot brown dwarf type of celestial body, mistaken for an actual star in early Lylatian/Cornerian history and 'suitably' named Solar.

The issue with this theory of mine is that hot brown dwarfs usually are in the temperature range of 2600 Kelvin, about half of a G-type star such as our sun. As it was said it's "9000 degrees", it's too hot if the temperature is 9000 Kelvin-- too high even for a G2 star, so it probably has to be 9000 in ºF (about 5250K), which is still quite high for a brown dwarf. My guess is that Solar either is in a very close orbit to Lylat, absorbing a lot of heat and radiation, and it might be probably larger than Teide 1 (pictured above) at that, but smaller than a red dwarf star.

...Or maybe it's really a planet, and they just use a different temperature measurement unit but that would be a lazy way to explain it.

[Rusakov]

Alternatively it could be some kind of artifact from some species.

Hmm... maybe the Silver Ghosts escaped into the StarFox universe...

[Storminator]

In my reimagining, I made Solar a Gas Giant, but since I wanted to keep the actual sizes of the planets canon accurate, that might not work (Although apparently gaseous planets of smaller size do exist). Its certainly a weird one, but in a way having Solar just be a molten planet that's still not cooled down is a really unique thing for Sci-Fi (At least I think)

[SF Redd]

Lylat is the star that provides heat to the Lylat system. The system is named after the star(or perhaps vice-versa).

Solar on the other hand is just a companion star, and a weird one at that. It's caused quite a lot of debate, but I stand by the fact that it's a star. It's very small for a star, like, really small. If skm are similar to km, it's smaller than Jupiter by quite a bit. The reason I see it as a star though is it's heat. It's surface is 11,000 degrees, and the space above it is 9,000 degrees, That's hotter than our sun.

The more you think about it, that isn't the only astronomical anomaly in the series. A tiny but amazingly hot star that is Solar, but also the Lylat itself is quite odd. Lylat is a B class blue giant. Blue giant stars are notorious for leading short and explosive lives. If all was normal, the star would've gone supernova long before intelligent life evolved. It really is an odd system.

[Robert Monroe]

Solar has been confirmed, despite how nonsensical it is (though really you care about this in a furry space opera shooter series?) that it is NOT a star, its a molten planet. We've seen in other games an actual star/sun for Lylat, and Solar ain't it.

[Rusakov]

28 minutes ago, Robert Monroe said:

Solar has been confirmed, despite how nonsensical it is (though really you care about this in a furry space opera shooter series?) that it is NOT a star, its a molten planet. We've seen in other games an actual star/sun for Lylat, and Solar ain't it.

IIRC if you toss a small black hole into a gas giant it will both compress the giant and make it really hot. And not much material will enter the hole either as radiation gets so high close to it that infalling matter is pushed back out.

Maybe the same is going on with Solar except with it being a terrestrial planet? Since the crust would be both really hot and really compressed it might theoretically still be considered "molten" because the rock is too compressed to vaporize.

I'm still going to say that it's a Silver Ghost artifact that's mistaken for a planet though. 

[Patch93]

On 8/18/2016 at 4:15 PM, Robert Monroe said:

Solar has been confirmed, despite how nonsensical it is (though really you care about this in a furry space opera shooter series?) that it is NOT a star, its a molten planet. We've seen in other games an actual star/sun for Lylat, and Solar ain't it.

Exactly. The idea that it was a star was due to a mistranslation error in the Star Fox 64 US guidebook. Command and 64 3D (I think?) correct this.

And whether or not does it still apply to the 64 and Zero canons (which probably does given how much shit is carried over, especially in the latter), the companion star shown on the title screen and map in SF2 is not Solar.