Clearwater Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I was wondering how long a year on Corneria would be compared to a year on Earth. Would it be longer, shorter, or the same amount of time? Let's establish some assumptions before I begin. First off, let's say that Corneria in the Lylat system is the equivalent of the Earty in our system, and Solar is the equivalent of our Sun. On Earth, it takes 365 days to do a full rotation around our Sun's axis, which scientists qualify as a year. The Earth is around 149.6 million KM from the Sun, and there are two planets that stand between it and Earth: Mercury and Venus. Let's say that the Lylatian equivalent would be Katina and Fortuna. Venus is around 25 million KM from the Earth, Mercury is *between* 77 and 222 million KM from Venus, and Mercury is 57.91 million KM from the Sun. Let's say that those distances are (approximately) what the Star Fox team have to travel to get from Corneria to Fortuna/Katina via Sector Y/Asteroid Belt, and then from Fortuna/Katina to Solar. So Star Fox would have to make a minimum of 2 or 3 planet hops from Corneria to get to Solar, which would be the same from Earth to the Sun, which would be in a way, the same amount of distance from Earth to the Sun as Corneria to Solar. If we get super sciency and throw in the diametres of the Lylatian planets, it would throw my mind off course, so let's stick with what we've got right now. So in my opinion, a year on Corneria would be around 365 days, give or take, compared to a year on Earth. So the apple doesn't really fall too far from the tree. What do you guys have to say? I'll be interested to see who has to say otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Monroe Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 >solar is equivalent to our sun this meme needs to die 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clearwater Posted October 11, 2016 Author Share Posted October 11, 2016 3 hours ago, Robert Monroe said: >solar is equivalent to our sun this meme needs to die So... Solar isn't a sun then, but rather a planet in itself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Orange Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 It's a brown dwarf Cornelia would have to be considerably close to be in its goldilocks zone. Id do the math if I want on mobile. But I'd say almost a 67 day year as a really rough estimate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Monroe Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Solar was mistakenly labeled a star in the NA Starfox 64 player's guide. Every other source says its a molten/volcanic planet, even with small patches of land here and there. In Command and 643D the "dwarf star" look was changed to appear more like an actual molten planet/M class star sort of look (but of course it isn't a star, as said before). Solar essentially inherited what was MacBeth's traits in Starfox 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Carson Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 The guide did however correctly state that the Lylat System's star is, well, Lylat. A class b blue giant, which makes that thing enormous. How big? Compared to it, Sol is but a tiny dot, absolutely massive is the size difference. So, needless to say, Lylat's Solar System would be massive, and it would have one huge habitation zone, though that would be quite an extensive distance away. It would comfortably hold as many planets as we've seen though, but that year... A single human life time on Earth would never even come close to a full year on Corneria as we know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Orange Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 9 hours ago, Robert Monroe said: Solar was mistakenly labeled a star in the NA Starfox 64 player's guide. Wait then where's the star in the Lylat Galaxy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Carson Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 6 minutes ago, Dr. Orange said: Wait then where's the star in the Lylat Galaxy? Galaxy, or System? If Galaxy, best we have is the original SFSNES manual, which states it's in the center of the Milky Way. (Big problem with that though, and I blame stellar science of the time for it, but, Super Massive Black Hole.) If System, well, look at the Lylat System's name. Lylat, which, as I said before, was correctly stated in the NA SF64 Players Guide. When we have seen it, it's been a light blue or white coloration, as one would expect when viewing a blue giant out in space more less directly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Corneria would never exist nor would the Lylant System because the parent star's life span lasts for a bout 100,000,000 millions years before super nova 13 hours ago, Dr. Orange said: It's a brown dwarf Cornelia would have to be considerably close to be in its goldilocks zone. Id do the math if I want on mobile. But I'd say almost a 67 day year as a really rough estimate. Corneria would be moving too fast for life to get a foot hold, not only that that would mean Corneria would be locked meaning that the day time is always getting hit by the star and the night time getting hit by nothing. That also means Life could never exist either because of the tidal locked situation of the planet. Day be too scorching hot and Night be a frozen Hell. (Though that isn't until get to Gleise 581 with the FTL drive and take a closer look at her forth daughter Gliese 581c) ... Though that is to say untill Nintendo decides to pull another reboot on us to which they say that Lylant is a yellow dwarf star and Solar is just a proto planet in a asteroid belt. 3 hours ago, Tiger Carson said: Galaxy, or System? If Galaxy, best we have is the original SFSNES manual, which states it's in the center of the Milky Way. (Big problem with that though, and I blame stellar science of the time for it, but, Super Massive Black Hole.) According to another game, it would be safe to assume that Lylant and Solar (Our star system ya ding dongs) would probably coexist in the same Galaxy (Milkyway Galaxy) but in a different galactic arm. Cause it wouldn't make sense to have it be close like say oh, where Alpha Centuri lives to us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Monroe Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Allegedly this is Lylat (the star) : http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/starfox/images/e/e7/Star_Fox_2_Lylat_System_Natural_State.png/revision/latest?cb=20140813021244 http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/starfox/images/6/65/Lylat_Star_(Star_Fox_2)..png/revision/latest?cb=20140813020815 http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/starfox/images/2/2b/Star_Fox_Zero_The_Lylat_Star.png/revision/latest?cb=20160304034250 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Carson Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 19 hours ago, Quadroline said: According to another game, it would be safe to assume that Lylant and Solar (Our star system ya ding dongs) would probably coexist in the same Galaxy (Milkyway Galaxy) but in a different galactic arm. Cause it wouldn't make sense to have it be close like say oh, where Alpha Centuri lives to us. I was asking him to clarify. I think he meant system, but typed in galaxy for some reason... At any rate, what I mean by stellar science of the time, is that at the time SFSNES was made, we didn't even know that Super Massive Black Holes existed, let alone that most galaxies had one in their center. Now, to say the Lylat is still in the center of the Milky Way presents all kinds of problems I don't want to get into. Let's just say, for TL; DR purposes, that bit of the SFSNES story has to be considered non-canon and a result of science of the time because it'd be impossible and make the series effectively science fantasy, not science fiction. Oh, and a note, our sun is not called Solar, it's called Sol. We don't call our Moon Lunar, but Luna, so why call our Sun Solar, when that's not the case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Monroe Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Star Fox is effectively science fantasy already though. And yeah, the suffix -ar to "Sol" makes it possessive, ie Solar System = the system of Sol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Carson Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 That's more semantics at this point, depends on which continuity I suppose. (SFSNES, yes, the rest? Maybe?..) Anyways, we should find a way to get this train back on track since it hasn't served it's purpose and I don't want to see it locked yet, we're pretty certain that the star of the Lylat System is Lylat, especially since we know it to be canon. Solar is not the star, heck it's not even a star in the first place really. So, knowing that Lylat is a Class B Blue Giant, possibly super giant (I don't remember, I just know it's one big star), we can determine exactly how long it'd take for Corneria to make one revolution, and not be going so fast as to make life impossible. I may not have the time to do the calculations, but I know this much, it'd take hundreds of human life times to do it. Anyone else agree? Disagree? Why do you agree/disagree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Monroe Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Realistically yeah but given Star Fox is soft as pudding space fantasy it probably somehow has an Earth Year lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arminius H O Fiddywinks Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 So.... A Cornerian year would be around a few Earth months, or a few Earth millennia? Because for a little over half of this page, people were just talking about the status of Solar. Honestly, I believe that one Cornerian year is around the same as an Earth year, because the creators would most likely do that, and suspend our disbelief in some way. Like us asking how that works, and them replying "It works just fine, thank you." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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