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[QUOTE]Originally posted by WizArtist II: [QB] I don't think Genesis was involved in the creation of the star. It was intended to be introduced to a planetary body and terraform it not create a mini-solar system. My guess is that Regula was a small star just outside the nebula with "Regula I" being the planetoid orbiting it. That would also mean the orbital was "Spacestation at Regula I". I question where the mass came from. The Reliant was the center of the explosion and its tonnage would naturally become part of the planet. So where did the bulk of the mass come from? Here is my worthless two cents. We know it took a few minutes for the Enterprise to make it to the outskirts of the Nebula from Regula on impulse power. We also know it took several seconds of warp speed to escape the detonation. A five second burst at lightspeed would take the Enterprise 930,000 miles from Reliant. That's a huge range for one detonation to present a danger unless other forces were in play. Genesis would have to be programmed to work around a greater mass than a small starship. Considering the density of the nebula, its range would have to be incredible to form a planet from just Reliant and some stardust. That is totally infeasible. It would need a far larger initial mass as its intent was the terraforming of a surface, not the creation of an entire planet. Therefor I think the "Genesis Effect" would naturally select the greatest nearby mass, in this case Regula I and form a gravity well that then pulled in all the other stellar debris from the nebula along with the Reliant to begin the terraforming. IIRC there was still stuff falling planetward at the end of ST2 which could have been residuals from the initial effect. That would give us the planet in the location of the Regula I planetoid and explain a star. As this was not how the device was intended to be used, the programming trying to adapt itself, along with the protomatter could explain the resultant instability and perhaps even the duplication of surface features. The wobble could well be the result of the planetoid originally having an eccentric rotation and the effect attempting to correct it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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