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(Taking things too far; also the pictured actress from Serenity is on Lost, occasionally, playing Walt's mother.)
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Zoe was the other black chick's best friend from the second or third Matrix movie. I think it's the second one, she's the one that comes over after the guy that plays Walt comes home and has an argument with his wife about him joining Morpheus' ship.
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God, I could stab you all in the face for all this Lost/Matrix confusion. The guy in the Matrix movie doesn't play Walt, he plays Walt's father, Michael. As to whether the teacher from Serenity and Walt's mom are the same person. She is. Which is to say that Simon's complicated joke was very funny to a select group of people.
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Also: Having been in contact via some unnamed channel with he who shall not be named, I've elaborated and altered the map a touch incorporating several of his ideas:
He hit upon what I think is a pretty clever (and in retrospect, totally obvious) idea about how to organize the planets and I suspect I'll switch to that for future discussion so as to save my time and Charles' bandwidth. That idea being to list the bodies from innermost to outermost, with moons/secondary bodies following a colon. Thusly:
For those who may be interested: I made Jiangyin a moon of Greenleaf based on the statement in the episode safe that Greenleaf was ten hours away which (according the estimation of Serenity's speed from the RPG) would barely let them make it across even the narrowest planetary orbits. I moved Beaumonde and placed Haven (and placed Aberdeen based on my belief that the Companion Training House is on that world) for proximity to Lilac so as to better correspond to the events of the movie.
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Having the moons apparently on the same orbit as their planets makes them all seem like planets. Two suggestions: 1) place the moons on a ring around the planet (on a single ring or on multiple rings) or 2) place them vertically in a straight line (maybe placed slightly to the right), rather than following the planet's orbit. You might also try placing the planets at other places along their orbits rather than placing them all at the top, since you're sort of wasting a lot of the space below (only being used to show moons of a few planets).
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As for the map, yeah, I agree with Masao it's a little confusing since some of those (Londinium & Bellerophon for example) could be interpreted at twin planets rather than satellites.
I'd suggest either adding a separate set of diagrams below the system layout that illustrates the orbits of the various moons or stager the planets in their orbits and line the moons up horizontally along a line. I'm a little tire right now so that's probably not as clear a description as it probably should have been.
I just remembered a similar-yet-really-wildly-different situation from a book: Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks. It's set in a star system called Thrial, which is a rogue star floating in intergalactic space, with "a million light years" in any direction. In the book, just about every planet has been terraformed (or golterformed, since that's the home planet of the human or humanlike species which evolved there); I forget how many planets there were but it seemed quite a few, some of which were actually moons. So, literary precedent of a sort. Because the star is isolated, the inhabitatnts of the system have endured thousands of years of boom and bust, with no way to expand or break out of the cycle they're condemned to. . . A bit like the Moties in Niven & Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye.
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Congratulations on finally seeing the movie, Lee.
It's likely I'm going to be the single-gun theory here, but I'm going to stick to the shitpiles-o'-planets-'n-moons orbiting one big sun thing. (Am I right in believing we never saw a sky with more than one sun?) I realize it strains credulity, but maybe it's a much more compact set of orbits around a larger sun with some intentionally terraformed thick-ass ozone layers for the inner planets. If a CHZ was, say, 400 million miles across, these twenty orbits would fit with an average of 20 million miles of space between each.
Also: he-who-(with increasing ridiculousness)-goes-unamed has brought to my attention certain information which has caused me to reshuffle the list some.
Notably, it's mentioned that Persephone is an outer planet in the same breath as Hera and Shadow in the SVC.
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