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Ok, we know there are fourteen planets in the Bajoran system, eight terrestrial, three gas giants, and three balls of ice and rock. Does anybody want to take a guess which of the terrestrial planets is actually Bajor( Prime )?
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It would have to be one of the inner ones to be in the habitably zone. I'm assuming the first 8 planets are the rock ones (going off our own planet system for reference). I'd say somewhere between 4 and 6.
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Of course, new discoveries showing gas giants close to their stars are beginning to call into doubt the idea that our Solar System is "typical".
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True. But looking at the diagram in the DS9 tech manual, we can make a couple assumptions. It's not one far from the DS9 orbit. And I doubt it's one of the two out of the orbital plane of the rest of them. Also, after they changed their orbit, I don't ever remember them normalizing their orbit around the sun. So this would mean that DS9's orbit would tangentally touch Bajor's orbit. And looking at the picture, planet #4 touches DS9's that way. So unless there are any other arguements, I'd say it's a pretty good assumption that it's the fourth planet.
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That, and it has been explicitly stated that Cardassians are accustomed to a much warmer climate than the average class-M dweller...
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According to the Encyclopedia Bajor has at least five moons. Jeraddo the fifth moon was was rendered unexceptable for general habitation due to the release of toxic gases during the tapping of its molten core.
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Actually, the runabout in "Past Prologue" hid behind the lower moon (out of two?) of Bajor VIII, according to the dialogue. So the planet itself wasn't necessarily seen, and the grey and apparently airless thing in the windows was just the lower moon.
Which is just as well, since the dialogue also established that there were six large Bajoran colonies on the planet. Probably this is a class M world, or something in the L to N range anyway, since I doubt the Bajorans would have had the resources to establish colonies in harsh conditions (unbreathable atmosphere etc).
Other places of interest in the Bajoran system include the Lunar V resistance base which almost certainly was on the fifth moon of Bajor itself. Which is odd, since the fifth moon is supposed to be Jerrado, the one tapped for power. Shouldn't Kira have mentioned to Mullibok in "Progress" that there had been resistance bases there? And shouldn't the toxification of the moon have been a story point when Kira and Dax visited one of the bases in "The Siege"?
Also, why only 47 people on Jerrado, when it's clearly class M and the other class M world, much farther away from Bajor, has "hundreds of thousands of people"? Did the Cardassians evict Jerrado dwellers for some reason, but let the Bajor VIII colonists stay?
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Isn't it strange how novels explain some of these discussions of ours?
Well, sort of. In the new DS9 Millienium trilogy, Bajor and it's moons are featured somewhat. And according to these novels, Jerrado is a lot closer than the fifth moon. In fact, it's the second or so. I don't quite remember as it's been some time since I read the novel. Apparently, Jerrado had been colonized for what appeared to be millenia (!) before it was tapped for a power source (according to the novel, using technology perfected by the Klingons after the Praxis incident).
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Hey, that island theory is a good one! Mullibok claimed he was among the first to come "here", and so far we've thought "here" was on the moon. But perhaps "here" only meant that specific island on the moon, and other islands were already inhabited?
Bajorans must originally have had some incentive to go and colonize their moon and Bajor VIII, but it probably wasn't curiosity. Bajorans aren't great explorers or anything - after all, there's a mountain on Bajor that nobody has scaled, even if there's been civilization on the planet for *hundreds of thousands* of years! So once a couple of islands on Jeraddo met their needs, they never explored the others, and so left one free for Mullibok to use.
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I have a theory about Bajor 8 being habitable. Is it possible for more than one planet to have the same orbit? For example, two planets the same distance from the sun, but on opposite sides of the sun. Maybe Bajor is a very crowded system, with two or three planets sharing orbital distances. This could place Bajor 8 about where Mars is from our sun.
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"Lunar V" needn't be on the fifth moon. It would simply be the fifth such base to be established on a moon.
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