Anyway, yeah, the Plants are almost certainly drawing off of zero point or core tap type power sources. Gunsmoke's civilization does use at least one type of generator beyond them - one of the towns shown in the anime is basically built around a truly huge-ass wind turbine.
Astronomy... Well, I haven't got the sources on hand to run the actual numbers (nor the energy to go looking, at the moment), but I think that what's seen in the anime, at least, can be rationalized under certain assumptions:
- That Gunsmoke's primary stars are of spectral class G or K - That their relative seperation as seen during the series is, in fact, the farthest apart that they ever seem (that is, that a line from Gunsmoke to the system's center of gravity will be roughly perpendicular to a line between the stars) - That the sizes of moons, as shown on screen, are exaggerrated for effect - which happens a lot in anime and is actually kind of hard to avoid doing. Therefore, all we really know is that there are at least five, and that they appear to be different sizes when seen from the planet's surface. Catherine Asaro details an even more complex system she created in one of the appendices of her novel The Moon's Shadow, so this isn't reallly an 'illusion breaking' question, just one that needs some thought.
(I'd reccomend her books in general, BTW, but I wouldn't start with that one - her chronology features a lot of people doing a lot of interacting things over varying periods of time, and each person pretty much has their own novel, none of which were really written in order. TMS is a pretty direct sequel to The Radiant Seas, though, which is a direct sequel to Primary Inversion, which is a good starting place. There aren't any bad ones, come to that - she's pretty good about explaining what the audience needs - but Inversion was the first written, and assumes the least.)
The desert planet thing has been addressed comprehensively in at least two different places that I know of - Herbert's Dune, of course, and Dream Pod 9's Heavy Gear RPG setting.
If people live in a bunch of city-states, who the hell has the authority to rescind Vash's bounty?
The people who offered it, of course. ^_^ Presumably, in the absence of a central government, that would be Bernardelli Insurance, or some company of comperable scope.
The marshalls, though... well, maybe they're all there is to the federal government?
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Anyway, yeah, the Plants are almost certainly drawing off of zero point or core tap type power sources. Gunsmoke's civilization does use at least one type of generator beyond them - one of the towns shown in the anime is basically built around a truly huge-ass wind turbine.
Astronomy... Well, I haven't got the sources on hand to run the actual numbers (nor the energy to go looking, at the moment), but I think that what's seen in the anime, at least, can be rationalized under certain assumptions:
- That Gunsmoke's primary stars are of spectral class G or K
- That their relative seperation as seen during the series is, in fact, the farthest apart that they ever seem (that is, that a line from Gunsmoke to the system's center of gravity will be roughly perpendicular to a line between the stars)
- That the sizes of moons, as shown on screen, are exaggerrated for effect - which happens a lot in anime and is actually kind of hard to avoid doing. Therefore, all we really know is that there are at least five, and that they appear to be different sizes when seen from the planet's surface. Catherine Asaro details an even more complex system she created in one of the appendices of her novel The Moon's Shadow, so this isn't reallly an 'illusion breaking' question, just one that needs some thought.
(I'd reccomend her books in general, BTW, but I wouldn't start with that one - her chronology features a lot of people doing a lot of interacting things over varying periods of time, and each person pretty much has their own novel, none of which were really written in order. TMS is a pretty direct sequel to The Radiant Seas, though, which is a direct sequel to Primary Inversion, which is a good starting place. There aren't any bad ones, come to that - she's pretty good about explaining what the audience needs - but Inversion was the first written, and assumes the least.)
The desert planet thing has been addressed comprehensively in at least two different places that I know of - Herbert's Dune, of course, and Dream Pod 9's Heavy Gear RPG setting.
If people live in a bunch of city-states, who the hell has the authority to rescind Vash's bounty?
The people who offered it, of course. ^_^ Presumably, in the absence of a central government, that would be Bernardelli Insurance, or some company of comperable scope.
The marshalls, though... well, maybe they're all there is to the federal government?
Ja, -n