What happens if 2 planets crash into eachother in SFS
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This has been answered elsewhere if you'd use the search function rather than opening yet another topic.
But, in the interests of sanity, this is what will happen.
Absolutely nothing.
Even if you somehow engineered a collision (a task thats harder than it sounds), there is nothing the game knows to do, to do. The planets are essentially on rails. They can't be slowed down or stopped. You can't snooker them out of orbit. They won't explode. They won't start going binary.
Hell, I'd be surprised if they even noticed each other in passing.
But, in the interests of sanity, this is what will happen.
Absolutely nothing.
Even if you somehow engineered a collision (a task thats harder than it sounds), there is nothing the game knows to do, to do. The planets are essentially on rails. They can't be slowed down or stopped. You can't snooker them out of orbit. They won't explode. They won't start going binary.
Hell, I'd be surprised if they even noticed each other in passing.
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Absolutely nothing.
Why?
They won't touch each other if they are in the same orbit.
Why?
Because they're moving the same distance at same speed and thus will maintain the same position relative to each other
If you really want to get them to hit, the orbits have to be far enough apart so the orbital speeds are different, but close enough together that the 'land mass' overlaps at some point.
This is one thing I am curious of. Would the SOIs glitch the craft out like fuck. What happens to a craft in orbit around one body that passes into another SOI. Would it stay in place (likely) or transfer over. Could you transfer from one to the other during the overlap? How would the transfer window indicator handle it?
Why?
They won't touch each other if they are in the same orbit.
Why?
Because they're moving the same distance at same speed and thus will maintain the same position relative to each other
If you really want to get them to hit, the orbits have to be far enough apart so the orbital speeds are different, but close enough together that the 'land mass' overlaps at some point.
This is one thing I am curious of. Would the SOIs glitch the craft out like fuck. What happens to a craft in orbit around one body that passes into another SOI. Would it stay in place (likely) or transfer over. Could you transfer from one to the other during the overlap? How would the transfer window indicator handle it?
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