Stars and planets

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Summary

There are many types of stars and planets, each of which has their own advantage, and disadvantages in terms of gameplay value. This page is dedicated to categorize all astronomical objects and phenomena, and describe them.

When picking a star to construct a dyson sphere around, it's highly recommended to do it around a star with the highest luminosity (L_☉), as many stars can have more than double (~2 L_☉) if not triple (~3 L_☉) the energy output than the starter system's star (~1 L_☉), which is much less time consuming, and more effective than building one or even two additional dyson spheres orbiting neighboring stars.

Some rare veins and ores can only be found on certain types of planets, but on the other hand, it can also be impossible for those materials to naturally occur in other planets.

Types of planets

According to this reddit post, all terrestrial planets appear to follow the same grid layout:

    5x20 (Including the pole, forms a 9 diameter disk around the pole)
    5x40
    5x80
    5x100
    10x160
    10x200
    15x300
    15x400
    25x500
    25x600
    50x800
    80x1000
    Equator (1x1000)
    

When building on a seam between the different bands, buildings will snap to the band closest to the equator.

Planet Type	Description	Image	Surface view
MediterraneanMediterranean planet	Lush, tropical, and covered with oceans, they're abundant with basic resources. There is only one of these planet types in the cluster. It is the player's starter home planet. They're also a great source of crude oil.
LavaLava planet	Inhospitable, covered with lava lakes, they usually contain silicon ore and titanium ore.
Barren desertBarren planet	Similar to the moon, its surface is covered with craters, since there's no atmosphere, wind turbines are useless, there are no oceans either, but it has the biggest construction area, and can be a decent source for soil piles.
Prairie	Similar to mediterranean planets, they're habitable lush oceanic planets, has less oceans, and more grasslands. They're also a good source of crude oil. Organic crystal veins can also be found there.
Gobi	Another planet fully devoid of any life or water, but does contain mountains, so they're a great source for soil piles.
Ash gelisolAshen gelisol planet	Similar to a Gobi desert planet, it's fully devoid of anything, but this time a frozen one.
Volcanic ashVolcanic ash planet	Similar to a lava planet, it's devoid of anything but volcanic activity, however, these planets are also a great source of sulfuric acid, and oceans of such are found around such planets.
Arid desert	Another desert planet, but compared to others, these planets are a great source for capturing wind energy.
Ice gelisolIce planet	Planets covered with ice, and may have pockets of water scattered around the surface, veins of fire ice can be found around such planets. Since they're usually far away from their orbiting star, and have no atmosphere, they're terrible sources for renewable energy, the use of thermal power stations is recommended.
Oceanic jungleOceanic jungle planet	Similar to Mediterranean and Prairie planets, they're lush planets, and they commonly contain sources of spiniform stalagmite crystals, crude oil, and organic crystals.
Ocean planet	almost entirelly covered with oceans, it's very impractical to construct any infrastructure on it. It's another source of spiniform stalagmite crystals, but it's highly recommended you bring foundations and plenty of soil piles before you have anything to do with such planets.
Red stoneRed mushroom planet	Similar to Mediterranean planets, but the soil is more reddish, and the surface is covered with mushrooms.
Gas Giant	Gas giants are commonly found around the universe, and are a good source of deuterium and hydrogen by using orbit collectors
Ice Giant	Ice giants are less commonly found around the universe, but are a good source of fire ice and hydrogen by using orbit collectors

Stellar objects

Star Type	Description	Image
Class M	The most abundant class of star is M, however, its luminosity is very low, making it very impractical to construct dyson spheres around them.
Class K
Class G
Class F
Class A
Class B
Class O	The brightest star type, ideal for constructing dyson spheres around them. However, they also tend to be the largest, and so require more materials to do so.
Giant star	Can be of any spectral class that main sequence stars belong to. Giants are >10R⊙ and have higher luminosity than their main sequence counterparts. Depending on spectral class, they are referred to as Red, Yellow, White and Blue giants.
Neutron star	One of the rarest stars, unipolar magnets are commonly found on host planets orbiting such stars.
White dwarf
Black hole	A dead star, it's the only other source of unipolar magnets aside from neutron stars.

Sources of rare veins

List of where you might find rare veins, please note that the starter planet is an exemption of this list.

	Commonly found on habitable planets (mediterranean, oceanic jungle, red stone, and prairie planets).
	Commonly found on freezing planets (ash gelisol, ice gelisol, and ice giants).
	Commonly found on habitable planets (mediterranean, oceanic jungle, red stone, and prairie planets).
	Commonly found on oceanic planets (mediterranean, oceanic jungle, red stone, prairie, and oceanic planets).
	Only found on volcanic ash planets.
	Commonly found on red stone planets.
	Commonly found on freezing planets (ash gelisol and ice gelisol planets).
	Only found on planets orbiting neutron stars or black holes.
	Has been found on oceanic jungle and barren planets.
	Only found on gas giants.

State of stellar objects

Planets can have multiple physical attributes and states, which are listed below.

Name	Description	Image
Tidal locking (TL)	Planets that has the same rotational period as orbital period, and consequently has one side permanently facing its host star or planet. Very useful to capture the host star's energy via solar panels and/or ray receivers
Sattelite (SAT)	Astronomical objects that orbit another object that isn't a star, or in simpler terms, a moon. The starter planet is one example of such object. However, building EM-rail ejectors would be problematic, as the orbiting parent can block the sun, rendering them useless until the orbiting object passes, this decreases the time the EM-rail ejectors can fire sails, and decreases their effeciency.
Reverse Rotation (RR)	The astronomical object in question rotates in the reverse direction, or clockwise when viewed from one of the poles.
Horizontal Rotation (HR)	The planet has an axial inclination close to 90° causing it to rotatate around a horizontal axis when viewed from the stellar poles. Still experiences seasons.