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Re: total population of the Galactic Empire?

Posted: 2002-11-19 08:29am
by His Divine Shadow
master_yoda wrote:Does anyone know this? I did some stats a while back, & the population was around 10-1,000 quadrillion.Anyone know? 9I'd say around 3-10 billion per average planet)
Nar Shaddaa had 95 billion inhabitants, it wasn't very high up on the list, but I think we can go with 10 billion per planet, that times 50 million is:
500,000,000,000,000,000 people.

Re: total population of the Galactic Empire?

Posted: 2002-11-19 08:33am
by His Divine Shadow
Executor wrote:The WEG Star Wars The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition Book states 100 Quadrillion.
I think this number is too low, there are around 20 million sepiant species, i think I read somewhere, that would give an aveage of only 5 billion beings of each species. I would expect a minimum of at least a thousand times this, so around 100 Quintrillion.
How much is a quadrillion?
How many zeroes?

Posted: 2002-11-19 08:37am
by His Divine Shadow
Oh, I see I am late, so is 100 Quadrillion this then?
100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

I mean if 1 quadrillion is 1e24?

Posted: 2002-11-19 08:48am
by His Divine Shadow
Regarding the heat issue.

SW have heat dumping systems that turn energy into neutrinos, that pretty much takes care of things

Posted: 2002-11-19 02:29pm
by Eleas
His Divine Shadow wrote:Regarding the heat issue.

SW have heat dumping systems that turn energy into neutrinos, that pretty much takes care of things
Neutrinos? I simply noted that there were things called "shields" in Star Wars. :)

Posted: 2002-11-19 02:40pm
by Sea Skimmer
100 quadrillion intelligent life forms would seem to be about right.

Re: total population of the Galactic Empire?

Posted: 2002-11-19 03:34pm
by Illuminatus Primus
His Divine Shadow wrote:
master_yoda wrote:Does anyone know this? I did some stats a while back, & the population was around 10-1,000 quadrillion.Anyone know? 9I'd say around 3-10 billion per average planet)
Nar Shaddaa had 95 billion inhabitants, it wasn't very high up on the list, but I think we can go with 10 billion per planet, that times 50 million is:
500,000,000,000,000,000 people.
Nar Shaddaa only 95 billion? Damn a lot of the cityscape must be abandoned or something.

Re: total population of the Galactic Empire?

Posted: 2002-11-19 03:36pm
by Eleas
Illuminatus Primus wrote:
His Divine Shadow wrote:
master_yoda wrote:Does anyone know this? I did some stats a while back, & the population was around 10-1,000 quadrillion.Anyone know? 9I'd say around 3-10 billion per average planet)
Nar Shaddaa had 95 billion inhabitants, it wasn't very high up on the list, but I think we can go with 10 billion per planet, that times 50 million is:
500,000,000,000,000,000 people.
Nar Shaddaa only 95 billion? Damn a lot of the cityscape must be abandoned or something.
A lot of the lower levels are. Couple that with the amount of heavy industry and the fact that we're talking about a moon here, not a bonafide planet, and it becomes a wee more plausible.

Posted: 2002-11-19 04:21pm
by Illuminatus Primus
tharkun had some good points though....the climate must have become extremely fucked up when the planet was abandoned in the NJO and during the Palpatine reconquest. Unless the Yuuzhan Vong inserted their own technology to keep it habitable and during the Palpatine reconquest that the climate-control systems remained online.

Posted: 2002-11-19 04:25pm
by Eleas
Illuminatus Primus wrote:tharkun had some good points though....the climate must have become extremely fucked up when the planet was abandoned in the NJO and during the Palpatine reconquest. Unless the Yuuzhan Vong inserted their own technology to keep it habitable and during the Palpatine reconquest that the climate-control systems remained online.
Maybe, but who says the heat sink systems were active systems?

Posted: 2002-11-22 10:47pm
by Ignorant_Boy
Illuminatus Primus wrote:tharkun had some good points though....the climate must have become extremely fucked up when the planet was abandoned in the NJO and during the Palpatine reconquest. Unless the Yuuzhan Vong inserted their own technology to keep it habitable and during the Palpatine reconquest that the climate-control systems remained online.
Palpatine reconquest? Did I miss something important?

Posted: 2002-11-22 11:05pm
by Raptor 597
Ignorant_Boy wrote:
Illuminatus Primus wrote:tharkun had some good points though....the climate must have become extremely fucked up when the planet was abandoned in the NJO and during the Palpatine reconquest. Unless the Yuuzhan Vong inserted their own technology to keep it habitable and during the Palpatine reconquest that the climate-control systems remained online.
Palpatine reconquest? Did I miss something important?
Ever read Dark Empire? Basically, Palpatine comes back in Clones, and fucks up the NR, then he dies via himself, and they sabotage his lones. Good Series, though.

Posted: 2002-11-22 11:39pm
by Sea Skimmer
Eleas wrote:
Illuminatus Primus wrote:tharkun had some good points though....the climate must have become extremely fucked up when the planet was abandoned in the NJO and during the Palpatine reconquest. Unless the Yuuzhan Vong inserted their own technology to keep it habitable and during the Palpatine reconquest that the climate-control systems remained online.
Maybe, but who says the heat sink systems were active systems?
More likely, with much of the populace dead, and power generation and industry mostly if not completly off line, the world did not have any excessive heat to get rid of.

Infact Vong world shaping efforts included moving it closer to the systems sun to warm it up. However they also added a lot of water which would have sucked up heat.

Posted: 2002-11-23 08:51am
by Illuminatus Primus
Sea Skimmer wrote:
Eleas wrote:
Illuminatus Primus wrote:tharkun had some good points though....the climate must have become extremely fucked up when the planet was abandoned in the NJO and during the Palpatine reconquest. Unless the Yuuzhan Vong inserted their own technology to keep it habitable and during the Palpatine reconquest that the climate-control systems remained online.
Maybe, but who says the heat sink systems were active systems?
More likely, with much of the populace dead, and power generation and industry mostly if not completly off line, the world did not have any excessive heat to get rid of.

Infact Vong world shaping efforts included moving it closer to the systems sun to warm it up. However they also added a lot of water which would have sucked up heat.
That massive amount of metal structure would also have nicely fucked up the planet's climate.