Also to 'Rambling Hound' ! I was actually going to do something like underground catacombs of sorts,
And also, isn't there such a thing as Warp Iron that is used for fueling Starships and the like? I think there will be natural deposits of it and that will be used for fueling the reactors, and also since it is a wandering planet, the local occupants can simply plunder systems that they might pass by evey once in a while for resources that would be otherwise unavailable to them
One more thing, I hope the planet to be classified as Death World, with dangerous creatures/man eating plants, the whole shabang
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are you asking/suggesting if a wanderer could sustain life, and as such be a mobile base of sorts?
the problem with a hot core is that a planet needs to be close to a sun's gravitational influence to maintain it's heat (i think, i might be wrong), if a planet escapes, or is blown out of, it's system then the core would rapidly (relatively speaking) cool which would, in essence, turn it into a colossal asteroid with a giant ball-bearing in the middle.
Well Callum, I plan it to be the homebase for the characters in a book I want to write for 40k. Also, for the core, the planet is going to have reactors that heat it.
Just how close to real world science would you want this to be? Is the life on it indiginous and how similar to our own ecosystem would it need to be?
The primary problems I see would be a light source and lack of consistent rhythms. Light is required for photosynthesis and therefore plant life, which in turn is required for animal life. Not necessarily a problem if you postulate sufficiently alien life forms. Equally we (and all organisms) are surprisingly reliant on cycles and rhythms within the ecosphere, which in turn are largely based on things like lunar cycles, planetary rotation, etc. Even if these things are provided by the various stellar systems the planet passes through they would be inconsistent over time, leaving organisms adapted to one set of conditions non plussed in the next.
As for the plundering systems they pass through, they'd have to be travelling awfully fast to make that feasible, even at a significant fraction of the speed of light it would likely be centuries between contacts, and at those speeds the contacts would be fleeting at best, with massive catastrophic consequences to the eco system from things like shifting gravitational conditions leading to tectonic activity, sudden drastric non seasonal temperature shifts damaging organisms on every level, etc.
Basically I'd say for this idea to work the indiginous lifeforms would have to be extremely alien in make up, the planet would have to remain pretty much isolated from other natural space borne bodies and any space faring colonists would have to rely on technological means to support life.
Within those sorts of parameters, I'd be interested to see what you came up with
Well radioactive material at the core could provide enough energy for themosynthesis, but that is only like to be able to sustain very simple organisms. But you'd need to have more materials than normal because in the planets that have molten cores the tidle forces inacted on it by the sun and their moons tend to have a very large effect. If someone were to find drilling and tunneling methods sufficently advanced they could be colonies but i wouldn't expect to find native intellegent life.However i might be the perfect place for ancient beings to be hiding.