New Berlin - How do you see it?

[Fletcher]

So a while back I had this thought, "Why is a planet that has the average temperature compared to that of Antarctica the capitol of the House of Rheinland?

TEMPERATURE: -73°C to 1°C

Personally, I've never understood it, then again I've never lived under such harsh conditions, such as my lovely Eastern European counterparts like the Fins or Russians. Though, they haven't got much choice in the matter.

While I can sympathise that the Rheinlanders are proud as hell that they rose and prospered, and in a sense became some of the most hardened people in Sirius because they came from such a harsh planet, wouldn't they move their capital to a more suitable location? According to the infocard they originally settled New Berlin due to its proximity to the Walker Nebula's resources.

Hmm, thinking on it again I'm actually mixed on this train of thought.

Actually, why haven't Rheinland enquired to Planetform about helping warm the planet up to make it a more suitable planet? My assumption is that it needs a lot of carbon dioxide (& co) to get it warmed up, then sort out the soil with various things. Planetform boys can fill me in there.

Actually, Rheinland if you pardon this line.
"Y U NO PLANETFORM?"

Hmm, then again, one year of night, one year of daylight. Another problem...

Curse you New Berlin and you enigmatic ways!

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[Pinko]

Most of my relatives live in the Great North, where it never goes above freezing point. It's not this bad.

EDIT: Hello, you've discovered the concept of Ethnocentrism.

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[Captain]

harsh conditions are relative to your own point of view,
I consider people living in a dessert having harsh conditions,

and if mankind ever travels to pluto, which is on average -240°Celcius,
on the surface, then i would call that harsh too, but NB, its cold but you can dress for that;)

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[Echo 7-7]

They actually did have this awessome idea to warm the planet up. It was in a rumour or news infocard somewhere.

Some guy had this 'great' idea to build a massive solar reflection array above the dark side of the planet* and light up a particular area of the planet so that they had more daylight hours.

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It somehow turned out ot be a weapon of mass destruction which brought a bolt of searing, bright, burning death on the target area. People were quite angry.

* IIRC, for half of New Berlin's orbit around the star, one half of the planet is in shadow, and the other half of the orbit the other half is in shadow. If we say that NB has a solar year per orbit, then it's six months dark, six months light, alternating for each hemisphere.

Edit: I see you picked up on that. 1 year, 1 year, I apologise.

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[BaconSoda]

New Berlin would suck to live on, but someplace like Stuttgart which has literally 0 industry on it because of the high oxygen content would be worse. Think of how expensive everything is! There's always a positive and negative to living somewhere.

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[Syrus]

Not that I'd want to bring realism into Freelancer, but could people even live on New Berlin? I mean, a temperature of below 0° C during the whole year means life can't exists. Especially as the planet turns that slow, life on one side will almost die out until it's summer again.

Anyway, I think Rheinland already tried to heat the planet up ?
Asking Planetform to "terraform" a inhabitated planet is a bit risky. There live millions of people on there, when they make a mistake, they might risk a disaster. I guess after 800 years people will already have adapted their technology / buildings / cloths / etc to the cold climate.

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[Huhuh]

All the building of New Berlin are on a giant set of rails. The entire population moves as the planet rotates so they can stay on the sunny side.

Blindfolds are a must for sleeping.

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[Vladimir]

Somebody who's not lazy should replace tricolor with rheinland's flag.

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[Lonely_Ghost]

I guess after 800 years people will already have adapted their technology / buildings / cloths / etc to the cold climate.

Right. Don't think, that tempirature problem gona be real barrier for civilizations, which can travel into space on light speed, using large ships.

[AeternusDoleo]

Not that I'd want to bring realism into Freelancer, but could people even live on New Berlin? I mean, a temperature of below 0° C during the whole year means life can't exists. Especially as the planet turns that slow, life on one side will almost die out until it's summer again.

Greenhouses to grow your crops. Evergreens could survive there, as could some grasses. The averages would be 1 celcius around the equator (which would make the equator a colder temperate zone) to -70 at the poles on average - completely inhospitable. I would imagine the majority of the New Berlin population originally settled along the equator, and has since branched out further north and south, as thermal insulation technology became more commonplace.

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