I'm not saying Guhral *does* have crazy tides, I'm saying it *should*. Algol should as well, though the diagrams of orbits note that it would be intermittent, but certainly gravitational forces between the planets in Algol are quite strong and the orbits not entirely stable, as shown by Palma and Motavia swapping orbits. Ragol also, perhaps moreso because the moons are always nearby. The only scenarios in which Ragol gets away with not having nasty tides are one in which the larger of the moons is actually very small but so close it looks large, in which case it would likely eventually end up pulled into Ragol's atmosphere to rather disastrous effects(Even a small meteor would be enough to wipe out life on Earth. A small moon...); or one in which the moon is in fact large but has an extremely low density, low enough to not produce much in the way of a gravitational pull. Unlikely for a what seems to be a solid object rather than a gaseous one. Either way, not too condusive to the evolution of intelligent life, though neither Algol nor Ragol are supposed to have evolved intelligent life - Ragol is settled from elsewhere and the races of Algol were supposedly created by the Great Light.
Guhral appears to be different. Algol's nearest and farthest planets are shown to have temperature extremes. Presumably they're closer to Palma than Mars and Venus are to Earth; they're all habitable, but Motavia is a harsh desert and Dezolis frozen. On the other hand, all three of Guhral's planets seem to be more or less temperate. Moatoob has ice and supposedly was once nicer than it is now. Neudaiz is rather decidedly not frozen. Either they share very close orbits or they actually orbit each other.(Quite possible; take a three-star cluster orbiting in the outer arms of a spiral galaxy and you have a macro version of what I'm talking about. Also note the eventual effects of tidal forces in such a system which will cause it to either fly apart or lead to the death of one or more of the stars.) Transport in Guhral seems to be very dependable and static - Hinting that the planets don't move away from each other much. Parum seems to be viewable from Neudaiz. All three planets are viewable from the LL destination lobby. But from what we know of the planets and of interplanetary transport, we can infer that they have either similar or shared orbits. Thus, they should be subject to each other's gravity and thus cause tides on each other. Potentially very bad ones.
Since such a thing is not conducive to life, however, it has been conveniently ignored. From the Colony, Moatoob is perhaps the size of the Moon at the highest point it reaches in its travels across Earth's sky, Neudaiz is significantly bigger. Presuming that they're earth-sized this would of course place Moatoob farther from Parum than the Earth's moon is. Neudaiz perhaps a bit farther or the same distance. Certainly close enough for gravity to interact, however.
Certainly PSU does not go for 'hard' sci-fi, so the colony has gravity without apparently being spun, so we have gravity generators in use somewhere. So perhaps they've found a way to counteract gravity as well on a global scale. I have no idea how such a thing could be implemented, but assume it has. When? How was it implemented? Could the failure of such a system have contributed to the downfall of the ancient civilization?
Basically, why are we ignoring what ought to happen? (Why didn't intelligent life evolve on all three planets if they're all temperate? Massive weather control? Well, we all know how well *that* works out... PSII anybody? Where *are* the aliens? Were they wiped out?)
But yeah. I wonder about such things. XP
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