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	Message: : While Google searching, trying to find reference to solar winds in : Marathon... I came across this: http://rampancy.net/book/print/7558 : Oddly enough, it appears to be some kind of guide, composed of HBO forum : posts regarding enkidu.bungie.org. For someone who didn't monitor the : discussion at the HBO about Enkidu, it's really quite interesting. : Anyhow: back to talk of Solar winds. : I've searched through the trilogy terminals hosted on the Story Page. I found : something between ' nada ' and ' bumpkiss '. : Perhaps ' nothing ' would be a better way of describing it? : Durandal's explaning how Earth was protected by strong solar winds from the : Pfhors knowledge (as to exactly how - I have no idea) must have come from : some other source. Rubicon perhaps? I'll need to look through Steve L.'s : Rubicon Guide for that information. : I did manage to find some interesting non-scifi facts about Solar winds, and : their effect on technology / biology. : http://nai.arc.nasa.gov/news_stories/news_print.cfm?ID=251 : It doesn't appear that the magnetic clouds and other charged particles in : Solar wind scientifically cause alot of communication / sensor blocking : issues. Wind speed variations do cause some storms in a planets : magnetosphere though, but the Earth’s magnetosphere shields us from solar : storms. : This opens another possibility of solar expulsions hiding the contents of a : Rogue Star/planet are found in Coronal Mass Ejections. : Sure, for "... many of the smaller Coronal Mass Ejections (CME’s), we : notice little or no affect near the Earth’s surface. [...] Oftentimes, : much of the material from CMEs is deflected away from our planet by its : magnetic field." : "There are, however, dangers to consider when eruptions occur during : times of solar maximum. : For instance, microelectronics on board satellites are especially : susceptible. When high velocity ions plow through a satellite, control : systems can be turned on or off, circuits can be burned out, and : semiconductor material can be degraded. : Solar power panels are especially sensitive to degradation from solar storms. : " : Apparently, our sun (a distinctly Non-Jjaro modified star) has "CMEs : [that can] erupt from the Sun and can carry up to 100 billion tons of : electrified gas toward the Earth at speeds as high as 2000 kilometers per : second." This is during times of the solar maximum. : A link to amazing little 300k .gif of a CME (huge bubbles of gas threaded : with magnetic field lines that are ejected from the Sun) is below: : http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/images/stormwarning/fullhalo_c3_big.gif : Real Science aside: I'm investigating this subject as Steve L. brought up : the possibility in an email that the Rogue Star in WMaiD could be shielded : from outside prying eyes by a strong solar wind. A combination of : overactive and very strong CME's carried by a solar wind could be enough : to deem an area of space dangerous for travel. This would explain why it : wasn't charted in the millions of years prior. : Since this white dwarf star has been tinkered with by the Jjaro, changing : solar winds intensity, and CME's frequency of a Jjaro-Rogue star doesn't : seem too "out there". : This Jjaro outpost world has an network of 14 major defense satellites. This : presented the issue of how they exist amidst such a constant solar : expulsion. I hypothesize that they're safely existing within the modified : planetoids magnetosphere, thus protected from any stray degrading : particles. Or perhaps some magic Jjaro-science located in the modified : planet. Hurray for God-like Alien races: allowing everyone to make : questionable things plausable. : D : If anyone manages to find out where the reference to Sol's "strong solar : winds" came from, please post away. : Regards, : -Blayne
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