--- In whoconcord@..., "Adrian Middleton"
<adrian_middle@y...> wrote:
>
> Cross-posted from http://community.livejournal.com/newapocrypha/

Ooh, I'll have to go over and reply there as well then ;-)

> I'd be interested to get some feedback on my description of the
> Kasterborus System as given in my ongoing novel-thingy:
>
> "At a safe distance, the five planets joined the cosmic dance.
Closest to the twins sat Kaster, which lay just a hundred million
kilometres from the mid-point between the suns."

I don't remember there being a Kaster. And Kasterborus the Fibster is
missing. And if its the latter, it doesn't count as one of the five
planets.

> "At a hundred and fifty million kilometres, where Gallifrey, second
of the five planets, should have been, there was nothing. The Time
Lords had changed the nature of the universe when the time wars began,
desperate to save themselves from the ravages of history. In this
regard, the orrery served not just a navigational function, but also a
political one. Rendulix, the homeworld, as it was also known, had
entered into the realm of legends.

If the story is set after the conquest of Time, then this is probably
correct. What about Pazithi Gallifreya? Is it with Gallifrey. Also,
IIRC Gallifrey has two moons but the second is unnamed.

> "Demos, the world on which Pengallia had been born, and where she
now lay awaiting royal ascension, orbited at a distance of roughly two
hundred million kilometres. Six thousand miles in diameter and circled
by three small moons, Bern, Falin, and Kirros."

Demos is in the Johnny Byrne movie scripts - not heard of the moons.

> "At a distance of almost eight hundred million kilometres lay
Polarfrey, the White Giant, the coldest and brightest planet in the
sky.

That fits with Lungbarrow.

> "Out beyond Polarfrey, the great ice ring circled the system, and
beyond that lay the smallest and remotest of the five planets, Karn,
the dark sister."

Fits with Brain (Warmonger somehow places it in a different system).

> "Some three billion kilometres beyond the centre of the system, Karn
was lit by a strange and magical phenomenon. This light, known as the
Great Veil or the Kasterborus Borealis, bounded the outer edges of the
system and, in ancient times, had been regarded as the great barrier
beyond which the rest of the universe lay."

There is also the Asteroid Archipelago, which I suspect may be the
name given to Gallifrey's Oort Cloud. This suggests that there is a
cluster of asteroids protruding out of the system rather than a
cocoon of asteroids enveloping it.

> Comments?

Given, as alwaqys ;-)

AD