WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.990 Excellent. 2 00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:07.880 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Okay, welcome, everyone. Welcome. Welcome. 3 00:00:08.350 --> 00:00:19.450 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: I think we. Yes, okay. My name is Stacy with providing aid. Thank you so much for joining us today, if you can. Please tell us where you're from in the chat. 4 00:00:20.190 --> 00:00:23.250 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Let's take a look and see who do we have? 5 00:00:25.820 --> 00:00:27.990 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Oh, Arizona, okay. 6 00:00:28.100 --> 00:00:30.250 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: we were just talking about Arizona. Yeah. 7 00:00:30.250 --> 00:00:37.430 Mark O'Bannon: Yeah, I know it's so hot in San Diego today. It's just, you know. I love to say that to people in Arizona complain about the weather in San Diego. 8 00:00:37.430 --> 00:00:43.600 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Love that. Oh, we have some folks from California coming in Canada, Sicily. Okay. 9 00:00:44.430 --> 00:00:46.180 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Alberta. 10 00:00:46.530 --> 00:00:48.840 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Nova Scotia, Kentucky. 11 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:53.479 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: British Columbia. Excellent, excellent! 12 00:00:54.860 --> 00:00:55.260 Mark O'Bannon: Oh, cool! 13 00:00:55.260 --> 00:00:57.180 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Fantastic. Okay. 14 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:00.749 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: me go ahead and get my notes so we can get started 15 00:01:01.980 --> 00:01:03.220 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: all right. 16 00:01:03.340 --> 00:01:08.940 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: So before we begin, we just have a few housekeep housekeeping items for you all. 17 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:24.730 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: 1st you can access the replays by going to the Hub page. Replays will be added to the Hub once they're done processing by zoom. They will also be posted to our community page for all members to view. 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For today I will stop sharing my screen. 26 00:03:19.310 --> 00:03:26.139 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Okay, excellent. So today we have Mark O'bannon coming to speak with us today. 27 00:03:26.330 --> 00:03:29.429 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Let me make sure, Mark, we don't have any 28 00:03:29.600 --> 00:03:51.470 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: technical issues in the chat. Okay, we're good. Yes, so Mark is an American novelist, screenwriter and game designer, best known as the author of 3 Fantasy novel series, Shadows and Dreams, Whiskers and Aya, the barbarian. Oh, Bannon is also the author of the Science Fiction Series. Imperium 29 00:03:52.280 --> 00:04:11.510 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: O'bannon is the CEO of Shadow Star Games, which publishes the interactive Storytelling Game. A pen and paper role, playing game, fantasy, imperium. O'bannon is an advocate of self publishing, and teaches workshops to aspiring authors on how to publish market and promote their work. 30 00:04:12.020 --> 00:04:38.549 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Born in San Diego, San Diego, California. O'bannon is the grandson of the famous aviation pioneer, Reuben H. Fleet, who acquired the Wright Brothers Airplane Company Dayton Wright, along with Gallaudet aircraft and form consolidated aircraft, the makers of the B of the famous B, 24 Liberator bombers and the Pby Catalina Catalina flying boats from World World 2. 31 00:04:38.790 --> 00:04:43.680 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: You can learn more about Mark at his website. And I will link that in our chat. 32 00:04:43.710 --> 00:04:47.180 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: But with that being, said Mark, I believe we're ready to begin. 33 00:04:48.870 --> 00:04:49.816 Mark O'Bannon: Hello, Hello, 34 00:04:50.310 --> 00:04:51.969 Mark O'Bannon: so how's everyone doing today? 35 00:04:52.790 --> 00:04:55.070 Mark O'Bannon: See? Let me share my screen. 36 00:04:56.840 --> 00:04:57.490 Mark O'Bannon: So, 37 00:04:58.590 --> 00:05:01.506 Mark O'Bannon: yeah. So yeah, I'm a science fiction writer. Let me show you. 38 00:05:02.249 --> 00:05:17.030 Mark O'Bannon: By the way, this is 19 M. 1,987 a. This is a supernova that went off on my birthday in in 1,987 is kind of cool this is my star map, and I'll talk about it in a moment. 39 00:05:18.070 --> 00:05:19.660 Mark O'Bannon: the moment. Let's see. 40 00:05:19.930 --> 00:05:21.350 Mark O'Bannon: that's my database. 41 00:05:21.830 --> 00:05:22.670 Mark O'Bannon: Okay. 42 00:05:22.860 --> 00:05:24.400 Mark O'Bannon: so oh, let me 43 00:05:24.440 --> 00:05:27.479 Mark O'Bannon: show you something. You know, this is shot to start game. And 44 00:05:27.580 --> 00:05:30.439 Mark O'Bannon: my website. So this is my website. These are my books. 45 00:05:30.450 --> 00:05:39.420 Mark O'Bannon: And this is my map of the Imperium. This is a real star map. With Xyz coordinates and what this is. 5 light years. 46 00:05:39.500 --> 00:05:49.670 Mark O'Bannon: And I set my stories there. Now, you can get this on the website. You can click on it and it'll get big and you can look at it in detail. You go to my website. You click on 47 00:05:49.940 --> 00:05:53.149 Mark O'Bannon: books, imperium star maps and you can. 48 00:05:53.240 --> 00:06:03.330 Mark O'Bannon: You can see it again. But you could. I also have a blank one? With it just lists the stars without my stuff. So this this is the blue. 49 00:06:03.792 --> 00:06:10.119 Mark O'Bannon: The blue name. The blue names are worlds in my universe. But this is a generic map. 50 00:06:10.330 --> 00:06:14.850 Mark O'Bannon: So let me get I'll explain. I'll get into that in a moment. See? So 51 00:06:16.370 --> 00:06:20.890 Mark O'Bannon: I'm going to talk about the the nearest starts. Those starts within our headlight years. 52 00:06:21.486 --> 00:06:25.279 Mark O'Bannon: So does anyone know what the longest Running Science Fiction Series is. 53 00:06:25.780 --> 00:06:29.199 Mark O'Bannon: It's not Doctor who and it's not Star Trek 54 00:06:29.815 --> 00:06:33.859 Mark O'Bannon: and the longest running written Science Fiction Series 55 00:06:34.140 --> 00:06:35.120 Mark O'Bannon: on. 56 00:06:35.290 --> 00:06:37.160 Mark O'Bannon: Let me see. Just a moment. 57 00:06:38.880 --> 00:06:40.819 Mark O'Bannon: Futurama. No, it's not Futurama. 58 00:06:40.860 --> 00:06:45.872 Mark O'Bannon: So nobody knows. So the longest Running Science Fiction series is 59 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.510 Mark O'Bannon: Perry Rodin. So Perry Rodin. 60 00:06:51.450 --> 00:07:13.909 Mark O'Bannon: and this is a German science fiction. They started writing novels in the sixties, and I think they wrote one or 2 novels every week, and they're still writing them, and I think they're up to issue 4,000 right now. So they've got tons and tons of material and all kinds of interesting ideas. This is the star map in one of the star maps in Perry Rodan. 61 00:07:14.400 --> 00:07:21.080 Mark O'Bannon: And here's another star map in pirate, and they go. They explore other galaxies in in this series, because they've done. 62 00:07:21.130 --> 00:07:28.960 Mark O'Bannon: if you need. If you want ideas for Science Fiction, this is full of it. First, st you need to speak German. I've read a hundred, and I think there's a hundred 50 novels 63 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:30.450 Mark O'Bannon: in English. 64 00:07:30.530 --> 00:07:33.820 Mark O'Bannon: This is another paradent map. This is. 65 00:07:33.830 --> 00:07:37.920 Mark O'Bannon: you know, our galaxy. And then here's an I think this is the local group 66 00:07:38.180 --> 00:07:39.560 Mark O'Bannon: of galaxies. 67 00:07:39.590 --> 00:07:40.190 Mark O'Bannon: So 68 00:07:41.050 --> 00:07:43.849 Mark O'Bannon: and this this is a star map. 69 00:07:43.860 --> 00:07:46.559 Mark O'Bannon: you know, different different sanitation stories. 70 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:49.239 Mark O'Bannon: you can see 71 00:07:49.420 --> 00:07:54.260 Mark O'Bannon: how I guess authors have struggled with trying to get a good map of the stars. 72 00:07:54.300 --> 00:08:07.369 Mark O'Bannon: I went. I went. I began this in in 1990, I decided to make a star map, and I couldn't find the data. And it took years just to wait for the data to come out. I went to astronomers I couldn't find, I found, like the nearest 73 00:08:07.380 --> 00:08:13.278 Mark O'Bannon: 100 nearest hundreds stars, but not not an extensive list. This is 74 00:08:13.710 --> 00:08:16.739 Mark O'Bannon: from the movie alien. This is a star map, and they use 75 00:08:17.463 --> 00:08:21.060 Mark O'Bannon: this is halo, the stormap using halo 76 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:22.360 Mark O'Bannon: kind of interesting 77 00:08:23.044 --> 00:08:24.659 Mark O'Bannon: video games have got 78 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:27.130 Mark O'Bannon: a lot of money, and they they put a lot of 79 00:08:27.260 --> 00:08:35.489 Mark O'Bannon: they can really make some pretty stuff. But is it realistic? Well, we'll find out. This is the Star Trek, one of the Star Trek maps. 80 00:08:36.590 --> 00:08:42.250 Mark O'Bannon: And here's another Star Trek map and more detailed. If you're in a star, Trek, if you may. 81 00:08:42.309 --> 00:08:43.309 Mark O'Bannon: you may 82 00:08:44.179 --> 00:08:46.850 Mark O'Bannon: the end of this. But so this is 83 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:48.340 Mark O'Bannon: this is actually 84 00:08:51.300 --> 00:09:01.779 Mark O'Bannon: There's there's some a major problem with this map, but I'll show you. I'll show you what that is later. But they're far too well. There are far too civilizations in this map, so I'll get into that. 85 00:09:01.800 --> 00:09:06.240 Mark O'Bannon: So. This is June. Some of the maps are using June. 86 00:09:07.510 --> 00:09:15.480 Mark O'Bannon: and this is Star Wars, and this is one of the maps. I think they're more. If you're into the role, the like the Star Star wars role playing game they have. 87 00:09:15.580 --> 00:09:20.770 Mark O'Bannon: They've got maps in there. They're pretty good, but not really. They don't really match reality. 88 00:09:20.950 --> 00:09:27.041 Mark O'Bannon: This is another Star Wars map I found recently. Down here is Tatooine. I found it 89 00:09:27.590 --> 00:09:29.549 Mark O'Bannon: and this is galaxy map. 90 00:09:29.700 --> 00:09:33.540 Mark O'Bannon: So depending on what kind of story you're gonna tell. 91 00:09:34.050 --> 00:09:38.250 Mark O'Bannon: I find you can do plenty of stuff just within a hundred light years. This is 92 00:09:39.006 --> 00:09:41.509 Mark O'Bannon: Helldivers, right? Helldivers map. 93 00:09:41.660 --> 00:09:46.939 Mark O'Bannon: And that's not at all realistic, but it's probably useful for a game right where they design it. 94 00:09:48.140 --> 00:09:52.239 Mark O'Bannon: so this is the old role playing game traveler. 95 00:09:52.736 --> 00:09:55.490 Mark O'Bannon: Which a lot of people used to play with. 96 00:09:55.640 --> 00:10:00.750 Mark O'Bannon: And this is their map. Actually, this is clear picture of one of the 97 00:10:00.970 --> 00:10:06.320 Mark O'Bannon: I always like the starships and traveler. That's 1 of the starships and travel. This is 98 00:10:06.380 --> 00:10:07.450 Mark O'Bannon: the 99 00:10:07.510 --> 00:10:09.119 Mark O'Bannon: map in in 100 00:10:09.350 --> 00:10:11.270 Mark O'Bannon: Traveler, the role-playing game. 101 00:10:11.300 --> 00:10:24.959 Mark O'Bannon: And really cool map, and I remember when we you could generate your own stars, you roll dice, and you said, There's a star here. There's a planet here. You just made it made whatever you want, and it was pretty neat, but it had no bearing on reality. Right? 102 00:10:25.150 --> 00:10:37.409 Mark O'Bannon: So this is so now I'm going to talk about real the real stars. And what what one of the things that got me into this is, I'm a war gamer, and I like to know? Like when I would play 103 00:10:37.410 --> 00:10:58.710 Mark O'Bannon: D and D, or whatever I want to see where I am, and I'm 1 of these people. I want to draw the map, and I want to see what's going on in the different places. I'm going to know where a table is. A chair is a tree. I need to know what is where, and you know there are different ways with writing stories. You can put stories from different directions. You can. There's premise, plot, character setting theme 104 00:10:59.074 --> 00:11:25.219 Mark O'Bannon: dialogue. You might have an idea, an idea for a cool character. You might have an idea, a plot idea, or you might have, you know, just a bit of dialogue that would give you an idea different ways. You can begin a story. I like to start from setting. And but you need to know what what is there? Right so, and in wargaming I want to know exactly how long it takes to get places and all that kind of thing. So this is the Milky Way. Right? 105 00:11:25.881 --> 00:11:29.009 Mark O'Bannon: It's a hundred 1,000 light years in diameter 106 00:11:29.140 --> 00:11:34.419 Mark O'Bannon: and 1,000 light years thick. So it's like a like a CD like disk. It's really skinny. 107 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:48.459 Mark O'Bannon: and it's really wide, right? So if you want to exit the galaxy, you could go up or down, and 500 light years, and you you exit the galaxy right? But if you're going the length wise it'll take you, you know 100,000 108 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:51.870 Mark O'Bannon: light is the diameter, right? So it would take a lot longer. 109 00:11:53.015 --> 00:11:53.900 Mark O'Bannon: So 110 00:11:54.460 --> 00:11:56.790 Mark O'Bannon: the ancient culture is called 111 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:10.200 Mark O'Bannon: our galaxy the river heaven. Yeah, I like the Celtic culture. They call it the River of heaven. And I think this is what they call it. In some other languages, too, there are 100 to 400 billion stars in our galaxy. 112 00:12:11.757 --> 00:12:15.280 Mark O'Bannon: Now, how many civilizations? If 113 00:12:15.650 --> 00:12:18.989 Mark O'Bannon: there are 200 billion stars in the galaxy, which is an average number. 114 00:12:19.350 --> 00:12:29.489 Mark O'Bannon: and one out of 2,000 stars has a civilization that would mean there would be a hundred 1 million stars. So that's what's wrong with. 115 00:12:29.630 --> 00:12:34.607 Mark O'Bannon: like some of these stories like, you know, I love Star Trek. All my friends are Star Trek writers. 116 00:12:35.060 --> 00:13:00.830 Mark O'Bannon: But in Star Trek they're putting. I don't know. You go to the Star Star Trek Wiki. I think they're like 200 million races, which is cool, but you have to think more like in terms of like a hundred 1 million. I think I saw a report by NASA yesterday, and they said there may be 40 million planets with inhabitable planets in our galaxy. So that's has happened, this. But still 40 million. It's a lot right? 117 00:13:02.520 --> 00:13:07.989 Mark O'Bannon: And the center of our galaxy is 26,000 light years away. And it's a 118 00:13:08.110 --> 00:13:13.389 Mark O'Bannon: Sagittarius A, and it's a huge massive black hole at the center of the galaxy. 119 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:18.110 Mark O'Bannon: And here's you know, a little 120 00:13:18.280 --> 00:13:19.890 Mark O'Bannon: view. Here's where we are 121 00:13:20.050 --> 00:13:21.799 Mark O'Bannon: right here, and we're in the 122 00:13:21.830 --> 00:13:25.330 Mark O'Bannon: Ryan arm, and then there's a black hole, the 7th Gaussian. 123 00:13:25.580 --> 00:13:28.720 Mark O'Bannon: And again, it's 50,000 light years 124 00:13:28.780 --> 00:13:31.620 Mark O'Bannon: in radius, or a hundred 1,000 in diameter. 125 00:13:32.910 --> 00:13:35.600 Mark O'Bannon: So if you were to look at the night sky. 126 00:13:36.250 --> 00:13:45.560 Mark O'Bannon: and if Andromeda were visible, if it were a little brighter. There's the moon, and that's Andromeda. That's what it would look like if you were to look up. 127 00:13:45.690 --> 00:13:46.990 Mark O'Bannon: Well, you can see it. 128 00:13:47.992 --> 00:13:49.349 Mark O'Bannon: Now this is 129 00:13:49.370 --> 00:13:52.770 Mark O'Bannon: I forgot. The name of this is this Sagittarius dwarf 130 00:13:53.010 --> 00:14:03.140 Mark O'Bannon: galaxy. I think it is. This is the actually the nearest galaxy. So Andromeda is not the nearest galaxy. They found they found more galaxies, and they found one closer 131 00:14:03.180 --> 00:14:06.400 Mark O'Bannon: and it's called Sagittarius 132 00:14:07.100 --> 00:14:17.059 Mark O'Bannon: Dwarf Galaxy. You could Google it the nearest galaxy, and this galaxy is it's so close to us that our galaxy is ripping it up into pieces, and it's 133 00:14:17.697 --> 00:14:21.193 Mark O'Bannon: it's tearing it apart, and there's a huge 134 00:14:22.190 --> 00:14:31.929 Mark O'Bannon: aura of stars or not aura, but like a trail of stars that have been dragged out of the out of the galaxy. And this this circle, this encircles our galaxy 3 times. 135 00:14:32.040 --> 00:14:34.930 Mark O'Bannon: So that's that's the nearest galaxy. 136 00:14:35.620 --> 00:14:37.660 Mark O'Bannon: And it takes you below us. 137 00:14:37.730 --> 00:14:40.359 Mark O'Bannon: So these are. Here's a constellation map. 138 00:14:40.910 --> 00:14:44.719 Mark O'Bannon: And this is just a like an overview of the of the 139 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:48.100 Mark O'Bannon: of the stars, right? So constellation map. 140 00:14:49.330 --> 00:14:51.670 Mark O'Bannon: And in in India 141 00:14:51.690 --> 00:14:57.049 Mark O'Bannon: they divide the heavens into 27 regions called Nakshatras. 142 00:14:58.100 --> 00:15:02.190 Mark O'Bannon: And here, of course, this is the astrology that we're familiar with, right. 143 00:15:02.250 --> 00:15:06.809 Mark O'Bannon: But you know, Ashirini Barani Kritika Rohini 144 00:15:07.070 --> 00:15:18.020 Mark O'Bannon: can't see that word anyway. So these are. These are the regions they divide the heavens into. So if your if your story has a Hindu 145 00:15:18.422 --> 00:15:21.410 Mark O'Bannon: point of view, you need to think about this. 146 00:15:22.075 --> 00:15:22.710 Mark O'Bannon: So 147 00:15:22.770 --> 00:15:26.530 Mark O'Bannon: you know, there are a billion people in China and a billion people in India 148 00:15:26.570 --> 00:15:27.730 Mark O'Bannon: and 149 00:15:27.910 --> 00:15:48.749 Mark O'Bannon: 1 billion people in Africa. So I like to keep those cultures in mind. This is Hindu astronomy, right? Chinese astronomy. They they divide the heavens into 6 regions, the the black tortoise of the North, the white, the white tiger of the of the West, the azure dragon of the East, and the vermilion bird of the South. 150 00:15:49.381 --> 00:15:51.988 Mark O'Bannon: Here's another picture. Actually the 151 00:15:53.110 --> 00:15:58.619 Mark O'Bannon: and and straight up is the purple forbidden enclosure, and straight down 152 00:15:58.690 --> 00:16:01.509 Mark O'Bannon: is the southern asterisms. 153 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:09.899 Mark O'Bannon: So that's how the Chinese divide up in the heavens, and I use that in my map, in in, you know, if you're trying to figure out where a star is. 154 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:19.360 Mark O'Bannon: you can use that for, like the general idea, or like, you know, it's in the right corner or the left corner right. Now. Our planet. We don't even have 155 00:16:19.985 --> 00:16:34.000 Mark O'Bannon: a consistent name for our planet. Right? Everyone thinks everyone calls it Earth right. It's not what everyone calls it right in Latin. Of course you call it Terra, or in Greek it's Gaia, but in China they call it Dsu, and in 156 00:16:34.040 --> 00:16:44.870 Mark O'Bannon: and in the Hindi India they call it priest. V, right? So a billion people are not calling. But 2 billion people are not calling it Earth. They're calling it by a different name, right? 157 00:16:46.040 --> 00:16:46.720 Mark O'Bannon: And 158 00:16:47.410 --> 00:16:49.540 Mark O'Bannon: same thing with the Sun 159 00:16:49.980 --> 00:16:54.179 Mark O'Bannon: Son. You know the Latin name is Sol, and the Greek name is Helios 160 00:16:54.190 --> 00:16:58.570 Mark O'Bannon: Thai Yang. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. If you're Chinese in Syria for Hindi. 161 00:16:58.940 --> 00:17:02.660 Mark O'Bannon: So those are the different names in those cultures now in, if you're in Africa. 162 00:17:02.760 --> 00:17:04.900 Mark O'Bannon: Africa has lots of different 163 00:17:05.261 --> 00:17:11.359 Mark O'Bannon: languages and lots of tribes, and they all have different names for the earth and for the sun. 164 00:17:11.430 --> 00:17:13.760 Mark O'Bannon: I just googled like the top 10 165 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:23.629 Mark O'Bannon: tribes in Africa, and what they call and ask what? Actually asked, Shedgbt chat gpt is pretty good for research. Sometimes it makes stuff up so you gotta be careful of it. 166 00:17:23.869 --> 00:17:32.760 Mark O'Bannon: but it's great for research. So anyway, if you're writing a story, like your characters are Zulu characters. Then 167 00:17:34.574 --> 00:17:39.119 Mark O'Bannon: flava is the name of the earth, and Manga is the name of the sun. So 168 00:17:39.150 --> 00:17:41.359 Mark O'Bannon: this is something else that's kind of interesting. 169 00:17:41.600 --> 00:17:42.360 Mark O'Bannon: The 170 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:43.810 Mark O'Bannon: so 171 00:17:44.429 --> 00:17:51.310 Mark O'Bannon: you know, in every sense we can stray. I've always seen it with closet earth, but this gives you a new point of view. It makes it kind of fun. 172 00:17:51.330 --> 00:17:52.559 Mark O'Bannon: Want to use this. 173 00:17:53.250 --> 00:17:54.660 Mark O'Bannon: This is the 174 00:17:55.289 --> 00:18:00.589 Mark O'Bannon: local area. They've discovered the the geography or the 175 00:18:01.335 --> 00:18:04.340 Mark O'Bannon: I guess the terrain around our solar system. 176 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:06.870 Mark O'Bannon: They set up voyager one and 2 177 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:07.600 Mark O'Bannon: and 178 00:18:09.520 --> 00:18:13.889 Mark O'Bannon: they found there's like a region of of 179 00:18:14.080 --> 00:18:16.710 Mark O'Bannon: space around our our sun. 180 00:18:16.770 --> 00:18:25.400 Mark O'Bannon: It's it's basically a bubble right? And it's created by the solar wind that blows out from the star, and it creates a bubble. 181 00:18:25.510 --> 00:18:37.050 Mark O'Bannon: and then it moves through the galaxy. Right it goes around the it goes around the galactic center and at the edge. They call it the termination shock. And this is the heliopause. 182 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:41.069 Mark O'Bannon: and this is then out here you have galactic cosmic rays. 183 00:18:41.080 --> 00:18:44.010 Mark O'Bannon: and that's a bow shock. Here's another view of it. 184 00:18:45.270 --> 00:18:49.060 Mark O'Bannon: And it's just heliopause in the Thalways. So 185 00:18:49.320 --> 00:19:03.900 Mark O'Bannon: for travel in in my stories. I use solar sales. And so I I keep in track of. I like to keep track of this kind of stuff so you can use solar wind in your stories if you wanted to. But this is the what they've discovered. 186 00:19:04.389 --> 00:19:05.709 Mark O'Bannon: This is called the 187 00:19:05.800 --> 00:19:07.853 Mark O'Bannon: a heliocentric 188 00:19:08.890 --> 00:19:16.650 Mark O'Bannon: current sheet, or Astrospheric current sheet. Heliospheric means our sun Astrospheric means 189 00:19:16.830 --> 00:19:18.489 Mark O'Bannon: any star. So 190 00:19:18.812 --> 00:19:22.880 Mark O'Bannon: Astrospheric current sheet. And what this is is sort of a map of 191 00:19:23.870 --> 00:19:30.739 Mark O'Bannon: the stellar winds. And they rotate, and they change dynamically as the sun changes. 192 00:19:31.475 --> 00:19:32.159 Mark O'Bannon: So 193 00:19:33.670 --> 00:19:35.363 Mark O'Bannon: just kind of interesting. 194 00:19:37.170 --> 00:19:40.590 Mark O'Bannon: this is a more detailed explanation of 195 00:19:40.970 --> 00:19:44.230 Mark O'Bannon: our our. So the heliosphere 196 00:19:44.290 --> 00:19:52.879 Mark O'Bannon: he has something called the helium tail, which is like, because because it's not static. Our sun is rotating around the Galactic Center. It's like a it's like a teardrop shape. 197 00:19:53.010 --> 00:19:56.230 Mark O'Bannon: So you had helio tail and the bow shock and 198 00:19:56.360 --> 00:19:58.930 Mark O'Bannon: and all that. These are the different regions right. 199 00:20:01.280 --> 00:20:02.300 Mark O'Bannon: and 200 00:20:02.360 --> 00:20:03.106 Mark O'Bannon: these are 201 00:20:03.710 --> 00:20:05.160 Mark O'Bannon: This is kind of cool stuff. 202 00:20:05.170 --> 00:20:06.460 Mark O'Bannon: is another view. 203 00:20:06.600 --> 00:20:12.860 Mark O'Bannon: The heliopods, the boundary where the sun's solar wind balances with the pressure pressure of the interstellar medium. Right? 204 00:20:13.342 --> 00:20:20.877 Mark O'Bannon: The heliosphere is an enormous expanse marked by the outer reaches of the sun's magnetic field and solar wind. So this is 205 00:20:21.410 --> 00:20:34.770 Mark O'Bannon: which is kind of cool to me. I'm into this. I'm a geek, I guess so. Of course, if you a science fiction writer, you're probably a geek, too. This is like a view of what the planet with all the stars, are going to be looking like the little bubbles traveling through the 206 00:20:35.050 --> 00:20:37.960 Mark O'Bannon: you know the habits, little bubbles of 207 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:44.989 Mark O'Bannon: creating astrospheres right? And now the strength of astrosphere 208 00:20:45.090 --> 00:20:50.230 Mark O'Bannon: depends on the type of star. So the hotter stars have bigger astropheres, and the 209 00:20:50.290 --> 00:20:54.790 Mark O'Bannon: the cool, like. The cool red stars don't have really powerful astropheres. 210 00:20:55.639 --> 00:20:56.290 Mark O'Bannon: And 211 00:20:56.380 --> 00:21:02.170 Mark O'Bannon: this is an animation I found of that's going on, Star, right 212 00:21:02.790 --> 00:21:03.799 Mark O'Bannon: kind of cool. 213 00:21:05.370 --> 00:21:05.980 Mark O'Bannon: So 214 00:21:07.270 --> 00:21:13.569 Mark O'Bannon: this is. Now, now I'm getting it into how I made this map. Let me see where I am, I'm on 5, 40. So 215 00:21:13.650 --> 00:21:16.949 Mark O'Bannon: so now, what I'm going to get into is this map 216 00:21:17.540 --> 00:21:20.029 Mark O'Bannon: and this map is 217 00:21:20.512 --> 00:21:23.170 Mark O'Bannon: I'll show you how I designed this map? 218 00:21:25.190 --> 00:21:25.900 Mark O'Bannon: 12. 219 00:21:28.890 --> 00:21:31.209 Mark O'Bannon: Well, that's my database. Just a moment. I'll get there. 220 00:21:31.470 --> 00:21:32.723 Mark O'Bannon: That so 221 00:21:34.510 --> 00:21:37.180 Mark O'Bannon: this is when you're looking at Star. 222 00:21:37.946 --> 00:21:41.509 Mark O'Bannon: It's all based on in relation to earth. Right? 223 00:21:41.710 --> 00:21:45.589 Mark O'Bannon: So you have something called right ascension, which is 224 00:21:45.990 --> 00:21:56.779 Mark O'Bannon: 360 degrees in a circle. And how how many degrees it moves around the circle, and then declination is up and down. So it's a positive or a negative number. 225 00:21:56.790 --> 00:21:59.949 Mark O'Bannon: and it's all done in hours, minutes and seconds 226 00:22:00.080 --> 00:22:03.389 Mark O'Bannon: just to make it difficult for people. And 227 00:22:03.560 --> 00:22:07.139 Mark O'Bannon: and so this is a constellation map. 228 00:22:07.220 --> 00:22:09.240 Mark O'Bannon: And if you look at the upper right 229 00:22:09.563 --> 00:22:16.900 Mark O'Bannon: you'll have 1, 2, 3, 4. Those are hour, minute. Those are hours. So there are 24 of them, because that's 24 h. 230 00:22:17.050 --> 00:22:19.654 Mark O'Bannon: and then on the right side. You have 231 00:22:20.290 --> 00:22:25.070 Mark O'Bannon: the degrees, you know, plus and minus up to 90 degrees 90 degrees right? 232 00:22:25.230 --> 00:22:32.180 Mark O'Bannon: And that's where the that's the location to start. So if you want to pick a star, I don't know corvus. So it's 12, 233 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:33.889 Mark O'Bannon: 12 h 234 00:22:33.930 --> 00:22:36.220 Mark O'Bannon: I don't know 30, 20 min. 235 00:22:36.320 --> 00:22:39.150 Mark O'Bannon: and then it's minus 236 00:22:39.600 --> 00:22:40.550 Mark O'Bannon: and 237 00:22:40.910 --> 00:22:47.532 Mark O'Bannon: maybe minus 15 degrees. So that's how you do write extension thing. That's how you read a 238 00:22:48.130 --> 00:22:49.720 Mark O'Bannon: consolation chart. 239 00:22:50.860 --> 00:22:56.719 Mark O'Bannon: Right? So now, we need to get into measuring system. And this is all based on 240 00:22:56.900 --> 00:23:03.630 Mark O'Bannon: our own star system. Right? So the orbital period of Earth is 365.25 days. Right? 241 00:23:04.210 --> 00:23:09.150 Mark O'Bannon: So one astronomical unit is about a hundred, nearly 150 242 00:23:09.170 --> 00:23:10.779 Mark O'Bannon: 1 million kilometers. 243 00:23:11.040 --> 00:23:23.319 Mark O'Bannon: And it's the astronomical unit. Now, it's not a circular orbit, so it's elliptical, so they call it the mean distance, which is the average distance. So it's the mean distance from the center of the earth to the center of the sun. 244 00:23:23.340 --> 00:23:27.650 Mark O'Bannon: and it's about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers. Right? 245 00:23:30.140 --> 00:23:38.680 Mark O'Bannon: this is a parsec. These are different measuring systems. So one part is, it is is the distance to an object whose parallax angle is one arc. Second. 246 00:23:39.560 --> 00:23:47.729 Mark O'Bannon: I'm like, okay, what does that mean? Well, it works out to about one parsley, because 3.2 6 light light years now a lot of astronomers use it, because 247 00:23:47.860 --> 00:23:53.220 Mark O'Bannon: I guess it's it's easier to do the math, because it's you're dealing with smaller numbers. I prefer light years. 248 00:23:53.510 --> 00:23:55.180 Mark O'Bannon: This is the speed of light. 249 00:23:55.650 --> 00:24:09.000 Mark O'Bannon: 299,000 meters per second. So around 300,000 kilometers per second, or 186,000 miles, I use kilometers because most of the cultures on Earth use kilometers, but you could use either, of course. 250 00:24:10.190 --> 00:24:11.889 Mark O'Bannon: And so 300,000 251 00:24:12.250 --> 00:24:14.699 Mark O'Bannon: kilometers per second. Right 252 00:24:14.950 --> 00:24:18.569 Mark O'Bannon: now, here's a lot. Here is 253 00:24:18.860 --> 00:24:23.210 Mark O'Bannon: nearly 10 trillion kilometers. That's how long it takes to travel in a year. 254 00:24:23.290 --> 00:24:27.800 Mark O'Bannon: And you need to understand how vast spaces it's huge, right? 255 00:24:27.830 --> 00:24:39.179 Mark O'Bannon: It actually takes 1.3 sec. Light seconds for light from Earth. To reach the moon it takes 8 and a half minute, 8.3 min from the sun's light to reach us. 256 00:24:39.940 --> 00:24:44.849 Mark O'Bannon: After Zatari. It takes 4.4 light years. Obviously, right? This is like, 257 00:24:45.260 --> 00:24:57.709 Mark O'Bannon: it's measured in distance and light years right? The Hercules, Hercules, global cluster and 13 is 25,000 lights away. And then drama is 2.5 million lights away. Right? So 258 00:24:57.730 --> 00:24:59.740 Mark O'Bannon: this is interesting. But though 259 00:25:00.210 --> 00:25:02.209 Mark O'Bannon: just within our own solar system. 260 00:25:02.600 --> 00:25:03.580 Mark O'Bannon: Buto. 261 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:08.029 Mark O'Bannon: light from the sun takes 5 and a half hours to reach Pluto. 262 00:25:08.420 --> 00:25:15.099 Mark O'Bannon: so if you've got a story, and you've got like interstellar combat happening, and they jump into the system. 263 00:25:15.280 --> 00:25:19.430 Mark O'Bannon: You can't see them. If you're at Earth you can't see them for 5 and a half hours 264 00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:20.493 Mark O'Bannon: to reach. 265 00:25:21.600 --> 00:25:23.570 Mark O'Bannon: Until the light from the 266 00:25:23.820 --> 00:25:27.799 Mark O'Bannon: from the new ships get to Earth. It'll take 5 h, 5 and a half hours 267 00:25:27.900 --> 00:25:29.719 Mark O'Bannon: to just retest. Right? 268 00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:33.140 Mark O'Bannon: So that's something to keep in mind. 269 00:25:33.170 --> 00:25:43.559 Mark O'Bannon: In fact, all, all of light speed combat. It's a lot of people love the expense. I love the expense. But they they don't do an entirely realistic combat in space, because 270 00:25:43.630 --> 00:25:46.070 Mark O'Bannon: light speed and Comp. And space. 271 00:25:46.130 --> 00:25:50.949 Mark O'Bannon: You're traveling so fast you're going 300,000 light years per so per second. 272 00:25:51.450 --> 00:25:54.790 Mark O'Bannon: you let's say you're half of the speed of light 150,000 273 00:25:55.330 --> 00:26:02.930 Mark O'Bannon: kilometers per second, right? And they're coming at you at half the speed of light. So combined. It's 300,000 light years per second. 274 00:26:03.180 --> 00:26:07.700 Mark O'Bannon: And then, when you fight each other at the ranges. They may be fighting 275 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:11.860 Mark O'Bannon: the engagement range. It's like 2 ms. 276 00:26:12.040 --> 00:26:22.710 Mark O'Bannon: and that's below the threshold of our ability to even perceive it. So it's so fast it's a blink of an eye so fast, so light speed combat 277 00:26:22.810 --> 00:26:25.390 Mark O'Bannon: in a situation so it would have to be done. 278 00:26:26.305 --> 00:26:28.150 Mark O'Bannon: With computers right 279 00:26:28.484 --> 00:26:31.400 Mark O'Bannon: or get incredibly lucky when you shoot them right? 280 00:26:31.848 --> 00:26:36.579 Mark O'Bannon: And then here's this is a neat website, atlas of the universe.com 281 00:26:37.181 --> 00:26:40.200 Mark O'Bannon: and it's got a pretty neat atlas. 282 00:26:40.370 --> 00:26:41.622 Mark O'Bannon: but they have. 283 00:26:42.750 --> 00:26:46.029 Mark O'Bannon: This is the stars within 12 and a half light years. 284 00:26:46.330 --> 00:26:48.450 Mark O'Bannon: and it's in 3D. Which is neat. 285 00:26:48.570 --> 00:26:53.410 Mark O'Bannon: And then here's stars from the 50 light years, that's what it looks like. 286 00:26:54.180 --> 00:26:54.820 Mark O'Bannon: And 287 00:26:57.130 --> 00:27:00.140 Mark O'Bannon: By the way, this is not complete. They're about 288 00:27:00.330 --> 00:27:08.850 Mark O'Bannon: a thousand stars within 50 light years, as I'm going to show you and 4,000 stars within a hundred light years. 289 00:27:09.140 --> 00:27:16.279 Mark O'Bannon: So this is a 250 light years. Just a generic. They're they're basically putting the highlighted, the like main 290 00:27:16.520 --> 00:27:43.749 Mark O'Bannon: planets. I guess they're not putting them all. They're not going to name them all right. But it's a neat website, and you can keep going out. And it shows you how vast things are. Now, if you're running a science fiction story. And you've got one of these cool. And every Science Fiction TV show does this. They always have their space battles near nebula. Right. Nebulas look cool, because, you know, space is boring, but it's blackness with a bunch of lights right? So they love to put nebulas 291 00:27:43.870 --> 00:27:51.460 Mark O'Bannon: in the background. It looks cool right? Well, the closest nebula to earth is the helix nebula, and it's 700 light years away. 292 00:27:52.257 --> 00:27:53.570 Mark O'Bannon: Yeah, Star Trek. 293 00:27:53.730 --> 00:27:55.259 Mark O'Bannon: They travel there right? 294 00:27:56.350 --> 00:27:59.599 Mark O'Bannon: so they could. They can do that cause it's they're they're 295 00:27:59.630 --> 00:28:07.039 Mark O'Bannon: their story world. You have to figure when you're writing a story. What's your arena? How big is your arena size, or how big is your story area size? 296 00:28:07.130 --> 00:28:09.040 Mark O'Bannon: And so in Star Trek they have. 297 00:28:09.100 --> 00:28:12.429 Mark O'Bannon: you know. They can go to that to a to an enabler. 298 00:28:12.660 --> 00:28:14.570 Mark O'Bannon: That's just the nearest nebula. 299 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:17.039 Mark O'Bannon: right? So these are the different stars. 300 00:28:18.690 --> 00:28:21.180 Mark O'Bannon: and they're rated by their their temperature. 301 00:28:21.928 --> 00:28:29.209 Mark O'Bannon: Our our cool dwarf star. A yellow yellow star is a a g star to Yellow Star 302 00:28:29.280 --> 00:28:30.100 Mark O'Bannon: and 303 00:28:31.380 --> 00:28:33.829 Mark O'Bannon: M. Stars are the cool ones right 304 00:28:33.860 --> 00:28:40.740 Mark O'Bannon: now. They say that if if you find the habitable zone around, each star is going to shrink. 305 00:28:40.750 --> 00:28:48.609 Mark O'Bannon: depending on the how much heat it has, right? So obviously the habitable zone around a type. A star is going to be far out. 306 00:28:48.660 --> 00:28:53.659 Mark O'Bannon: and then around us is going to be shorter, and then an M. Star. I think I 307 00:28:54.010 --> 00:29:02.500 Mark O'Bannon: seen the habit of the zone around the M. Star. It's been estimated it'd be basically very close to the star, like like Mercury is 308 00:29:02.510 --> 00:29:04.637 Mark O'Bannon: to our star and 309 00:29:05.740 --> 00:29:06.940 Mark O'Bannon: i. 310 00:29:07.290 --> 00:29:33.969 Mark O'Bannon: and often the the star is going to be what they call tidally locked to the stars. So only one fit on one side will one face of the planet will show. The star will face the star a minute, because the rotational speed of the planet is the same as the orbit like our moon, right? So they call it tidally locked, as I recall. So I'm not thinking a lot of M class stars would be good candidates for that, although nobody really knows. 311 00:29:34.633 --> 00:29:41.156 Mark O'Bannon: And so this is how many stars of the different types we have in our galaxy or not in our galaxy. This is 312 00:29:42.190 --> 00:29:48.260 Mark O'Bannon: This is within a hundred light years. Now, again, the galaxy is 100,000 light years in diameter. 313 00:29:48.310 --> 00:29:51.700 Mark O'Bannon: and this is just a hundred. So this is 1 1,000 314 00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:55.320 Mark O'Bannon: of the diameter of the galaxy. And then 315 00:29:55.350 --> 00:30:03.650 Mark O'Bannon: again, it's a thousand light years thick. So you have to have 10. You have to have these stacked 10 high, and then a thousand of them. That's 316 00:30:03.710 --> 00:30:09.239 Mark O'Bannon: that's the galaxy, right? So this is how many of each type of star. We have within a hundred light years. 317 00:30:10.125 --> 00:30:10.870 Mark O'Bannon: And 318 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:14.269 Mark O'Bannon: in fact, a stars. 319 00:30:14.450 --> 00:30:17.429 Mark O'Bannon: There are 9 within 25 my years. 320 00:30:17.650 --> 00:30:26.870 Mark O'Bannon: I'll show you that. So this is my database. In fact, let me jump out of here. I put it in the slides to give you an idea what my database is. So this is this is 321 00:30:27.350 --> 00:30:32.196 Mark O'Bannon: this the star name? Right? And then this is a fictitious name. 322 00:30:33.010 --> 00:30:38.232 Mark O'Bannon: fact. Let me jump out of that. Go to my database regular database. So the this is 323 00:30:41.620 --> 00:30:51.753 Mark O'Bannon: This is just the names of the stars, right? And I I color coded them so I can see a desert. There's a yellow star. They're out there. This is. 324 00:30:52.180 --> 00:31:02.189 Mark O'Bannon: How many stars is it a binary, or a Trinity, or or just one star, or even more might some stars have 4 stars in the system. This is right ascension 325 00:31:02.210 --> 00:31:22.310 Mark O'Bannon: in hours, minutes, and seconds. This is declination and plus and minus degrees. This is parsec distance, distance in light years. This is the Xyz coordinates, and excel is so neat you can type in the formulas, and it'll calculate it for you. This is what constellation stars in. 326 00:31:22.540 --> 00:31:24.989 Mark O'Bannon: This is the Chinese 327 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:28.160 Mark O'Bannon: and enclosure. It's in right 328 00:31:29.510 --> 00:31:30.560 Mark O'Bannon: and then 329 00:31:31.350 --> 00:31:32.000 Mark O'Bannon: but 330 00:31:32.070 --> 00:31:35.470 Mark O'Bannon: I haven't done a lot of these red stars and some more data. 331 00:31:38.370 --> 00:31:41.930 Mark O'Bannon: okay, a lot of the star. Most of the stars are are red stars. 332 00:31:42.060 --> 00:31:44.359 Mark O'Bannon: So, in fact, if I go to the top. 333 00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:46.899 Mark O'Bannon: These are the planets in my 334 00:31:47.030 --> 00:31:50.079 Mark O'Bannon: that I'm highlighting in my own story. So 335 00:31:50.528 --> 00:31:58.000 Mark O'Bannon: and I haven't entered most. I haven't completed everything in the like. There's lots of blank spaces, because I haven't done those stars yet. 336 00:31:58.594 --> 00:32:00.019 Mark O'Bannon: And then so 337 00:32:00.660 --> 00:32:01.700 Mark O'Bannon: this is 338 00:32:02.610 --> 00:32:09.299 Mark O'Bannon: number of planets fictitious in the story, and this is the number of habitable planets. This is a fictitious number. 339 00:32:09.390 --> 00:32:19.619 Mark O'Bannon: It might be real. We don't know. This is the real end planets. This is what we've actually discovered. As up to the we keep finding these these on the planets, I think we found. 340 00:32:19.850 --> 00:32:21.530 Mark O'Bannon: I think, 4,000 planets. 341 00:32:21.790 --> 00:32:23.790 Mark O'Bannon: And then this is the 342 00:32:24.210 --> 00:32:29.659 Mark O'Bannon: the year length in the habitable zone, around the star, depending on what it is right. 343 00:32:29.750 --> 00:32:32.990 Mark O'Bannon: And then, you know, there's some notes. So this is. And this is 344 00:32:33.340 --> 00:32:37.080 Mark O'Bannon: I type in the right ascension declination distance. And it does all the math. 345 00:32:37.150 --> 00:32:44.980 Mark O'Bannon: and it it converts the number to a digital number, and then it calculates Xic coordinates. But basically I type in all this stuff. 346 00:32:45.060 --> 00:32:50.430 Mark O'Bannon: and then it calculates the the the numbers, the XYZ. Coordinates. 347 00:32:50.440 --> 00:32:58.659 Mark O'Bannon: and then I could put it on the map. And my map has got 900 Photoshop layers. Because this is around 360 348 00:32:58.740 --> 00:33:00.090 Mark O'Bannon: stars 349 00:33:00.340 --> 00:33:01.115 Mark O'Bannon: and 350 00:33:02.587 --> 00:33:09.009 Mark O'Bannon: so to do. To to do this I need to put one layer for the star, and then a layer for the name. 351 00:33:09.020 --> 00:33:14.299 Mark O'Bannon: and then a layer for the XYZ. Coordinates in light years, so minus 13, 352 00:33:14.560 --> 00:33:40.330 Mark O'Bannon: 2, and then see, this is 5. So one square is 5. So and it's also 45 above the because if you're looking down on top, right? So this is plus 45, this is minus 34, right? So that's how that works. And then I also have a believe it or not. I made a start. Distances, chart and I put on, and, by the way, if you if you want, I'd be happy to send you the database and just send me an email that I'm 353 00:33:40.670 --> 00:33:45.320 Mark O'Bannon: meow publishing@gmail.com, but I'll send you my databases, and you can play with it yourself. 354 00:33:45.500 --> 00:33:49.899 Mark O'Bannon: And so this is calculating the distance between the stars. So if you want to go from. 355 00:33:50.150 --> 00:34:04.820 Mark O'Bannon: I don't know. Wolf 3, 5, 9, and you want to travel to epsilon erudani. It's 1515.2 3 light years away, and if you know how long it takes to travel in your world, if you want to figure all that out, let's say you travel. 356 00:34:05.060 --> 00:34:09.349 Mark O'Bannon: you know, one light year a day, so that'll take 15 days to get there. That kind of thing. 357 00:34:09.798 --> 00:34:14.199 Mark O'Bannon: So that's how I use it in in my stories, and then 358 00:34:14.580 --> 00:34:15.909 Mark O'Bannon: get back to this. 359 00:34:17.889 --> 00:34:18.554 Mark O'Bannon: So 360 00:34:20.230 --> 00:34:26.720 Mark O'Bannon: hopefully, this isn't too boring with you guys. So this is just my database stuff. And then, this is my. 361 00:34:26.900 --> 00:34:36.519 Mark O'Bannon: well, you know this. This is my map. And here's okay. Now, this, this is the star map. This is Larry Nivens. Known space. 362 00:34:36.929 --> 00:34:44.870 Mark O'Bannon: I need, I think I need to send this to Larry. So this is known spaces at the Kaziki stories. And basically these are the blue. 363 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:52.560 Mark O'Bannon: the blue names of the names in his story, and I. Then I stripped away all the names except the names in his stories, and that's what it looks like. 364 00:34:52.710 --> 00:34:55.400 Mark O'Bannon: and also made a side view of known space. 365 00:34:56.659 --> 00:35:00.290 Mark O'Bannon: and I don't even, you know this is in the excel sheet. I'll 366 00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:06.464 Mark O'Bannon: I mean, this is the in the Powerpoint. I can open the file and show a few more detail. This is 367 00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:08.850 Mark O'Bannon: just a blank map. 368 00:35:09.240 --> 00:35:14.649 Mark O'Bannon: This is my world, and I divided it into provinces right? And these are the different provinces. 369 00:35:14.740 --> 00:35:18.900 Mark O'Bannon: And so that's how that works. Then let me show you 370 00:35:20.460 --> 00:35:21.910 Mark O'Bannon: is in more detail. 371 00:35:23.040 --> 00:35:24.180 Mark O'Bannon: so this is 372 00:35:25.586 --> 00:35:29.850 Mark O'Bannon: it's also color coded. So you can see all the yellow stars they pop right out. 373 00:35:30.190 --> 00:35:31.260 Mark O'Bannon: and 374 00:35:31.420 --> 00:35:33.229 Mark O'Bannon: there's the blue stars. 375 00:35:33.450 --> 00:35:38.349 Mark O'Bannon: So anyway, yeah, feel free to use the map. If you because this is just a real star map. 376 00:35:38.698 --> 00:35:42.819 Mark O'Bannon: If you want. If they put it in your stories and send me an email, if you want. 377 00:35:42.850 --> 00:35:44.210 Mark O'Bannon: and all the 378 00:35:44.260 --> 00:35:45.354 Mark O'Bannon: I'll help you 379 00:35:46.100 --> 00:35:50.679 Mark O'Bannon: work on this stuff. So that's that's how I'm made by Star Matt. This this is a 380 00:35:50.850 --> 00:35:55.940 Mark O'Bannon: 25 light year radius, and the purple is a 50 light year radius. 381 00:35:56.070 --> 00:36:00.217 Mark O'Bannon: And again, this map is only 382 00:36:03.120 --> 00:36:05.140 Mark O'Bannon: back here. Let me show you known space 383 00:36:05.330 --> 00:36:08.780 Mark O'Bannon: on that. Here's the imperium. This is my 384 00:36:09.240 --> 00:36:11.800 Mark O'Bannon: sorry. I I put more 385 00:36:12.150 --> 00:36:15.460 Mark O'Bannon: symbols on the map. So the blues represent 386 00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:19.280 Mark O'Bannon: a provincial capital in my stories right? 387 00:36:19.290 --> 00:36:24.559 Mark O'Bannon: The now these purple mean it's a minus 34. They're down below. They're in the southern aspect of. 388 00:36:24.900 --> 00:36:26.519 Mark O'Bannon: and the the pink 389 00:36:26.560 --> 00:36:28.220 Mark O'Bannon: are up above. 390 00:36:28.670 --> 00:36:34.320 Mark O'Bannon: That's that kind of gives you an idea. So you can at a glance see the pink stars. Those are above. 391 00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:39.359 Mark O'Bannon: and the blue stars are down below. And you know you can 392 00:36:39.420 --> 00:36:40.740 Mark O'Bannon: like zoom in. And 393 00:36:41.332 --> 00:36:42.569 Mark O'Bannon: these are the. 394 00:36:42.730 --> 00:36:45.750 Mark O'Bannon: And if you actually were to recount, you'd say, Well. 395 00:36:45.860 --> 00:36:48.310 Mark O'Bannon: whereas okay, 5, 10 396 00:36:48.730 --> 00:36:49.970 Mark O'Bannon: is 11. 397 00:36:50.110 --> 00:36:55.939 Mark O'Bannon: And then there's 1 light year, and then minus 25. That's where that that's where that White star is right. 398 00:36:55.980 --> 00:37:01.661 Mark O'Bannon: And then again, these are the blue names are names in my series, my stories. 399 00:37:02.060 --> 00:37:03.729 Mark O'Bannon: and you might want to. 400 00:37:03.830 --> 00:37:08.909 Mark O'Bannon: you know you. You can maybe make your own or this is known space. I'll show you more detail. 401 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:14.269 Mark O'Bannon: if you're familiar with Larry Niven's work and the disinti stories. 402 00:37:14.350 --> 00:37:15.930 Mark O'Bannon: his silver eyes. 403 00:37:16.010 --> 00:37:18.639 Mark O'Bannon: Chak and Wonderland, home. 404 00:37:18.970 --> 00:37:21.960 Mark O'Bannon: Jinx, Kai plateau. 405 00:37:23.600 --> 00:37:28.060 Mark O'Bannon: Here's the here's down which used to be called scrolling, and 406 00:37:28.160 --> 00:37:30.639 Mark O'Bannon: this is we made it. That's procure. 407 00:37:30.720 --> 00:37:35.530 Mark O'Bannon: By the way, the Dog Star, the brightest star in our sky is Sirius A. And it's only 408 00:37:35.980 --> 00:37:39.770 Mark O'Bannon: it's I think it's 8 light years away, but I could go look at my 409 00:37:40.330 --> 00:37:44.189 Mark O'Bannon: database, and I can look up, Sirius. Let's see, Sirius. 410 00:37:44.850 --> 00:37:49.339 Mark O'Bannon: serious is there. It's 8.9 2 light years away. 411 00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:51.140 Mark O'Bannon: Wait, I'm sorry. That's my decision. 412 00:37:51.820 --> 00:37:58.880 Mark O'Bannon: It's it's it's it's 8.6 light years away. Right? So that's how this 413 00:38:00.600 --> 00:38:02.680 Mark O'Bannon: is used. So that's known space. 414 00:38:02.790 --> 00:38:03.780 Mark O'Bannon: And 415 00:38:03.930 --> 00:38:13.429 Mark O'Bannon: there's a more detailed. This is all the other stars and that are not not used in space. And then here's the same thing with all the names stripped off. 416 00:38:14.102 --> 00:38:14.867 Mark O'Bannon: And then 417 00:38:16.270 --> 00:38:20.110 Mark O'Bannon: Here's a side view of known space again. Let me show you 418 00:38:22.410 --> 00:38:23.410 Mark O'Bannon: and 419 00:38:23.630 --> 00:38:25.059 Mark O'Bannon: and soul right. 420 00:38:25.330 --> 00:38:27.299 Mark O'Bannon: and you get an idea of how 421 00:38:27.430 --> 00:38:32.179 Mark O'Bannon: far up and down they are right. Who's Kazin home? There's the whole world, or Kazin team right 422 00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:33.069 Mark O'Bannon: and 423 00:38:34.390 --> 00:38:37.190 Mark O'Bannon: But that's that's where that is. And then let's see. 424 00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:42.844 Mark O'Bannon: So okay, that's that's it, I guess. Yeah. So that's all the 425 00:38:43.630 --> 00:38:47.560 Mark O'Bannon: pictures of the map. So if you want to go to my website, just go to 426 00:38:48.370 --> 00:38:49.729 Mark O'Bannon: yeah, publishing 427 00:38:50.250 --> 00:38:52.480 Mark O'Bannon: battlestar game, it's my game company. 428 00:38:53.130 --> 00:38:55.090 Mark O'Bannon: Here's beyond publishing right? 429 00:38:55.350 --> 00:38:57.839 Mark O'Bannon: And you could go to books. 430 00:38:57.960 --> 00:39:05.649 Mark O'Bannon: star maps, and then you could click on imperium, and you could get a nice, beautiful view right yourself, right? Or you could go 431 00:39:06.820 --> 00:39:13.340 Mark O'Bannon: or you could go to the this is me my stories. But you could. You could download this ticket right there, and 432 00:39:13.790 --> 00:39:16.367 Mark O'Bannon: oh, there it is, it's loaded. So 433 00:39:17.300 --> 00:39:18.700 Mark O'Bannon: So that's 434 00:39:18.870 --> 00:39:20.970 Mark O'Bannon: the Star map, if you guys want to use it. 435 00:39:22.430 --> 00:39:23.400 Mark O'Bannon: And 436 00:39:23.750 --> 00:39:24.760 Mark O'Bannon: again 437 00:39:25.180 --> 00:39:27.280 Mark O'Bannon: for other comments, this is 438 00:39:27.940 --> 00:39:45.280 Mark O'Bannon: Sir Isaac Arthur, not, sir. His name is Isaac Arthur. He has a really great Youtube channel. If you're looking for ideas for Science fiction stories, he's he's a scientist and he's gone. He's got videos, like, like hundreds of videos, he's got 723 videos. 439 00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:58.449 Mark O'Bannon: And he's got on all kinds of subjects like, how does space combat work? How does self-determ machines work? You know how to call? You know. What's our? How would how would we call those other planets. 440 00:39:58.470 --> 00:40:03.740 Mark O'Bannon: And this is a a gold mine of ideas for stories, you know. 441 00:40:05.250 --> 00:40:07.849 Mark O'Bannon: and it's just all kinds of neat ideas. 442 00:40:07.860 --> 00:40:10.550 Mark O'Bannon: colonizing dead star systems. 443 00:40:10.590 --> 00:40:15.279 Mark O'Bannon: just all kinds of stuff. So this is great research. Just look up Isaac Arthur on Youtube. 444 00:40:15.430 --> 00:40:16.205 Mark O'Bannon: And 445 00:40:17.970 --> 00:40:23.764 Mark O'Bannon: if you're curious, we did. I did a panel for for comic con during covid. It was a 446 00:40:24.160 --> 00:40:25.360 Mark O'Bannon: It was a 447 00:40:27.300 --> 00:40:35.070 Mark O'Bannon: you know, a zoom panel, because we couldn't. You know, I didn't have comic on that year, and this is Larry Niven, and this is David Brin. 448 00:40:35.120 --> 00:40:51.249 Mark O'Bannon: and this is Robert, my best friend, Jimmy Dinks. He's a Star Trek writer. He worked for voyager and deep Space 9. This is Mark Decree. He's another Star Trek writer, and he does science fiction. So we did a fun panel on alternate headings for game of thrones, which is kind of fun, you know, if you want to. 449 00:40:51.410 --> 00:40:52.479 Mark O'Bannon: if you want to see it 450 00:40:52.835 --> 00:40:59.479 Mark O'Bannon: it's on. It's just look up. You know my name, my name and alternate ending game of turns. And you can. You can see it. 451 00:40:59.700 --> 00:41:02.109 Mark O'Bannon: So that's that's my presentation. 452 00:41:02.190 --> 00:41:04.190 Mark O'Bannon: Hope you guys liked it. 453 00:41:04.200 --> 00:41:05.810 Mark O'Bannon: You guys have any questions. 454 00:41:09.100 --> 00:41:10.579 Mark O'Bannon: I see there's tons of. 455 00:41:17.750 --> 00:41:18.979 Mark O'Bannon: you know. I. 456 00:41:19.170 --> 00:41:20.330 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Oh, sorry go ahead! 457 00:41:20.500 --> 00:41:21.320 Mark O'Bannon: Oh, go ahead! 458 00:41:21.530 --> 00:41:35.830 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: So I was going to say, we have 2 questions so far in our QA. If you'd like to answer those our 1st one here is by Tt. Tp. Wood. What can you tell me about 459 00:41:35.910 --> 00:41:43.479 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Arc to us in the Booth system? And where might you suggest I go for specific information on this. 460 00:41:43.940 --> 00:41:50.649 Mark O'Bannon: Well, you could go to of course Wikipedia has it. There's a there's a website called Solve Station, and you could 461 00:41:51.296 --> 00:41:53.443 Mark O'Bannon: it had information on 462 00:41:57.120 --> 00:41:58.575 Mark O'Bannon: type in something. 463 00:42:00.227 --> 00:42:09.670 Mark O'Bannon: it has information on stars. So just go to Wikipedia. That's where a lot of my stuff comes from. There's Sol Station. There's some other stellar database sites. 464 00:42:09.790 --> 00:42:11.410 Mark O'Bannon: There's 1 called 465 00:42:14.310 --> 00:42:18.407 Mark O'Bannon: I can't remember the name, but it's got all the really good stellar data. 466 00:42:18.970 --> 00:42:20.110 Mark O'Bannon: and you know what I mean 467 00:42:20.490 --> 00:42:24.099 Mark O'Bannon: made a mistake about the thickness of the light of our galaxy. 468 00:42:24.200 --> 00:42:29.869 Mark O'Bannon: But I am. I'm looking at the next question. Our tourists. I would go to 469 00:42:31.270 --> 00:42:35.180 Mark O'Bannon: with me. I just have my database, and I just look it up. So 470 00:42:35.720 --> 00:42:37.110 Mark O'Bannon: let's see just a moment. 471 00:42:40.010 --> 00:42:43.839 Mark O'Bannon: So I go to I'll share my screen again 472 00:42:44.520 --> 00:42:45.300 Mark O'Bannon: the moment 473 00:42:46.900 --> 00:42:48.100 Mark O'Bannon: just a second. 474 00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:54.409 Mark O'Bannon: So yeah, I just 475 00:42:54.530 --> 00:42:59.609 Mark O'Bannon: this is what I have on Arcturus. Right? I've got 36 light years away. 476 00:43:00.406 --> 00:43:01.640 Mark O'Bannon: What's that? 477 00:43:01.830 --> 00:43:05.650 Mark O'Bannon: 30, 36 light years away? And it's a yellow star. 478 00:43:05.710 --> 00:43:06.930 Mark O'Bannon: and it's 479 00:43:10.300 --> 00:43:11.560 Mark O'Bannon: Our tourists. 480 00:43:12.210 --> 00:43:14.980 Mark O'Bannon: It's the distance is 481 00:43:15.260 --> 00:43:18.080 Mark O'Bannon: 11 light years away. It's an earth's a major. 482 00:43:18.380 --> 00:43:19.830 Mark O'Bannon: I haven't figured out what 483 00:43:20.220 --> 00:43:23.305 Mark O'Bannon: alright modern it is in Chinese 484 00:43:24.190 --> 00:43:26.360 Mark O'Bannon: and Chinese starts. Probably 485 00:43:27.390 --> 00:43:37.087 Mark O'Bannon: I don't know if it's it's if it's 11 light years, it's on my map here, so you can see where it is. Now I would go to you. Just go hit chat. Gbt, and you say, 486 00:43:37.660 --> 00:43:38.889 Mark O'Bannon: tell me 487 00:43:39.590 --> 00:43:40.600 Mark O'Bannon: about 488 00:43:40.990 --> 00:43:42.800 Mark O'Bannon: our tourists right. 489 00:43:43.050 --> 00:43:53.589 Mark O'Bannon: Star, and it'll tell you all kinds of data pretty good sometimes chat Gpt lies where it makes things up. So you have to be careful. So you need to check it. So 490 00:43:54.397 --> 00:43:59.789 Mark O'Bannon: you go to Google. And you type in like pick a star like, procure right 491 00:44:00.387 --> 00:44:07.330 Mark O'Bannon: star. And then, there's a Wikipedia page, and it's got lots of good information on it. But there's usually 492 00:44:08.220 --> 00:44:09.680 Mark O'Bannon: another website 493 00:44:10.730 --> 00:44:11.694 Mark O'Bannon: called 494 00:44:12.930 --> 00:44:15.510 Mark O'Bannon: Well, there's space.com, which is pretty good 495 00:44:15.700 --> 00:44:18.159 Mark O'Bannon: about Etopia. This is a lot of good 496 00:44:19.820 --> 00:44:22.599 Mark O'Bannon: information. There's 1 called I think it's called. 497 00:44:23.410 --> 00:44:28.470 Mark O'Bannon: Can't remember the name of the site where it's they have a lot of scientific data on. I think it's 498 00:44:28.630 --> 00:44:32.149 Mark O'Bannon: it's not an sigma, or if it's on source data. 499 00:44:32.775 --> 00:44:34.259 Mark O'Bannon: this is another 500 00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:36.560 Mark O'Bannon: website, it's pretty good. 501 00:44:37.420 --> 00:44:38.470 Mark O'Bannon: and 502 00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:41.830 Mark O'Bannon: I don't know if it's there anymore. So 503 00:44:42.370 --> 00:44:44.944 Mark O'Bannon: so that's all I can tell you about about 504 00:44:45.510 --> 00:44:48.470 Mark O'Bannon: about once that that particular start. 505 00:44:49.380 --> 00:45:05.259 Mark O'Bannon: But you could, I just Google it. So I I just made a map. And then when I want to write about that area, I just research it. So you go to Google, you go to check Ppt, you go to Wikipedia. You go to Soul Station, you go to. There's all kinds of sites, and you just research. 506 00:45:05.300 --> 00:45:07.550 Mark O'Bannon: Let me find out how hot it is where it is. 507 00:45:07.580 --> 00:45:11.098 Mark O'Bannon: you know, I think that particular store our tourists is. 508 00:45:12.170 --> 00:45:16.800 Mark O'Bannon: sometimes I get information on how how wide the 509 00:45:16.900 --> 00:45:21.260 Mark O'Bannon: where the Goldilocks zone is. I haven't figured out how to calculate that yet. 510 00:45:21.300 --> 00:45:25.668 Mark O'Bannon: As soon as I do I'll be able to calculate them all all the the 511 00:45:25.990 --> 00:45:27.076 Mark O'Bannon: all the 512 00:45:27.780 --> 00:45:29.086 Mark O'Bannon: year length 513 00:45:30.040 --> 00:45:33.519 Mark O'Bannon: for us, for a planet in the habitable zone of a star 514 00:45:33.530 --> 00:45:39.939 Mark O'Bannon: that I have in my database came from other sources, but I didn't calculate it yet. So that's another thing I need to do. 515 00:45:40.720 --> 00:45:42.179 Mark O'Bannon: Is there another question. 516 00:45:42.790 --> 00:45:54.950 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Yes, we have a few more. I have 2 questions about the Milky Way. So Elizabeth wants, or she's saying I thought the Milky Way was 10,000 is it ly 517 00:45:55.390 --> 00:45:55.980 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: like. 518 00:45:55.980 --> 00:45:56.490 Mark O'Bannon: What? 519 00:45:56.490 --> 00:46:03.690 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Light years. Okay, light years thick and someone else wants to know. Do you know how much of the Milky Way has been mapped. 520 00:46:05.180 --> 00:46:28.624 Mark O'Bannon: Very tiny amount has been mapped. It's 1 to 3,000 light years in diameter. I just check. You can see it one to 3,000 light years in diameter and it's at the at the central ball bulge. It's 5,000 light years in in thickness. So it varies between one to 3,000 on average, and in near the center it's 5,000 thick. But 521 00:46:29.020 --> 00:46:36.650 Mark O'Bannon: How much of the of our galaxy has been mapped, not even 1% tiny, tiny amount, I mean, well, maybe map. Let's see. 522 00:46:37.820 --> 00:46:40.590 Mark O'Bannon: Well, okay, okay, I'm thinking in terms of 523 00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:44.750 Mark O'Bannon: like detail, like, I've got all the XYZ. You know. There are sites that have 524 00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:50.030 Mark O'Bannon: Xyz coordinates, and some of them even have based on Galactic Center. 525 00:46:50.350 --> 00:46:54.830 Mark O'Bannon: I haven't trusted those sites yet. A lot of them are game companies that do them 526 00:46:55.269 --> 00:46:58.221 Mark O'Bannon: and they might be accurate. It might not. 527 00:46:58.830 --> 00:47:04.269 Mark O'Bannon: I just wanted to do it by hand to make sure I got the right numbers from my map. 528 00:47:04.724 --> 00:47:12.389 Mark O'Bannon: I've mapped a hundred light years. Actually, I've mapped about 50 light years, and I still have another 600 stars to place all red stars. 529 00:47:12.763 --> 00:47:25.926 Mark O'Bannon: That's another 1,800 Photoshop layers. I'm kind of dreading it. But I I'm gonna do it. Sooner or later I know I'll have all the red stars on the map. But that's just a hundred dollars now in in 530 00:47:26.430 --> 00:47:28.770 Mark O'Bannon: in 50 light years there are about a thousand. 531 00:47:29.150 --> 00:47:32.720 Mark O'Bannon: There are about a thousand stars within 50 light years of Earth. 532 00:47:32.870 --> 00:47:39.679 Mark O'Bannon: and within 100 light years. There's about 4,000 and about 75% of them. 533 00:47:39.770 --> 00:47:42.350 Mark O'Bannon: I think it's 75% are red stars. 534 00:47:43.050 --> 00:47:44.590 Mark O'Bannon: So in my map 535 00:47:46.470 --> 00:47:51.239 Mark O'Bannon: 300, and I think there's 364 around 360 536 00:47:51.270 --> 00:47:52.940 Mark O'Bannon: stars in this map. 537 00:47:54.080 --> 00:47:55.069 Mark O'Bannon: And 538 00:47:55.350 --> 00:47:58.240 Mark O'Bannon: these are, this is again. 539 00:47:58.800 --> 00:48:03.000 Mark O'Bannon: 900 Photoshop layers, but it's 300 stars 540 00:48:03.340 --> 00:48:08.419 Mark O'Bannon: but then there are another 600 red stars that are single red stars. I do have red stars in the map. 541 00:48:08.530 --> 00:48:11.440 Mark O'Bannon: I put a couple of them. I think I'm I'm trying to get 542 00:48:11.870 --> 00:48:18.790 Mark O'Bannon: like the closer into earth. I I put some red stars there, but usually I'll put them in only when they're a binary system. 543 00:48:18.970 --> 00:48:22.010 Mark O'Bannon: Here's a star. Here's 1 with 4 stars. 544 00:48:23.130 --> 00:48:29.430 Mark O'Bannon: pretty interesting. Well, you got a lot of interesting stuff in this. Here's 3 stars, and that's that's a trinary system. 545 00:48:30.003 --> 00:48:33.720 Mark O'Bannon: There's another one down here. There's like 3 different. 546 00:48:33.810 --> 00:48:39.119 Mark O'Bannon: There are 2 different trinaries in a binary. And another trinary system. There's another system of like. 547 00:48:39.520 --> 00:48:43.039 Mark O'Bannon: it's like 8 stars or something. It's it's up here. 548 00:48:43.220 --> 00:48:49.029 Mark O'Bannon: So yeah, you get a lot of interesting stuff when you're looking at the map. So go ahead and download this off my website and 549 00:48:49.040 --> 00:48:55.950 Mark O'Bannon: and play with it if you want. And if you want to figure out the distance between them. Send me an email. I'll send you the database if you want. 550 00:48:56.350 --> 00:48:57.890 Mark O'Bannon: So yeah, more questions. 551 00:48:59.690 --> 00:49:15.319 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Yes, Mark Cameron. Harris wants to know. How do you account for the continuing motion of the sun or other origination star and the destination star system, while a vessel is traveling between them. 552 00:49:16.510 --> 00:49:20.628 Mark O'Bannon: That's why it's well, they're both. Everything's moving right? So 553 00:49:21.670 --> 00:49:23.840 Mark O'Bannon: so you have to figure out. 554 00:49:24.280 --> 00:49:25.720 Mark O'Bannon: that's what. 555 00:49:26.190 --> 00:49:33.699 Mark O'Bannon: But r, 2D. 2 is 4 R. 2D. 2 is an astro mechanism to calculate that right? So there's, you know, you look at 556 00:49:34.420 --> 00:49:38.390 Mark O'Bannon: the direction and distance the star is moving. And 557 00:49:38.550 --> 00:49:46.940 Mark O'Bannon: again the light we're seeing from it came from it years ago. So if it's 11 light years away, it took 11 years to get here. It's not there. It's in a different spot. 558 00:49:47.110 --> 00:49:50.692 Mark O'Bannon: so they have to calculate the distance. And 559 00:49:51.240 --> 00:49:57.320 Mark O'Bannon: I don't. I don't know. I'm beginning to wonder how many of our stars in our galaxy have been mapped by astronomers. 560 00:49:57.380 --> 00:49:59.779 Mark O'Bannon: I don't know, but I mean they've got a lot of them. 561 00:49:59.900 --> 00:50:08.969 Mark O'Bannon: But I have to look that up. But the when you're looking at the speed, I'm thinking about these other questions. When you look at the speed you know the 562 00:50:09.100 --> 00:50:14.459 Mark O'Bannon: you have to kind of estimate where it's going to be, and hope it's there. I hope your calculations are correct 563 00:50:14.580 --> 00:50:16.050 Mark O'Bannon: when you go there. 564 00:50:16.080 --> 00:50:20.309 Mark O'Bannon: and depending, you know the different ways to travel in. 565 00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:20.920 Mark O'Bannon: And 566 00:50:21.810 --> 00:50:31.599 Mark O'Bannon: you know the different ways light speed. In fact, if you got the game, if you know the game groups GURP. S. They made a science fiction book 567 00:50:31.670 --> 00:50:37.659 Mark O'Bannon: called Groups Space, and it's got all a system of different types of light speed 568 00:50:37.740 --> 00:50:42.490 Mark O'Bannon: methods, and it's really useful to look at, to to design your world right? 569 00:50:43.720 --> 00:50:44.490 Mark O'Bannon: so 570 00:50:44.840 --> 00:50:46.509 Mark O'Bannon: hopefully. That answers that correction. 571 00:50:52.690 --> 00:50:54.859 Mark O'Bannon: Wait! I can't hear you. You're you're on mute. 572 00:50:55.270 --> 00:51:01.280 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Sorry about that. This is from Linda. Has Jw. Telescope affected your work at all? 573 00:51:03.730 --> 00:51:14.139 Mark O'Bannon: Well, the pretty pictures. Yeah. Yes, and they're they're in the process of mapping new stars or new planets. And 574 00:51:15.700 --> 00:51:21.269 Mark O'Bannon: there, there are websites that track all the the nearest, all the new planets. They discovered. 575 00:51:21.300 --> 00:51:22.689 Mark O'Bannon: A lot of the 576 00:51:22.810 --> 00:51:33.429 Mark O'Bannon: the James Webb stuff is out there, and you know. I think they're using it to find new stars or new on the new planet. So a little bit, yeah, just. But mostly I just 577 00:51:33.450 --> 00:51:35.250 Mark O'Bannon: in the database I created. 578 00:51:35.680 --> 00:51:44.000 Mark O'Bannon: You know, the data wasn't available because nobody knew what near stars were. They knew, like a few of them, but they didn't have a really 579 00:51:44.140 --> 00:51:49.049 Mark O'Bannon: a good list of them, until, like, I don't know. 15 years ago, something and 580 00:51:49.437 --> 00:51:53.009 Mark O'Bannon: finally, they had a map. I'm like, Wow, I found a database. 581 00:51:53.150 --> 00:52:00.700 Mark O'Bannon: and I grabbed the nearest 1,000 stars. Great got the list finally, after waiting years and looking for years for for years. 582 00:52:00.740 --> 00:52:09.469 Mark O'Bannon: and then I dropped it in my database, and I've been playing with my database for years. And I finally, just, you know, a couple of years ago I ran this 583 00:52:09.884 --> 00:52:28.950 Mark O'Bannon: at comic con. And I, my map is not as complete as it is now. Not this time. This map is complete, pretty complete except for the 600 single red stars that in my universe are not habitable anyway, and no one goes to. So that's my excuse for not mapping it yet. It's really, I don't. Wanna. It's just a lot of work we're talking. 584 00:52:29.050 --> 00:52:31.159 Mark O'Bannon: you know, 40 HA week, for 585 00:52:31.270 --> 00:52:35.120 Mark O'Bannon: I don't know. 3 months, and I could probably get it done. But it's a lot of time. 586 00:52:36.150 --> 00:52:37.680 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Oh, okay. 587 00:52:38.123 --> 00:52:57.980 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: mk, Hayden wants to know. Well, they're sharing. Wouldn't the time dilation of ftl or nl travel cause the movement of the celestial bodies in stars to slow down? If so, would it be difficult to try to calculate a potential location if traveling there at those speeds? 588 00:52:58.090 --> 00:52:59.349 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: And they said I could be wrong. 589 00:52:59.350 --> 00:53:08.419 Mark O'Bannon: Yeah, this is all science stuff. You could even go to chat, Gpt, and it'll talk about all the physics. And I use Chat Gpt for research. It's great for research. 590 00:53:08.660 --> 00:53:10.399 Mark O'Bannon: And they talked about. 591 00:53:10.580 --> 00:53:13.700 Mark O'Bannon: yeah, you got Einsteinian time dilation 592 00:53:13.710 --> 00:53:17.490 Mark O'Bannon: like when you travel, you're gonna age versus your age 593 00:53:17.720 --> 00:53:23.570 Mark O'Bannon: versus the person on the planet. They're going to age more, you know. And so that's called, I'm sitting in time, dilation 594 00:53:24.016 --> 00:53:31.289 Mark O'Bannon: in my universe. I'm just not using it so. And I'm I'm having. They jump through wormholes, and they travel by the 595 00:53:32.010 --> 00:53:33.922 Mark O'Bannon: but the wormhole 596 00:53:34.710 --> 00:53:37.499 Mark O'Bannon: traveling through wormhole in my universe is 597 00:53:37.650 --> 00:53:39.740 Mark O'Bannon: not instantaneous 598 00:53:39.950 --> 00:53:42.440 Mark O'Bannon: takes time. You spend time in a wormhole. 599 00:53:42.460 --> 00:53:43.175 Mark O'Bannon: but 600 00:53:44.433 --> 00:53:50.770 Mark O'Bannon: and it you go from one place to another, so in pretty much like instantly in our universe. But 601 00:53:50.900 --> 00:54:02.799 Mark O'Bannon: but we have, I mean, not instantly. It takes in my university days. So I it's it's a lot of figuring out. So I figured out how how fast you're going, how many times speed of light 602 00:54:02.860 --> 00:54:04.459 Mark O'Bannon: are you traveling? If you're going 603 00:54:04.650 --> 00:54:09.910 Mark O'Bannon: at the speed of light, it's still gonna take you years to reach any of these stars right? So 604 00:54:10.050 --> 00:54:14.170 Mark O'Bannon: your office entire is 4 light years away, right? And so 605 00:54:14.380 --> 00:54:18.489 Mark O'Bannon: it'll take you 4 years to get there, so and then you can have 606 00:54:18.670 --> 00:54:21.580 Mark O'Bannon: jump drives, and you don't have to have to decide 607 00:54:21.760 --> 00:54:23.480 Mark O'Bannon: what method of 608 00:54:23.520 --> 00:54:27.190 Mark O'Bannon: interstead of travel you want to use in your stories. You could go to 609 00:54:27.250 --> 00:54:31.980 Mark O'Bannon: Isaac Arthur's page on Youtube. And he's got he breaks to all the different cousins 610 00:54:31.990 --> 00:54:40.609 Mark O'Bannon: of fashion like travel and videos, just type it. Go to his channel and type in faster than light, and you get all kinds of ideas and all that kind of thing. 611 00:54:42.190 --> 00:54:58.899 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Okay, great and kind of going off of that. That question someone wants to know if you rely on true scientific travel info between Sars? Or do you create in universe ships that don't follow these laws? So you kind of touched on that. But 612 00:54:59.770 --> 00:55:02.570 Mark O'Bannon: I try to follow it. But the the thing I'm 613 00:55:02.960 --> 00:55:06.969 Mark O'Bannon: I forgot what I was gonna do with the outstanding time dilation stuff. 614 00:55:09.110 --> 00:55:21.039 Mark O'Bannon: I think I decided I'm just not going to use it. And I I made up a reason for not using it. But that's mostly what I'm not using a lot of in my stories. I try to use as much science as I can. But also. 615 00:55:21.170 --> 00:55:30.649 Mark O'Bannon: you know, I met a physicist years ago, and he said, spirituality and science split, you know, in the Renaissance, and he believes they're going to come back together 616 00:55:30.780 --> 00:55:34.359 Mark O'Bannon: with quantum physics. It's that kind of thing. So in my universe. 617 00:55:34.968 --> 00:55:40.561 Mark O'Bannon: I have. Psychics. Esp people. S espers, I have 618 00:55:41.110 --> 00:55:43.810 Mark O'Bannon: spiritual stuff going on. So 619 00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:46.120 Mark O'Bannon: it's almost like a fantasy site. 620 00:55:46.180 --> 00:55:48.760 Mark O'Bannon: It's it's realistic, and it's not in my world. 621 00:55:48.900 --> 00:55:57.479 Mark O'Bannon: It's an I use both. So in less words. But you know you could do what you want in your store, you basically in your store, you need to define what you want it to be. 622 00:55:57.560 --> 00:55:58.680 Mark O'Bannon: And 623 00:55:59.084 --> 00:56:06.450 Mark O'Bannon: when you're making like in that Star Trek map. There's like a dozen major races. Well, think 40 million, not like a dozen, you know. 624 00:56:06.560 --> 00:56:07.980 Mark O'Bannon: and so that 625 00:56:08.050 --> 00:56:09.640 Mark O'Bannon: it changes your perspective 626 00:56:09.830 --> 00:56:10.390 Mark O'Bannon: alright. 627 00:56:10.390 --> 00:56:10.780 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Maybe. 628 00:56:10.780 --> 00:56:13.639 Mark O'Bannon: On how you want to write your story. That's that's 1 reason. 629 00:56:14.192 --> 00:56:15.720 Mark O'Bannon: I brought that up. 630 00:56:16.830 --> 00:56:17.350 Mark O'Bannon: Yeah. 631 00:56:17.350 --> 00:56:18.260 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Thank you 632 00:56:18.370 --> 00:56:31.230 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: all right. We have a wonderful question that I think, is going to wrap up our session. Aaron would like to know could you tell us about your novels? What got you into this genre, and do you like other genres? 633 00:56:32.440 --> 00:56:35.399 Mark O'Bannon: I'm I write fantasy and science fiction 634 00:56:35.560 --> 00:56:36.444 Mark O'Bannon: and 635 00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:38.450 Mark O'Bannon: I 636 00:56:40.080 --> 00:56:42.630 Mark O'Bannon: let's see what to show you. 637 00:56:43.470 --> 00:56:44.600 Mark O'Bannon: Website. 638 00:56:45.253 --> 00:56:45.826 Mark O'Bannon: So 639 00:56:48.172 --> 00:56:51.490 Mark O'Bannon: I write this is A. 640 00:56:51.590 --> 00:56:55.279 Mark O'Bannon: These 3 are science fiction. These 2 are fantasy novels. So 641 00:56:55.340 --> 00:56:56.760 Mark O'Bannon: I wrote a 642 00:56:57.191 --> 00:56:58.900 Mark O'Bannon: what got me into writing. 643 00:56:59.794 --> 00:57:02.065 Mark O'Bannon: That's a long story. But 644 00:57:02.680 --> 00:57:16.799 Mark O'Bannon: I've been writing for years for fun, and I wrote 2 million words with stories for fun before I decided to write a novel, and then I went and learned everything I can about writing, so if you want to be a great writer, go to truevie.com TRUB. Y truepie.com. 645 00:57:16.870 --> 00:57:20.439 Mark O'Bannon: and John Trip is the top writing inspector in the world. 646 00:57:20.500 --> 00:57:28.650 Mark O'Bannon: and and then the so I've figured out how to write a game of thrones in space. Kind of story. It's 8 point of view characters. 647 00:57:28.900 --> 00:57:39.349 Mark O'Bannon: 30 opponents, 200 mounted characters, all character arts, and I had to use spreadsheets to figure it out, and that that is an Epic Science Fiction series. And these are actually 648 00:57:39.390 --> 00:57:43.509 Mark O'Bannon: 3 of the 8 characters. They're each getting a little prequel novel. 649 00:57:43.955 --> 00:57:53.454 Mark O'Bannon: This takes place before the main story begins, and I actually have another 10 stories that finish in pairing first, st I guess. Chronicle. I'm I'm doing 650 00:57:54.179 --> 00:58:01.410 Mark O'Bannon: It's like a game of thrones. 1,000 page novel, but it's I'm being. I'm releasing it in November chapters, and I've got 10 of them 651 00:58:01.440 --> 00:58:07.760 Mark O'Bannon: finished. I'm just adding them, and I hope to have them done by the end of the year. So I'll have, and that'll be like an epic Science fiction story. 652 00:58:08.484 --> 00:58:10.659 Mark O'Bannon: And I also definitive 653 00:58:10.780 --> 00:58:12.475 Mark O'Bannon: fantasy stuff, too. 654 00:58:13.170 --> 00:58:15.639 Mark O'Bannon: And so what got me into writing 655 00:58:15.740 --> 00:58:17.139 Mark O'Bannon: I don't know. So 656 00:58:17.764 --> 00:58:22.785 Mark O'Bannon: this, pirates of the Imperium is, you know, space pirates and I talked about the 657 00:58:23.150 --> 00:58:30.140 Mark O'Bannon: the benefits of genocide. High salvage is this treasure hunting story in space? 658 00:58:30.636 --> 00:58:36.350 Mark O'Bannon: It's an also a love story touching infinity. These 2 are novelist touching infinity. I just finished 659 00:58:36.500 --> 00:58:45.780 Mark O'Bannon: about 3 weeks ago, and this is a science fiction mystery, love story, and they're taking a journey to a supernova. 660 00:58:45.790 --> 00:58:53.928 Mark O'Bannon: and the main character is a scientist. So I have a lot of tech science tech. Speak, my friend Jimmy Diggs, who's a Star Trek writer? 661 00:58:54.260 --> 00:58:56.757 Mark O'Bannon: got a picture of them on the website. 662 00:58:57.160 --> 00:58:57.819 Mark O'Bannon: he's 663 00:58:58.830 --> 00:59:01.430 Mark O'Bannon: Here's Jimmy, Jimmy. 664 00:59:04.900 --> 00:59:11.360 Mark O'Bannon: I lost my train of thought so, yeah, this is Jimmy Diggs. And this is DC Fontana. They're Star Trek riders. 665 00:59:11.811 --> 00:59:17.299 Mark O'Bannon: This is my friend who got a job in the walking dead. He's an actor, and here's George Clayton Johnson. 666 00:59:17.310 --> 00:59:21.880 Mark O'Bannon: who who wrote 8,000 episode. You wrote the 1st episode of Star Trek. 667 00:59:21.990 --> 00:59:24.809 Mark O'Bannon: He wrote Logan's run, and he wrote 668 00:59:24.960 --> 00:59:26.689 Mark O'Bannon: Oceans 11 669 00:59:27.278 --> 00:59:32.659 Mark O'Bannon: he also he's a big television writer. He was brilliant. This is Ray Bradbury 670 00:59:32.690 --> 00:59:43.250 Mark O'Bannon: and Bill Nolan. Bill Nolan and and George were best friends with Bradburn and Bill and George Bill Logan's run together. This is my brother is me. This is some of the people. This is John Truby. He's the top 671 00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:48.960 Mark O'Bannon: story consultant. If you want to learn how to write, he's he's got it, you know. 672 00:59:49.040 --> 00:59:54.508 Mark O'Bannon: You learn his stuff, and you'll you'll be able to write way better so Jimmy Diggs. 673 00:59:55.798 --> 00:59:57.749 Mark O'Bannon: What was that talk about? Jimmy Doom 674 00:59:58.920 --> 01:00:02.330 Mark O'Bannon: distracted myself and forgot what I was saying so. 675 01:00:04.630 --> 01:00:07.639 Mark O'Bannon: well, anyway, yeah, Jimmy, he writes. 676 01:00:08.890 --> 01:00:13.059 Mark O'Bannon: He read screenplays, of course, and he did. He invented the Omega particle, and 677 01:00:13.280 --> 01:00:18.179 Mark O'Bannon: and you know he's a Star Trek guy. So I met him at a game store. We were gamers 678 01:00:19.060 --> 01:00:19.720 Mark O'Bannon: problem 679 01:00:20.300 --> 01:00:21.440 Mark O'Bannon: so hopefully that 680 01:00:21.620 --> 01:00:24.170 Mark O'Bannon: answers that question. So. 681 01:00:24.170 --> 01:00:27.298 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Great we'll do one more. 682 01:00:27.880 --> 01:00:37.639 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Let's see. I think I can open it up here. Patrick. Patrick would like to know where do you find the time? You must be a very organized person. 683 01:00:38.650 --> 01:00:45.609 Mark O'Bannon: Yes, I'm organized. I live very cheap, and I and I. I go to this coffee shop at San Diego, and I 684 01:00:45.690 --> 01:00:49.330 Mark O'Bannon: spend 8 or 10 HA day working on the stuff. 685 01:00:49.470 --> 01:01:11.579 Mark O'Bannon: So I've got 10. I've got 5 novels now, and I've got another 10 novellas out by the end of the year, and I'm doing another 10 whiskers, which is a story about cats that turn into dragons, and I'm working on that also, and that'll be 10 initially, 10 novellas so like by next year I hope to have 25 novels, you know, hopefully done. 686 01:01:12.550 --> 01:01:15.169 Mark O'Bannon: But I, you know, just have to. It takes a lot of time 687 01:01:15.775 --> 01:01:21.729 Mark O'Bannon: and it, you know. So prowriting aid has got lots of great tools. Also. 688 01:01:21.980 --> 01:01:24.460 Mark O'Bannon: I see. So anyway, yeah. 689 01:01:24.550 --> 01:01:29.779 Mark O'Bannon: it's send me an email if you want Mark. It's meow publishing@gmail.com. 690 01:01:30.820 --> 01:01:33.789 Mark O'Bannon: And I'll be happy to talk to you. I'm also on Facebook. 691 01:01:35.960 --> 01:01:36.760 Mark O'Bannon: That is. 692 01:01:37.200 --> 01:01:42.780 Mark O'Bannon: hopefully, that's a fun class for you. It's not just writing how to edit a book or something. It's 693 01:01:42.810 --> 01:01:46.539 Mark O'Bannon: but it's like, you know about the world star, map, stuff. 694 01:01:47.316 --> 01:02:14.710 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Yes, that was very intriguing. Yes, thank you so much for this amazing session mark thank all of you for joining us, as always, you can find the replay to this session and our other sessions in the Science Fiction writers. Week. Hub, and I'll go ahead and link that again for us. But I hope that, or we hope that you can join us for our next session, and we'll catch you next time. 695 01:02:16.500 --> 01:02:19.119 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Alright, thanks everyone bye, bye. 696 01:02:19.430 --> 01:02:20.410 Mark O'Bannon: Hi, thanks. 697 01:02:22.170 --> 01:02:23.150 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Awesome. 698 01:02:23.690 --> 01:02:24.230 Mark O'Bannon: Thank you. 699 01:02:24.230 --> 01:02:25.990 Stacy @ ProWritingAid: Another, one, bye, bye. 700 01:02:25.990 --> 01:02:27.789 Mark O'Bannon: Yeah. Yeah. Bye, Stacey.