snakerbot

Got the confirmation email from HLJ. IXTL the hero!

Inspired by my love of black space ships, my love of the VF-27, and the lack of black VF-27s.

After reading SchizophrenicMC's post, I looked up the smallest star. OGLE-TR-122. It has a radius 120% of that of Jupiter, and a mass of about 0.12 solar masses. Scientists think this is about as small as a star can get and still fuse hydrogen, so I think the TRTs might work on a completely different principle, or at least fuse a different element. The problem comes in when we realize that as the elements get higher on the periodic table, the mass of the star has to increase. Stars that fuse carbon have to be at least 4 solar masses, and stars that fuse neon must be at least 8. Stars that fuse nitrogen or oxygen then must be around 6 solar masses.