[ExI] seven exos, three goldilocks!

[Adrian Tymes]

On Feb 22, 2017 3:23 PM, "spike" <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

An offlist friend suggested naming them after the seven deadly sins.  The
problem is that not all the deadly sins are even roughly equal in how much
fun they are to commit.

So save the best three for the ones in the habitable zone.

For instance, everybody wants to go get laid at Lust and go make some deals
at Greed, maybe kick back and relax for a few weeks at Sloth, enjoy the
excellent cuisine at Gluttony.

There you go.  Maybe make Sloth the outermost planet, with the slowest
"years".  Sloth won't mind.

Envy is self-contradictory in a way: imagine going to a party there and
eeeeverybody is covetous of everybody else.  It doesn’t even make sense.
Somebody there has to realize she really is better off than at least some
of the others, ja?

No, actually.  As I wrote in a story a long time ago, you don't (usually)
know when someone is worshipping you.  It is entirely possible, and frankly
more common than is realized, to be jealous of the positive attributes one
sees in others and be unaware of, or at least grossly underestimate, how
much of that is returned - assuming there is anything that (others believe)
you do well, which is the case for most people.  (You don't have to star at
everything to star at something.)

So maybe, inner to outer: Pride (#1), Envy (#2), Wrath (end of the inner
trio), Lust (most conducive to life from what I have seen so far), Gluttony
(not as good but still potentially a breadbasket), Greed (colonizing this
one is reaching), and Sloth (slowest years).
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