*this is a reupload of a journal from May 8th 2024. i just want my lore crap to all be in one place, and not lost in my journals*

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ok so
i semi-accidentally rabbit holed some world building stuff and now im here making a solar system. i don't care about being super realistic, i want to have fun and do fun stuff. one of the things i wanted to do was have a double-binary star system.

that is, two sets of binary stars(a set of two stars orbiting a shared centre of mass) orbiting a shared centre of mass. now, binary stars, normally speaking, are STUPIDLY unstable and not even vaguely habitable but i don't care i want my planet to have 4 suns.

My logic, to make it semi-functional, was that the pair of stars the planet would orbit would both be class-g(same class as earth's sun), but on opposite ends of the weight class, so a super fat class-g and a super small class-g in each other's orbit. and that should mean that the orbiting planet will be fairly stable, since both stars are so similar and them switching places shouldnt fuck up anything too badly, like the planet's orbit.
but what about the other binary stars? now THATS gonna fuck shit up. but, i thought to myself, what if the average/total massiveness of both sets of binary stars were similar? would that re-balance things in such a way where is wouldn't actually be too fucky? perhaps, i men without doing the calculations it makes sense to me. but i didn't want more class-gs, so instead for the distant pair i made one star roughly 1.5x earth's sun's mass, and the other about half our sun's mass, since the pair orbited by the habitable planet are both pretty close to our sun being class-gs.

Then, I actually got my hands in a calculator, messing with the numbers as explained above. and the numbers(as far as i can tell) agree with me that it should be balanced. it's very unlikely to exist or be habitable irl but close enough for me to work with and just close my eyes about lol.
And when I say “agree”, I mean they agree that the binary sets are roughly equal in total massiveness and thus the sets of binary stars should in a super crazy hypothetical sense be able to share a centre of mass that won't be too unstable or wonky.

sorry if literally none of that made sense. i dont know either tbh

oh, and to make it better - this whole thing happened because drawing is hard but writing point form about random ideas and pretending they fit together is slightly easier...
and also i;
- got back into conlanging and re-re-RE-revived my hyper-dead first ever conlang from the grave because im not yet giving up on Shanituian Thipluch Chi'ithkikai (they tale of multiple revivals could be another journal)

- decided that i should make a Sun and Moon Show AU to use the language in(i could make another journal about that too)

- made another language that was meant to be an older 'cousin' to Chi'ithkikai (name not figured out yet)

- then rewatched everything Artifexian and Biblaridion every posted and got really sidetracked with the plan, and decided it not longer worked with the SAMS AU idea, so they are not separate, and that 'cousin' language for the AU is now going to be used as a religious language for this new worldbuilding disaster. its still going to have developed as a relative of Chi'ithkikai, but its not going to be used the same way at all.

- and the sapient species has now changed like... 4 times.

and now we here. and im calling this 'entry 0' because this is a demented prelude to anything to come afterwards. assuming i choose to actually post more about it and dont forget/get too embarrassed about showing pple about it and dont forget/get too embarrassed about showing ppl