That's the one. It always bugged me that entire civilizations fell and apparently all science and culture was lost in the span of one solar eclipse.
My scenario involves a brown dwarf with an eccentric orbit that their planet is now approaching. It adds a bit more heat to their climatic system and basically stirs up some violent weather until the new climate patterns settle in. This is first noticeable to the main characters that live in a large north/south canyon when the usual seasonal reversal of the dominant wind direction doesn't go as smoothly as it "should". They have some warning due to old legends about demons stalking the silence and such but what they have is very fragmented, so a few set off to see what the other nations have in their legends. It's more about figuring out the puzzle than adapting to the new weather patterns and climates. I am hoping it ends up just a bit more plausible than Nightfall.
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Date: 2012-03-29 09:59 pm (UTC)My scenario involves a brown dwarf with an eccentric orbit that their planet is now approaching. It adds a bit more heat to their climatic system and basically stirs up some violent weather until the new climate patterns settle in. This is first noticeable to the main characters that live in a large north/south canyon when the usual seasonal reversal of the dominant wind direction doesn't go as smoothly as it "should". They have some warning due to old legends about demons stalking the silence and such but what they have is very fragmented, so a few set off to see what the other nations have in their legends. It's more about figuring out the puzzle than adapting to the new weather patterns and climates. I am hoping it ends up just a bit more plausible than Nightfall.