I love how this has gone into a very logical and thoughtful discussion xD Keep it up!

Also, just so you know, regarding "Source" (I'm meaning the in game descriptions) not all of them make sense. EG, the captial planet of Kor-Azor (where my character's palace is as well) is too big to sustain human life. The gravity and year/time of the cycles, it's just utter chicken scratch.

Wiki lore, imo, should probably trump in game stuff if they conflict.

Continue!

The ingame planet info is quatch. Anyone with even a slight astronomic background would start twitching when he saw that data.
In short: ingame planetary details are not a good indicator for lore.

I would mainly use it as a guidance for Lore. In Kor-Azor example, don't take the planet info at face value, but as guidance, treat the data as indicating that Kor Azor Prime is a larger planet with higher then normal gravity.
For rotational periods, lets not go there... because there's alot more wrong then just rotational periods (temperate planets nearly kissing their star or in the frozen edge of the system etc)

Well I personally don't own that book, but I would say you're on the right track lol and Idk about the planet. It sounds right to me.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, but I think Jandice is probably correct in advising to stay away from Caldari Prime to try this project and I'm not comfortable with what I see as differences in the two sources of lore about the same planet. Perhaps some unknown, non-descript planet to begin with?

Those are accurate based on the ingame planet information but not typically considered accurate lore-wise as the ingame descriptions seem somewhat random and would create conditions rendering human habitation impossible. You can tell from the image that Caldari Prime and Gallente Prime would have lethally high gravity while Matar and Amarr Prime probably couldn't hold an atmosphere more than a hundredth or a tenth that of Earth. Barring exotic planetary compositions the conditions are going to be sufficiently hostile that nobody is going to survive long enough to make a sandwich let alone a spaceship.

It's a neat picture but the game information it draws upon isn't helpful.

hollow cores? Is that even scientifically possible?

Scientifically possible is density, not hollow cores, "hollow core" is on the same level as "earth is flat", or that "everything was created yesterday". You don't get asteroids shaped like doughnuts either.

Lol ok it may not be scientifically possible. However, if we want to "rationalize" physics (which has already been established on other posts to weep at seeing EVE) in this regard, would it be even feasible to consider having hollow cores, since these planets are obviously being lived on by trillions of people who should be dead from gravity. Aside from the CCP team redoing all the planet sizes, that seems to be the only explanation that seems to make any form of sense if you don't look at it too hard lol

What would you think would explain living on Gallente prime and not dying? lol

Possible but unlikely, given what we know about the early solar system and how planets tend to form around their stars. IMO the most likely explanation for people able to live normal lives on Gallente Prime and Caldari Prime is a clerical error. A misplaced or extra 0 somewhere in the initial surveys that was simply never corrected.

Incidentally the main reason Mars doesn't have a livable atmosphere (and why its possible other planets such as Amarr Prime or Matar could) is because unlike earth it does not have a molten core to generate a magnetic field around the planet. Solar winds seem to be the primary reason a planet is likely to lose its atmosphere rather than size. Thus if a planet is small but possesses a strong geomagnetic field then solar winds are going to have a much smaller effect on it than it otherwise should.

Similarly, the reason Venus is so hot is because of a runaway greenhouse effect, not because of its proximity to the Sol star. In Fact a planet with similar cloud coverage to Venus should actually be cooler than Earth, despite the close proximity to the sun. Again, so long as it possessed a strong geomagnetic field and was not subject to such a violent greenhouse effect then it is very plausible that a planet like Venus could support life and be colonised.



On the subject of New Eden biology, might I recommend the subreddit /r/SpeculativeEvolution/. It's a great place to find all sorts of weird and alien life forms.
Another interesting read is this article on speculative xenopsychology. I find the example given for a logical being to be particularly interesting to read.
Also, while I agree that dragons are an unlikely thing to find even in xenobiology, do remember that the Quetzalcoatlus is a real creature that really existed in Earth's past. I see no reason what so ever that we couldn't also find similar creatures on alien worlds.