The Solar system.

[Tunicle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsWPFUzxgRU Destruction, although as not shipped with final release people will say non canon. Also mentions Pluto - Atticus Rockford.

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[Echo 7-7]

No, by "destroyed", most of the planets were completely annihilated. Everything from the sun to at least Jupiter (probably futher) is just gone. The rocky planets are dust and the gas giants are now less than clouds. The solar system would resemble how it was at birth, minus any kind of gravitational body in the center. Any remaining dwarf planets, such as Pluto, would be drifting in space until they're captured by another gravitational body.

You got linkies for me? I like to read up on that.

I just use the extended intro as reference. The footage infers that the Nomads fired a superweapon into the sun that caused it go supernova in a matter of minutes. The resulting effects are similar to what the death of the Solar system will be like, just much more violent - our Sol is not large enough to naturally go supernova; it will just gradually shed layers until it forms a nebula and a very small nearly-dead star.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star#Collapse

In Disco, provided Sol still exists as some kind of white dwarf or black dwarf, a planetary system might one day form again from the leftover matter... but it will take millions of years.

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There was a sig here, once.

[AeternusDoleo]

It's worth noting that a star going nova does not cease to be the gravitational center of the system. It will simply blow off it's outer layers, creating a large expanding shockwave and leaving a large nebula in it's wake. Given that the sun did not expend all it's fuel, that nebula would still have a decent amount of fusable components. It is also worth noting that the Gas Giants lose their atmosphere, but don't seem to have their cores destroyed.

All in all, you'd expect to find several elliptical debris zones that were once the inner planets still relatively close to the star, a large nebula surrounding the entire system, the remains of the Sun itself is probably compressed into a white dwarf - which, since it is young, is still emitting a decent amount of energy and light. The various gas giants would have slowly started to regenerate their atmosphere by capturing gases from the nebula the sun has expelled as they partially fall back into the gravity well of the sun. If there is any human life left in that setting, it'll be on various asteroid bases, with the Pluto base being the main one.

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Wide awake in a world that sleeps, enduring thoughts, enduring scenes. The knowledge of what is yet to come.
From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.

Mostly retired Discovery member. May still visit from time to time.

[puppytaste]

I'm for something like this 100%. I also agree that Disco has way to many systems. Weed out some of the boring ones and put something interesting in

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