Population of Sirius

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You could always do it based on in-game distances. Manhatten has a diameter of about 9k (which, considering the size of a fighter makes sense to mean 9 kilometers).

To work out the surface area we need to use this little formula: 4x3.14xr^2, which for manhatten is 4x3.14x4.5^2
meaning the surface are of Manhatten is 254.34 square kilometeres. Tiny, right?
Now we assume the planet has the same land:water ratio as earth (70% water) meaning 178.038 square kilometers is water and 76.302 square kilometers is land. And that is pretty small, the town I live in is 60 square kilometers and has a population of around 1 million. Then again, its around the same size as Singapore, which has 4.5~ million.
If we use Adamantines' example of population density, we get around 190755 people on planet manhatten, or we can go by the infocards and work backwards, meaning there would be a population density of 2,883,279.599 on Manhatten.
(but keep in mind my math isn't that great. Someone may wanna recheck my calculations).

Considering how built-up Manhatten seems, I wouldn't say that's entirely unfeesable. It's possible we pilots only see the top layer of manhatten where the landing pads, bar and dealers are located, and there are several layers of suburbs and slums lying underneath that.

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