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Line 7: :I may be working from an American-centric perspective (though I don't think I am), so please forgive me if I am, but stars are stars. That's the default description of that burning ball of gas at the center of a system (not trying to be flippant). A person planet-side may refer to the dominant star in the day sky as a 'sun', but from a from an academic standpoint, we're not looking 'up' from the article's planet, but looking down over the Inner Sphere (and local neighborhood). From that perspective, even the Terran system has a 'star', vice a 'sun'. :I may be working from an American-centric perspective (though I don't think I am), so please forgive me if I am, but stars are stars. That's the default description of that burning ball of gas at the center of a system (not trying to be flippant). A person planet-side may refer to the dominant star in the day sky as a 'sun', but from a from an academic standpoint, we're not looking 'up' from the article's planet, but looking down over the Inner Sphere (and local neighborhood). From that perspective, even the Terran system has a 'star', vice a 'sun'. :I agree: in the novels, as Grayson Death maneuvers his 'Mech out of the jungle, he can see Verthandi's sun (not star) emerge from behind the rainclouds. But, as his JumpShip emerges from hyperspace, the star Norn will be the most visible object in their presence. Kerensky choose the second star to the <strike>right</strike> left and jumped 'til morning (with apologies to [[w:Peter Pan|J. M. Barrie]]) and the Hanseatic League is made up of 29 star systems.--[[User:Revanche|Revanche]] <sup>([[User_talk:Revanche|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Revanche|contribs]])</sup> 12:20, 28 August 2011 (UTC) :I agree: in the novels, as Grayson Death maneuvers his 'Mech out of the jungle, he can see Verthandi's sun (not star) emerge from behind the rainclouds. But, as his JumpShip emerges from hyperspace, the star Norn will be the most visible object in their presence. Kerensky choose the second star to the <strike>right</strike> left and jumped 'til morning (with apologies to [[w:Peter Pan|J. M. Barrie]]) and the Hanseatic League is made up of 29 star systems.--[[User:Revanche|Revanche]] <sup>([[User_talk:Revanche|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Revanche|contribs]])</sup> 12:20, 28 August 2011 (UTC) − ::Okay, it may be a language thing (not a native speaker). I'll take your word on it then that Star is the accurate term. :) [[User:Frabby|Frabby]] 13:25, 28 August 2011 (UTC) − − ==Infobox Code failur== − Hy, when i use the infobox system templ., i beacome a infoboxproduction template, can anyone take a look and fix this problem, thanks.--[[User:Doneve|Doneve]] 00:34, 9 October 2011 (UTC) − :the InfoBoxSystem/doc documentaion was apparently copied over from InfoBoxProduct, and contained the wrong Infobox toggle in the header. I have corrected this and adjusted some of the descriptions. I'll also go ahead and include an optional name field in the system infobox (useful for cases where multiple systems share a name, or where a given system is/was known under different names). [[User:Frabby|Frabby]] 06:46, 9 October 2011 (UTC) − :Thanks Frabby :)--[[User:Doneve|Doneve]] 09:53, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
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:I may be working from an American-centric perspective (though I don't think I am), so please forgive me if I am, but stars are stars. That's the default description of that burning ball of gas at the center of a system (not trying to be flippant). A person planet-side may refer to the dominant star in the day sky as a 'sun', but from a from an academic standpoint, we're not looking 'up' from the article's planet, but looking down over the Inner Sphere (and local neighborhood). From that perspective, even the Terran system has a 'star', vice a 'sun'. | :I may be working from an American-centric perspective (though I don't think I am), so please forgive me if I am, but stars are stars. That's the default description of that burning ball of gas at the center of a system (not trying to be flippant). A person planet-side may refer to the dominant star in the day sky as a 'sun', but from a from an academic standpoint, we're not looking 'up' from the article's planet, but looking down over the Inner Sphere (and local neighborhood). From that perspective, even the Terran system has a 'star', vice a 'sun'. | ||
:I agree: in the novels, as Grayson Death maneuvers his 'Mech out of the jungle, he can see Verthandi's sun (not star) emerge from behind the rainclouds. But, as his JumpShip emerges from hyperspace, the star Norn will be the most visible object in their presence. Kerensky choose the second star to the <strike>right</strike> left and jumped 'til morning (with apologies to [[w:Peter Pan|J. M. Barrie]]) and the Hanseatic League is made up of 29 star systems.--[[User:Revanche|Revanche]] <sup>([[User_talk:Revanche|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Revanche|contribs]])</sup> 12:20, 28 August 2011 (UTC) | :I agree: in the novels, as Grayson Death maneuvers his 'Mech out of the jungle, he can see Verthandi's sun (not star) emerge from behind the rainclouds. But, as his JumpShip emerges from hyperspace, the star Norn will be the most visible object in their presence. Kerensky choose the second star to the <strike>right</strike> left and jumped 'til morning (with apologies to [[w:Peter Pan|J. M. Barrie]]) and the Hanseatic League is made up of 29 star systems.--[[User:Revanche|Revanche]] <sup>([[User_talk:Revanche|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Revanche|contribs]])</sup> 12:20, 28 August 2011 (UTC) | ||
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