But I like green!

Everyone knows that in real life the Drengin Empire destroyed all green stars because green is the color of weakness.  

How could Stardock possibly make the mistake of including green stars?

it is not easy being green let the stars be

According to that post there is no purple stars either, Although no one has claimed that Galactic Civilizations is Non-Fiction and based on scientific facts so with that being said, the more color variation the better

Who cares if they don't really exist, after all, at one time we thought the planet was flat, that everything orbited around us and we were the center of the universe.  How very little we actually know about the universe, let the game be what it is

I did not like green stars. For starters, unrealistic. Secondly, usually they had a bunch of dud planets that left me feeling icky!!!

Ugh...here we go again....

First, let me pose a philosophical question: what is green?  I mean, it is a color, but how would we define green?  One could argue that green is simply a range of certain wavelengths for electro-magnetic radiation, but then that begs the question: how was that range of wavelengths determined?

Ultimately, green is simply green...it is an interpretation of our brain, a "figment of our imagination"...to say that a star is actually green but it doesn't appear green because our "eyes deceive us" makes absolutely no sense...green is defined by what our eyes and brains interpret to be green -- if it doesn't look green, then it isn't...

Now to green stars...stars are great examples of blackbody radiation -- the radiation they emit is related to their temperature...the higher the temperature, the more radiation you emit...however, you don't just emit more radiation -- you also emit radiation of higher energy (which in turn means shorter wavelength)...it's not a simple matter of "this object is this temperature so it emits this color"...rather, objects emit a spectrum of radiation...

For our star, the peak wavelength does fall in the "green region"...but stars don't emit light of just one wavelength, they emit an entire spectrum of radiation...while our star emits lots of green light, it also emits lots of yellow and red and blue....when you mix all the colors up, your eye sees white, and that is why our sun is classified as a white star...it is not technically green, that is complete BS -- if it was technically green then it would look green because green is defined by our eyes and brain...

The only way a star could be green is if there was a specific element with a specific electron decay that emitted tons of green light...in the "real world" that just doesn't happen, at least not to our knowledge...but since we are talking about a universe with mythical beings and ships that can destroy stars, I won't say it is impossible for a star to be green in the Gal Civ universe...but there better be an explanation for it (such and such the Mithrilar sprinkled pixie dust on it) because it ain't happening naturally...

In any case, our sun is most certainly not green....

IMHO, that phrase is the key part of your entire post.

Now there ya go ..... just shows the new technology bound up in Version III .... the good guys finally dumped that old early 21st Century technology so they could save save The Universe - and people start to get serious nostalgia pangs.

Sheeesh .... some scientists need to get with The Program...... and dump the Retro Look, its so ..... yesterday...

Sorry in advance.

see this post from harvard's website, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2006/pr200611.html, it states that in fact most star systems are single and most planetary systems are single, as it's believed that it's harder for planets to form in a multiple star system.

Although I'd like to see multiple star systems in the game, I wouldn't like it to be the common theme, and should stars be any color it would be acceptable.

Why not have brown dwarfs??

     I'm actually going to reply to both of you. According to the astronomy teacher I had this year Who is currently working on the probe that is studying weather patterns on Jupiter who is currently an astronomer says that astronomers consider that deviation circular, and they only find 1 in a 1000 planets circular. If they r referring to an orbit eliptical they mean a lot greater eccentricity. I don't make the terms they do. The reason I mentioned what my teacher does for a living in 2013 is to point out his qualifications. In spite of termonology U r right not a lot of objects in our solar system is perfectly circular.

     Now thanks for the information on single stars I guess I was wrong about that unless they have changed their opinion about that since 2006. As far as the planets go a lot of things have changed like they have found at least 10000 planets because of the planet finding probes. The orbits of every planet they have found is more like pluto than Mercury, and the smallest sized planets r now the size of Mercury.

     The orbits of the planets r not perfect circles, but they r circles as far as astronomers r concerned. I guess they compare the orbits to other objects orbits, but out of 10000 planets only 10 of them don't have orbits that r more like pluto's. 8 of those r in our solar system. I guess that modern Astronomy, Wikipedia, and Johannus Kepler disagree on this issue. I would like to point out that Johannis Kepler couldn't really see our stars that well. Astronomers and probes can at least see it better for right now. Later they will probably see it better.

     About the sneeches kind of funny haha.

According to my astronomy teacher given the conditions that make a earthlike planet. Mainly things like our moon and things like saturn and Jupiter. Our near circular orbits. Thats just a few out of fifteen conditions that make our planet the way it is. It really the difference based on modern knowledge of astronomy and wishful thinking. Oh I can find the conditions, but I'm not smart enough to crunch the numbers. Most of these numbers come from evolutionists and astrobiologists, but mainly evolutionists trying to put in biased conditions to create a scenario for life to exists in a computer simulator, and that is what a computer pops out. This also includes our knowledge of physics, microbiology, and chemistry. It's the difference between science and wishful thinking. Some people r trying hard to make science not to admit to a creator, but computers r there biggest enemy. They aren't smart enough to be biased.

Yes, the Drengin Empire fleet orbiting Earth (which inside a giant bubble of invincibility) demands realism.