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The planets have nice harmonics, so that rather than planet 1 and planet 2 having some irrational ratio (planet 1 goes around every 2.64782362 times for planet 2) it's round fraction like 1/2. When you string the whole thing, the lowest common multiple of revolutions is 54, so that only every 54 planet-1-years, realignment returns.

The researchers hypothesize that this is sufficiently improbable to point toward an embodied intelligence as the cause.




The Devs thought this solar system was outside our render distance, so they used default placeholder values for everything. Should be patched in the next release.




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