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according to the map in distant worlds it's official name is "The Solar System" and golarion is the 3rd planet out from the "Sun" - I wonder where they got such a weird idea from?! Almost as if they've got some weird place to draw inspiration from!
On a side note it looks like quantum mechanics isn't a thing in PF - Molecules can stop vibrating (pg 50 of distant worlds) - don't think they can in our reality
Also Lashunta, Triaxans, Kalo, Shobhads, Vercites, Ysoki Rat-men are all from the same Solar System (androids kinda are - they're mostly from Numeria - possibly made there) - Only Formians and Kasatha are from outside it
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Right but Earth exists, RoW takes you there. So it's not "Sol".
I didn't say it was our solar system of their representation of it - just that that's it's name by the book
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Solar systems don't really have names. The one we live in is "the" or "our" solar system. It's not called Bob or Eric or BH5514D. I guess other systems are named after their star. Golarion's star is called..."the sun" according to DW. So we're not getting very far.
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Since the people of Golarion call the star of their system "The Sun," those few individuals versed in astronomy would likely call their system, "Golarion's solar system" or just "the solar system." That's what it's called in Distant Worlds.
If distinguishing Golarion's system from other star systems becomes relevant, I'd recommend using the same terminology for the system that they will use in Starfinder... at least as soon as it's published later this summer.
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It just says that Golarian was named by outsiders.
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I always assumed that the word "Golarion" was Taldane for "The World."
Well, I mean, isn't it called the "Gol"
Hm, just looked it up while starting to type this, and I can't find any hint of that.
Weird that I thought it was called "Gol" somewhere.
That said, "Gol" could very easily be the vague equivalent of "jail" or "cage" while "arion" could be "earth" or "world" or "planet" or "dirt" or whatever. Or the reverse. Heck the "ion" may well just be a linguistic tick (or rough equivalent; the way we sometimes entirely rewrite words when describing them in different contexts), leaving "Gol" and "ar" the linguistic root elements that describe it, to make it a pretty banal and straightforward name.
Or "Golarion" could be the aboleth language, for, "Lolwutlozers, watch this!" so...
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Weird that I thought it was called "Gol" somewhere.
That said, "Gol" could very easily be the vague equivalent of "jail" or "cage" while "arion" could be "earth" or "world" or "planet" or "dirt" or whatever. Or the reverse. Heck the "ion" may well just be a linguistic tick (or rough equivalent; the way we sometimes entirely rewrite words when describing them in different contexts), leaving "Gol" and "ar" the linguistic root elements that describe it, to make it a pretty banal and straightforward name.
"Gol" actually shows up somewhere intriguing, in the name of the ancient Cyclopean empire Ghol-Gan. The etymology of that state's name is frustratingly out of reach, as it most of its history. What is known is that they worshiped the sun and moon. The sun in those days was personified by Sarenrae, as it is now, but the moon was personified by Acavna.
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From Wikipedia:
A planetary system is a set of gravitationally bound non-stellar objects in orbit around a star or star system. Generally speaking, systems with one or more planets constitute a planetary system, although such systems may also consist of bodies such as dwarf planets, asteroids, natural satellites, meteoroids, comets, planetesimals[1][2] and circumstellar disks. The Sun together with its planetary system, which includes Earth, is known as the Solar System.[3][4] The term exoplanetary system is sometimes used in reference to other planetary systems.
So another star system would be for example the Alpha Centari system. Any star with planets around it would be a planetary system likewise named after its star.
As said above Sol is another name for the Sun. Which are both names for our star. Hence forth the Solar System. So there is only one Sun and by extention only one Solar System. Obviously there are many Stars and many Systems.
At least that is my understanding of it.
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From Wikipedia:
A planetary system is a set of gravitationally bound non-stellar objects in orbit around a star or star system. Generally speaking, systems with one or more planets constitute a planetary system, although such systems may also consist of bodies such as dwarf planets, asteroids, natural satellites, meteoroids, comets, planetesimals[1][2] and circumstellar disks. The Sun together with its planetary system, which includes Earth, is known as the Solar System.[3][4] The term exoplanetary system is sometimes used in reference to other planetary systems.
So another star system would be for example the Alpha Centari system. Any star with planets around it would be a planetary system likewise named after its star.
As said above Sol is another name for the Sun. Which are both names for our star. Hence forth the Solar System. So there is only one Sun and by extention only one Solar System.
At least that is my understanding of it.
You are correct. Other "solar systems" with planets orbiting a star are called planetary systems, not solar systems.
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Thanks. What I was getting at is there is only one Solar System. So saying what Solar System is that is like saying what Earth is that when looking at Jupiter.