Speculating On The Algebralian Homeworld Part I-How Far Away Is It From It's Parent Star?
It has kept me up for long merciless nights; it is the one ghoulish creature of nightmares staring at me when I awake under the witching hour, the one thing that makes me go insane every time I think of it. Lords, ladies, and non-binary monarchs, the object of extreme terror I reference is this right here:
TPoT 20 gave us a rare glimpse into the appearance of the Algebralian homeworld and questions about this darn planet have consumed my soul, my every breath, my every waking moment ever since. They CANNOT drop something like that and NOT expect my astronomy-obsessed self to freak out over it. So yes, lords, ladies, and non-binary monarchs, if I am go go down, you are all going down with me and listening to my rambles.
The Algebralian homeworld appears to be near earth, and is essentially the Algebralian version of earth, but for the sake of this analysis and because, as I'll cover a few posts in to this series, I hypothesize that it can't actually have the atmospheric composition that causes those yellow, purple, pink, orange and brown tones, and be as similar to earth as it is.
Let’s begin with a simple question: How far away is Equatia [I am not referring to it as 'Algebralian homeworld’ or 'Algebralian universe’ throughout the entire span of this post because I’m just…not going to be doing that] from it's parent star?
A precise measurement isn’t possible as no scenes with Equatia and it’s host star [which I’ll call 1emc2 from here onward because repeating 'host star’ or 'parent star’ over and over sounds more grating then nails on a chalk board] together are ever shown. Still, we can at least determine if its an inner planet [closer to the sun like Mercury through Mars], or outer planet [farther away from its parent star like Jupiter through Pluto].
My speculation is that it’s an inner planet, in or near the habitable zone
In this shot we see a round circle with a ring around it. This appears to be 1emc2 and it looks exactly the way our own sun does in our own skies, just slightly more massive, so it must be at the same [or roughly the same] distance the sun is from Earth.
More evidence that adds fuel to my speculations is that Equatia can apparently maintain matter in a liquid state. There are never any large bodies of water depicted, but Algebralians are shown to cry tears that don’t instantly boil and freeze, and in Alone we see that it can rain and develop mud puddles.
Another indicator is that Equatia apparently has a magnetic field and an in tact atmosphere. This isn't directly addressed in the series but it can be inferred.
It has weather phenomena, the sky is shown to be blue so there is some layer of particles scattering or reflecting light, and we see the yoylite leaves a trail in the sky (a hint that it burned up in an atmosphere), and we don’t see any effects that’d be caused by radiation on either the Algebrarians or the local plant life.
This is a characteristic of planets in the habitable zone.
The exact distance of the habitable zone can vary from 0.03 to 12 x the distance from the sun to the earth (a measurement technical called and AU or Astronomical Unit) depending on size of the host star. To narrow it down we need an accurate measurement of 1emc2 which unfortunately is impossible as it’s never really shown. Based on the one shot we got from earlier my best hypothesis would be that it's around the size of the sun, just slightly larger so, an F-type star, putting the exact distance from Equatia to 1emc2 at 2.2 AU, but don’t take that as a fact as it’s very rough conjecture based on a photo that’s certainly doesn’t show 1emc2 at full and proper scale and distance.
So, to wrap this all up Equatia is probably somewhere between 0.03 to 12 AU (2.2 if you trust the F-type star suggestion) from 1emc2, and that's my best guesstimate from the evidence I could gather.