Planet G as shown from orbit
"Ladies and Gentlemen, please prepare to bear witness to the making of history." -Dr. Nogrady
Planet G (named by NASA) is a habitable planet located in the Gliese system, orbiting a yellow star similar to the Sun. It is the home world of the Regents and located within 7 light years of Earth.
Geography[]
Planet G was discovered by NASA as explained by Dr. Nogrady
Appearance[]
Planet G is a rocky planet, with a structure similar to Earth and an atmosphere similar to Earth because Regents can breathe oxygen on Earth without protective gear. According to the information on the image, this planet seems to have a mass 1.3 times that of Earth with 70% of its surface being water and orbiting a G-class star similar to Earth's Sun, at a distance of 147 million km, a fairly perfect planet for human life.
Planet G vs Earth Size
Planet G has a larger mass and size than Earth, so it is also considered a super Earth, leading to this exoplanet having a greater gravitational force than Earth. Creatures on this planet will basically be stronger and have better physical strength and endurance and are much stronger than humans. Some of the massive structures on the planet as well as large glowing cities on the planet can be seen from orbit. This planet is likely to have a similar climate to Earth because of its high similarity to Earth and will also have large continents and oceans.
Wildlife[]
The main inhabitants of this planet are the Regent race, a species that has evolved sentience and dominated this planet and has developed into a brilliant civilization, with living conditions like on Earth, it is possible that it also has a massive and diverse ecosystem like on Earth, but this, however, remains unknown.
Natural Satellites[]
It seems that Planet G does not have any moons around it, which may make the ocean tides and currents on this planet different from Earth, leading to some characteristics of life being slightly different from Earth, but basically is still suitable for human living conditions.
Star system[]
Planet G 's star system
Planet G resides within a single star system located within 6 light years away from Earth. It is one of 3 planets orbiting its parent star. Unfortunately, nothing is known about these two other planets, whether or not if they were colonized by the Regents.
Virtually nothing is stated about the parent star, though given by its appearance and yellowish-coloring, it could either be a G-type or a K-type star.
The first planet within the system appears to be a desert world, having temperatures up to +200°C, as a result of its close distance to the system star. Because of this, life is unable to thrive on this planet.
The third planet sitting beyond Planet G's orbit is more icy-based, sitting over about 300 million kilometers away from the star and having temperatures around -314°C. Curiously, unlike Planet G and the innermost planet, the third planet is shown to have two major moons.
Mineral resources[]
This planet also seems to possess valuable mineral resources that are not available on Earth, typically rare metals that are not available on Earth. This helps Regents to create advanced technologies, master energy sources, and advanced giant space warships. These metals and components also help the Regents warships to be very durable and completely invisible to human radar. The only element that humans can identify is Lawrencium.
History[]
Prehistory[]
The said planet that was conquered by the Regents
Planet G was at least billions of years old, probably older than Earth and the human solar system for some time as evidence suggests that the Regents evolved and possessed an advanced civilization thousands of years before humans. Planet G probably did not experience any major collisions like Earth which resulted in it having no moons, the planet's tectonic plates appear to be less active than those on Earth which resulted in it being less likely to have periods of extinction like Earth's past, Regents were present and likely evolved early and developed into an advanced civilization early. It is unknown what their history on the planet was like, but at some point, during their advancement, they at least began to explore the known galaxy and ushering in the expansion era thousands of years ago. During the exploration of the galaxy, the Regent's (and Planet G) likely encountered many other races, leading to the Regent's accelerating their advancement of its space military force, and becoming a powerful empire. The purpose was to both demonstrate its power, expand its interstellar territory, and protect its home planet. When a Regent commander showed Alex Hopper their history, at least one alien planet had been conquered and destroyed by the Regent's.
21st Century[]
In 2005, Planet G was discovered by humans, and they had been in constant contact for many years, Regent soon caught the signal and found out which civilization had dared to contact and ''invite'' them, this had never happened in the history of the Regent's civilization. In 2012, Regent sent a reconnaissance fleet to Earth to find out, they soon arrived on Earth and fought humans, the reconnaissance fleet was destroyed on Earth and contact was lost. Regent will soon send a huge fleet from Planet G and military outposts from other colonies to Earth in the future, to retaliate against those who killed the reconnaissance team and dared to challenge them.
Trivia[]
- While the film never refers Planet G by a proper name, it has been referred to as "Garenon" by fans.
- Despite speculation that Planet-G is Gliese 581g, Gliese 581 is approximately 20.5 light years from Earth meaning if the signal from Landsat 7 was sent in 2006 then it wouldn't reach Planet-G until approximately 2026 and would take another 20+ years for the Regents to travel back to Earth even if they're traveling at near-light speed. Note that there are also thousands of stars named Gliese, the nearest stars in the Gliese Catalogue (Gliese 411, BL Ceti, and UV Ceti) are all more than 8 light years away so the signal still would not have even reached them until 2014, let alone for them to travel back to Earth in that time. 6 years between the signal being sent and the Regents arriving means that Planet-G must be at most 3 light years away (the nearest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri at 4.24 ly) unless they've developed FTL travel or wormhole technology to "teleport" 6 light years near-instantly. The nearest Gliese stars are also all M-type red dwarfs rather than K-type orange dwarfs or G-type yellow dwarfs (like the Sun) that Planet-G's star is depicted as, most likely a K-type (or possibly a small G-type) due to its color and that the Sun is significantly brighter to the point of effectively blinding the Regents. K-type stars are also longer lived and less active than G-type stars in terms of solar flares and UV/X-ray emissions meaning life and has both more time to evolve and progress and lower radiation levels and coronal ejections make them less dangerous and less damaging to life and the atmosphere.
- There are several systems that lie within the distance of 23 light years. But it's never specified on what the actual star system Planet G is a part of.
- So far, the only known system (to have a planet) that reside at a similar distance is Gliese 667. Though, this system is a trinary system comprised of two K-type stars and a single M-type star. While the K-type stars don't have planets, the M-type star does, but due to the nature of red dwarf's, it is likely that the planets orbiting Gliese 667 C are uninhabitable wastelands.
- It has been cited to be a reference to the disproven exoplanet candidate, Gliese 581g, which at the time of Battleship's release, Gliese 581g was still a candidate.