#solarballs rant

With millions of planets to keep in check and as the kingdom is constantly expanding as well there has to be some form of established society or hierarchy. Because SIMP can't control millions entirely by herself, even in a cult there's other people down the line reinforcing respect for the cult idea or leader. I think there should have been some social standing- SIMP can remain queen but there'd have to be more than just WISE and PSO as her second-in-commands (is that right?? what is their relationship to her??) to help control the other rogues. I understand there'd have to be more individual characters introduced but they don't need lines or names or anything. Just a design and some establishment as an authority figure in some part of the society. We'd need characters acting as teachers, mentors, supervisors, messengers, accountants ect. Just some characters with a higher social standing that looks after (supervises) the others and report back to SIMP.

And the rogues need something to DO to occupy themselves. Taking the idea that most of them wander in loneliness before being recruited, it'd be cool if there different sectors for the rogue where they have their own communities where they make friends and share interests. (kinda like a book club. Imagine X coming across a painting club and thinking how much Uranus would love that.) And there's be other sectors too, military ones teaching the rogues how to fight or aim (referencing the planet rev w ganymede scene) or others teaching about other solar systems, how to navigate, how to do that space-travel thing and another where they reinforce their propaganda regularly (like oOhoh StArs BAD. EVIL. ifygwim)

And how do the rogues feel about the planet inequality? Because there's clearly an establishment of how greater mass = more power eventhough it contradicts their idea of stars are evil because they have more mass (and the fact they nuclear fuse but shhh)? ESPECIALLY how SIMP and WISE use their mass to threaten them. There's more earth sized rogues than Jupiter sized. At least a few must have a say on this. Do they not notice the obvious inequality? What's stopping them from rebelling? (and yes yes cult stuff and beliefs i get it but this kingdom is not regulated so it's much easier for disbelief and doubt to crack through.)

And here's another question: do moons just automatically become planets since there's no established orbits? How would our moons feel about that, especially after the revolution and moons becoming planets arc? would rogue ex-moons judge them for willingly wanting to stay as moons when instead they could have had equal standing as planets?

On the topic of established orbits, HOW THE HELL ARE THERE NOT WIDESPREAD COLLISIONS WITH HOW CLOSE ALL THE ROGUES ARE PACKED TOGTHER??? DOES GRAVITY NOT EXIST??? And why are they all arranged on a singular plane?? And treated like bricks in a floor plan?? 😭 Actually y'know what it would have made much more sense if SIMP established the kingdom as a society instead. "the rogue planet society" It can still be a cult without gathering all the planets into a single space. So the planets know that they're in this secret plot and inform and help other rogues, encouraging them to join as well. And maybe once in a while they have secret meetings just to re-establish morals and propaganda and what not. There's still authority but the Rogues would feel like they have more of a democracy and freedom to choose i guess? And it makes more sense physics - wise with preventing all the unnecessary collisions. Although, it would be much harder to control all of them and who's to say they can't drop out at will so that's probably why the show chose kingdom instead of society.

conclusion: Solarballs needs better worldbuilding

Back when it was just funny educational videos, they kept breaking the laws of physics and that was okay because the worldbuilding dictated they didn't apply, or at least not all of them (they did say they couldn't get too close to each other or it's a collision and what would happen if the Sun suddenly disappered, among other stuff). The issue came when the show became more plot-driven they started switching what they were able to do or not without solid in-verse justification.

A prime example of that is the speed they can move at. The first time it's brought to attention is during the race against X, when the moons imply that, on their own, their max speed is their orbital speed. Now, however, they are moving faster than light speed. The explanation seems to be "they didn't know and didn't need to, so they didn't try", which seems cheap. Are you really telling me that X broke that in-verse rule (and the laws of physics) because he wanted to leave the SS faster, but he didn't try to when Metis passed him during the race? It would have been a way better explanation saying that it has to do with the Sun's gravity weighing them down or something, but it's never stated or even explored.

Then, there's also Earth's restrictions. What do you mean he had the whole thing with heading to the Sun, but then in the SS trials he seems fine? Sure, it could be a "can stand it for a while but not permanently" kind of thing (which I'm not sure he'd risk without complaining, anyway) or even that he is in his orbit but it looks weird, but then you also have the axis thing. It has been established from the start that he needs someone helping with his axis, but then he just suddenly learns to do it on his own??? Without any effort shown? After billions of years of that "struggle" persisting?

I don't like SIMP... she's increddibly annoying and unnaware in a way that feels like either a fault of the solarballs writing team or, in a best case scenario, a very obvious flaw that could be her down fall but I serriously doubt the second one.

In the newist episode in the current solarballs arc SIMP talks about how rouge planets occour (most commonly by forming in multi-star systems and then being thrown out by the gravitational interactions between the stars in the system) and talks about how stars are (paraphrasing) terrible beings for doing so while guilt tripping X into staying. Although, she seems to forget in this moment that she's a brown dwarf STAR and has SEVERAL OTHER brown dwarfs in her system which all have way stronger gravitational pulls than the rest of the rocky planets (who for some reason seem to be the only type of rouge planets in the kingdom appart from X who's an ice giant).

Another flaw in SIMP's goals to protect / save rouge planets is how they're all kept in such close proximity to eachother to form the walls of her thrown room. This plus the tight space they have to move around between each rouge planet wall means that there is an increased risk of planetary collision not to mention the risk of accidently being flung out AGAIN from gravitational interactions between all the brown dwarfs and rouge planets in the system which goes against SIMP's ideas of keeping them safe.

Now, you could argue that WISE and the other shown brown dwarf that I don't remember the name of might not actually be brown dwarfs due to the brevity of when they're observed and the distance they're viewed from but in cannon they ARE reffered to as brown dwarfs which makes them stars.

in the show it is seen the solar system has its own cultural and sort of politics(?) when viewed in a certain way

it has its own caste system we have not seen in others in the show (tbf we have not seen other systems like it), you could make an ok guess that the hierarchy the solar system has may not exist in others

its general culture made with the hierarchy being a big part it is also interesting to see

like for example, in the solar system it seems to be hyper aware of how the sun can literally end their existence if they do even the slightest thing wrong this is seen in one of the early episodes when Saturn gets out of his orbit to visit Uranus and have their little adventure when Uranus sees Saturn out of his orbit, he freaks out a bit and when Saturn gets loud about wanting to spend time with his icy friend, Uranus tells him to keep quiet or else the sun will hear him

there is also seen in another episode when the sun gets mad at some of the rocky planets (specifically mars and mercury) for being a bit rude to who is basically their father/protector/god, his extreme anger to them is very clearly threatening

as he can literally just bast them to bits if he wanted to

the sun has made a situation for himself and his planets where the planets are always keeping secrets from him and each other, there is a culture in the solar system were pretending and lying is constantly encouraged or the only thing a celestial body can do if they don't want to face the suns wrath

it reminds me of the phrase "strict parents only make sneaky kids" as in the solar system lying to the sun is one of the only ways you can save yourself from being murdered, the sun is clearly insane for this btw

so when you compare the solar system and the rouge empire going on with SIMP as the leader, the size of the solar system is fucking nothing in numbers when compared to the empire that much is clear

but the empire does not seem to have that kind of lying issue (at least of what we know off so far), in fact since everyone in the rouge planet empire has (somewhat) of the same thing in mind, saving planets from their stars, this encourages information to go around and serve as a place for planets to talk about their trauma due to the neglect, death, or active aggression from their unstable stars

since simp is much calmer and more thoughtful about her actions, she does not have violet outbursts where she cartoonishly goes and threatens planets smaller than her

there are punishments if you really piss her off yes, like seen in the episode where x laughs at SIMP's name, cus like...yk and she threatens to crush him with her gravity

besides that, rouge planets do consider banishment to be a decent punishment, but that only seems to be used if a planet wants to leave with the policy of the rouge planets being "you can't come back if you leave"

the solar system and the rouge planet empire are still pretty bad, the empire just seems to be a bit better as they (on the surface) have the goal to free every planet from their stars

best way I can put it rn is,

solar system = abusive and controlling but still somewhat loving family sharing one big house

rouge planet empire = an organization that protects and frees people that can't do that themselves (also turns out they are a cult but the show can go a lot of ways with those implied things)