12-13-2022, 11:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-13-2022, 01:45 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
I don't think Genesis could have produced a new star or a planet from Mutara. As depicted on screen Mutara is too close and too small to have enough mass for either. Plus, the device as depicted just didn't produce a big enough effect. That's why I think the star and planet were already there: Regula and Regula I. Mutara was a cloud within the Regula system that was too small to fit our current definition of a nebula, and Genesis just sucked it in and used its matter as part of its reconfiguration of the nearest large enough mass within its range, the one the space station had been orbiting. Gas and dust don't have much mass at all, so it shouldn't have required a very strong attraction to pull them in.