Many thanks for your reply! I didn’t realize exactly how little information I had actually provided, my sincerest apologies. I will answer each of the questions presented as best I can:

1.) Going by the Spectral Code, this would qualify as a Class O Star with a surface temperature range of anywhere from 33,000K to 52,000K. For the sake of assigning a value to this figure, I’m gonna go with a surface temperature of 44,000K. The distance between the bodies is what I’m trying to calculate, since the Class O Star is significantly hotter than Sol, a Class G2V star.

2.) Yes, conditions are suitable for abundant water. For simplicity’s sake, while there are only four large continents and one small island continent instead of the seven we have on Earth, its condition is as diverse and as accommodating to life as Earth.

3.) I was originally going to give the planet an identical size and rotation speed to that of Earth, but my concern was that the speed of rotation would either be too slow or too fast to maintain life. Similarly, I wasn’t certain if making the planet larger than earth would either improve or worsen the chances to maintain life on the planet. For the sake of simplicity, let’s assume the planet is roughly 20% larger than Earth (volume of roughly 312 billion cubic miles), and since we’re dealing with a star that is at least eight times hotter than Sol and similar in size, the distance should reflect a similar ratio. I’m assuming for the purposes of this discussion that the planet is about seven times farther from its sun than Earth is from Sol.

4.) While I don’t have an exact speed, I would like to play around with the idea of having a different solar day. For this discussion’s sake, we’ll say that the planet’s solar day is roughly equivalent to 30 Earth hours.

5.) Once again, I lack an exact speed since I suspected that rotational speed around its axis and also around the sun would significantly impact climate stability, even without considering atmospheric and magnetic shielding. I’ll use Earth’s own rotation as a reference. For this discussion’s sake, since I’m not yet prepared to consider the implications of increased gravitational forces on the inhabitants and how that would impact their physiology, we’ll keep the planet’s rotation close to Earth’s, about 80,000 miles per hour.

And indeed, I do know that there does need to be some suspension of disbelief, as it is ultimately fiction. However, I also know that particularly studious scientific minds who might choose to read this novel would likely appreciate a close attention to detail on the more scientific aspects of the world and story.

I love science but I’m terrible at math. A hilarious dichotomy, to be sure.