As long as we're not expecting to see the planets in their current orbits anyway...
Move the Earth.
Take the drive-of-choice from the Whole Fenspace Catalog, build a honking-great mass of them, and install them on a framework built around the planet. Also install a sun-analog on that framework (for day/night cycles during the trip), plus enough gravity-generators to keep the planet centered in the framework. When everything's set, launch the planet out of the Solar System and to the nearest system not on the neutron star's path.
Do the same to Luna, Mars, and Ganymede - they all have populations big enough to make it worthwhile.
Abandon Venus - the Crystal Cities can fly under their own power. Likewise, evacuate L3, L4, and L5 by flying the stations out.
The other settlements... if we have time, move the rocks. If we don't, build a few Island Two stations (maybe stretch them like Genaros) for the inhabitants and move those.
Then, in a few decades, we can move the planets back. The stations might move back, or they might stay in the "shelter" system, or they might head even further Out - their choice, and I'm sure all three options will be exercised.
(EDIT: Yes, I have been thinking about this off and on, ever since http://archiveofourown.org/collections/ ... ks/1042601]Mal asked how to do it.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Move the Earth.
Take the drive-of-choice from the Whole Fenspace Catalog, build a honking-great mass of them, and install them on a framework built around the planet. Also install a sun-analog on that framework (for day/night cycles during the trip), plus enough gravity-generators to keep the planet centered in the framework. When everything's set, launch the planet out of the Solar System and to the nearest system not on the neutron star's path.
Do the same to Luna, Mars, and Ganymede - they all have populations big enough to make it worthwhile.
Abandon Venus - the Crystal Cities can fly under their own power. Likewise, evacuate L3, L4, and L5 by flying the stations out.
The other settlements... if we have time, move the rocks. If we don't, build a few Island Two stations (maybe stretch them like Genaros) for the inhabitants and move those.
Then, in a few decades, we can move the planets back. The stations might move back, or they might stay in the "shelter" system, or they might head even further Out - their choice, and I'm sure all three options will be exercised.
(EDIT: Yes, I have been thinking about this off and on, ever since http://archiveofourown.org/collections/ ... ks/1042601]Mal asked how to do it.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012