Talk:The Herulean War/@comment-Geti186-20141206133300/@comment-EllenTenshima-20141211024812

Geti and i actually discussed this for a bit of time. In any case, one of the first things we decided was that while Earth's first world population could be used in some measure to estimate the Herulean population, it's actual current population is likely going to be an inaccurate comparison due to a few factors.

One, Heruleans can literally live anywhere on the sun. It wouldn't surprise me if they could drill deep into the sun and still live there. It's different for humans and the Earth. Currently we can only live on hospitable landmass, when our earth is more than 2/3 water, and more than 50% of our actual landmass is made inhospitable by stuff like deserts and Antartica. That right there is about *7 population.

Second, due to the Herulean's power, they can afford to say, ignore any consideration of environmental amenities in their infrastructure, unlike humans, who need additional resources if they want to live in 'extreme conditions'. This allows Heruleans to live in places where humans would normally not consider as part of the landmass such as, say, several kilometers into the ground and sky. This as a very conservative estimate, is going to be about *10 at minumum, since one can't really compare surface area to volume.

Third, because of the above, Herulean's population density is going to be so hilariously different from Humanity's due to their near complete lack of need for resources. Their actual population density is going to tower over ours by a significant amount. Even our greatest population density center on Earth probably isn't going to compare, and even that is somewhat more than *500 greater than Earth's actual population density. As such i will use that number as another conservative estimate.

That comes to... 7*7*10*500*11900 (this is how much greater the sun's surface area is compared to earth)= 2900 quadrillion.

Then we take America's military personnel rate of about 0.5%, and round it down a bit since if you are allowed to do anything you probably don't want to be a soldier.

And that's about 12 quadrillion.