late night worldbuilding idea
what if I made the point of origin for one of the civilizations in my setting a former ice giant whose atmosphere has been blown off by the expansion of its parent star into a low mass red giant
apparently a 0.5 mSol star can keep a planet orbiting at Jupiter's distance in its habitable zone for nearly 6 billion years which is literally a better prospect for life than most F-type stars, let alone anything more massive
