Hey SolarBalls team! I am sending this because as a massive fan of your world-building, I honestly have no idea what the animators were thinking when structuring the minor moons across the solar system. Ever since The Moons of Neptune episodes released seasons ago, a narrative double standard has been left completely unfixed, and the community is growing obsessed with the sheer unfairness of it all. The visual evidence of this favouritism is undeniable. Neptune's minor moons get the absolute royal treatment on screen. They dominate multiple episodes with full speaking roles, receive massive amounts of unique dialogue, carry entire narrative arcs, and are treated like fully independent, sentient characters. Even Proteus, despite being an irregular minor moon, is granted a highly detailed, brave, and mature personality with main-character-level emotional depth. Yet, the largest gas giants—Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus—are heavily neglected. Their minor satellites are stripped of their individuality and forced to sit as a silent, faceless crowd of space gravel just to populate the background layer. Right now, Jupiter only has 6 minor moons with faces, Saturn has only 1, and poor Uranus has absolutely none. The hypocrisy in your design choices is completely baffling. Why are microscopic, completely insignificant 4-kilometre irregular Jovian space rocks like Euporie and Kallichore randomly picked off an astronomy list and given highly detailed faces, while massive, historically and gravitationally important minor moons are left completely blank? To make it worse, the few minor moons of other planets that do have faces—like Metis, Amalthea, Thebe, Elara and Hyperion—suffer from a total lack of dialogue. They are treated like hollow, silent background statues, completely wasting their visual assets while Neptune’s crowd hogs all the screen time. In fact, even faced moons like Metis, Euporie, and Kallichore are usually missing from the minor moon crowd entirely due to inconsistent layer rendering, showing a clear lack of care compared to Neptune's system. This unfair script bias goes all the way back to the beginning of cosmic history. In the Theia Arc, the writers only bothered to render a young Triton and Proteus with dialogue, completely ignoring the childhood backstories of every other satellite of the gas giants in the system. Then, in the Rogue Planet Arc, the show forces a bizarre scene where some of the spherical major moons are completely deleted from the frame like Rhea, Tethys, Oberon, Umbriel, Ariel and Miranda, ending the episode by showing exactly 12 minor moons of Neptune with grey eyes. Even worse, Neptune is shown with only 13 moons because Laomedeia is entirely missing, and there are 2 unnamed moons that are completely hidden as well. There aren’t even two generic minor moons filling the screen to take their place, probably because the team realised dropping blank assets next to faced ones would look too weird. Frankly, it feels like SolarBalls barely bothers to add more characters anyway, leaving fans increasingly frustrated with the lack of effort to expand the cast. It is easy to show all of Neptune's moons, so why neglect the others? That is the entire point of this report. The Solution: Turn this real-world production laziness and growing fan obsession into an epic, fourth-wall-breaking storyline: The Minor Moon Rebellion. Let the faceless, unrendered minor moons break away from their orbits in a mass strike, furious that they have been censored from the script while "camera-hogs" like Kallichore or Neptune's privileged cast get all the rendering budget! Let them swarm the system to force a script rewrite. Implementing a clean, scaled, fully-voiced minor moon structure permanently fixes this continuity gap and respects real astronomy. In this format, the number of animated minor moons scales directly based on the planet's actual total moon count, meaning the planets with more overall moons get a naturally larger, fully detailed roster on screen: See second last page (the one before That’s it)
