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    Thread: EG Redesign - Ideas and Suggestions?
Post: RE: EG Redesign - Ideas and Suggestions?

Drashner1 Wrote: (04-16-2021, 09:50 PM) -- Just so I'm building a correct mental picture here - Are you suggesting that the major section pages (such as what you mention above) would look something l...
radtech497 Suggestion Box - OA website 16 18,476 04-17-2021, 06:02 PM
    Thread: EG Redesign - Ideas and Suggestions?
Post: RE: EG Redesign - Ideas and Suggestions?

Just a thought, so take it for what you think it's worth. What if, when opening a section of the EG (Culture and Society, History, Sophonts, &c.), a "splash page" opened, showing the section title ...
radtech497 Suggestion Box - OA website 16 18,476 04-15-2021, 04:55 PM
    Thread: OA Sufficiently Advanced
Post: RE: OA Sufficiently Advanced

Drashner1 Wrote: (04-14-2021, 10:38 PM) -- Hrm. Basically this was done without our permission or input, if that matters to anyone. -- I posted this as a result of a conversation on the Discord se...
radtech497 General RPG Material 3 106 04-14-2021, 11:09 PM
    Thread: OA Sufficiently Advanced
Post: OA Sufficiently Advanced

From 2009: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kM5SEPfLXbjOb1ePmC50j4qrj92BiWUH/view
radtech497 General RPG Material 3 106 04-14-2021, 08:54 PM
    Thread: Information Storage
Post: RE: Information Storage

JohnnyYesterday Wrote: (02-15-2021, 02:48 PM) -- radtech497 Wrote: (02-14-2021, 05:42 PM) -- 5D optical data is read with a microscope and a polarizer; digital data is unsuitable to the format (unle...
radtech497 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 41 657 02-16-2021, 06:57 AM
    Thread: Information Storage
Post: RE: Information Storage

JohnnyYesterday Wrote: (02-13-2021, 02:13 PM) -- radtech497 Wrote: (02-13-2021, 01:39 PM) -- Would 5D optical storage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage) be one of the analogue m...
radtech497 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 41 657 02-14-2021, 05:42 PM
    Thread: The Trader (draft 1.0)
Post: RE: The Trader (draft 1.0)

Everything4404 Wrote: (02-14-2021, 02:38 AM) -- Quote: -- ! Everything(Year 6b59)Today at 6:41 PM @Kerr does changing the shape of a spacecraft change the heating value from the ISM? KerrToda...
radtech497 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 18 239 02-14-2021, 03:23 PM
    Thread: The Trader (2nd draft)
Post: The Trader (2nd draft)

Presented here for your consideration. Comments, as always, are welcome .... "A mysterious xenosophont ship is even now making its way along a circular trajectory that has brought it into the heart...
radtech497 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 9 176 02-13-2021, 02:34 PM
    Thread: Information Storage
Post: RE: Information Storage

Would 5D optical storage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage) be one of the analogue methods? Radtech497
radtech497 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 41 657 02-13-2021, 01:39 PM
    Thread: The Trader (draft 1.0)
Post: RE: The Trader (draft 1.0)

stevebowers Wrote: (02-03-2021, 02:20 AM) -- Perhaps we could use the interstellar medium itself to carry away heat - if the hydrogen were heated by friction, it could be carried around the ship and ...
radtech497 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 18 239 02-13-2021, 01:06 PM
    Thread: The Trader (draft 1.0)
Post: RE: The Trader (draft 1.0)

stevebowers Wrote: (01-28-2021, 09:33 PM) -- What could the Trader be trading? Have the Soft Ones or the Muuh seen things like this before? -- Presumably, both the Soft Ones and the Muuh have some re...
radtech497 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 18 239 01-28-2021, 10:13 PM
    Thread: The Trader (draft 1.0)
Post: RE: The Trader (draft 1.0)

radtech497 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 18 239 01-28-2021, 07:28 PM
    Thread: Pas'utu'ril update
Post: RE: Pas'utu'ril update

Drashner1 Wrote: (08-19-2020, 12:42 PM) -- Added an underline so people can more easily see the link. Also - Are the only differences between the current article and the new one the items in bold?...
radtech497 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 4 96 08-19-2020, 02:44 PM
    Thread: Pas'utu'ril update
Post: Pas'utu'ril update

After discussions with The Astronomer and Dangerous Safety on the Discord channel, it was agreed that the Pas'utu'ril should move to the Large Magellanic Cloud. To that end, I have prepared an update ...
radtech497 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 4 96 08-18-2020, 10:21 PM
    Thread: What music are you listening to right now?
Post: RE: What music are you listening to right now?

"Izlel je Delyo Hagdutin" Valya Balkanska https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETP6pGP6BO0 "One of These Days" Pink Floyd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6QyxGdsSlo "Saturn - The Bringer of Old Ag...
radtech497 General Off-topic Discussion 218 244,599 08-07-2020, 04:14 PM
    Thread: Abundance of planets
Post: RE: Abundance of planets

Coming into this very late, but a question comes to mind. Is it reasonable to expect the planetary systems described in the EG to adhere to the statistical planetary abundances? After all, the systems...
radtech497 General Setting Discussion 50 809 07-26-2020, 03:06 PM
    Thread: Revision of data in planetary systems
Post: RE: Revision of data in planetary systems

Tsin'gakh has always had a spectral type of G0V, and never was a G5V star. If you feel there are too many planets in the system, feel free to remove Nir'takh (the outermost world).
radtech497 General Setting Discussion 28 525 07-14-2020, 11:35 AM
    Thread: A million tons of gold
Post: RE: A million tons of gold

Transmutations are usually carried out in particle accelerators, and gold was first transmuted from lead in 1980. Horrendously impractical, but doable (even without a fusion reactor). Radtech497
radtech497 General Setting Discussion 7 107 04-02-2020, 05:43 PM
    Thread: Xenosophont spacecraft coming from Amalgamation space
Post: RE: Xenosophont spacecraft coming from Amalgamatio...

stevebowers Wrote: (03-30-2020, 12:53 AM) -- Does it even know about the Amalgamation? If Amalgamation space is fully surrounded, the first contact it might make would be with PADO forces on the far...
radtech497 General Setting Discussion 22 243 03-31-2020, 12:15 PM
    Thread: Xenosophont spacecraft coming from Amalgamation space
Post: RE: Xenosophont spacecraft coming from Amalgamatio...

No, It was renamed "Unidentified spacecraft coming from Amalgamation space" and can be found here (https://www.orionsarm.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=4582) Radtech497
radtech497 General Setting Discussion 22 243 03-28-2020, 05:34 PM