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Thread: Tropes Questions
Post: RE: Tropes Questions
| Ah right, provolves come into the mix as well. The way you phrased the question made me think you were asking about humanoid beings - my bad. :p |
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General Setting Discussion
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03-14-2015, 02:13 PM |
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Thread: Tropes Questions
Post: RE: Tropes Questions
| Bird and fish people would fall under Rianths (http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45beaa73c347e) and Splices (http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45beac611ad40). I'm not sure what you mean by "Reptilians... |
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General Setting Discussion
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03-13-2015, 10:07 AM |
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Thread: Transingularity POVs
Post: Transingularity POVs
| They're supposed to be incomprehensible, yes, but my curiosity about them is insatiable. I've been pondering what their perspective might be like.
Starting with S1s, what might the universe look an... |
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General Setting Discussion
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03-04-2015, 01:28 PM |
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Thread: <EG> Mindsculpting
Post: RE: <EG> Mindsculpting
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Rynn Wrote:
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- Changes in personality: more assertive, optimistic, more sociable over technical, more artistic etc
- Changes in cognition: thinking in disembodied (i.e. 360 degree) images, memor... |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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01-30-2015, 04:30 PM |
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Thread: <EG> Mindsculpting
Post: RE: <EG> Mindsculpting
| Thank you :) The brackets are things I'm unsure about, yes. With its scale I don't have a good grasp of how long it takes things to get around the Terragen Sphere, and haven't pinned a location for th... |
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01-27-2015, 06:00 AM |
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Thread: <EG> Mindsculpting
Post: <EG> Mindsculpting
| Hello, I was told this is in a good state to post for critique - so here it is.
Mindsculpting
Using [augmentics and infotech], sophonts can restructure eir minds to shuffle emselves around the t... |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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01-26-2015, 10:45 AM |
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Thread: Merry Christmas everyone!
Post: RE: Merry Christmas everyone!
| Happy holidays everyone!
stevebowers Wrote: (12-25-2014, 10:51 PM)
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Hope that Robot Santa doesn't get you!
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I hope you had a better defense than a mistletoe. :P
TSSL Wrote: (12-29-2014, 12:45... |
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General Off-topic Discussion
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12-31-2014, 01:25 PM |
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Thread: Low-Altitude Starship Flight?
Post: RE: Low-Altitude Starship Flight?
| Reactionless drives would enable a craft to hover with no apparent means of lift or propulsion in a planetary environment. Todd mentions some other possible uses as well in the OA Starship thread:
D... |
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General Setting Discussion
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09-14-2014, 05:34 PM |
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Thread: Writing advice
Post: RE: Writing advice
| Hmmm. What kind of catalyst do you mean? Where he is and what he's doing, or what's going on internally? For the former one thing that came to mind was asteroid or comet mining out near the lightspeed... |
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General Setting Discussion
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09-03-2014, 11:45 AM |
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Thread: Amorphous mentalities
Post: RE: Amorphous mentalities
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Rynn Wrote: (08-30-2014, 12:48 AM)
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Last is technology that modosophonts can't understand how it works or how to use it.
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I think your analogies sum it up pretty well, but would this last categ... |
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09-01-2014, 06:35 PM |
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Thread: Amorphous mentalities
Post: RE: Amorphous mentalities
| Alright, here it is - need to come up with better descriptions of its uses to make those sections more meaty and less parroted.
Mindsculpting
Using [augmentics and infotech], sophonts can restructur... |
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09-01-2014, 02:04 PM |
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Thread: Amorphous mentalities
Post: RE: Amorphous mentalities
| I'm feeling a bit lost with this, particularly the story about the incident which is intended to be an example of it going horribly wrong or being sabotaged and creating something very strange. Should... |
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09-01-2014, 01:07 PM |
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Thread: <EG> Proposal: Asteroid Brains
Post: RE: <EG> Proposal: Asteroid Brains
| These do sound like a lower-S version of the 'asteroid nodes' mentioned on the page for S3s, though that's probably referring to asteroid-sized chunks of pure computronium. It's interesting to imagine... |
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General Setting Discussion
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08-30-2014, 07:52 AM |
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Thread: Amorphous mentalities
Post: RE: Amorphous mentalities
| Been tinkering with the EG and an idea for a mysterious historical incident. Some crucial elements I'm not clear on though - can transavants actually create transapientech themselves (e.g. hyperfog)? ... |
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08-28-2014, 02:22 PM |
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Thread: Amorphous mentalities
Post: RE: Amorphous mentalities
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Drashner1 Wrote: (08-20-2014, 12:52 PM)
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Ontologies and memetics can help see another sophonts POV, such that communities of diverse beings can live and work together in productive harmony. What yo... |
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General Setting Discussion
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08-20-2014, 03:25 PM |
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Thread: Amorphous mentalities
Post: Amorphous mentalities
| Many things in OA, be they infrastructure, people or both (a nanoborg, for instance) are capable of rapid shapeshifting to take on a wide variety of physical forms. What about rapid mental changes? I ... |
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08-19-2014, 01:07 PM |
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Thread: Popping the void bubble!
Post: Popping the void bubble!
| I really ought to quit lurking before it gets any later. :P
I first came across Orion's Arm when I was rifling through TV Tropes for more xenofiction. I was immediately intrigued by the summary blu... |
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The Arrivals Lounge
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