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    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

stevebowers Wrote: (04-07-2026, 02:17 AM) -- There is no requirement for the Nova Terra material to be moved to Barnard's Star; it can simply be adapted to fit the real, observed planetary system at ...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 173 2,836 04-07-2026, 02:26 AM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

Drashner1 Wrote: (04-03-2026, 11:44 PM) -- IIRC there has been some discussion on Discord about the current timeline of interstellar colonization being rather tight or short. Also, IIRC we currently ...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 173 2,836 04-06-2026, 08:30 PM
    Thread: Beamriders, Early Colonization, and the Dark Age
Post: RE: Beamriders, Early Colonization, and the Dark A...

Drashner1 Wrote: (03-27-2026, 10:20 PM) -- Er. Is this in the right thread? This is replying to Liam's post made HERE (https://www.orionsarm.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=6843&pid=92760#pid92760). Sho...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 24 334 03-27-2026, 10:53 PM
    Thread: Beamriders, Early Colonization, and the Dark Age
Post: RE: Beamriders, Early Colonization, and the Dark A...

So, considering the early biont missions, Liam Wrote: (03-27-2026, 04:40 AM) -- 2: Rockets+ First half of the Golden Age. Use a combination of fission fragment for the first stage and antimatter ...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 24 334 03-27-2026, 02:42 PM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

Liam Wrote: (03-26-2026, 06:20 AM) -- Glad to see we’ve got a list developing of pre-Fed colonies we’re aiming to keep. Apologies if I’ve missed it, but is there a master list of all the colonies (bo...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 173 2,836 03-26-2026, 01:47 PM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

Anyways, given the lack of additional responses, I'll assume this is what we will be going with: ~10 Golden Age interstellar colony systems located within ~20 ly, and ~15 more Sundering colony systems...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 173 2,836 03-26-2026, 04:36 AM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

ProxCenBound Wrote: (03-26-2026, 02:12 AM) -- Quote: -- - + Delta Pavonis -- as per my comments re: feasibility of habitable planets around this star, Darwin is probably moved elsewhere; the scient...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 173 2,836 03-26-2026, 03:08 AM
    Thread: EG - Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
Post: RE: EG - Andromeda Galaxy (M31)

Worldtree Wrote: (03-25-2026, 04:58 AM) -- *Star/Stellar* Population Demographics The Andromeda Galaxy currently contains 318 LEECs. Among them are: other than these suggestions, post 16 look...
AstroChara Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 22 355 03-25-2026, 12:30 PM
    Thread: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality revision
Post: RE: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality revision

bump!!!
AstroChara Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 26 468 03-24-2026, 05:36 PM
    Thread: Standardization - "Meta-Empire", etc.
Post: Standardization - "Meta-Empire", etc.

The usages of the terms "empire", "meta-empire" or "metaempire", and "metacivilization" to refer to the highest ranking polities in the hierarchy (such as Sephirotic Empires) seem to vary from place t...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 3 61 03-23-2026, 10:18 PM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

Drashner1 Wrote: (03-23-2026, 06:20 AM) -- Not to muddy the waters, but something that came up in some earlier discussions leading to this one, it was suggested that early interstellar colonies might...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 173 2,836 03-23-2026, 01:01 PM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

For now, here's what I have re: list of colonies settled during various periods, plus some of my ideas!!! that might be useful, hopefully. Mostly ideas of what kind of cultures they might have. Gol...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 173 2,836 03-23-2026, 01:04 AM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

Sounds good in general. RE: Ahuman hijacked probes Yup, we should also write about this in an article somewhere in the EG. I'm not sure where yet though; the specific details might be too deep for...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 173 2,836 03-22-2026, 11:27 PM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

AstroChara Wrote: (03-22-2026, 03:09 AM) -- And speaking about that — I think I'll go pick systems, and write the first draft on an article of the overview of the pre-Federation interstellar coloniza...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 173 2,836 03-22-2026, 09:38 PM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

Rakuen07 Wrote: (03-22-2026, 02:55 AM) -- The probes: this could happen during the Ahuman vs Prohuman conflict (I invite you all to discuss this on more detail on the Solsys Alignment war thread). Gi...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 173 2,836 03-22-2026, 03:09 AM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

Drashner1 Wrote: (03-22-2026, 01:42 AM) -- So, re the discussion on XYZ in SPACE places - My thinking is that we can likely tweak (many/most) of them in ways that retains a good number of their curre...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 173 2,836 03-22-2026, 02:08 AM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

Btw the topic about AI-only colonies during the First Federation should probably be handled elsewhere. Thus far, I haven't been considering the pre-Fed AI-only colonies, although they surely must e...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 173 2,836 03-22-2026, 01:44 AM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

BorkLord Wrote: (03-21-2026, 06:32 AM) -- On Penglai, I do question the inclusion of both the Cislunese and GeneTekkers in one colony mission. It’s stated some factions worked with both sides during ...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 173 2,836 03-21-2026, 01:03 PM
    Thread: Large Telescope Question
Post: RE: Large Telescope Question

Seems the an interferometer with the baseline of Luna orbital distance would do the trick resolving the planet down to a few km in visible light. No idea about how much light collecting area would be ...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 1 34 03-21-2026, 03:31 AM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

stevebowers Wrote: (03-21-2026, 02:44 AM) -- I am personally fond of (some of) the 'XYZ in space' articles, and have written some of them myself. I reject the idea that all current cultural influence...
AstroChara General Setting Discussion 173 2,836 03-21-2026, 03:24 AM