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Thread: <EG> Veneirii (Draft 2)
Post: RE: <EG> Veneirii (Draft 2)
| Can't do the next draft for a while (periodic internet loss begins now) but I'll try to answer questions as best I can for then;
1) Probably misnamed that. What I meant was that the immune system i... |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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06-20-2014, 10:08 PM |
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Thread: <EG> Veneirii (Draft 2)
Post: RE: <EG> Veneirii (Draft 2)
| Thanks, guess I was going off outdated/incomplete information. My research materials failed to mention that. |
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Michael Douglas |
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06-20-2014, 10:11 AM |
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Thread: <EG> Veneirii (Draft 2)
Post: RE: <EG> Veneirii (first draft)
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ai_vin Wrote: (06-19-2014, 02:22 PM)
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I'd like to learn how the males managed to form S3 group minds given the fact "their highly solitary nature means that relationships for them are few and far b... |
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Michael Douglas |
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06-19-2014, 10:04 PM |
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Thread: Negasphere - A random deep space hab notion
Post: RE: Negasphere - A random deep space hab notion
| Definately worth pursuing as an idea - perhaps waste heat is radiated inwards? There would be a buildup of heat over time, but converting that thermal energy into kinetic energy and then electrical en... |
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Michael Douglas |
General Setting Discussion
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06-19-2014, 02:12 PM |
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Thread: <EG> Veneirii (Draft 2)
Post: RE: <EG> Veneirii (first draft)
| This was originally intended to be a race in the virch, but I decided to just push ahead and see if it worked. Getting the meat of the entry - the biological/psychological/socio-cultural data - critiq... |
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Michael Douglas |
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06-19-2014, 02:06 PM |
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Thread: The (late lamented) OA Metaverse Project
Post: RE: The (late lamented) OA Metaverse Project
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kch49er Wrote: (06-09-2014, 04:27 PM)
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3) Games don't have to have great graphics to be succesful, they need to be engaging, fun and rewarding. While it is great eye candy only serious gamers have ... |
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Michael Douglas |
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06-19-2014, 10:08 AM |
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Thread: <EG> Veneirii (Draft 2)
Post: <EG> Veneirii (Draft 2)
| The Veneirii are a race of xenosophonts found in the Sagittarius Arm, inhabiting a spheroid region of space approximately 1000 ly in diameter. Veneirii are notable due to forming a civilization nearly... |
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Michael Douglas |
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06-19-2014, 09:44 AM |
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Thread: Exotic Neogens/Xenosophonts in Virchs
Post: RE: Exotic Neogens/Xenosophonts in Virchs
| Apologies for double post; do you think I should rewrite my xenosophont project to have them evolve in the real world or keep going with the virch idea? I'm feeling time pressure (I won't have the int... |
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Michael Douglas |
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06-19-2014, 04:42 AM |
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Thread: The Nanodisaster Rewrite - Ok, Let's Do This
Post: RE: The Nanodisaster Rewrite - Ok, Let's Do This
| I'd suggest 'Swarmageddon' if we weren't moving away from the whole 'modo grey-goo managing to threaten civilization' thing. |
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Michael Douglas |
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06-16-2014, 10:01 PM |
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Thread: Low Emission Zone, other Xenocivs and possibilities
Post: RE: Low Emission Zone, other Xenocivs and possibil...
| Clarification; the BCG theory already exists in-canon (with evidence such as a few BCG worlds with common xenosophont origin), just on the BCG page where someone interested in xenosophonts or the LEZ ... |
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Michael Douglas |
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06-16-2014, 09:05 AM |
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Thread: Xenosophont outline
Post: RE: Xenosophont outline
| Sounds like the Daharrans, but a lot better than 'scary black hole nazis somehow listed as a threat to sephirotic civilization despite not having a single confirmed transapient'! Should be a good read... |
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Michael Douglas |
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06-16-2014, 08:59 AM |
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Thread: Basis for Omegan Civs in the Setting?
Post: RE: Basis for Omegan Civs in the Setting?
| A similar idea is found in Transcendent Burnout Theory, where civilizations experience gradual mass transcendence to the point that they're no longer detectable by lower toposophics. The given example... |
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Michael Douglas |
General Setting Discussion
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06-15-2014, 06:25 AM |
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Thread: Low Emission Zone, other Xenocivs and possibilities
Post: RE: Low Emission Zone, other Xenocivs and possibil...
| Existing canon heavily implies that the LEZ is inhabited by a civilization inhabiting BioGeoComputers. The more paranoid believe the LEZ is thus so apparently empty because this civilization extermina... |
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06-15-2014, 05:21 AM |
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Thread: Water? In MY upper mantle?
Post: Water? In MY upper mantle?
| There's a growing possibility that the earth holds more water than previously thought, deep, deep below the planet's crust. Also Mars. Mars might have the same large bodies of sub-surface water. Which... |
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Michael Douglas |
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06-15-2014, 03:54 AM |
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Thread: Exotic Neogens/Xenosophonts in Virchs
Post: RE: Exotic Neogens/Xenosophonts in Virchs
| I used hyperefficient matrioshka to refer to matrioshkas with greater than average wormhole density and that utilized advanced techniques in abstracting/deleting information not in use/copied to exter... |
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Michael Douglas |
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06-15-2014, 03:40 AM |
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Thread: Gas Giants - What else are they good for?
Post: RE: Gas Giants - What else are they good for?
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Drashner1 Wrote: (06-13-2014, 09:40 AM)
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Of course you could also use gas giants as gravitational slingshots for moving (slow) cargo around a solar system.
Todd
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This is a good thing to brin... |
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Michael Douglas |
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06-14-2014, 08:49 AM |
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Thread: Exotic Neogens/Xenosophonts in Virchs
Post: RE: Exotic Neogens/Xenosophonts in Virchs
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Drashner1 Wrote: (06-13-2014, 10:31 AM)
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There might also be a quite extended period of exploring the virch and cataloging the various species in it. Speaking of which, we should probably give some... |
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06-14-2014, 08:46 AM |
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Thread: Exotic Neogens/Xenosophonts in Virchs
Post: RE: Exotic Neogens/Xenosophonts in Virchs
| Truly exotic minds can already exist in the setting - this is mainly a vehicles for writing xenosophonts (technically neogens, but they did evolve without outside interference) into the current settin... |
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06-13-2014, 03:29 AM |
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Thread: Exotic Neogens/Xenosophonts in Virchs
Post: RE: Exotic Neogens/Xenosophonts in Virchs
| A node passing to the sephirotics (probably through defection) is a really good idea. Archai would likely have to step in to prevent the virch inhabitants from being interfered with to keep the bottle... |
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Michael Douglas |
General Setting Discussion
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06-12-2014, 11:00 PM |
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Thread: Exotic Neogens/Xenosophonts in Virchs
Post: RE: Xensophonts in Virchs
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Drashner1 Wrote: (06-12-2014, 09:41 AM)
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Hm. If the entire simulated universe is operating on a different physics model, that raises its own issues - specifically, in what way does the model differ... |
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