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Thread: 1st Draft, Authenticity Boards and Grades
Post: RE: 1st Draft, Authenticity Boards and Grades
| This is an excellent idea. Current concepts of 'fake news' are much misused, and an accusation of fake news can itself be a form of misinformation. By the Current Era, I expect most information will h... |
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Thread: Carina Rush needs an update.
Post: RE: Carina Rush needs an update.
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General Setting Discussion
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Thread: EG - Aerophants
Post: RE: EG - Aerophants
| Yeah, a very large aerophant (or a very large human) would need some carefully designed interior plumbing. I'm sure it should be do-able, though, given transapient-level biotech. Maybe a body with lar... |
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Thread: EG - Aerophants
Post: RE: EG - Aerophants
| An infrasonic communication capability would come in useful inside a large microgravity environment, no doubt. This would probably be supplemented by some kind of electronic communication system and ... |
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06-03-2023, 06:07 PM |
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Thread: Beacon Stars
Post: RE: Beacon Stars
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MstrongStarkiller Wrote: (06-03-2023, 03:27 AM)
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As far as displaying it on a map, You can try using the Gaia Sky app to take highlight all stars above the specified Absolute magnitude
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06-03-2023, 06:50 AM |
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Thread: Beacon Stars
Post: RE: Beacon Stars
| Note that Gamma Veloris is no longer a supernova in the current iteration of OA. It is not far enough along in its life-sequence to explode in the timeline as it currently stands. |
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06-03-2023, 06:45 AM |
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Thread: Carina Rush needs an update.
Post: RE: Carina Rush needs an update.
| As far as galactic drift is concerned, some stars do move very fast compared to the local standard of rest. For instance Arcturus has moved about 13 thousand light years in the last 33 million years, ... |
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06-03-2023, 04:33 AM |
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Thread: Carina Rush needs an update.
Post: RE: Carina Rush needs an update.
| The Tunnler network may have been destroyed due to conflict, rather than galactic drift. It may also have been an exploratory network, sent out by ?automated linelayers to explore the Orion Arm, then ... |
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06-03-2023, 04:29 AM |
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Thread: Carina Rush needs an update.
Post: RE: Carina Rush needs an update.
| Yes. This has happened several times before; the distances available in the literature when OA was first written are often different to the distances available nowadays. In the past I've simply altere... |
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06-03-2023, 04:19 AM |
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Thread: Is there any dark side to the Sephirotic Empires, or are they truly perfect utopias?
Post: RE: Is there any dark side to the Sephirotic Empir...
| On the other hand, I should note that not every colony and habitat uses angelnetting with 100% coverage. There are plenty of non-aligned worlds and so-called 'free zones' where modosophonts can act wi... |
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06-02-2023, 03:49 AM |
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Thread: Beacon Stars
Post: RE: Beacon Stars
| In many cases, the names would be chosen by modosophonts. Even though Sephirotic explorer ships are almost always designed and created by archailects or transapients, they would (in many or most cases... |
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05-30-2023, 07:06 PM |
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Thread: Keith Wigdor's AI images for OA
Post: RE: Keith Wigdor's AI images for OA
| A few more articles and topics to which I have added Keith's images here.
https://orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45c53e7cc82a7
https://orionsarm.com/eg-topic/5ccaeee848ed4
https://orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45... |
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Art and Visual Media
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05-21-2023, 03:23 AM |
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Thread: Paintbox Habitat
Post: RE: Paintbox Habitat
| That was my inspiration, yes.
Recently I travelled by Eurostar to see the Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum; on the way we went past the Atomium.
I think that a particular habitat might bec... |
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Thread: Paintbox Habitat
Post: Paintbox Habitat
| This is an image for an article I haven't written yet. The Paintbox habitat, in Babaluma system, has a long history of artistic culture of many kinds. This often includes recolourisation of the outsid... |
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05-10-2023, 04:44 AM |
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Thread: EG - Cislunar Alliance (just a stub draft for now :v)
Post: RE: EG - Cislunar Alliance (just a stub draft for ...
| If you lose an image in the CMS, or it's the wrong size, you can always add another. The CMS will add a random string of numbers to the image if it is duplicated anywhere. |
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05-08-2023, 11:41 PM |
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Thread: New Images for the Lunar Warrens?
Post: RE: New Images for the Lunar Warrens?
| Here's a re-interpretation of that design, placed on the Moon, somewhere in the Mare Imbrium.
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05-06-2023, 06:13 AM |
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Thread: Hungry hive mind loophole: wouldn't they lose interest?
Post: RE: Hungry hive mind loophole: wouldn't they lose ...
| Phased array lasers powered by a Dyson swarm or Dyson Bubble would also be very effective at vapourising incoming projectiles, although this would replace the incoming missile with an expanding cloud ... |
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05-04-2023, 04:32 PM |
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Thread: Demographic Transition
Post: RE: Demographic Transition
| Population increase/decrease seems likely to be something that the transapients and archai keep a close check on. If population growth is too slow, new colonies become small and lonely places. If the ... |
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05-02-2023, 04:22 AM |
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Thread: EG - Variable Gravity Sports
Post: RE: EG - Variable Gravity Sports
| Some inspiration for images to illustrate this article might be found here, on Grant Hutchison's page about Coriolis forces in a rotating space habitat.
https://oikofuge.com/coriolis-effect-rotating-... |
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05-01-2023, 06:02 AM |
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Thread: April 2023 updates
Post: RE: April 2023 updates
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Drashner1 Wrote: (05-01-2023, 04:26 AM)
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Should Variable Gravity Sports be included or does it still need additional development work?
Thanks!
Todd
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