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    Thread: Dance-Don't-Dream
Post: RE: Dance-Don't-Dream

Thoughts and comments below...Going to focus on content over wordsmithing for now. Liam Wrote: (11-24-2023, 01:55 AM) -- Dance-Don't-Dream Their clade name is specified under translation by a set...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 14 208 8 hours ago
    Thread: Decoherence
Post: RE: Decoherence

Gave this a read thru. Personally, I'm generally not fussed by the number of adjectives as they work to describe the character's world. I might even go so far as to suggest that additional descript...
Drashner1 Creative Writing 5 44 Today, 12:05 AM
    Thread: Halo Drive Travel Network
Post: RE: Halo Drive Travel Network

stevebowers Wrote: (Yesterday, 03:23 AM) -- One way to make the beamrider system more effficient would be to place the beam emitters at the gravitational focus of the brown dwarf with respect to the ...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 11 115 Yesterday, 05:15 AM
    Thread: Halo Drive Travel Network
Post: RE: Halo Drive Travel Network

Well yes - but that's a rather different animal from using frame dragging or gravitational slingshot effects to get around, which is what the discussion has been in regards to up to now. OA doesn'...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 11 115 12-03-2023, 09:21 PM
    Thread: Plasma Magnet Drive suggestion
Post: RE: Plasma Magnet Drive suggestion

Neat! Perhaps we can work this into the early timeline as a probe mission - perhaps not so recent as the paper describes, but these kinds of opportunities have a way of repeating as the planets orbit ...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 40 581 12-03-2023, 01:04 AM
    Thread: Halo Drive Travel Network
Post: RE: Halo Drive Travel Network

Interesting ideas. :) Various thoughts come to mind in reading this: a) Rather than using slugs (or perhaps in addition to using slugs?) it might be more efficient/effective/advantageous to use ...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 11 115 12-03-2023, 12:56 AM
    Thread: Halo Drive Travel Network
Post: RE: Halo Drive Travel Network

Something that occurred to me a bit after writing my initial reply: If there are any natural black holes located in the Terragen sphere and they are both in the right place and of sufficient size, ...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 11 115 12-01-2023, 02:12 PM
    Thread: Halo Drive Travel Network
Post: RE: Halo Drive Travel Network

This is an interesting idea - I've encountered Kipping's Halo Drive concept online (possibly YouTube) before - as well as what I think is something very similar but operating in the Solar System and w...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 11 115 11-30-2023, 11:03 PM
    Thread: How do the Plasma technologies work? SI0-SI
Post: RE: How do the Plasma technologies work? SI0-SI

Plasma technology as described on the Technology pages and your initial question grew out of a discussion with Adam Getchell, the formerly active member who also invented our wormholes and reactionles...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 6 64 11-29-2023, 01:59 AM
    Thread: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
Post: RE: Halonic Symbiosis revisited

Sorry for the delay in providing feedback - work and holiday busy-ness. :P I'm going to mainly cover issues (as I see them) and some suggested solutions, mostly focused on the navigation/structure ...
Drashner1 Creative Writing 32 185 11-28-2023, 11:24 PM
    Thread: What Early Ideas Didn't Make the Final Cut?
Post: RE: What Early Ideas Didn't Make the Final Cut?

ShanguiFriendlyGhost Wrote: (11-28-2023, 07:49 AM) -- Probably got this superfluidty from one of my encyclopediae, but here are some sites I can find on Google. There are several others, but I felt o...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 17 131 11-28-2023, 03:34 PM
    Thread: What Early Ideas Didn't Make the Final Cut?
Post: RE: What Early Ideas Didn't Make the Final Cut?

ShanguiFriendlyGhost Wrote: (11-28-2023, 06:14 AM) -- I hope it does not seem like I am trying to apply pressure to reimplement the field drive or any implausible technologies, I just like to ask que...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 17 131 11-28-2023, 06:30 AM
    Thread: Returning after some 15 years
Post: RE: Returning after some 15 years

Heya - Welcome back! :)
Drashner1 The Arrivals Lounge 5 2,014 11-28-2023, 06:20 AM
    Thread: What Early Ideas Didn't Make the Final Cut?
Post: RE: What Early Ideas Didn't Make the Final Cut?

ShanguiFriendlyGhost Wrote: (11-28-2023, 03:38 AM) -- Thank you Todd! So very close! I must learn to be clearer. I knew that the field drives are not coming back to OA. I was wondering on why it is...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 17 131 11-28-2023, 05:39 AM
    Thread: Rak Mesba edit
Post: RE: Rak Mesba edit

Totally agreed re updating the surface area numbers and whatever else needs adjusting re this aspect of things. Given the scale and engineering capacity it takes to build an Alderson Disk, and the ...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 4 61 11-27-2023, 12:29 AM
    Thread: Arch-anarchy updates
Post: RE: Arch-anarchy updates

Worldtree Wrote: (11-26-2023, 10:00 AM) -- archanarchy? https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/45f7690b9524f Quote: -- The view that one should should seek to void all limits on one's freedo...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 6 64 11-27-2023, 12:24 AM
    Thread: What Early Ideas Didn't Make the Final Cut?
Post: RE: What Early Ideas Didn't Make the Final Cut?

ShanguiFriendlyGhost Wrote: (11-26-2023, 01:38 PM) -- Todd, sorry for the assumption of people having certain knowledge, The Breakthrough Propulsion program provided the ideas for three reactionless ...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 17 131 11-27-2023, 12:17 AM
    Thread: What Early Ideas Didn't Make the Final Cut?
Post: RE: What Early Ideas Didn't Make the Final Cut?

ShanguiFriendlyGhost Wrote: (11-26-2023, 03:37 AM) -- Also, I understand the Field Drives as laid out by NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion are quite, well... quirky we will say, but is there room in OA ...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 17 131 11-26-2023, 08:50 AM
    Thread: What is a Starspark?
Post: RE: What is a Starspark?

See Post#67 here from the earlier threads linked to that provides a description of a Starspark: https://www.orionsarm.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1567&page=7&highlight=Starspark
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 3 38 11-26-2023, 08:48 AM
    Thread: What Early Ideas Didn't Make the Final Cut?
Post: RE: What Early Ideas Didn't Make the Final Cut?

There used to be something called a Bias Drive that probably falls under the umbrella of the field drives you mention being removed. I don't recall anything else off the top of my head but somethin...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 17 131 11-26-2023, 03:20 AM