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Thread: Odd coloured fleet
Post: RE: Odd coloured fleet
| Now on the Displacement Drive Page
https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/493f257196523 |
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Thread: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
Post: RE: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
| This is true; in which case it would be nice to add some more details to this article. My original intention was that Cygnus X-1 is such a prominent X-Ray source that it would have attracted a range o... |
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04-20-2026, 11:34 PM |
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Thread: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
Post: RE: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
| As an example of the sort of article that suggests that the edge of the Terragen Sphere is less than 56kly; here is Cygnus X-1, 5984ly, said to be just outside the current Terragen boundaries.
https:/... |
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04-20-2026, 06:27 PM |
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Thread: Xeno-Sophont Question
Post: RE: Xeno-Sophont Question
| They are very cold-adapted organisms, so they would be mostly white, pale blue or orange (since they live in an environment where brownish tholins are common).
Usually we depict Muuh flora as being... |
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General Setting Discussion
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04-20-2026, 06:12 PM |
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Thread: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
Post: RE: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
| We'd probably use the Nexus Foliation Rest Frame. I do occasionally refer back to the Galactic frame as well, especially when discussing W-R stars - they have a limited lifetime, and would generally e... |
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04-20-2026, 06:26 AM |
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Thread: Tali
Post: RE: Tali
| The one thing that would make your 'meat palace' image better would be if the 'Tali' in the image were wriggly and wormlike, rather than straight and stiff. As worms, they are unlikely to maintain a s... |
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04-19-2026, 06:58 AM |
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Thread: Odd coloured fleet
Post: RE: Odd coloured fleet
| There are two Displacement Drive vessels in that image, the Combat Carrier and another early design from the Celestia files, so this image can go on the Diametric Drive page. |
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04-19-2026, 03:16 AM |
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Thread: Fix/Update of the Chlorine Worlds and summary of previous discussions
Post: RE: Fix/Update of the Chlorine Worlds and summary ...
| Do you mean some kind of lazurogenics? Restoring the original biota might also imply restoring the Halogenic xenosophonts as well, which might not be possible.
This environment would probably be ... |
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04-18-2026, 12:38 AM |
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Thread: Fix/Update of the Chlorine Worlds and summary of previous discussions
Post: RE: Fix/Update of the Chlorine Worlds and summary ...
| Pleased to see that you use the phrasing different from rather than different than when editing;
from is rather more formal and in line with UK usage. |
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04-17-2026, 02:46 AM |
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Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...
| Jordin Kare's system of momentum beams uses small(ish) smart particles with light sails, which are accelerated by laser beams rather than just by sunlight. This development would probably be the next ... |
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04-16-2026, 04:25 AM |
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Thread: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
Post: RE: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
| Here's a rough adjustment to your recent diagram; the Outer Volumes is the pinkish area, where super-relays have been established in the corner nearest Sol, but a full network of relays and stargates ... |
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04-16-2026, 02:14 AM |
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Thread: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
Post: RE: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
| I'm getting a new idea; the Periphery could extend beyond the green border line, into the region marked in black on your diagram. If the outermost ring of super-relay sectors is designated the Outer V... |
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04-16-2026, 01:34 AM |
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Thread: Passing by gasgiant
Post: RE: Passing by gasgiant
| That's nice. The gas giant is smooth, and the starry background is undistorted. The spacecraft is nice too; a typical interplanetary design with broad radiators. |
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04-13-2026, 11:46 PM |
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Thread: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
Post: RE: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
| Incidentally, this suggests a fairly good definition of the Outer Volumes as opposed to the Periphery; if the Periphery is the segment of the Terragen Sphere where there are no wormholes, just relativ... |
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04-12-2026, 06:08 PM |
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Thread: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
Post: RE: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
| Yeah, sorry; I should have mentioned this earlier, before you updated the map. My bad.
I do support the idea that the Nexus may extend to 6 or 7 kly in some directions, and this idea is mentioned in ... |
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04-12-2026, 06:51 AM |
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Thread: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
Post: RE: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
| Once again, I can't really see the Wormhole Nexus reaching that far.
The Nexus needs to expand more slowly, with much longer pauses between the expansive events, because otherwise there is no room f... |
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04-12-2026, 05:08 AM |
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Thread: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality revision
Post: RE: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality revision
| Other words for hermaphrodite include androgyne, and gynandry. These both have acquired different shades of meaning over time.
The androgynous hermaphrodites in LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness are ... |
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04-12-2026, 02:13 AM |
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Thread: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
Post: RE: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
| My current intention is to change the angle of the Tunh 'hole completely - probably extending a thousand ly out of the galactic plane, thus making it more-or-less worthless as a territory extender. Th... |
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04-11-2026, 07:55 PM |
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Thread: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
Post: RE: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
| Rather than retconning the Tunh wormhole away, we could reorient it at random - a fairly easy task. |
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04-11-2026, 05:30 AM |
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Thread: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
Post: RE: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
| This is a very nice image.
Two points; the green line in the map is supposed to be the outer edge of the explored area of the Terragen Sphere in 10600. Or to be more accurate, it shows the outermost... |
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