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    Thread: Titawin Xenological Garden
Post: RE: Titawin Xenological Garden

Second draft. Changes in blue. Titawin Xenological Garden DATA PANEL System: Titawin Xenological Garden Primary: Titawin / Upsilon Andromedae A Spectral type: G0 V (formerly F8 V) Lu...
Liam Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 18 405 01-17-2025, 05:25 AM
    Thread: Ideas for the Version War
Post: RE: Ideas for the Version War

Drashner1 Wrote: (01-15-2025, 08:34 AM) -- Re the issue of a transap war maybe being mostly invisible to modos but having big bangs in the war: What if a major effect of the war was a loss of comms/i...
Liam General Setting Discussion 28 224 01-16-2025, 05:44 AM
    Thread: Ideas for the Version War
Post: RE: Ideas for the Version War

I'm quite busy, so a couple of brief thoughts: 1. Personally, I really like the existing reason behind the Version War. It's a conflict over ontology and network standards. That at once gives it a ...
Liam General Setting Discussion 28 224 01-15-2025, 07:09 AM
    Thread: Crystallographer's Nightmare
Post: RE: Crystallographer's Nightmare

Apologies; I'm still planning on making an image for the Siloen and other organisms, but life events have overtaken me for the past couple of months. It appears DA-type white dwarfs are the most c...
Liam Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 29 498 12-22-2024, 12:11 AM
    Thread: Titawin Xenological Garden
Post: RE: Titawin Xenological Garden

Thanks! That'll help with the next draft.
Liam Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 18 405 11-14-2024, 06:25 AM
    Thread: Crystallographer's Nightmare
Post: RE: Crystallographer's Nightmare

I'm working on a scene of the local biosphere and a picture of the Siloen specifically, in the same style as the Menexenes and Hildemar's Knots, but since I'm having to remind myself how to use Blende...
Liam Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 29 498 11-14-2024, 05:54 AM
    Thread: Short Article: Lamptail (species)
Post: RE: Short Article: Lamptail (species)

I like this. The lamptails' feeding strategy suggests that they're passive ambush hunters, waiting for prey to come to them. Perhaps they bury themselves under the understory's detritus with just the ...
Liam Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 22 397 11-13-2024, 04:44 AM
    Thread: Titawin Xenological Garden
Post: RE: Titawin Xenological Garden

I've been waiting to see if Worldtree (or anyone) had any suggestions about what might be done with the Caretaker relations. I can post a second draft soon. I'm not sure what to do with Miyuwi's su...
Liam Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 18 405 11-13-2024, 02:00 AM
    Thread: Momentum-Recycling Beamriders
Post: RE: Momentum-Recycling Beamriders

stevebowers Wrote: (11-04-2024, 07:54 AM) -- It's my expectation that most reaction drive ships, whether interplanetary or interstellar, would have some kind of magsail available in order to be accel...
Liam General Setting Discussion 15 233 11-13-2024, 01:50 AM
    Thread: Momentum-Recycling Beamriders
Post: RE: Momentum-Recycling Beamriders

Come to think of it, the boostbeam article might be the best place to put this update. The name is distinct enough from beamrider that it can be used as a more general term for the technology. The art...
Liam General Setting Discussion 15 233 11-04-2024, 05:10 AM
    Thread: HEEC idea seed: Starburster Civilization
Post: RE: HEEC idea seed: Starburster Civilization

If the signals were collapsing wormholes rather than supernovae, then they would be very distinctive and come in identifiable pairs. With sufficient analysis of the timing and position, the Federation...
Liam Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 10 108 11-04-2024, 04:23 AM
    Thread: Vec, vot, virtual vs AIoid
Post: RE: Vec, vot, virtual vs AIoid

Avengium Wrote: (11-02-2024, 12:19 AM) -- To be even more consistent, we could use the same word endings. Biotech  - Biont  - Biomorph Infotech  - Infont  - Infomorph Hylotech - Hylont  - Hylomorp...
Liam General Setting Discussion 135 1,549 11-03-2024, 05:53 AM
    Thread: Vec, vot, virtual vs AIoid
Post: RE: Vec, vot, virtual vs AIoid

Andrew P. Wrote: (10-31-2024, 02:51 PM) -- Giving this thread a gentle bump; how do we feel about the new sophont categories/naming scheme in Avengium's diagram? -- I'm wary of a system that's so...
Liam General Setting Discussion 135 1,549 11-01-2024, 10:55 PM
    Thread: Momentum-Recycling Beamriders
Post: RE: Momentum-Recycling Beamriders

I'll write up some suggested changes when I get a chance. It's probably best to aim for a single source of truth here too, to reduce the editing load. Perhaps "Beamrider technology" as opposed to the ...
Liam General Setting Discussion 15 233 11-01-2024, 10:37 PM
    Thread: What do the skies look like?
Post: RE: What do the skies look like?

Drashner1 Wrote: (10-31-2024, 02:58 AM) -- Note that I find this lack of clear information in the EG to be EXTREMELY irritating and I have a dream that one day we will have the time and wherewithal t...
Liam General Setting Discussion 13 166 11-01-2024, 10:19 PM
    Thread: Momentum-Recycling Beamriders
Post: RE: Momentum-Recycling Beamriders

Let's see... a) Yes, that seems the most sensible. And very busy systems might end up using two loops. b) That's certainly possible. The energy usage would be the same (since you're still boosti...
Liam General Setting Discussion 15 233 10-25-2024, 04:55 AM
    Thread: Momentum-Recycling Beamriders
Post: RE: Momentum-Recycling Beamriders

In principle, decelerating the smart dust isn't that different from accelerating it. The catchment area might need to be a bit wider, which would change things a little. But as Terragens get more adva...
Liam General Setting Discussion 15 233 10-23-2024, 04:42 AM
    Thread: Crystallographer's Nightmare
Post: RE: Crystallographer's Nightmare

Thanks, all! DSPE Wrote: (10-20-2024, 10:38 PM) -- This is quite cool! But why did Deepening Radiance evict the local population and upload them? Did e simply predict some things in advance an...
Liam Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 29 498 10-23-2024, 04:24 AM
  -Published In The EG Thread: Crystallographer's Nightmare
Post: Crystallographer's Nightmare

Inspired by this article by Jean Schneider (https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF00930937.pdf), plus some discussion on the Discord about how Caretaker Gods might operate, and my own though...
Liam Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 29 498 10-20-2024, 08:29 PM
    Thread: Does anyone have any specific plans for NGC 7789?
Post: RE: Does anyone have any specific plans for NGC 77...

Since it's somewhat relevant: One of the takeaways from the Wormhole Nexus thread (https://www.orionsarm.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=6147) is, given current assumptions about linelayer speed, the ext...
Liam General Setting Discussion 11 128 10-18-2024, 08:45 PM