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Thread: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Virus and the late Fed Inner Sphere
Post: RE: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Vi...
| An image of Concord and Fourier. Both worlds are illuminated by two stars. Interesting effect.
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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Thread: Perseus Princes Expansion
Post: RE: Perseus Princes Expansion
| The word 'Prince' originally meant just 'Leader' or 'First'; there is no need for the Princes to have a hereditary form of leadership, and if they are ruled by transapients then the idea of a heredita... |
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Thread: Particle Beam Rockets (?)
Post: RE: Particle Beam Rockets (?)
| Sporetech and self-replicating tech would act exponentially, so you might wait years for something to happen, then it would all happen at once as the technology hits the upward curve.
So if you wa... |
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General Setting Discussion
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04-22-2025, 06:09 AM |
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Thread: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality revision
Post: RE: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality revision
| And some would prefer interclade or interphyle relationships, like 2000 ADs Lobster Random, who is a robosexual, and prefers non-humanoid robots.
https://alchetron.com/cdn/lobster-random-bd0d613d-9d9... |
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stevebowers |
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04-21-2025, 08:17 PM |
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Thread: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality revision
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The vast majority of Terragens are virtuals, and most embodied Terragens are vecs. For these groups, their societies left biology behind long ago, or were created without it. They typically... |
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Thread: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality revision
Post: RE: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality revision
| Note that some people would be attracted to neuts, and some to cosexuals. Being a neut doesn't mean having no sexual relationships; on the other hand anyone can be an asexual, no matter what their bo... |
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Thread: The Anthropic Intermission - Short Story
Post: RE: The Anthropic Intermission - Short Story
| I've adjusted the formatting, and added a new image of the Terraformed Venus.
https://www.orionsarm.com/page/679 |
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stevebowers |
Creative Writing
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04-21-2025, 03:57 AM |
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Thread: Smart Spiders: Jumping Spider Provolve Concept
Post: RE: Smart Spiders: Jumping Spider Provolve Concept
| I doubt that blights and perversities would be a useful addition, unless they are safely contained in a firewalled virtual environment. Those things are dangerous, and can cause havoc, even if they ar... |
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Thread: Proof-reading EG
Post: RE: Proof-reading EG
| In my OA novel Betrayals I talk about virtual tourism to Earth. The vast majority of tourists and pilgrims visit the old planet in virch, and the authenticity of that virch is the crucial consideratio... |
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Website and Content Issues
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Thread: Black Hole Superrace and Black Hole Drive article
Post: RE: Black Hole Superrace and Black Hole Drive arti...
| It is a pity, but (without a carefully-designed magmatter reflector), a black hole drive would be very difficult to work, which is why we have rejected it in the past. But as an example of ultratech/g... |
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stevebowers |
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Thread: March Updates 2025
Post: RE: March Updates 2025
| Well, we can announce this in the next batch, since we are a third of the way through April already. |
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stevebowers |
The latest from Orion's Arm
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04-15-2025, 02:16 AM |
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Thread: Body Transformation Protocols
Post: RE: Body Transformation Protocols
| Since I've made so many versions of this image, I thought I might try combining them all into a gif;
https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/67e2feb7796d7
here is the result
https://orionsarm.com/im_store... |
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stevebowers |
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Thread: Impulse Grid
Post: RE: Impulse Grid
| One observation I would make; it seems unlikely that beamlets are predominantly powered by uncollimated starlight. Most momentum beams in OA are powered by concentrated light beams, either focused by ... |
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stevebowers |
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Thread: Proof-reading EG
Post: RE: Proof-reading EG
| It would certainly be impossible for all the citizens of the Umma to travel to Earth; only a few thousand visitors are allowed there at any one time. One way to perform a pilgrimage would be to experi... |
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Thread: Black Hole Superrace and Black Hole Drive article
Post: RE: Black Hole Superrace and Black Hole Drive arti...
| Concerning the Black Hole calculator, the original calculator he refers to was made by Jim Wisniewski, who was a contributor to OA more than twenty years ago. I've used Jim's calculator many times, an... |
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Thread: Slaved Hyperturing
Post: RE: Slaved Hyperturing
| It seems likely that an archai or transapient would consist of a very large community of intelligent agents, some of which would be sophont in the same way that humans are, and others would be very di... |
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General Setting Discussion
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04-14-2025, 07:06 AM |
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Thread: New Art for Food and Drink
Post: RE: New Art for Food and Drink
| The food certainly looks intriguing. |
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Art and Visual Media
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04-14-2025, 04:12 AM |
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Thread: Planetary nebula expansion suggestion
Post: RE: Planetary nebula expansion suggestion
| I've now added this image to the Planetary Nebula article.
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47c1b5fbd78be
Note the distinction between protoplanetary nebulae and protoplanetary disks; the neb... |
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General Setting Discussion
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Thread: Interstellar Exploration - rewrite
Post: RE: Interstellar Exploration - rewrite
| Secondary colonisation in the early days was fairly rare, since it takes a lot of infrastructure to launch an interstellar spaceship. Some colony ships could be repaired and refuelled and sent to a ne... |
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Thread: Slaved Hyperturing
Post: RE: Slaved Hyperturing
| That's right. However this does raise some practical and philosophical questions; vots and transvots are vital parts of an advanced civilisation; if you change them by making them sophont, you are cha... |
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