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    Thread: Children of Gaia in the Great Expulsion article
Post: RE: Children of Gaia in the Great Expulsion articl...

Drashner1 Wrote: (01-30-2025, 11:34 PM) -- Overall looks good to me. A minor wordsmithing suggestion: The second sentence of the last paragraph uses 'interactions' twice in the same sentence. Suggest...
Rynn Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 7 116 02-01-2025, 06:56 AM
    Thread: Warfare article: small edit to fix misinformation
Post: Warfare article: small edit to fix misinformation

The warfare article still has plenty of odd things in it. The repeated myth that modosophonts are totally incapable of running their own societies has come up yet again in the discord as the warfare a...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 4 60 02-01-2025, 06:38 AM
    Thread: Children of Gaia in the Great Expulsion article
Post: RE: Children of Gaia in the Great Expulsion articl...

Here's my quick attempt to update the passage in question, removing the references to stoned hippies and reworking the major groups to represent three distinct sets of clades and societies. As the 8...
Rynn Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 7 116 01-30-2025, 06:22 AM
  -Published In The EG Thread: Children of Gaia in the Great Expulsion article
Post: Children of Gaia in the Great Expulsion article

Just flagging for now and will post a draft over the next few days. On the discord it was pointed out in the GE article the children of Gaia are described as pagans and hippies that get stoned all the...
Rynn Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 7 116 01-29-2025, 07:55 AM
    Thread: Ideas & Blurts channel on the discord (slowmode)
Post: RE: Ideas & Blurts channel on the discord (slowmod...

I'm interested to hear what others think on this. Personally I would be against it. The random shower thoughts some people often throw out with no context, and no real care about anyone else engagi...
Rynn Suggestion Box - OA website 5 1,087 01-20-2025, 09:30 PM
    Thread: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
Post: RE: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels

Drashner1 Wrote: (01-17-2025, 11:42 PM) -- 1) Who or what is pushing these people to think that they need to include hyper-detailed data panels, vast histories, etc. etc? 2) Why are they not liste...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 22 261 01-20-2025, 09:25 PM
    Thread: John E. Begood (Historical Figure)
Post: RE: John E. Begood (Historical Figure)

I don't know how much we need to be concerned about this, but AI images of dead artists is a very heated and controversial topic right now (living artists too thinking of the Drake AI fiasco with tupa...
Rynn Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 30 477 01-17-2025, 08:18 PM
    Thread: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
Post: RE: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels

Drashner1 Wrote: (01-16-2025, 12:33 PM) -- Having said that, it would perhaps be helpful to see examples of articles that are not as detail oriented in this regard yet still fit the EG. Rynn, you men...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 22 261 01-17-2025, 08:10 PM
    Thread: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
Post: RE: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels

I don't think any of that needs to be required. I've written articles where the distance from sol, constellation, etc were all irrelevant to the ideas I was trying to convey and the story I was trying...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 22 261 01-16-2025, 06:35 AM
    Thread: Minor system tweaks that don't require their own thread
Post: RE: Minor system tweaks that don't require their o...

Simply because it came up tonight and I was looking at it I updated the Metropolis Ring City data panel to change the reference to an AI overseer and AI ethos to that of a transap overseer, as part of...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 469 7,262 01-16-2025, 06:22 AM
    Thread: Ideas for the Version War
Post: RE: Ideas for the Version War

Rather than modos fighting or directly being targeted one scary option could be subsumption. In fact this need not apply to only modos but could be all sophonts of lower toposophy than the combatants....
Rynn General Setting Discussion 28 224 01-16-2025, 06:07 AM
    Thread: Adding “oldest person” to the FAQ
Post: RE: Adding “oldest person” to the FAQ

A simple way of changing the article could be to not say that he's been knocking around unchanged, for 10,000 years, with nothing notable happening to say that there is someone who claims to be this m...
Rynn Website and Content Issues 10 73 01-16-2025, 05:36 AM
    Thread: Adding “oldest person” to the FAQ
Post: RE: Adding “oldest person” to the FAQ

Another thought on this topic; how do people feel about the Jonathan Daniels article? Currently he is one of the canonically oldest (by calendar) sophont. https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/57ab393b...
Rynn Website and Content Issues 10 73 01-16-2025, 04:06 AM
    Thread: Adding “oldest person” to the FAQ
Post: RE: Adding “oldest person” to the FAQ

Another thing to add which came up before but not today: merging, forking, and prosthetic memories. If 30 year old Alice and Bob merge into Alob how old is Alob? Are they 60? 30? Newborn? All legitima...
Rynn Website and Content Issues 10 73 01-16-2025, 03:09 AM
    Thread: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
Post: RE: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels

stevebowers Wrote: (01-14-2025, 08:11 AM) -- Luminosity is a  very useful quality when describing a star; this sets a limit on the habitable zone, and indicates where solar power can be easily collec...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 22 261 01-14-2025, 08:55 AM
    Thread: Ideas for the Version War
Post: RE: Ideas for the Version War

Oh no not at all am I suggesting no suffering or destruction. Nor was I suggesting that no one know about the war. Simply that having it be perfectly outlined exactly what the transapient motivation a...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 28 224 01-14-2025, 06:35 AM
    Thread: Ideas for the Version War
Post: RE: Ideas for the Version War

I like the idea of mass rewriting as a core part of the conflict. In terms of why populations are getting rewritten I think it's important not to repeat an issue I see with our current war articles. N...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 28 224 01-14-2025, 04:21 AM
    Thread: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
Post: RE: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels

MiyuwiAuthor Wrote: (01-14-2025, 12:08 AM) -- I think star radius should also be included. Rotation period and temperature could also be included, though you could get a range for temperature from sp...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 22 261 01-14-2025, 12:52 AM
    Thread: Ideas for the Version War
Post: RE: Context of the Version War

Drashner1 Wrote: (01-13-2025, 11:49 PM) -- So, taking the easiest part of this first: Totally fine with splitting this off as a new thread. -- Done :) Almost as easy - There were no S6 involved ...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 28 224 01-14-2025, 12:30 AM
    Thread: Ideas for the Version War
Post: RE: Context of the Version War

Shall we split this into a new thread? I think it deserves a clean slate and reviving very old threads can make things messy. I've put a lot of thought into our old war articles and how to encapsulat...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 28 224 01-10-2025, 11:55 PM