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Thread: Enough Room to Play?
Post: RE: Enough Room to Play?
| We've got a full percent of the galaxy to play with. It's plenty of room. |
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General Setting Discussion
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08-11-2019, 12:20 AM |
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Thread: Current Era?
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stevebowers Wrote: (07-26-2019, 04:07 PM)
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No-one knows exactly where the 'core' of the Nexus is. It exists in one of the Inner Sphere systems which have no modosophont inhabitants, and is known in... |
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General Setting Discussion
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07-26-2019, 06:46 PM |
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Thread: Possible Leviathan Components
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jedidia Wrote: (07-24-2019, 11:06 PM)
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Uhm... I just realised there's a little issue with turning a black hole into a supercomputer...
For it to be any use, you'd have to get information back from... |
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General Setting Discussion
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07-25-2019, 01:55 AM |
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Thread: Current Era?
Post: RE: Current Era?
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stevebowers Wrote: (07-18-2019, 09:21 PM)
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In many cases the Archailects who manage the expansion of the Wormhole Nexus have endeavoured to reduce this discrepancy as much as possible, but often a ... |
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07-19-2019, 04:33 PM |
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Thread: Endgame
Post: RE: Endgame
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omega_tyrant Wrote: (07-18-2019, 10:26 AM)
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extherian Wrote: (07-18-2019, 07:49 AM)
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Most of the political elements were written by the original creators of Orion's Arm, M. Alan Kazlev and Ander... |
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General Setting Discussion
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07-19-2019, 04:29 PM |
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Thread: a question/suggestion about FTL void bubble collapses
Post: RE: a question/suggestion about FTL void bubble co...
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Rynn Wrote: (07-14-2019, 03:04 AM)
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jedidia Wrote: (07-12-2019, 10:40 PM)
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Is there a reasoining why the wormhole's own gravity doesn't cause time dilation, or is that transpaient "magic"?
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General Setting Discussion
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07-16-2019, 05:02 PM |
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Thread: Weirdest/Most Disturbing Provolves
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Omeganian Wrote: (07-12-2019, 09:23 PM)
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Drashner1 Wrote: (04-11-2017, 12:01 PM)
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My personal favorite for weirdest/most disturbing are the tapeworm provolves...
Todd
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Nah, Sacculinas bea... |
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Alphadon |
General Setting Discussion
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07-13-2019, 03:03 AM |
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Thread: Question About Information Loss
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Drashner1 Wrote: (07-06-2019, 01:23 PM)
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Basically, we say that anything that has happened in RL is presumed to be more or less accurately recorded in Y11k, unless an exception is explicitly stated... |
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Alphadon |
General Setting Discussion
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07-11-2019, 07:36 AM |
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Thread: Why would one become a Superbright?
Post: RE: Why would one become a Superbright?
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rom65536 Wrote: (06-18-2019, 05:24 AM)
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Todd...you don't see the creepiness inherent in that statement? You don't get a deep-rooted sense of the "heebie-jeebies" from the idea that humanity's 'mast... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-25-2019, 12:57 AM |
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Thread: Fun activities in the Terragen Sphere
Post: RE: Fun activities in the Terragen Sphere
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rom65536 Wrote: (02-10-2019, 02:56 PM)
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macnut Wrote: (02-08-2019, 04:51 AM)
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The main motivation of this mind is to avoid being caught and escape being held.
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We have this sporting event at... |
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Alphadon |
General Setting Discussion
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06-25-2019, 12:47 AM |
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Thread: Transhuman Space Marine
Post: RE: Transhuman Space Marine
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1of3 Wrote: (06-22-2019, 04:14 AM)
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I'm pretty sure there are colonies of nearbaselines that bred themselves into 3m tall berserkers that spit acid.
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The amazing part is that this doesn't actua... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-22-2019, 05:03 AM |
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Thread: Transhuman Space Marine
Post: RE: Transhuman Space Marine
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It requires advanced goo defenses or carpet bombing with nuclear warheads (destroying your own territory to save it) to really ensure that this doesn't happen.
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Also, isn't simply sat... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-21-2019, 11:54 PM |
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Thread: Transhuman Space Marine
Post: RE: Transhuman Space Marine
| A less obvious but no less important advantage is that due to the fact that most OA technology is made up of more or less the same elemental mixture as living beings, even if it is arranged very diffe... |
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06-21-2019, 11:43 PM |
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Thread: Lunar railroad: Near-future transport around solar system
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Bear Wrote: (06-13-2019, 08:24 AM)
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Does it seem reasonable that people recognizably "human" and "alive" in the biological sense could withstand 40 g acceleration given some technological advances ... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-15-2019, 01:09 AM |
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Thread: Lunar railroad: Near-future transport around solar system
Post: RE: Lunar railroad: Near-future transport around ...
| It's going to be pretty expensive to transport all that construction equipment and materials to the moon, isn't it? |
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06-13-2019, 03:57 AM |
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Thread: Why would one become a Superbright?
Post: RE: Why would one become a Superbright?
| Something that's important to remember about superbright brains--they're not just more intelligent than a baseline humans--or at least many aren't. The standard Superior brain, for instance, has both ... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-13-2019, 03:54 AM |
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Thread: Angelnets and Crime
Post: RE: Angelnets and Crime
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macnut Wrote: (06-06-2019, 12:46 PM)
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Ah but that's when things could get interesting. If you can't physically hurt someone, what about hurting them emotionally?
Can breaking someone's heart, f... |
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General Setting Discussion
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06-06-2019, 04:54 PM |
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Thread: Angelnets and Crime
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Drashner1 Wrote: (06-04-2019, 12:19 PM)
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I think a larger question is - what is defined as a crime if the basic rule is 'do whatever you want as long as you don't hurt anybody'.
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06-05-2019, 06:14 PM |
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Thread: Technology Topic - Page Revision
Post: RE: Technology Topic - Page Revision
| How do you set up the complex array of interacting magnetic fields you'd need to direct it into those streams, though? And doesn't plasma rapidly bleed off energy through radiation? |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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05-30-2019, 01:54 AM |
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Thread: Technology Topic - Page Revision
Post: RE: Technology Topic - Page Revision
| Wait, Manus Dei is still canon?
Also, about plasma conduits--what advantage, exactly, do they confer over superconductive conventional wires? |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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05-29-2019, 08:25 PM |
