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    Thread: Perseus Princes Expansion
Post: RE: Perseus Princes Expansion

DSPE Wrote: (Yesterday, 12:39 PM) -- Alright, I read the article and see the Vatsech is written as a super powerful human rather than an Incomprehensible Entity. Like how the article mentions that Va...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 125 1,408 2 hours ago
    Thread: Why was the Academion CIA World Facebook entry removed?
Post: RE: Why was the Academion CIA World Facebook entry...

DSPE Wrote: (Yesterday, 10:54 AM) -- shouldn't this be in General Discussion? This isn't an EG article -- It's discussing an EG article, seems likely to be rather a short discussion and we are some...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 7 68 2 hours ago
    Thread: Perseus Princes Expansion
Post: RE: Perseus Princes Expansion

DSPE Wrote: (05-18-2025, 09:31 PM) -- I think three simple options to replace that part with one of these alternatives: The Nargonn is assisted somehow technologically, strategically, or tactically b...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 125 1,408 Yesterday, 02:30 AM
    Thread: Perseus Princes Expansion
Post: RE: Perseus Princes Expansion

Thoughts and comments below... Nyeti Wrote: (05-12-2025, 09:22 AM) -- [hr] Introduction The Perseus Princes are one of the new generation of archailect empires flourishing in the Outer Volum...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 125 1,408 05-17-2025, 09:32 PM
    Thread: Why was the Academion CIA World Facebook entry removed?
Post: RE: Why was the Academion CIA World Facebook entry...

Re the title of your post - I don't recall the details of why we changed the article, but based on how we've been doing things for a while now, it was likely a combination of the 'fact sheet' style no...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 7 68 05-17-2025, 08:40 PM
    Thread: Particle Beam Rockets (?)
Post: RE: Particle Beam Rockets (?)

Liam Wrote: (05-02-2025, 03:16 AM) -- But, running with this idea – a ship could have large sheets of optical phased arrays, folded up when they're not needed, then unfurled when they are. A sheet li...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 36 486 05-15-2025, 10:37 PM
    Thread: Developing/Expanding the Queen of Pain
Post: RE: Developing/Expanding the Queen of Pain

DSPE Wrote: (05-14-2025, 03:55 PM) -- I doubt there's any modosophont problem that, by definition, cannot be rewritten -- This is correct, although with qualifiers. The more that a sophont is rewri...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 21 265 05-14-2025, 10:47 PM
    Thread: Smart Spiders: Jumping Spider Provolve Concept
Post: RE: Smart Spiders: Jumping Spider Provolve Concept

Thoughts and comments below... Speaking on general terms, a lot of this seems to consist of random factoids rather than a coherent narrative. I'd suggest looking at some of the existing (and longer...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 44 454 05-14-2025, 10:29 PM
    Thread: Fomalhaut Acquisition society revision
Post: RE: Fomalhaut Acquisition society revision

emen42 Wrote: (05-13-2025, 02:28 PM) -- Rakuen07 Wrote: (05-11-2025, 04:55 AM) -- Thoughts? -- I think this is smart and straightforward methodology for making these statistics, although a Sephiro...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 25 415 05-13-2025, 10:58 PM
    Thread: Hello there, new to the forum!
Post: RE: Hello there, new to the forum!

Hi There! Welcome to OA! :)
Drashner1 The Arrivals Lounge 6 1,339 05-13-2025, 06:21 AM
    Thread: Misc. Proposed Images Dump Season 3: Humanoids
Post: RE: Misc. Proposed Images Dump Season 3: Humanoids

Very nice! :)
Drashner1 Art and Visual Media 14 227 05-12-2025, 10:31 PM
    Thread: Particle Beam Rockets (?)
Post: RE: Particle Beam Rockets (?)

This weekend I reached out to Luke Campbell (former active member, 'co-inventor' of magmatter, inventor of the pac-man conversion drive, and original author of our Particle Beam Weapons page, among ot...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 36 486 05-12-2025, 10:30 PM
    Thread: Videogame set in the Orion's Arm Universe?
Post: RE: Videogame set in the Orion's Arm Universe?

Godd Howard Wrote: (05-11-2025, 04:44 AM) -- Does anybody in this forum know what happened with that freehauler project? It seems like the project fizzled out in 2008 from what I remember, although t...
Drashner1 Other Game-related Discussion 9 117 05-11-2025, 06:14 AM
    Thread: Perseus Princes Expansion
Post: RE: Perseus Princes Expansion

Cogs13 Wrote: (05-10-2025, 09:19 AM) -- Just some thoughts while I procrastinate on other things: I think that there could be even a bit more emphasis on military expenditure, and particularly on ...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 125 1,408 05-10-2025, 10:53 PM
    Thread: Perseus Princes Expansion
Post: RE: Perseus Princes Expansion

Nyeti Wrote: (05-10-2025, 06:26 AM) -- Ah, one thing that does need updating on the EG is to credit the several contributors to the expanded version. Could you add that please? -- Sure - who's name...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 125 1,408 05-10-2025, 06:38 AM
    Thread: Dwarf-Clade (Homo-Isoptera)
Post: RE: Dwarf-Clade (Homo-Isoptera)

Don't have time to reply to this ATM, but will this weekend. Thanks! Todd
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 55 863 05-10-2025, 06:17 AM
    Thread: Particle Beam Rockets (?)
Post: RE: Particle Beam Rockets (?)

Liam Wrote: (05-10-2025, 12:53 AM) -- I've been looking through some of Ithuriel's posts recently. I think their main point – that lossless conversion drives will always be inferior in performance to...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 36 486 05-10-2025, 06:05 AM
    Thread: Perseus Princes Expansion
Post: RE: Perseus Princes Expansion

On a related note - Since the data panel is mostly done, I had set it up in the CMS using a template and have now copy/pasted it into the Perseus Princes (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45ce40cc1d...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 125 1,408 05-10-2025, 05:09 AM
    Thread: Perseus Princes Expansion
Post: RE: Perseus Princes Expansion

Nyeti Wrote: (05-10-2025, 01:48 AM) -- Drashner - I'm happy with your proposed edits, thank you! Here's my suggestion for a more meaningful Society entry based on our discussions so far: Society: ...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 125 1,408 05-10-2025, 04:39 AM
    Thread: Regarding the combat capabilities of virtual entities
Post: RE: Regarding the combat capabilities of virtual e...

Nyeti Wrote: (05-09-2025, 11:54 PM) -- Aren't vots just bots that don't have a physical body? Or am I confused? -- No - bots come in a wide range of physical designs and with a wide ranging of cont...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 12 112 05-10-2025, 12:16 AM