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    Thread: Rak Mesba Update
Post: RE: Rak Mesba Update

Quote: -- *The three xeno wormholes - Tunh to the Sagittarius Transcultural Cooperation, Oh-F-Star-4 to the Carina Rush, and the Fargate - didn't have any consolidations in mind. Tunh and Oh-F-S...
Vitto Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 18 126 3 hours ago
    Thread: Proof-reading EG
Post: RE: Proof-reading EG

Combat carrier's page (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/462a8029b2788) Quote: -- The carriers of the Negentropy Alliance are painted a regulation shade of grey -- Regular? Regulated?
Vitto Website and Content Issues 1,100 3,001,945 06-11-2025, 08:08 PM
    Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
Post: RE: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum

p Quote: -- That's before we get to software attacks that could wipe the mind of the controlling entity or wipe/subvert its control software or memetic attacks which would prevent it from wanting ...
Vitto Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 50 467 06-11-2025, 06:43 PM
    Thread: Projectile weapons (personal)
Post: RE: Projectile weapons (personal)

Drashner1 Wrote: (06-09-2025, 11:00 PM) -- Vitto Wrote: (06-09-2025, 09:12 PM) -- Quote: -- they make almost no noise -- Untill the bullet go supersonic, I guess. -- I don't know that ther...
Vitto General Setting Discussion 7 77 06-10-2025, 05:02 PM
    Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
Post: RE: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum

Quote: -- You talk about anything not magmatter based being fried by such a device but ignore how such a thing would be aimed quickly enough to be effective against smaller, fast moving objects. ...
Vitto Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 50 467 06-10-2025, 04:52 PM
    Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos

Conversion weapon's page. (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4641258135f58) Quote: -- The explosion of a star caused by a Conversion Weapon; this particular type of artificial supernova is ...
Vitto Website and Content Issues 688 6,866 06-10-2025, 04:30 PM
    Thread: Projectile weapons (personal)
Post: RE: Projectile weapons (personal)

Quote: -- they make almost no noise -- Untill the bullet go supersonic, I guess.
Vitto General Setting Discussion 7 77 06-09-2025, 09:12 PM
    Thread: Proof-reading EG
Post: RE: Proof-reading EG

Conversion weapon's page. (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4641258135f58) Quote: -- The explosion of a star caused by a Conversion Weapon; this particular type of artificial supernova is ...
Vitto Website and Content Issues 1,100 3,001,945 06-09-2025, 09:11 PM
    Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
Post: RE: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum

So, for making a "killer-star": We take in consideration a red dwarf around a third the radius and the mass of Sol. Radius: 200 000km. Mass: 7 * 10^29kg. Equal to 389 Jupiters or almosto 10^7 M...
Vitto Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 50 467 06-09-2025, 09:07 PM
    Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
Post: RE: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum

Quote: -- I'm also not clear on where you're finding the terms you list in the other thread. Or are you suggesting these terms replace what we currently use? If so, what are the terms we currently ...
Vitto Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 50 467 06-09-2025, 06:57 PM
    Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
Post: RE: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum

Quote: -- a) You have to consume some amount of matter to get the energy - and there are likely to be waste heat/energy effects that mean you end up damaging go or destroying your local star system ...
Vitto Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 50 467 06-06-2025, 04:43 PM
    Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
Post: RE: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum

Drashner1 Wrote: (06-05-2025, 07:53 AM) -- On a different note, I can update the various small wormholes bolded in post 27 to fit with current canon in short order. Will post a list of proposed updat...
Vitto Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 50 467 06-05-2025, 08:35 PM
    Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
Post: RE: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum

Quote: -- I don't see any value in including the majority of what's on this list since the WH sizes given are far larger than what we've been discussing as even remotely vulnerable to ND attack. Of...
Vitto Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 50 467 06-05-2025, 08:33 PM
    Thread: Biovirate & Related Articles
Post: RE: Biovirate & Related Articles

On the matter, I think this could be relevant, from the Zoeific Biopolity page: Quote: -- The only time the Biopolity has interfered in wider politics has been during the Biovirate Affair. Man...
Vitto Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 2 46 06-04-2025, 11:29 PM
    Thread: Can we have a properly defined nomenclature between wormhole gates and their size?
Post: Can we have a properly defined nomenclature betwee...

I was making a list of various wormholes around the Terragen sphere and I noted that the nomenclature is very rich (pico- nano- micro- macro- meso- industrial- arterial- stargate, etc...) but without ...
Vitto General Setting Discussion 4 52 06-04-2025, 11:20 PM
    Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
Post: RE: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum

Quote: -- As I pointed out earlier, the situation you describe is both an edge case and relatively easy to defend against. More specifically, 1 meter gates are not the norm, but instead are a very ...
Vitto Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 50 467 06-04-2025, 10:56 PM
    Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
Post: RE: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum

Liam Wrote: (06-02-2025, 08:27 PM) -- Before  I rush off to work, a very brief thought on toposophic conflict: Occasionally modosophonts and lower toposophics will have access to tools that could in ...
Vitto Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 50 467 06-03-2025, 06:28 PM
    Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
Post: RE: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum

BTW Todd, I know it could look like that I try on purpose to stretch the rules of the setting to their limits  but I honestly just have a "What if?" machine crammed somewhere in my cranium that consta...
Vitto Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 50 467 06-02-2025, 05:32 PM
    Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
Post: RE: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum

Quote: -- I suggest that a Solar Nicoll-Dyson laser would not have enough energy to disrupt a wormhole, but a laser powered by a much brighter star would be able to do this; alternately, it may be ...
Vitto Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 50 467 06-02-2025, 05:28 PM
    Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
Post: RE: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum

Quote: -- This still doesn't answer the question of how you came up with the 6.54e14kg number from your original post. And everything else here seems to again be easily dealt with by a combination ...
Vitto Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 50 467 06-02-2025, 05:25 PM