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Thread: Rak Mesba Update
Post: RE: Rak Mesba Update
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*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... |
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Thread: Proof-reading EG
Post: RE: Proof-reading EG
| Combat carrier's page (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/462a8029b2788)
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The carriers of the Negentropy Alliance are painted a regulation shade of grey
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Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
Post: RE: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
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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 ... |
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06-11-2025, 06:43 PM |
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Thread: Projectile weapons (personal)
Post: RE: Projectile weapons (personal)
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Drashner1 Wrote: (06-09-2025, 11:00 PM)
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Untill the bullet go supersonic, I guess.
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Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
Post: RE: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
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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.
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06-10-2025, 04:52 PM |
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Thread: Typos
Post: RE: Typos
| Conversion weapon's page. (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4641258135f58)
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The explosion of a star caused by a Conversion Weapon; this particular type of artificial supernova is ... |
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Thread: Projectile weapons (personal)
Post: RE: Projectile weapons (personal)
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Thread: Proof-reading EG
Post: RE: Proof-reading EG
| Conversion weapon's page. (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4641258135f58)
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The explosion of a star caused by a Conversion Weapon; this particular type of artificial supernova is ... |
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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... |
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06-09-2025, 09:07 PM |
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Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
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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 ... |
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06-09-2025, 06:57 PM |
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Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
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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 ... |
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Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
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Drashner1 Wrote: (06-05-2025, 07:53 AM)
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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... |
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Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
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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... |
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06-05-2025, 08:33 PM |
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Thread: Biovirate & Related Articles
Post: RE: Biovirate & Related Articles
| On the matter, I think this could be relevant, from the Zoeific Biopolity page:
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The only time the Biopolity has interfered in wider politics has been during the Biovirate Affair. Man... |
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06-04-2025, 11:29 PM |
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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 ... |
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Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
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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 ... |
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Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
Post: RE: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
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Liam Wrote: (06-02-2025, 08:27 PM)
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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 ... |
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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... |
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Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
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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 ... |
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Thread: Nicoll-Dyson beam addendum
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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 ... |
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