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    Thread: Caretaker Gods
Post: RE: Caretaker Gods

I'm in the process of setting up the updated article in the EG. Should be done in a day or two. Thanks! Todd
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 157 3,028 Yesterday, 11:41 PM
    Thread: Caretaker Gods
Post: RE: Caretaker Gods

Worldtree Wrote: (04-09-2026, 01:48 AM) -- Intertoposophic Conflicts looks good to me i'm fine with the speculations being used in other articles instead -- Great! In that case, is this ready to...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 157 3,028 04-09-2026, 10:44 PM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

Liam Wrote: (04-08-2026, 08:10 AM) -- LINK (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G_zPWxXwKDWUKoEeiEGHIniKxePMvGsQ8enSlnqiYWU/edit?usp=sharing) -- Thanks for putting this together, Todd![/quote] Y...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 172 2,813 04-09-2026, 10:37 PM
    Thread: Caretaker Gods
Post: RE: Caretaker Gods

Latest draft with a new section in bold. From the original collection of design notes, there is a section on various speculations re the Caretakers, but they are kind of all over the place in terms of...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 157 3,028 04-08-2026, 11:02 PM
    Thread: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
Post: RE: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]

Just gave the latest draft of the article a read thru. Overall it looks good with only minor wordsmithing needed, when we reach that point. Regarding some related stuff: 1) Re the infographics i...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 77 818 04-07-2026, 11:03 PM
    Thread: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]
Post: RE: Wormhole Nexus [Rewrite]

Liam Wrote: (04-07-2026, 04:51 AM) -- The infographic idea I posted on page 1 contains information for both of these points: https://orionsarm.com/forum/attachment.php?aid=4548 You can see by...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 77 818 04-07-2026, 10:29 PM
    Thread: Hello everyone!
Post: RE: Hello everyone!

Glyph Wrote: (03-31-2026, 10:56 AM) -- I'd be willing to check those out. Provolving something into sophonce is probably the easiest aspect of that topic, which can be quite surprising considering ho...
Drashner1 The Arrivals Lounge 11 822 04-06-2026, 11:02 PM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

AstroChara Wrote: (04-06-2026, 08:30 PM) -- If we do move Nova Terra to, say, Barnard's Star instead, the mission might actually arrive before the Technocalypse happened, but most would still be on t...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 172 2,813 04-06-2026, 10:14 PM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

BorkLord Wrote: (04-06-2026, 07:49 AM) -- The document is locked. -- Should be fixed now. Thx!
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 172 2,813 04-06-2026, 09:43 PM
    Thread: Known Canon Issues
Post: RE: Known Canon Issues

This entry in the timeline came up in discussion on Discord: 104 - Smartswarm, a variant of synsects with destructive capabilities, is an early non-replicating form of military swarmtech. Military ...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 506 8,597 04-06-2026, 04:51 AM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

This post is intended to provide a summary of what has been discussed so far in the conversation. The goal is to provide a reference that can be used when creating/updating articles so we don't have t...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 172 2,813 04-06-2026, 04:42 AM
    Thread: New Empire - Alfra Pack Wulpate and Related Topics
Post: RE: New Empire - Alfra Pack Wulpate and Related To...

Gave your summary a read thru. Thoughts below: a) You mention the APW is a 'daughter empire' of the Zoeific Biopolity. Does this mean the ZB had a hand in the founding/creation of the APW or that t...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 7 119 04-05-2026, 10:56 PM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

ProxCenBound Wrote: (04-05-2026, 06:56 AM) -- Short on time at the moment, but the ideas in the recent posts seem to have potential. I especially like the ahumans traveling via transmission to preexi...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 172 2,813 04-05-2026, 08:22 AM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

stevebowers Wrote: (04-04-2026, 12:18 AM) -- I'd expect that about half of the Golden Age colony missions would be in flight when the Technocalypse and Great Expulsion occur. They might not have the ...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 172 2,813 04-04-2026, 01:07 AM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

And yet another thought... IIRC there has been some discussion on Discord about the current timeline of interstellar colonization being rather tight or short. Also, IIRC we currently say that some ...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 172 2,813 04-03-2026, 11:44 PM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

Ok - Second thought about sending Neumann probes to various stars via catapult, etc. Once the probes are onsite in various star systems - and if they are sufficiently capable to make copies of them...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 172 2,813 04-03-2026, 11:03 PM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

So - the brain cells rubbed together this AM and a new idea re the Ahuman AI exodus fell out: Instead of the Ahuman's secretly hijacking probes or secretly building ships and launching out of Solsy...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 172 2,813 04-03-2026, 10:52 PM
    Thread: Shuttle bay dumps
Post: RE: Shuttle bay dumps

Nice images, but Y11k spacesuits don't look like that. See below: Vacuum Equipment - LINK (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4866b28397129) Thicksuit - LINK (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-arti...
Drashner1 Art and Visual Media 7 59 04-03-2026, 10:18 PM
    Thread: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (2025 edition)
Post: RE: Revisiting Early Interstellar Colonization (20...

Liam Wrote: (04-02-2026, 03:32 AM) -- a) Repeated again here for convenience: A maximum power draw of 1.4 * 10^14 W per tonne, which could be powered via solar energy, or supplemented by fusion, or e...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 172 2,813 04-03-2026, 01:16 AM
    Thread: Caretaker Gods
Post: RE: Caretaker Gods

Latest draft with a new section in bold. See the note in red on possible future additions. Do we want to add those parts? Are there other parts that y'all want me to add or feel that I've missed based...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 157 3,028 04-02-2026, 10:53 PM