Where are all the ships?

[Drashner1]

Cheers for response. How big do warships get in Orions Arm Universe? Are there not many "no purpose" objects that are just to indulge modos? In a post-scarcity world a lot of "pointless" creativity and ostentatiousness, probably depending on culture I guess. Could you expand on the colonising another galaxy idea? Cheers.

I believe the two biggest warships described so far are:

The Leviathan Class - 180km long by 3km in 'compact' mode, expanding up to 250km diameter in 'extended' mode.

The Juggernaut Class - 280km long by 25km dia in 'compact' mode, expanding up to 350km radius (700km dia) in 'extended' mode.

There is also a mention of Keterist 'battle moons' but there aren't really any specifics about them.

As far as the number of 'no purpose' artifacts in the setting - Even at 'mere' modosophont tech levels there is enormous capacity to just indulge in things because one can. An argument can be made that most of the megascale habitats and terraformed worlds fall into this category given that the actual Terragen population is so low that there isn't really a need for all the extra space. Often such structures are created as an exercise in artistic expression or because the builders enjoy doing that kind of thing. There is probably some element of forward planning, in that with a functionally immortal population, the numbers will grow to need the space eventually. But there is definitely a strong element of 'because we can' in much of what Terragens do.

Hope this helps,

Todd