02-10-2020, 08:28 PM
Hello all!
I was a reader of the OA site for years, but somehow haven't found this forum until recently. Now I finish the reading of "setting discussion" subforum and start to think about writing something myself, so there are some questions:
1. I have an idea of space habitat that seem interesting to me, but I'm not ready to create full solar system for it. I've seen some habitat articles without system description in EG, but they are very old. Is it possible to write habitat article and then somehow place it in suitable system from already existing?
2. I undestand what in developed systems economy is post-scarcity and automated, but how about the system in the first years of colonization? Obviously even then sophonts will only be overseers of neumann swarms and other automated industry, byt how many time and attention will they need to devote to the process?
3, unrelated to previous. For an archeologist as myself dead peoples are often more interesting that live peoples. In OA how often does a colonized system or major habitat/habitat group die out to the last sophont for whatever reasons? Not in the Sephirotics or other civilized places, of course (or maybe even there), but somewhere on the Periphery?
P.S. English isn't my native language, so I apologize in advance for any grammar and syntax errors, which, undoubtedly, I will make a lot.
I was a reader of the OA site for years, but somehow haven't found this forum until recently. Now I finish the reading of "setting discussion" subforum and start to think about writing something myself, so there are some questions:
1. I have an idea of space habitat that seem interesting to me, but I'm not ready to create full solar system for it. I've seen some habitat articles without system description in EG, but they are very old. Is it possible to write habitat article and then somehow place it in suitable system from already existing?
2. I undestand what in developed systems economy is post-scarcity and automated, but how about the system in the first years of colonization? Obviously even then sophonts will only be overseers of neumann swarms and other automated industry, byt how many time and attention will they need to devote to the process?
3, unrelated to previous. For an archeologist as myself dead peoples are often more interesting that live peoples. In OA how often does a colonized system or major habitat/habitat group die out to the last sophont for whatever reasons? Not in the Sephirotics or other civilized places, of course (or maybe even there), but somewhere on the Periphery?
P.S. English isn't my native language, so I apologize in advance for any grammar and syntax errors, which, undoubtedly, I will make a lot.