When Worlds Collide

[dcarson]

So what did they do to annoy Gharlane?

[cptbutton]

Originally Posted by dcarson

So what did they do to annoy Gharlane?

Actually that was beyond even his abilities, as I recall it. The reason the Eddorians came to our universe was because the rare collision of two galaxies meant that each had thousands of planetary systems instead of a handful.

The series used the tidal theory of planet formation, where near-collisions between stars was how planets were created.

I vaguely recall that the Skylark series involved moving stars around on a galactic scale.

So what did they do to annoy DuQuesne?

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by cptbutton

I vaguely recall that the Skylark series involved moving stars around on a galactic scale.

So what did they do to annoy DuQuesne?

It was actually Seaton and DuQuesne working together. One of the few times they did.

[robkelk]

Originally Posted by ericthered

... don't mind exactly what stars are in the sky ...

Until the time that The Stars Are Right and the Great Old Ones awaken, of course.

[Hans Rancke-Madsen]

Originally Posted by robkelk

Until the time that The Stars Are Right and the Great Old Ones awaken, of course.

If they signify the Great Old Ones awakening, the Stars Are Very Very Wrong.


Hans

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Hans Rancke-Madsen

If they signify the Great Old Ones awakening, the Stars Are Very Very Wrong.


Hans

The stars are never late, nor are they early, they arrive precisely when they mean to.

[thorr-kan]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

The stars are never late, nor are they early, they arrive precisely when they mean to.

So...Mary Poppins is a Great Old One?

Sounds legit.

[Hans Rancke-Madsen]

Originally Posted by thorr-kan

So...Mary Poppins is a Great Old One?

Sounds legit.

Sounds fallacious. "A rock cannot fly. Mother Karen cannot fly. Ergo, Mother Karen is a rock." -- Erasmus Montanus


Hans

[Blood Legend]

Originally Posted by whswhs

What shape are they? Elliptical, spiral, irregular? If spiral, is the passage flat to flat or edge to edge? What's the mean interstellar separation?

A buh @_@

Umm um um um....Spiral vs Spiral, probably either Flat to Flat or Edge to Flat, and no idea how to answer that last one.

Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2

Credible on what time scale? A galactic passage at normal galactic velocities takes megayears to unfold. Do your characters care if the EH's threats will take 837,184 years before their world is affected?

If the EH can move the galaxies fast enough to have events unfold on a human time scale...yeah, he's badass. In multiple ways.

This is likely the sort of detail an immortal eldritch abomination would have overlooked but for the sport of it - let's say the galaxies clear each other in a single day -or- a year, starting point being when the first two possible objects
pass by one another and ending when the last two possible objects pass.

Originally Posted by ericthered

I assume an entity making this sort of threat either doesn't have the precision to attack more precisely, doesn't comprehend that the folks he threatening won't care about the time scales involved/don't mind exactly what stars are in the sky, is making a general statement about the might of his powers (I've benchpressed battleships, you will be no problem), or he's saying what he'll do out of spite after he's taken more practical measures.

I like all of these.




New idea, in your collective opinions, what's the best version of this threat that makes the most sense to a story about elder gods threatening mortals with cosmic shenanigans?

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Blood Legend

let's say the galaxies clear each other in a single day -or- a year, starting point being when the first two possible objects pass by one another and ending when the last two possible objects pass.

OK, so he has at least one galaxy moving at thousands of times the speed of light (or more) without using "hyperspace" or any such tricks, so that collisions are possible. But that makes the answer simple. The energy release from collisions of the galaxies' gas and dust clouds at that speed, by itself, converts both galaxies into plasma, destroying all stars, planets, and life within them. It will also sterilise neighbouring galaxies for quite a distance, although the radiation will take hundreds of thousands to millions of years to reach them.

New idea, in your collective opinions, what's the best version of this threat that makes the most sense to a story about elder gods threatening mortals with cosmic shenanigans?

Something a bit smaller-scale. Telling us more about the kind of story that has inspired you to tinker with these ideas might help.