09-26-2012, 11:50 PM | #501 | |
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Tending toward the lower end for Major races and the upper end (perhaps even going into the 26+ range) for the five or so Dominant races. 20% If you draw a convex, non-uniform polyhedron through each race's stars, you are likely to find that that on average, a race has about 20% (or perhaps slightly lower) fall within another race's polyhedron. |
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09-26-2012, 11:54 PM | #502 | |
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An orbital station is used as a transit point for people coming from non-landing-capable ships. They also perform other functions. In short, all inhabited planets have at least one, and some non-habitable planets have them as outposts. The ones around inhabited ones tend towards city-sized, and commonly take the role of a Star Town. |
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09-26-2012, 11:57 PM | #503 | |
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09-27-2012, 12:04 AM | #504 | |
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I'd like to repeat my comment about horses and carts. In hard sci-fi, the above issues determine the space population. In space opera, we reverse the situation.
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09-27-2012, 12:17 AM | #505 | |
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I think large populations in space should be rare. That will make cultures like Vicky's spacer dudes really stick out in a fun way. Smaller stations might be fairly common. Maybe defense and scientific stations? But why not use big starships? They can fly about space or swing along in orbit. Dirtside starports are probably more fun than 'high ports' all over the place. If we've got reactionless drives and antigrav, is there a good reason not to land starships on planets? Space elevators seem kind of pointless given the super science in the setting. |
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09-27-2012, 12:48 AM | #506 |
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Hyperspace Layers results
you guys were ... less than enthusiastic with your negatives. I may make some judgement calls here Subspace (17) =+++++++++++++++++ This is deffinately included. Energy-rich layer (-1)= ---++---+++ Drop-out space (1)= ---+++---++++ I'm going to use three of my negative votes to shoot this one down. Blind layer (6)= +++++++- Kept, probably in conjuction with another layer Blindness increases (10)=++++++++++ this will be true currents (3)=+++--++ I'm going to use three votes to take this one out. Natural Beacons (7)=+++++++ this is in. Hyperspace Gates (5)=++++++--++--++ this is in, but they aren't exclusive (I'm adding a vote). Large bodies Detectable(8)=++++++++ this will be true Large bodies Obstacles(5)=----+++++++++ this will be true, I'm adding a vote to it. "boost" layer(3)=---+--++- I'm taking this down to 0 with three negative votes Wild layer (6)=++++++---+++ The Gm's get their playground. Empty layer (2)++ I'm taking this one down to 0 with my own votes. number of major layers 6 4 5 3 7 2 6 4 average = 4.625=5 We will have five major layers: this does not include real-space, sub-space, or wild space.
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09-27-2012, 01:43 AM | #507 |
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Space Dwelling Populace
Stations used as harbours Most people don't live in space. Highports are used for bulk cargo, military, and science. There is no "Wesley Crusher, boy astronaut." If you aren't a soldier, a trader or stevedore, or a research scientist with a gift for getting the big grants, you can safely open your suit visor at any time. |
09-27-2012, 03:48 AM | #508 | |
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20-50 planets (5 weeks across) 20% Maybe 20% of population living away from 'habitable' planets. The setting leaves too much territory for it not to be happening on a large scale even if it isn't a particularly attractive option. |
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09-27-2012, 03:58 AM | #509 | |
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I've added the Oom to the aliens thread. The stats aren't exciting-- but they aren't supposed to be too wild. These guys provide the baseline for humanity, after all. The Terro-Humans are perhaps not even one of the galaxy's dominant species, as I understand it. I do have a distinct image in mind. It's based on a good dose of the Childe series, a bit of Jack Vance or maybe even ERB, and a vague memory I have of a book discussing ideas about Atlantis.* *I cannot recall the title. It read like non-fiction, even though Atlantis is not real. The author mentioned somebody's conception of the olive-skinned people of an ancient, lost epoch in which the world-ice was piled high and the oceans were low. The Med was a great valley, I think. EDIT-- De Camp? This looks awfully familiar:http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Continent.../dp/0486226689 I must have been ten years old when I read it. Last edited by combatmedic; 09-27-2012 at 04:09 AM. |
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09-27-2012, 04:17 AM | #510 | |
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Why not? :) I enjoyed the Warlock in Spite of Himself, despite a brief and mild lapse into what I read as author preachiness (democracy is good, yaddda yadda- but he kept it to a minimum). I'm thinking of the scene with the old belter/ prospector, if I am remembering correctly... I've never read Androids of Tarra, but robo-serfs is too awesome and metal not to use. |
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