04-27-2023, 09:48 PM | #601 |
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Re: [Space/Thaumatology] Stargate: Fantasy - Worldbuilding thread
OK, it looks like Varyon's dwarves win. I'm thinking of calling them 'dvergar' (Icelandic for 'dwarves'), since calling them Khazad would probably be leaning too hard on the Rule of Cool for this setting. May be posting a Question related to them soon. Any suggestions?
Also, one vote each for 5 (so G'Annan can at least warn the SGC about the Eldritch Beings) and 7 (a nation without a significant majority race), both of which exist locally but G'Annan hasn't spied on much. Probably they get Questions later on.
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04-27-2023, 10:09 PM | #602 |
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04-28-2023, 01:11 AM | #603 |
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That may also end up being a Question, but what's in my head is that 'locally' means something like 'the amount of energy require to project significant military force, or to trade significantly, is fairly low.' (Tired, so not sure how articulate I'm being.) In much the same way that what counts as local on Earth in 2023 is different from what was local in Europe in 1823, interstellar and interdimesional travel lead to new ranges that count.
Trying to give a literal distance is probably not a good idea, since it's more a question of how much energy is expended (sort of like how two towns on the same railroad line in 1856 might be more 'local' to each other than they are to physically nearer towns that must be reached by literal horsepower or humanpower).
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Important Regional Cultures Question II
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1. Advanced Steampunk (TL(5+2)^ or higher) with limited biopunk 2. Renaissance Biopunk culture (TL4^ in general, but (4+5)^ or something like that in biotechnology) 3. Electrostaticpunk (TL(4+X)^ or (5+X)^, with a focus on the application of static electricity) 4. Windmillpunk (TL(3+X)^) 5. Something else (please specify). Please remember to include the number(s) of your preferred option(s) when you vote. ******* Answer: 1 gets four votes, and thus the Dvergar are an Advanced Steampunk culture. 2 and 3 got one vote each.
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05-01-2023, 09:24 AM | #605 |
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Should I edit that into the usual multiple-choice numbered format? It was originally not going to have any options, just a question, but my mind wandered and I added them in.
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05-01-2023, 10:56 AM | #607 |
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OK, done.
Too tired to decide how to answer that, but it's an interesting question.
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05-01-2023, 11:09 AM | #608 |
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One please. It's the one I can most clearly visualize.
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05-01-2023, 05:26 PM | #609 |
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Re: [Space/Thaumatology] Stargate: Fantasy - Worldbuilding thread
1 Please..
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That will be #2 for me
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