GURPS Ringworld 1,000,000 AD

~~Tom Kalbfus~~ · 02-01-2006, 10:17 AM

I started this thread in THS, but perhaps it is entirely separate. Basically it is a ringworld that doesn't use rubber physics or Superscience, it is 1,000,000 miles wide, 93,000,000 miles in diameter and centered around our own Sun and in our own Solar System in the future, and it is in the deep future. There are three rings or bands around the Sun.

The innermost one is called the Occlusion Band, it is a film of smart material that is selectively transparent or opaque depending on the electronic signals it receives, it blocks more sunling toward its edges and less toward its middle when its transparent. The Occlusion ring has a 24 hour cycle, for 12 hours it is transparent and the following 12 hours it is opaque and blocks sunlight entirely towards the middle ring or habitation ring. The Occlusion ring is about where the orbit of Mercury once was.

The middle ring is the habitation ring, it occupipes the orbit of Earth is 93 million miles from the Sun and it rotates fast enough to produce 1 G of centrifugal force, and it is 1 million miles wide. at the edges of this band are walls that are 300 miles high and 100 miles wide, these walls are covered with rock and dirt so they slope up through the atmosphere over the top of the wall and onto an airless lunar landscape that suddenly drops off into a cliff on the other side.

The outer ring is the Atlas ring, it does not rotate and it bears the weight of the world on its shoulders so to speak. The entire setting is one million years in the future and the outer ring is home to cyberspace simulations of many different past Earths, much like the infinite Worlds campaign but all the alternates are artifical, although most of the inhabitants of them don't know that. Every once in a while the ringworld disgorges some of its cyberinhabitants and then actualizes them into reality on the ringworld floor via nanotechnology. Nanotechnology isn't all pervasive but it does have its uses. There is no single civilization on the ringworld surface although there once was over 900,000 years ago, the ringworld has since been a self-maintaining artifact in spite of whatever is happening on its surface. Every once in a while humans from the stars pay it a visit. There is no FTL technology, so those starships travel slower than light.

02-01-2006, 10:17 AM	#1
~~Tom Kalbfus~~ Banned Join Date: Dec 2005	GURPS Ringworld 1,000,000 AD I started this thread in THS, but perhaps it is entirely separate. Basically it is a ringworld that doesn't use rubber physics or Superscience, it is 1,000,000 miles wide, 93,000,000 miles in diameter and centered around our own Sun and in our own Solar System in the future, and it is in the deep future. There are three rings or bands around the Sun. The innermost one is called the Occlusion Band, it is a film of smart material that is selectively transparent or opaque depending on the electronic signals it receives, it blocks more sunling toward its edges and less toward its middle when its transparent. The Occlusion ring has a 24 hour cycle, for 12 hours it is transparent and the following 12 hours it is opaque and blocks sunlight entirely towards the middle ring or habitation ring. The Occlusion ring is about where the orbit of Mercury once was. The middle ring is the habitation ring, it occupipes the orbit of Earth is 93 million miles from the Sun and it rotates fast enough to produce 1 G of centrifugal force, and it is 1 million miles wide. at the edges of this band are walls that are 300 miles high and 100 miles wide, these walls are covered with rock and dirt so they slope up through the atmosphere over the top of the wall and onto an airless lunar landscape that suddenly drops off into a cliff on the other side. The outer ring is the Atlas ring, it does not rotate and it bears the weight of the world on its shoulders so to speak. The entire setting is one million years in the future and the outer ring is home to cyberspace simulations of many different past Earths, much like the infinite Worlds campaign but all the alternates are artifical, although most of the inhabitants of them don't know that. Every once in a while the ringworld disgorges some of its cyberinhabitants and then actualizes them into reality on the ringworld floor via nanotechnology. Nanotechnology isn't all pervasive but it does have its uses. There is no single civilization on the ringworld surface although there once was over 900,000 years ago, the ringworld has since been a self-maintaining artifact in spite of whatever is happening on its surface. Every once in a while humans from the stars pay it a visit. There is no FTL technology, so those starships travel slower than light.