Ideas Are Easy

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by tshiggins

Couldn't you just have a random wormhole open up and swallow the moon, and then randomly spit it out again in various places in the universe?

That strains credulity a lot less.

I mean, I was 12 years old when Space 1999 first aired in the United States, and even I knew the cause of the disaster was silly, as was the notion that the moon could reach another solar system (much less more than one) in the lifetime of any of the crew.

Getting hit by an alien spacecraft is even less plausible than an explosion in a nuclear waste depot. Any disaster energetic enough to blast the moon out of its orbit would just turn it into gravel, instead.

The SDF-1 was a space ship that was 1.2 kilometers long. When its hyperdrive started up accidentally it transported a sphere which contained the entire island it had crashed on. Now I wouldn't personally use that idea to move the entire moon, but maybe a hundred miles or so would be enough to transport plenty of resources with you. Although one idea I've considered is doing Apocalypse Troll. The whole moon is a gigantic Death Star underneath a thick layer of camouflaging stone. You could explore the interior decks for a lifetime.

Or alternatively you could go with the more reasonably sized Deimos, which is also a lovely name for a warship.