[quote=@Cyclone] I'm familiar with the term Clarketech in general sci-fi as technology that's just indistinguishable from magic. I'm not sure exactly how it's portrayed or defined in Orion's Arm, but Clarketech was exactly what I was going for here with people posing as gods. Mind uploading for virtual afterlives or resurrection of a sort is definitely fine by me, as is artificial gravity and its manipulation. I'd consider teleportation but probably permit it depending upon the details, though FTL in particular one that I have some qualms with. I'm open to the possibility of almost any ideas so long as the implications are reasonably well thought out. The thing about FTL is that it opens a whole can of worms about scope of the setting -- it feels less plausible for this isolated planet to have remained isolated and turned out like it did if FTL is present and people can just zoom around all over the galaxy, and I also don't intend for there to ever be any real possibility of leaving the vicinity of the planet and solar system where most of the RP takes place. In general I haven't set any strict guidelines for what the technology level is because that felt like it'd firstly be a bit beyond the scope of an interest check, and secondly because I'm just generally open to ideas and am happy to collaboratively establish such details based upon the characters that we get and the technologies that they use. [/quote] >I see. That does help me narrow down ideas for characters then [i](who won't just be a Gravital rip-off I swear).[/i] As for FTL, that's understandable. I assumed we'd not move beyond the local planet or star system in all likelihood, but I figured I'd ask to make sure. And as for Orion's Arm, technically all their tech doesn't violate known physics. There's a lot of gaps in how exactly some of the super advanced stuff works, or how they actually created AI, but then again that's to be expected in speculative fiction. >So every time they mention wormholes for example, ships do have to actually travel through the connecting bridge in spacetime. Which while significantly faster than sublight travel, still takes some time. Days iirc, but don't quote me on that. So not quite FTL speeds, but still pretty quick, and also dangerous if you suck at piloting or don't have some machine to do it for you. A lot of their advanced stuff also tends to focus on biology, psychology/sociology, and spacetime engineering from what I've seen. General informational technologies notwithstanding of course, as the entirety of humanity in that setting is ruled by AI gods. [hider=Two specific examples of OA Clarketech] [u][b]Finity Box[/b][/u] High level clarketech device. Basically a box from 0.5 to 1 meter on a side that is larger on the inside than on the outside. May employ a basement universe or space-time folding (no S-level below the creating intelligence knows for sure). A Finity Box may be as much as five times larger on the inside than on the outside and no amount of mass put inside it causes any perceptible change to the mass or inertia of the box itself. So far some 2048 Finity Boxes have been found, all within a 5 LY radius of the brown dwarf Grupna Red, and between the years 5221 to 5279 (late ComEmp period). None have been found since, despite repeated searches. Nor has any ISO been observed in the vicinity. Since their discovery, several Finity Boxes have been stolen, 2 have been destroyed, one spontaneously disassembled when probed with an exploratory nanowormhole, and 12 are used in space-time hyperdimensional research. The rest reside in private collections or archailect museums throughout the galaxy. [u][b]Disintegrator Weapon[/b][/u] A very rare clarketech device, much more common in fabulist tales than in real life. Most actual disintegrators work in different ways, showing their origin as rare artifacts. Almost all uses clarketech effects that weaken the atomic bonds in the target so it vaporises in a huge ball of superheated gas. The range is not known to exceed 200 meters (more often no more than 50 meters), making it almost as dangerous to the user as the target. Some weaken molecular bonds, some weaken atomic bonds (such as a weak force boson beam), the most powerful (probably never hand held) somehow separate the quarks from each other. [/hider]