Alfhedil

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Ah, yes, I was kind of thinking you might bring up that argument, and let me simply start off by saying that I'm not trying to pick apart your nation's tech or say you can't have something because it's better than something else.

((Take into account, that I am by no means an expert in the field of Physics, Quantum Physics, or Nuclear Theory, that all opinions stated here are based upon my own observations and research, and therefore are subject to being countered by actual experts.))

I'll touch base with the actual topic at hand first, before I get to the point you made at the end of your post. Xalium is, correct me if I'm wrong, a completely fictional material, with no basis in the real world. While yes, the genre is Science-Fiction, the difference between Sci-Fi and standard fiction is the emphasis on the Science aspect, and of the adherence to real science for hard sci-fi, and less so for soft sci-fi. Regardless of either hard or soft sci-fi, there are still certain fundamental principles that are upheld, and that is foremost the Conservation of Mass principle, which from what I read, the Xalium17(or 18 even) reactor disregards by annihilating the atoms of the element and creating nuclear energy via the resulting explosion. The only known occurrence of total destruction to the atomic level, is found in the collisions of matter and antimatter particles, which create tremendous amounts of energy that far outstrip what our fission/fusion reactors can produce. To have an element fundamentally on par with antimatter, be a stable isotope(Since you don't specify otherwise) and be abundant enough to base your entire nation's energy reserves upon, seems to me to break far and away from what we already have established.

To get on point with the other topic you brought up, on saying that we can't apply current day logic to something which doesn't exist.... No, it doesn't work like that. I could easily do the same with the Synchronicity and say that the methods they use to harvest antimatter and harness the energy of the reactions is something beyond our current comprehension, but I don't. I don't do this, because there needs to be a certain amount of realism to things. Once you go beyond the scope of our current logical thought processes, you start to dive into the realm of the unreal, and things that we can't fathom. I think, from my previous discussions with Traveler, that that is a realm that we are staying out of, as the scope of the RP is quite a bit more limited than that. Keeping things within the scope of our current logical thinking is the only thing preventing someone from going off the deep-end into things that really have no place in this RP. Not saying that's what you've done, not at all. Just saying that it opens the door to some bad juju.

To get back to the Xalium element, is there anything else you can say about it that may make things more realistic, and alleviate concerns? Things like whether or not it is a stable isotope, how it is found in its natural form, if it's even found in nature, and things that would help to make it seem less of a "Hey, we got this thing." and more of a "Look, man we got some really cool shit over here, let me tell you all about it.". Basically, the more you describe it and give it an actual identity, the less people would really have to say about it, because you would have already answered their questions before they had to ask them =D

Also. Apologies I wasn't able to respond earlier, as I was at work and would not have been able to respond with a post that actually addresses your own post.

Also. I feel like I ranted at you, which was not at all the intention D: My bad if that's the impression you get from long-post, as that's not at all the tone I'm trying to convey.

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Sauron, I do have a question about your faction's technology. What exactly is this Xalium? From your sheet, the impression I've gotten is that it's use in reactors seems to eclipse the power gains from antimatter-matter annihilation reactions, which if I assumed correctly, is absurd. I could be wrong, however, so feel free to point out what I may have missed =D

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I'm fine with the map we have.

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Theodorable said
I can change it, my bad. I was trying to review a slew of applications to find the viability on whether the Graal would have met them or not.

All's cool, I just thought I would inquire, I was mainly curious about it. There's always room for interaction in the near-future depending on where your civ has been placed ^_^

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Theodorable said
My application is largely finished!

A question. How is it that the Graal have made contact with the Synchronicity, when the Synchronicity largely do not travel beyond their nebulae, which is largely uninhabited and filled with older stars as well as neutron stars and the like? I don't mind if you want to start the RP off hostile with my own faction, but there should at least be some viable reason to it. The Synchronicity would venture beyond the Dead Stars to attack another faction, nor would they even wage a war with another faction at all, so if you have ideas as to why the Graal are hostile towards the Synch, I would very much like to hear them =D

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It's not so much that they are massive, it's more so in that they have no resources dedicated to ground-pounders. The only military force in the Synchronicity is their fleet, meaning that they operate in larger battle-groups than the average faction would.

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Are we supposed to actually have fleet numbers? Even scaled back from what they are normally portrayed, the Synchronicity maintain rather large fleets =/

Posted Without Comment - Discuss

Really, it should be as simple as changing the wording to clearly distinguish between the extremists and mainstream muslims. That's really about all that should be done. If someone gets upset about tying the words muslim or islam to an extremist group, then they should take a look at their own life and see if there's a reason why they are so offended that an extremist group is getting bad light.

Moral of the story:

Extremists != Mainstream practitioners.

People shouldn't get so butt-hurt over people calling out extremists in their own religion. Instead they should look to clean house and save face.

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Had a schedule shift recently, so that's why it's a bit harder to catch me online at the same time. Just popping in to let you guys know that both myself and Bell are still here.

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Yep, that was me. Shame we couldn't get that plot-line going farther before the thread died and you weren't around for the reboot I GMed. Depending on where you sit your nation, the Synchronicity may have some idle interest in pseudo-pacifist space crystals.