Dinh AaronMk

Sci fi science: "How'd that really work?" Thread

Yeah, consistency is always important, after all. And, well, I always enjoy a series or universe more when even the huge-shit has at least a basic idea of how it'd actually work and be done and all that. Y'know?

@LHG100

Well if material resources is at least the basic major problem (engineering it all not withstanding) then you could maybe get away with claiming come civilization used drones to strip-mine every non-gaseous body in the system to construct a ring if not a full encasement of the star, and if you ever feel you need more than you could passingly say: "Well then they also mined less-important systems nearby".

This also being the future too, the value of human labor in this endeavor may be totally out of the question so the only thing is time being spent. What humans that are present may just be there for high-functioning work (program management, drone upkeep) so the crew would be pretty skeleton by today's standards but they can manage it all effectively, and be self sufficient in their little space-station.

Sci fi science: "How'd that really work?" Thread

@LHG100

I wouldn't go out of the way to incorporate it directly into the story. But still in writing any fiction it's a good idea to know and understand enough of the basic rules within the story's world so that you can maintain consistency.

After all, it'd be a terrible literary mistake for two conflicting theories to occupy the same universe. It'd be like attributing gravity simultaneously to the mass of an object and its play on space-time and that gravity is magnetism.

Sci fi science: "How'd that really work?" Thread

If you get to the point of ring worlds or encasing entire star systems in a rotating sphere you're to the point that in fiction you can lampshade how all of this was built with vague science. If you try to go into too much in-world you're either going to have to study the topic heavily to the point you might as well get a degree in various fields of engineering and just go work at NASA, or everything will become so top-heavy the story collapses on itself and it becomes a mess.

There's maybe only so far you can probably get by trying to construct such a far-future from a contemporary standpoint. Not saying it's impossible but the scope is pretty beyond our current engineering theories and I feel that trying to apply what we know now may not be the most approachable thing. Best to simply say it is and go about your way.

Sci fi science: "How'd that really work?" Thread

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

So Byrd posts again and now I'm depressingly behind. So I went to work on writing.

Got a page done because I spent so much time doing refresher research on things and figure out a location even if that page I wrote is inside.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

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Well, in the way way back, in the ancient days of ancient yore, Feoshyri definitely did do a stint as Japan. I believe that was his first country.

@Vilageidiotx

And if he wants it back: ok.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

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Didn't you originally play Japan anyway? Your canon is still active, I think.

@Chapatrap

That was Shyroo or something, I forget his name. Whatever the case: he hasn't posted in forever so he doesn't matter much anymore.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

I'm back from getting depressingly drunk alone in New York City, what's going on?

@TheEvanCat

Did you lean up against some Italian guy and cry?

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

ok

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

He is playing around in Istanbul though and word from him over Skype is that he is preparing a post for that. Like first shot(s) may be this post or the next.