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Okity dokitey artichokity. This thread blew up with all the force of a thermonuclear bomb.

106 miles is insane for a ship. Like, Multi-kilometer vessels are alread ridiculous unless you're talking a pre-FTL antimatter based starship in which case it needs to be really huge. But 106 MILES? 106 METERS is a small destroyer. I'm okay with giant-ass superstructures but not warships that are 100 miles long. Thaaaaats too big. Even as an ultimate boss that you need a coalition to take down that's too big. Like 10 miles is the absolute maximum or some shit like that.

Honestly though? We don't need no numbers. "Holy shit that thing is huge" is good enough. "It's the size of Rhode Island!" We don't need to measure and compare our starships that definitely are not gigantic rods with a huge gun going down the middle. In the end though, make your ships smaller. They can still be insanely huge but not so huge that they fly over a planet and everyone goes "oh hey a lunar eclipse". The UU is based on insane quality but no quantity, which is fine. Just don't make things ridiculously huge.


Big doesnt necessarily mean "immune to weapons any sensible Type 2 civilization has" a 106 mile starship without some kind of defense system Can still be damaged by Space-Weapons such as relativistic mass drivers or Antimatter missiles, or kamikazi at relativistic speed.
@WrongEndoftheRainbow The thing is, if you have infinite energy, infinite energy is effectively equal to infinite mass. E equals MC squared after all, and such a culture that can build infinite energy devices, probably knows how to turn energy directly into mass. If they can improve tech, they can obviously think up new concepts, so the reason that 'they're looking for more knowledge to steal' doesn't make sense.

I think the UniUnion would've stopped being a culture that thought of 'material needs' long, long ago. The only problems they could have that I can even comprehend, being a member of a filthy single planet species, is 'hey, let's stop heat death' 'hey, let's make more of ourselves and screw around in mock wars. I'm really bored' 'hey, let's play gods for shits and giggles. I'm really bored', or 'hey, let's make a new universe in our image!' and things such as that.


That reminds me alot of the Therians from AT-43, They are way more advanced and way bigger than most factions, Have a primary goal of stopping heat death, and the "military" is fighting entirely for fun.
@Lucidnonsensehey, the organics do have big robots, they've just figured out how to prevent ai rebellions. checkmate avian.


>prevent AI rebellion

What purpose do the Avians themselves serve in society? are they just pampered pets?

I'm just wondering what such a culture even wants in other galaxies.

If they can make energy out of basically nothing (Vacuum energy) and have 'sufficiently advanced technology that's indistinguishable from magic'... what business do they have in screwing around with other galaxies? Don't they have better things to do? I mean, any culture that can do that realizes that the universe is going to suffer from heat-death eventually. If they have effectively unlimited power, why are they wasting time goofing about in the universe instead of fixing the heat death problem?


Thats another valid question, Or dealing with something on a similar scale, I think the "Xeelee" are a good example of an Intergalactic civilization done well.
I'm going for a way-out-there future nation, one that's been in the making for billions of years. most Sci fi stuff is near future, but I'm going for far far future.


And yet the seat of power is still seemingly in fairly unaugmented biologicals, rather than Intelligent Megastructures covering planets :p
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Now I feel kinda bad for making a species of psychics... Granted they're blind, mute psychics who communicate solely through thought (and writing), but they're still psychics nonetheless.


Perhaps communicating out of species is difficult, they must learn how the neurology of the other species works or they just send static.
@Lucidnonsense shock and awe mainly, the cruisers and frigates are the only actual practical ones. the carrier is somewhat practical, but the battleships are so big that they move at the galactic equivalent of a slug, and align themselves for warp just as slowly.


Shock and awe only works until the enemy kamikazi attacks one of the ships at warp speed :p
Honestly, I find it interesting that so many people are pushing the military agenda and the tech agenda. Okay so first off, honestly I haven't read everyone's tech yet so I'm just speculating. But still, I'd think that nobody's tech is so advanced that it is godlike overpowering? Besides, don't you think that when you first meet another space fairing species you ain't going to start shooting at them immediately but rather talk? I'm just saying: wouldn't it be more fun to think about the theoretical problems of when 2 species meet? Like viruses, language, alphabet, science terms and units of measurements? Maybe something as basic as how a machine digitally works could be different?

Again, I'm a bit of a hypocrite here for saying this because I haven't thought of those kind of things myself. Yet still, I think they're worth to look over?


Oh yes, First contact is very interesting, unfortunately its rarely given as much detail as it deserves.
to be perfectly clear, none of them have the firepower to destroy a planet, except maybe the galactic class, but it doesn't move except for extra galactic warp.


Anyway, out of curiousity, why are they built so big? while Im sure the universaL union has plenty of resources, what purpose do giant ships serve?
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