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by Destructionator
Thu Sep 12, 2013 5:01 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Challenge: make me a new religion
Replies: 5
Views: 10704

Re: Challenge: make me a new religion

This is an old thread, but I haven't been here for a while either and there's no replies... so eh I'll throw some ideas out. I've been thinking about a philosophy-ish thing where the core idea is that there's a way things should be and the way things are, and that misalignment manifests itself as th...
by Destructionator
Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:09 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random ideas (again)
Replies: 325
Views: 236151

Re: Random ideas (again)

idk anything abotut 17th century pirates so I can't say anything about that.... but here's what my butt has in mind... How would that work? It depends on how the crew wants it to work :) The important thing would be that mutiny isn't a crime - if the crew decides they don't want to do something, the...
by Destructionator
Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:11 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random ideas (again)
Replies: 325
Views: 236151

Re: Random ideas (again)

I was thinking just yesterday: wouldn't be fun to have a ship where the captain is just a first among equals; that the ship is run democratically?

Some communists actually tried to do away with rank altogether in their militaries. Enver Hoxha did fairly successfully.
by Destructionator
Wed Sep 12, 2012 4:42 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random ideas (again)
Replies: 325
Views: 236151

Re: Random ideas (again)

Or because its recently used its reactor. Brilliant. There's a lot of fun to be had with minor tech details combined with human error :) Only half related but is there some kind of plausible system that you can use to recycle waste heat from your reactor somehow? That wouldn't violate thermodynamic...
by Destructionator
Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:58 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random ideas (again)
Replies: 325
Views: 236151

Re: Random ideas (again)

Yeah, that makes sense. BTW speaking of reactors, another thing that occurred to me a while ago is, unless you are using solar panels, the temperature of the reactor can be visible from the outside and give a hint as to your alert readiness. If you are just coasting, you probably don't need a great ...
by Destructionator
Wed Sep 12, 2012 2:33 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random ideas (again)
Replies: 325
Views: 236151

Re: Random ideas (again)

I like your ftl thing. That sounds fun. --- Not quite classes, but something I've grown to like is new words for ship and fleet. Someone on the internet started throwing around the term "laser star", meaning simply a laser armed ship. The star part was just borrowed from Battlestar Galacti...
by Destructionator
Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:59 pm
Forum: The A'millian Star Empire
Topic: Random notes and whatnot
Replies: 121
Views: 142943

Re: Random notes and whatnot

Somes J: I have like five emails from you in my inbox; I'm just as behind. New things need me to read and think though, which takes a lot more time than spitting something I already know. They would want to destroy the universe? The thing here is this philosophy doesn't look at the sum of super long...
by Destructionator
Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:17 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random ideas (again)
Replies: 325
Views: 236151

Re: Random ideas (again)

I don't get it :S
by Destructionator
Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:41 am
Forum: The A'millian Star Empire
Topic: Random notes and whatnot
Replies: 121
Views: 142943

Re: Random notes and whatnot

isaac kuo elaborates: If there is a serious population in the Mars system, do you think there is only going to be one manned ship per two years? Or if there are serious populations in the Jupiter and Saturn systems, do you think there is only going to be one manned ship per two DECADES? Certainly th...
by Destructionator
Wed Jan 11, 2012 5:29 pm
Forum: The A'millian Star Empire
Topic: Random notes and whatnot
Replies: 121
Views: 142943

Re: Random notes and whatnot

Am I the only person who realizes that interplanetary transport would be in loose groups of ships rather than isolated ships? There are limited transfer windows which everyone will use at roughly the same time.  This also applies to intermoon transport.   Because there are a bunch of nearby spacecr...
by Destructionator
Sun Jan 01, 2012 8:34 am
Forum: The A'millian Star Empire
Topic: story outlines and notes
Replies: 12
Views: 16374

Re: story outlines and notes

I don't remember if I wrote this one up or not (the same ideas can come and go from my brain for years), but another idea that has to do with guns and shit is one where self-insert actually gets shot at for the first time.... and pretty much freezes up. This goes at some point after the episode wher...
by Destructionator
Sat Dec 31, 2011 7:29 pm
Forum: The A'millian Star Empire
Topic: Random notes and whatnot
Replies: 121
Views: 142943

Re: Random notes and whatnot

I actually don't think space travel would affect that much. The reason is the planet would look pretty different from one mile up, twenty miles up, and three hundred miles up. Even if you've spent a lot of time in the space station, the ascent would surely be all kinds of cool since you can take you...
by Destructionator
Fri Dec 30, 2011 6:25 pm
Forum: The A'millian Star Empire
Topic: Random notes and whatnot
Replies: 121
Views: 142943

Re: Random notes and whatnot

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/nyregion/empire-state-building-observation-decks-generate-startling-profits.html?_r=1 I wonder how many people would ride part of the way up something like a space elevator or floating coilgun launcher just for the view. (tho the space launcher on amillia doesn't ha...
by Destructionator
Fri Oct 21, 2011 12:08 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random ideas (again)
Replies: 325
Views: 236151

Re: Random ideas (again)

Hehe nice erect sci fi. I'd watch that though.
by Destructionator
Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:06 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Galaxy Rising - A Soft Sci-Fi Collab Verse
Replies: 7
Views: 7063

Re: Galaxy Rising - A Soft Sci-Fi Collab Verse

Mr. Zaron is better than you at your own game, and he's going to prove it. In 30xx, he was fired from his modest job and replaced with an artificial intelligence. But, he knew he could do better than some stinking computer, so he became his own boss. When he saw flaws in companies, he wanted to fix ...
by Destructionator
Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:03 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Who would you choose to rule your nation?
Replies: 5
Views: 7071

Re: Who would you choose to rule your nation?

Siege wrote:The Queen. I don't really trust any of them, but 'bettering the world' beats revolutionary fervor or technocratic madness any day of the week in my opinion.
Agreed.
by Destructionator
Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:14 pm
Forum: The A'millian Star Empire
Topic: Random notes and whatnot
Replies: 121
Views: 142943

Re: Random notes and whatnot

" You paint!?" "Yeah, a little, here, take a look." "... don't quit your day job." I wonder if people would still say that after a few generations of true freedom. Even if you are a shitty artist, you could choose to do it full time, since you aren't forced to work to m...
by Destructionator
Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:23 pm
Forum: The A'millian Star Empire
Topic: Random notes and whatnot
Replies: 121
Views: 142943

Re: Random notes and whatnot

Isaac Kuo again: [...] Orbital forts are NOT any more vulnerable to coilgun fire than mobile spacecraft. Really. As I have noted many times before, it doesn't make sense to dodge missiles.� It takes less mass to intercept them with cheap defense drones, and even less mass to shoot them with lasers (...
by Destructionator
Tue Jul 26, 2011 5:35 am
Forum: The A'millian Star Empire
Topic: Random notes and whatnot
Replies: 121
Views: 142943

Re: Random notes and whatnot

I'm way behind on my real work, but I really just can't bring myself to focus on it. (these facts are surely related!) Instead, I find myself wanting to write random ass shit. There's been a handful of things holding me back though: a) Work. As much as I hate it, I've gotta get that shit done anyway...
by Destructionator
Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:22 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Magister is Clueless About Astrobiology
Replies: 5
Views: 6544

Re: Magister is Clueless About Astrobiology

I caught an episode of Nova yesterday that was talking about Australian cuttlefish. These animals have pigments in their skin on muscles, so they can change their skin texture and color at will! There's two cool things they did: one is you can put them on just about any surface and they mimic it. Ar...
by Destructionator
Fri Jul 08, 2011 6:55 am
Forum: The A'millian Star Empire
Topic: Random notes and whatnot
Replies: 121
Views: 142943

Re: Random notes and whatnot

I just nailed down one of the names! DXS - department of external services You might recognize it from MacGyver. This is how I name a lot of things - something I like gets roped in and becomes something somewhere. I've been pondering names for this for years. Been bouncing between making it part of ...
by Destructionator
Fri Jul 08, 2011 1:15 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random ideas (again)
Replies: 325
Views: 236151

Re: Random ideas (again)

And here's another thing, human beings have time and again shown a willingness to treat other human beings as commodities. You say 'insatiable unholy appetite for the blood of mankind?' I hear 'emerging market'. Yes. I was about to say this when I read this section. People are remarkably good at no...
by Destructionator
Wed Jun 29, 2011 6:12 am
Forum: The A'millian Star Empire
Topic: Random notes and whatnot
Replies: 121
Views: 142943

Re: Random notes and whatnot

So I tried to actually draw the A'millian Royal Inspector's badge today. I've had a basic image in my brain for a long time and wanted to put it down... And my first attempt ended up looking like a flower. The second ended up looking kinda like a Ferengi Marauder. The flower is actually more accurat...
by Destructionator
Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:27 am
Forum: The A'millian Star Empire
Topic: Fleshing out the Amillian solar system
Replies: 17
Views: 20455

Re: Fleshing out the Amillian solar system

lol, I said ideas plural but only wrote up one in like the two hours I was here. me so slow
by Destructionator
Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:26 am
Forum: The A'millian Star Empire
Topic: Fleshing out the Amillian solar system
Replies: 17
Views: 20455

Re: Fleshing out the Amillian solar system

I might be repeating myself - ideas linger and repeat in my brain for months. But more colony failure ideas: You have one that's a land of darkness. In the days of their forefathers, the sun would come every day, but as their society changed to be more progressive than their neighbors, something bad...