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2009-09-14, 04:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-14, 05:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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So this is Warhammer 40K - Lighter and Softer?
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2009-09-14, 05:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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IN THE WRY DIMNESS OF THE NEAR FUTURE THERE IS MOSTLY WAR BUT ALSO SOMETIMES HUGSdamn it forum maybe I have a good reason for posting all caps
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2009-09-14, 06:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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And humans that aren't all Caucasian!
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2009-09-14, 06:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-14, 06:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-14, 11:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-14, 01:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-14, 01:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-14, 01:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hell, I'd think just a regular sword with an energy covered blade would be awesome.
No I did not steal that from SEED (Watched maybe the first 2-3 episodes and one bit where I think Lacus was talking about being engaged to one person, but loving one of the other characters on the other side of the war and said 'Ugh, I don't want to watch a soap opera mecha anime, had enough of that with Eureka 7' and I only know the sword exists there from Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2), I came up with the idea in 2006-2007 for a Star Wars RP as honestly... I don't really like the overall appearance of lightsabers I prefer swords that look like swords, not giant glow sticks. Though I'm sure I'll be tarred and feathered for saying so.
Don't get me wrong, I think the idea of light sabers is awesome, its just that the shape of the blades are kind of 'Eh' to me.Last edited by Kris Strife; 2009-09-14 at 01:48 PM.
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2009-09-14, 02:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-14, 02:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-14, 02:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm guessing the MVS vibrates so fast that it turns red-hot - I've seen plenty of other vibroweapons do the same thing, making them indistinguishable from energy weapons apart from a more defined shape (or given that they're called "Maser Vibration Swords" it could be a weaponised version of putting foil in the microwave).
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2009-09-14, 02:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-14, 03:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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What if we had something like MIRROR COATING!!!TM for weapons and armour?
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2009-09-14, 03:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-14, 04:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Thank you kindly.
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2009-09-14, 04:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hm... Its possible, I'd certainly say that's a possibility... Man I really wish I'd gotten in on the ground floor of this... Oh well, thats what sequals are for right?
On an related, but irrelevant, note, I have a friend who blew a door off a microwave oven by putting an egg in it for like 3 minutes.
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2009-09-14, 08:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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The point of coating the blade (or teeth, if a chainsword) with a certain kind of energy is to allow it to penetrate shields. I'm thinking of some kind of sheathing that scatters DAPSs, allowing the weapon to get at the hull without getting turned aside. Remember that, with the agreed upon shielding system, a shielded object is highly resistant to anything with significant mass.
Also, why the mirror coating? I'll certainly go for it, but I'm just wondering what it's for.
Edit: Any other ideas for FTL travel? Prime brought up a suggestion about a ship making a hyperspace bubble, but we still need to explain how it all works (phlebotinum or not).Last edited by 13_CBS; 2009-09-14 at 08:57 PM.
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2009-09-15, 01:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well do we really need faster than light travel? If we kept the world we travel in relatively small we wouldn't need it. It takes sunlight approximately 8 minutes to reach the Earth. It takes about 7 hours to travel from the Sun to Pluto when Pluto is its maximum distance away from it. We don't need lots of planets if we have artificial colonies. We could do what Gundam did with Lagrangian points and cylindrical colonies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colony_%28Gundam%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_habitat
I'm just throwing this out here for discussion.
We could expand beyond the distance of Pluto into another solar system and still not have have FTL travel so that the vastness of space is still felt when people need days/weeks to reach the farthest explored areas.
Terraforming could also be a reason for making all of our nearby planets useful. They or their moons could be terraformed. They could also have stationary colonies built around them. The bad guys could live on Earth's moon.
You could also have hollowed out asteroids used as mining colonies and fortresses. Gundam did that too.Last edited by nothingclever; 2009-09-15 at 02:07 AM.
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2009-09-15, 12:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, there's an idea. It'll certainly make our setting fairly unique, I guess, especially when compared to western sci-fi series...
It won't affect the characters and robots too much if FTL travel is removed, will it?
We could expand beyond the distance of Pluto into another solar system and still not have have FTL travel so that the vastness of space is still felt when people need days/weeks to reach the farthest explored areas.
Terraforming could also be a reason for making all of our nearby planets useful. They or their moons could be terraformed. They could also have stationary colonies built around them. The bad guys could live on Earth's moon.
Very interesting ideas...I'm going to think on this. The robots are nearly done, anyway.
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2009-09-15, 12:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-15, 01:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-15, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yes, but if we keep it unimproved enough it would still take weeks to reach Pluto. Really the solar system is large enough that we don't need to bother with anything beyond it. As for naming, i leave it to someone who sucks less at that than i do.
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2009-09-15, 02:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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All I'm saying is that fast as light travel can be plenty fast.
I'm not saying we shouldn't have travel at or near the speed of light.
I messed up with the time needed to reach other solar systems bit there. I forgot the next closest one to our own is pretty far away. If we have an alternate universe design systems could be closer to each other.
Anyways, as for the naming of the evil empire and naming in general we could get our ideas from one or more mythologies such as how Legend of the Galactic Heroes uses Norse mythology to name things. For instance an icy planet could be called Niflheim and a fiery planet could be called Muspelheim.
Here's another question, what forms of government would our villains and protagonists have? Knowing that might help us decide on names.Last edited by nothingclever; 2009-09-15 at 04:06 PM.
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2009-09-15, 04:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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The thing is, there's nothing physically stopping you from reaching .9 or .99 times the speed of light as long as you can accelerate fast enough to be practical without dying, which puts even Pluto and Neptune within less than 10 hours from Earth.
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2009-09-15, 04:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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We still need some kind of exotic, cool-looking Phlebotinium for this
to make black hole swords out ofto power engines and the like.Last edited by Prime32; 2009-09-15 at 04:39 PM.
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2009-09-15, 04:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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On travel: what if we have only STL (if relativistic) travel via ship, but in certain places (on distant worlds or moons, or KBOs, or free floating in the cometary halo) there are gates which transport you to another system? Each system is too far away from any other for us to work out where they are relative to one another - they appear to be scattered all over the universe. In the first route, this is just how we get from A to B, and it's simply an excuse to have a few interesting locales. As things get darker, it's hinted that they're actually shifting people between dimensions, and that the other locations all have something subtly... wrong with them. And passing through them can... change people.
On the enemies: how they're organized will depend on what kind of space they control (other bodies within a single system, other systems within a continuous volume of space, other systems within a jump/shift setup as I outline above?). It'll also depend on whether they're an external enemy or an edge of human expansion corrupted by unearthed ancient evil and rebounding back towards the source.
I like the word "plasm". It's squishy and biological, but shapeless and ominous. It makes me think of shoggoths. Maybe we found this goop somewhere (near the gates?) and aren't sure what it does, but it seems to make various things go in interesting ways. In fact, it is a psychic symbiont or the concentrated residue of thought or something and it pretty much does magic according to what you will at it. And when you use it enough, it opens you up to... influences.
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2009-09-15, 05:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-15, 06:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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We don't actually need to say what powers our ships. We could just say that our universe uses some undefined highly refined form of nuclear fusion to reach near light speed or that we have antimatter drives.
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