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Dynamic punch sounds so much less lame than focus punch.

Isn't 10 million troops a little heavy handed anyways? Also, wouldn't these HAWs be limited to [pathetic number here] mph, due to their massive size? Seriously, by the time they got there, the war would probably be over...

Okay, well, from the figures I have here, our sun produces about 4X10^26 watts (I don't know what that is in joules, but I assume its above 1 Yottajoule.) So lets use that as a base for other stars as well. Doom, those carbon nanotubes just might come in handy. [hide=HUGE WALL OF TEXT, ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO OPEN THESE TAGS]A third type of Dyson sphere is the "Dyson bubble". It would be similar to a Dyson swarm, composed of many independent constructs (usually solar power satellites and space habitats) and likewise could be constructed incrementally. Unlike the Dyson swarm, the constructs making it up are not in orbit around the star, but would be statitessatellites suspended by use of enormous light sails using radiation pressure to counteract the star's pull of gravity. Such constructs would not be in danger of collision or of eclipsing one another; they would be totally stationary with regard to the star, and independent of one another. As the ratio of radiation pressure and the force of gravity from a star are constant regardless of the distance (provided the statite has an unobstructed line-of-sight to the surface of its star), such statites could also vary their distance from their central star. The practicality of this approach is questionable with modern material science, but cannot yet be ruled out. A statite deployed around our own sun would have to have an overall density of 0.78 grams per square meter of sail. To illustrate the low mass of the required materials, consider that the total mass of a bubble of such material 1 AU in radius would be about 2.17 × 10^20 kg, which is about the same mass as the asteroid Pallas. Such a material is currently beyond our ability to produce; the lightest carbon-fiber light sail material currently produced has a density without payload of 3 g/m², or about four times heavier than would be needed to construct a solar statite. However, there has been some speculation about the creation of ultra light carbon nanotube meshes through molecular manufacturing techniques whose density would be below 0.1 g/m². If production of such materials on an industrial scale is feasible, and such materials could be used in light sails, the average sail density with rigging might be kept to 0.3 g/m² (a "spin stabilized" light sail requires minimal additional mass in rigging). If such a sail could be constructed at this areal density, a space habitat the size of the L5 Society's proposed O'Neill cylinder 500 km², with room for over 1 million inhabitants, massing 3 × 106 tons could be supported by a circular light sail 3,000 km in diameter, with a combined sail/habitat mass of 5.4 × 109 kg. For comparison, this is just slightly smaller than the diameter of Jupiter's moon Europa (although the sail is a flat disc, not a sphere), or the distance between San Francisco and Kansas City. Such a structure would, however, have a mass quite a lot less than many asteroids. While the construction of such a massive inhabitable statite would be a gigantic undertaking, and the required material science behind it is as yet uncertain, its technical challenges are slight compared to other engineering feats and required materials proposed in other Dyson sphere variants. In theory, if enough statites were created and deployed around their star, they would compose a non-rigid version of the Dyson shell. Such a shell would not suffer from the drawbacks of massive compressive pressure, nor are the mass requirements of such a shell as high as the rigid form. Such a shell would, however, have the same optical and thermal properties as the rigid form, and would be detected by searchers in a similar fashion[/hide] The Dyson bubble seems to be the most reasonable of the variations. That doesn't mean it would be easy, but I'd say it is at least possible in the next 20 years game time, assuming we are using all of our ships for the sole purpose of creating the Superstructure, combined with the ones we would produce specifically for this to happen. That would be able to create many, many FTL batteries, making it reasonable to travel to colonies multiple light years away.

Well, the batteries could be transported using a warp drive if it were possible to create that Dyson sphere. Is it plausable to create a full dyson sphere though?

Nah, I'd want the whole world to be able to use FTL travel if it were possible, so I guess its a worldwide project.

Hm. 8 trillion*600 Petajoule batteries... Wait a second, you said that its roughly 1:100th of the energy that the sun produces each second, right? Then all we need to do is work together to make a giant Dyson shard that takes up 1/10,000 of the surface area of the sun, and we get a battery that charges enough for FTL travel in about 100 seconds, if I have this right? I think this would be possible, without expending all of the Earths reasources, if we use resources from asteroids. If this is an agreed upon plan, then we can work on developing multiple hyperbatteries.

Damn those pesky Green Peace buggers. And I think we already came up with a solution? Warp drives, neh? Kinda. Now we need to figure a realistic way to power said warp drives. I suggested using the space that is being moved to power a superturbine, but apparently thats impossible as well. Doom, can I help with that research? I think you could get it done faster if there were some other scientists on the station. And I can help with supplies, too. I'm going to build 2-3 cargo spacecraft. Again, they are like 80% empty space, so as to carry a lot of supplies.

I SECRETLY REVEAL A CIVIL WAR IN BERLIN Quick guys, send troops in to keep the peace! :lol: When I say researching FTL travel, I mean looking on the internet for a decent, semi-realistic method.

I want an MMO resident evil. Would be badass :lol:

Yeah, the computers are on their way to Berlin. And as for the peace protocol, I'm making sure not to make lethal shots. We aren't taking the country, we are just occupying it until we discover wtf is happening. I'm going to make another battleship, Rhadamanthus III, should be done in about four years. Still looking into FTL travel. Could do with some help here, guys! Just remembered you saying that, I sorta lol'd

Confirmed. Sere, set the Exobreakers target systems to non-lethal, we don't want to annihilate his people. Since I have now lowered the rate at which Icarus drones are produced, I am going to triple my SFere pod production to 12,000 per year.

I assume there will be retaliation, but I will help as well. I'm directing 600,000 drones, making sure that they aim for non-lethal shots. Goal is to kill the dictator and annihilate extremists, then establish peace and re-instate the previous leader. I'm making a special suit which will be a basic Icarus drone, albeit with much better capabilities and heavier armour. I will be controlling this suit personally, and it will act as a router to any other drones around, strengthening their link to the Zeus station. Taking it out will make the rest a bit less intelligent, but it wont have too much effect. Edit: I have 402 posts on this thread :shock:

Wait what? Did you just quit or something? If you need help, just ask. We could come in and crush his dictatorship.

Blast, old habits die hard. My AI won't be for combat purposes. Using it for construction or something then? You shall seeeeee. My battlestation has been modified so that it can carry tungsten rods. Seeing as its not combat related, I'm interested to see what it will be. I guess I'll build another harvester ship and another Dyson shard. My space docking station is completed, and Rhadamanthus I and II are currently docked there. It can fit about 6 of my battleships, due to the fact that 80% of its interior is a giant hanger.

Thats exactly what I do Ray.

Blast, old habits die hard. My AI won't be for combat purposes. Using it for construction or something then?

Oh Snap, Dusty is getting AI tech. Meh, not too worried, I'm still like 20+ years ahead in that field. Also, I thought you were Europa now?

That damned cow annoyed the hell out of me back when I first got gold.

I'd very much like FTL travel now, but I can't find anything that would even make it remotely realistic... Any luck on your part, Doom? Anyways, some other stuff: Dyson shards #6 and #7 have been launched. I made some improvements on my gene modification drug, it will now increase human sense efficiency as well, so better eyesight, hearing and smell. No side effects as of yet. I'm going to activate my shutdown mechanism to test it in case my drones ever happened to revolt. Thing about this network is, my drones become more 'intelligent' the more of them are connected, so if the network is broken, they revert to their basic programming, and can easily be outwitted by normal soldiers, so should they ever try to rebel, I will simply shut down the network and reboot it after like an hour. I'm researching new alloy metals to try to create a stronger armour for my drones, R&D should be done in about 8 years.

Eh, that sounds good to me. I'll need some more dyson shards though, so I'll build another 2-3 to fuel the supply pods. I'm REALLY going this time. Friggin' insomnia -.-

Did I say 10 ton, I meant more like 3 ton. Plus, there are a lot of boosters and 'chutes to slow it so that it wont cause much damage outside the 55 mile area. Do people read what I post? Because I think that was on the last page. As for the 10 ton bit, I guess thats because I'm tired. Bye.

Bah, all this physics makes my head hurts, I'm going to sleep. I'll just post some quick notes: I cleared a large area (About 55 Miles squared) in the north of what was previously Iran to land metal shipments, so now all of my metal will be dropping from orbit there. I'd advise people to stay out of the way, or you may find a 10 ton block of metal falling on your head, and that would hurt. Quite a lot.

Don't think thats needed. I'm gonna go read up on FTL travel on the internet.

Had major nosebleeds all day for no reason. The time this happened before, I'd burst a blood vessel and had to get it sealed up with acid. That hurt like hell, so I'm hoping its not that.

Have one what? Now I'm curious, damnit -.-