Hegemony Argument Thread

[The_Mather1]

Wait you must include helium-to-carbon fusion! It creates planet sized diamonds!

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_planet

 

Possible, I may have to include it under a designation of some type.

[The_Mather1]

Not that, like Lucy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPM_37093

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I see.

I don't readily see an application for it, but could be interesting.

[Nexaduro]

Rogue Planets, Sub-Spacial Zones, Voids, Cosmic Strings, Dark Matter Asteroids, Zero-Point Clusters

What are these? I know the rest, but can you explain what these are?

(I know Cosmic Strings too if it's referring to Quantum String Theory)

[Icuownage]

Rogue planets are planets that don't orbit a star and just drift through space.

[Seraphi]

Aren't Carbon Planets made entirely of diamond after a certain distance down?

 

Also, Cannonball planets and such. You can never have enough anomolies, they make the game more interesting.

 

Mather, I don't really feel like remembering a dozen strings of random letters and numbers. i prefer proper names.

[Nexaduro]

"I dub thee, John!"

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Rogue Planets: Planets without a Star

Sub-Spacial Zones: Areas where other space(Sub-space, Hyper-Space, whatever) have spilled into our space

Voids: Space that bleeds energy out of the surroundings.

Cosmic Strings: 1 Dimentional fissures in space, exhibiting a 2D gravational field

Dark Matter Asteroids: Asteroids that are attracted to Anti-Matter and are invisible to most scanners.

Zero-Point Clusters: Areas of limitless, though marginal energy. Like a battery that would last forever but was only capable of powering an LED.

[The_Mather1]

Actually zero-point energy is undepletable energy which can have any amount but zero. So it can be a millivolt, or a yottavolt, but never zero volt.

 

Use for Lucy-like stars: Death Star-ish laser weapon.

 

Can zero-point clusters be harvested and relocated?

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Yup. If you build Zero-Point Energy Harvesting Modules and Wormholes to connect the energy lines together, you could produce masses of energy.

Or if you pure researched Zero-Point Energy Harvesting or something you could produces masses of power from one cluster.

 

You can't move them.

 

But there are various researchable dangers to harvesting them.

 

@Lucy, if only there was a way of extracting the planet from the star, building a planet sized mounting system and power generator, and then moving the whole thing across space without getting a proton torpedo in your exaust vent.

[The_Mather1]

So it would be impossible to create a device which had a core made up of a small piece of whatever the zero-point energy eminates from then use some sort of capcitator bank which continously drew energy at an incredible wattage the released it at incredible voltage and lowered wattage?

 

To get the diamond into the laser you could create a supership first, shield it with something capable of surviving the heat inside a star then just fly in, aligning the diamond with an opening where it is slided into place then fly out and lock it in place and finish the laser.

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Basically impossible. I can think of a way to do it because I know how it all fits together, but it would require a tonne of research and a few leaps of logic.

Easier way would be to create harvesting module and wormhole and feed power from the harvesting module, through the zero-width wormhole, to wherever it is needed. Which has the same basic effect, but would require a fair amount of power to run, and a hell of alot of research.

 

 

You make it sound so simple. I would probably go with a Starship about 3 Solar masses in size and just use the star as a Fusion Core for the laser, hitting two birds with one stone. Also, if the diamond ever cracked it could be replaced fairly easily.

Course the research of Heat Sinks, gravity resistant armour, heat dissipators, solar manipulation, the gathering of 3 stars worth of mateial to build the ship and then actual building may slow that down a little. The death star laser research project would also take some time.

[The_Mather1]

Well another alternative is to use some sort of energy weapon to move the diamond away, then it could be towed somewhere safe and be hollowed out to be used as a bullet- and missileproof ship.

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Oxidising missiles would ablate it.

 

Anyway, maps with names added:

(There was a moment of 'Oh Yeah' when I copied the map minus the constellation lines)

 

Note:

Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota, Kappa, Lamba, Mu, Nu

 

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[Wisp]

Alright, here's a bit more backstory for my people:

 

During the Alien Occupation of the planet, the surviving humans often had to resort to genetic modification to ensure the survival of the race. Each individual would live longer lifespans (though not absurdly long), be more resistant to disease and biological warfare, be immune or highly resistant to psionics, an be stronger and more agile with greater reaction time. Other than that, they're human. The only way to recognize them from normal humans (most of the time) is that through some genetic fluke, they all have green eyes.

Downside: Smaller population due to their recent arrival on a new planet (within the past century), so their population is under 1 billion (I assume most people's populations are much larger)

 

Some starting techs: Genetic Modification, anti-psionic technology, Advanced HPEMS/EMP technology, City-Ships, FTL.

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Sorry for delays, Mum's work in full swing, so I am obviously busy assisting her.

Have completed the matter gate map, though is secret :thumbup: and have begun composing the history of the universe. Will work on Dusty, Paul and the Zygotes tommorow during breaks.

 

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Tefarrens(Doom)

 

Physiology:

Tefarrens are, save for some minor genetic modifications, first evolution Humans, theoretically the last in existence. The physiological abnormality, when compared with DNA fragments recovered from the Sol Nebula, is an absences of any of the gene sequences that normally control eye colour.

Records from the Tefarren Databases indicate that, after contact was lost with Sol in Earth Calandar year 2200, the Tefarren base remained the last bastion of the Human Empire until 2292, when the colony was beset by an unknown entity of unimaginable psionic power. Over 90% of the colony's inhabitance was killed within the first year. Records indicate that those with high psionic potentials were the most vunerable, while those with high psionic defences were least vunerable. Over the next two millenia the Tefarren were slowly culled as the alien being grew in power until plateauing in the early four thousands. The true reason for this is debated, had the alien had its fill, or was the psionic defences of the surviours too much for the alien to handle? Whatever the case the alien had reduced the billion strong colony to a mere nine hundred thousand, and to a pre-industrial level of technology. However no one was sure how long the alien would be away for, or indeed if the alien was truely gone, and thus over the next twenty years the Tefarrens bootstrapped themselves into space, completing their giant flotilla in 4120. Upon completion the Tefarrens put themselves in a cryogenic fudge and pointed the ship into deep space. The exact time spent in fudge is unknown, the lower estimate is 40,000 years, the upper estimate is closer to one million years.

 

Psychology:

In standard Psionic tests the results for the Tefarren show two extremes, the first is a lack of any active psionic abilities, even basic ESP associated with predicting probability. The second is a resistance to all but the most intense psionic stimuli. Both of these attributes have been traced to the evolution of an anti-psi organ.

Outside of these Psychological anomolies the Tefarren have a somewhat backward view of the universe, having a harder time understanding scientific concepts.

Genetic engineering has kept the Tefarrens' immune system, agility and strength roughly inline with current norms.

 

Advantages:

Human: Double Morale bonus from Civil Technologies

Anti-Psi: Immune to all but the most Intense Psionics, and even then the Psionics used only have a basic influence.

Race 3.0: Historical research speed is doubled. Ruins are processed faster.

Genetic Modification: Small Combat Bonus.

Nomadic: No morale loss for abandoning planets.

City Flotilla: Any ship can found an outpost of size equal to its crew, including in crash landings.

Ancient Race: Extra Advanced Start Research points(Amount to be worked out)

 

 

Disadvantages:

Organic: Morale Penalty for planets not of type M and/or the capital planet's type.

Anti-Psi: Cannot use Psionics in any capacity.

Race 3.0: Research speed is slowed by 10%

Genetic Modification: Growth rate is reduced.

Low population count: Population costs double Advanced Start Points.

Nomadic: Colonies over one hundred million people cost double in maintainance.

Psi-Phobia: Morale is negatively effected by any diplomacy with Psionic races.

Biological Isolation: Teferran are more at risk from bioweapons.

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[Seraphi]

You wouldn't happen to have mine floating around anywhere would you Archi?

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Sorry Ross, I need to do yours as well :unsure:

[Seraphi]

No problem.

[Nero]

I think you guys have more fun planning than you do actually playing.

[Seraphi]

That might well be the case :rolleyes:

[Iconic]

Archi, have you wrote mine up yet?

if you haven't could you tell me so I could give some in detail explination.

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Creative writing block thanks to the vastness of things. I have diverted my attentions to writing a galactic history instead. Have come up with a general plan and am in the process of writing that in full.

 

Basically the Sentient Universe 'began' 3 million years ago, humanity evolved and broken into space in 2050, were killed off in 2202 by a massive Sentient Computer known as 'Mechos'. The only surviving humans were on Teferren.

In late 3850 an undisclosed race found another undisclosed race's cache, which contained a DNA profile for a minimally sentient species that evolved on Earth, the Cro Magnon.

This DNA was used to create a new race of servents, but, while on a merchant mission through the Sol Nebula, residual DNA activated dormant DNA within the Cro Magnons, 'Flash-Evolving' them. The New Humans overpowered the crew of the ship and filled the cargohold with Nebula. They then flew to the capital system of the undisclosed spieces and liberally sprayed the capital planet with Nebula.

There was not enough for total conversion, but enough to overpower the peaceful race that lived there.

Standing on the race, which were now slaves themselves, the humans grasped at their second chance, conquering a swath of space under the United Federation of Worlds. The UFW fell apart in and around 4000 AD, resulting in scattered colonies. As part of the break up a number of the aliens escaped and the rest were exterminated.

 

 

Ect, ect.

[Seraphi]

Haha. I like it.