Future Tech Advice and Assistance Thread [O.O.C.]

[OMGeverynameistaken]

So..... how 'bout that space weather?

What king of FTL drives does everyone use?

Space Russia uses Etherway Drives, which are somewhat like Warhammer 40k's Webway, only not.

The Etherway is a huge network of tubelike structures in a dimension where light speed is roughly 600mph, allowing for rapid relativistic travel with conventional drives. It's also inhabited by a variety of monstrously tentacled things.

Unlike, for instance, Hyperspace, entry and exit points within the Etherway don't nessecarily correspond to points within realspace. Traveling a relatively short distance within the Etherway may send you to another galaxy, while it may be necessary to go quite a long way to get to a neighboring system.

And that's why the Russian Empire has its colonies scattered randomly all over the galaxy.

It's also necessary to keep detailed and accurate maps of the Etherway to avoid getting lost, because wandering an eternal labyrinth of endless tubes is not a fun way to go out.

[Kyrusia]

Would a dyson bubble, arranged only above and below the orbital plane make it more feasible?
Would the star system originally technically being a binary star system due to having a bron dwarf sized nuetron star give them the resoucrces to make a partial dyson bubble?
Possibly by doing scifi "magic" aka technobabble to mine away the dwarf star until it is completely gone, and putting said material into a dyson net work?

Please remember that technically there was originally two star systems, and when the space warp was created, the matter that was not anhilated had to be moved into stable orbits to prevent a collision. The nuetron star was the original star of the system they ended up warping around so to speak. So technically they had/ have two star systems of materials to work with, something I just realized is a consequence of the spacewarp backstory...

Neutron stars are considerably smaller in apparent size than brown dwarf, but have considerably more mass. An actual brown dwarf might add significantly to your available resources, but you'd have to have technology capable of skimming resources from such a turbulent atmosphere. As for gaining resources from a neutron star, there are only really two resources that come with neutron stars: iron and degenerate matter. This does not considerably add to your available resources.

This, of course, equally does not solve the issue of the amount of time it will take to reach either options, as if you have a binary system, either the neutron star will be dominant due to its considerable mass (several times the mass of the sun packed into an area 10 km/6 mi in diameter), thus (unless you want your planets to be decimated by excessive electromagnetic forces) your planets (since neutron stars form from the death of massive stars) are already considerably farther away from it than Earth is from the Sun; or, if you have a brown dwarf, it will likely be orbiting at an extreme inclination with a highly eccentric orbital period around a central star. Either way, you're actually looking at increasing your distance to your "new resources", only further making FTL a probably necessity.

Also, one must take into consideration that neutron stars are formed by Type II, Type Ib, or Type Ic supernovae, likely complicating things. If you want the neutron star as the dominant stellar body, that would mean at some point your solar system was likely washed in stellar death, likely killing everything in its wake - not to mention stripping atmospheres like the husk of an orange. That makes intelligent life surviving there exceptionally difficult. It can be done, yes, but it takes some clever working - especially if they lack the capability to flee (FTL) and then return once the supernova's initial waves and death have gone by, allowing the planet (now lacking much, if any, of its atmosphere) to cool and become an iceball.

That being said, if you're using something like a "Space Warp" or some other... hand-wavey-ness, then you're best just, well, using hand-wavey-ness.

Hope that helps.

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Without condoning either side of this argument, I would advise that this be taken elsewhere. Either to the FT Argument Thread (which exists specifically for this purpose), or to one of the available IRC channels. At this point, this is not contributing to the purpose of this thread, and has devolved into differing perspectives on the basis of the morality and ethical use of certain weapons systems - not the advisement as to their use or construction (as this is this threads purpose), but as to the over-arching philosophies in regards to that use.

That is beyond the purview of this thread. You are free to discuss the ethics and morality insofar as it is understood that it is within the realm of In-Character actions. To me, certain members of this argument appear to be discussing things based not upon how one might understand said concepts in an In-Character fashion based upon their Out-of-Character grasp of the fictitious world, but are discussing things based purely upon their own Out-of-Character ethical perspective. Again, as Santh and others have stated, such is beyond the purview of this thread.

Thank you.

Likewise, your ungrammatical constructions.

On the other hand, I use a fan-based FTL drive, though the necessity of personal presence in a given locale is greatly decreased already.

Given your repeated desire to go off-topic through the discussion of your real world philosophical position, as opposed to your perspective for advice or assistance in regards to the fictitious world of NationStates Future Technology, in addition to the above post, I am officially requesting you either depart this thread, or immediately return to the topic as stipulated by my initial request and the original post of this thread.

Thank you, Themiclesia.

[StellarGate]

So..... how 'bout that space weather?

What king of FTL drives does everyone use?

Space Russia uses Etherway Drives, which are somewhat like Warhammer 40k's Webway, only not.

The Etherway is a huge network of tubelike structures in a dimension where light speed is roughly 600mph, allowing for rapid relativistic travel with conventional drives. It's also inhabited by a variety of monstrously tentacled things.

Unlike, for instance, Hyperspace, entry and exit points within the Etherway don't nessecarily correspond to points within realspace. Traveling a relatively short distance within the Etherway may send you to another galaxy, while it may be necessary to go quite a long way to get to a neighboring system.

And that's why the Russian Empire has its colonies scattered randomly all over the galaxy.

It's also necessary to keep detailed and accurate maps of the Etherway to avoid getting lost, because wandering an eternal labyrinth of endless tubes is not a fun way to go out.

Why do I not see any mention of Space Coal^tm? Or is that just for powering your ships in normal space?

As for my form of FTL, hyperspace from the Honorverse series, except I can go faster and stuff.

[OMGeverynameistaken]

Space Russia uses Etherway Drives, which are somewhat like Warhammer 40k's Webway, only not.

The Etherway is a huge network of tubelike structures in a dimension where light speed is roughly 600mph, allowing for rapid relativistic travel with conventional drives. It's also inhabited by a variety of monstrously tentacled things.

Unlike, for instance, Hyperspace, entry and exit points within the Etherway don't nessecarily correspond to points within realspace. Traveling a relatively short distance within the Etherway may send you to another galaxy, while it may be necessary to go quite a long way to get to a neighboring system.

And that's why the Russian Empire has its colonies scattered randomly all over the galaxy.

It's also necessary to keep detailed and accurate maps of the Etherway to avoid getting lost, because wandering an eternal labyrinth of endless tubes is not a fun way to go out.

Why do I not see any mention of Space Coal^tm? Or is that just for powering your ships in normal space?

As for my form of FTL, hyperspace from the Honorverse series, except I can go faster and stuff.

Space coal provides thrust for the conventional drives and powers the ships in general.

[The Fedral Union]

So..... how 'bout that space weather?

What kind of FTL drives does everyone use?

My version of Hyper Drive. Its based of the cultures Hyper Drive a bit. And its .. Extremely fast.

[Heliocalypse]

So..... how 'bout that space weather?

What kind of FTL drives does everyone use?

Pick one from the list

A little project of mine to make a dynamic federation though there are alot more things needed to be done.

[Imperial and Federal Union of States]

So..... how 'bout that space weather?

What kind of FTL drives does everyone use?

The Imperial and Federal Union of States utilises two different forms of FTL travel, each of which is more suited to a specific context.

The primary form of FTL travel is transition drive, similar in most aspects to 'hyperspace', transition drive causes the vessel using it to enter an alternate dimension where FTL travel, without the impacts of time dilation or other such aspects of relativity do not apply. While it is the most common, transition drive has the drawback of requiring an extremely large 'start up' cost, as entering the dimension of transition space requires a large amount of power that only larger vessels can generate. However, in order to counteract this, for the sake of allowing more efficient interstellar commerce, the Imperial and Federal Union has constructed a series of transition lanes across its territory. These lanes are tied to gates, orbital structures which allow a vessel to enter the transition lane without the usual power demands of entering on its own. These lanes are generally used by civilian traffic, as an attempt to save on costs of merchantmen by avoiding the need for extremely large and expensive reactors.

The secondary form of FTL travel is warp drive, identical in most aspects to the warp drive of other societies. Warp travel is considerably slower than transition travel, and in many cases is considered less efficient over long distances as travel within a transition lane or space requires relatively little energy expenditure, the large start up costs are diffused across the entire journey, whereas warp drive requires constant expenditures of energy to keep the warp field active. However, warp drive does not have the massive start up costs of transition drive, and thus can be mounted on much smaller vessels. Warp drive is commonly utilised on both Navy small craft, and the strategic bombers of the Aerospace Troops, as it enables small craft to travel to a combat action at FTL speeds from a home base or carrier that can remain safely out of potential engagement range.

[The Legion of War]

The Legion of War uses slipspace from Halo pretty much.

[New Lyrane]

The FTL drive of Lyranian starships is called the Ruvosañe drive. It's vaguely based on the Jump drive used in the Traveller role playing games.

The Ruvosañe drive is very versatile because you can Jump between any two points in the universe. Provided they are not within the gravity well of any sizable body (1,000 radius distance is far enough). And they are no more than about ten parsecs from each other. The Jump itself is essentially instantaneous, but you must charge up the Jump engines first. It also takes a while after a Jump before you can Jump again.

[Themiclesia]

On the other hand, my FTL drive is based on a parallel with the hypothetical sublimation of sorts of gravitons from the usual three-dimensional space. The gravity signature of the item to be transported will be analyzed, and the particles that constitute the item will undergo a similar transformation, from hadrons into bosons; the gravity signature will be transmitted via additional gravity waves to the destination, and the particles will be re-quantized according to the gravity signature given off in the first place. The physical speed of the transfer of the bosons can theoretically reach infinity, but the time taken to analyze the gravitational signature is the main delay, so that none might suggest that I am actually teleporting my items.

The precise gravitational signature is captured by a high-precision camera, with resolution down to the atomic level, so as to enable the bosons to re-appear at the right places with what I call 3-d printing, with the original particles re-quantized.

As suggested, this method is not fit for human or animal transport, because it is overly risky and can endanger human life; while there is no known failure of this system, this risk is one which my government is unwilling to undertake. For humans, an alternate method is used, not involving transformation of particles into energy beams. The human is placed into a stasis casket, which via unknown forces will maintain time moving at a slow speed in the immediate exterior.

[OMGeverynameistaken]

On the other hand, my FTL drive is based on a parallel with the hypothetical sublimation of sorts of gravitons from the usual three-dimensional space. The gravity signature of the item to be transported will be analyzed, and the particles that constitute the item will undergo a similar transformation, from hadrons into bosons; the gravity signature will be transmitted via additional gravity waves to the destination, and the particles will be re-quantized according to the gravity signature given off in the first place. The physical speed of the transfer of the bosons can theoretically reach infinity, but the time taken to analyze the gravitational signature is the main delay, so that none might suggest that I am actually teleporting my items.

The precise gravitational signature is captured by a high-precision camera, with resolution down to the atomic level, so as to enable the bosons to re-appear at the right places with what I call 3-d printing, with the original particles re-quantized.

As suggested, this method is not fit for human or animal transport, because it is overly risky and can endanger human life; while there is no known failure of this system, this risk is one which my government is unwilling to undertake. For humans, an alternate method is used, not involving transformation of particles into energy beams. The human is placed into a stasis casket, which via unknown forces will maintain time moving at a slow speed in the immediate exterior.

But what if your secondary gyrodine flux modifiers encounter a quantum inversion field and become depolarized?

[Thrashia]

On the other hand, my FTL drive is based on a parallel with the hypothetical sublimation of sorts of gravitons from the usual three-dimensional space. The gravity signature of the item to be transported will be analyzed, and the particles that constitute the item will undergo a similar transformation, from hadrons into bosons; the gravity signature will be transmitted via additional gravity waves to the destination, and the particles will be re-quantized according to the gravity signature given off in the first place. The physical speed of the transfer of the bosons can theoretically reach infinity, but the time taken to analyze the gravitational signature is the main delay, so that none might suggest that I am actually teleporting my items.

The precise gravitational signature is captured by a high-precision camera, with resolution down to the atomic level, so as to enable the bosons to re-appear at the right places with what I call 3-d printing, with the original particles re-quantized.

As suggested, this method is not fit for human or animal transport, because it is overly risky and can endanger human life; while there is no known failure of this system, this risk is one which my government is unwilling to undertake. For humans, an alternate method is used, not involving transformation of particles into energy beams. The human is placed into a stasis casket, which via unknown forces will maintain time moving at a slow speed in the immediate exterior.

But what if your secondary gyrodine flux modifiers encounter a quantum inversion field and become depolarized?

Darn...that was going to be my question.

[Themiclesia]

On the other hand, my FTL drive is based on a parallel with the hypothetical sublimation of sorts of gravitons from the usual three-dimensional space. The gravity signature of the item to be transported will be analyzed, and the particles that constitute the item will undergo a similar transformation, from hadrons into bosons; the gravity signature will be transmitted via additional gravity waves to the destination, and the particles will be re-quantized according to the gravity signature given off in the first place. The physical speed of the transfer of the bosons can theoretically reach infinity, but the time taken to analyze the gravitational signature is the main delay, so that none might suggest that I am actually teleporting my items.

The precise gravitational signature is captured by a high-precision camera, with resolution down to the atomic level, so as to enable the bosons to re-appear at the right places with what I call 3-d printing, with the original particles re-quantized.

As suggested, this method is not fit for human or animal transport, because it is overly risky and can endanger human life; while there is no known failure of this system, this risk is one which my government is unwilling to undertake. For humans, an alternate method is used, not involving transformation of particles into energy beams. The human is placed into a stasis casket, which via unknown forces will maintain time moving at a slow speed in the immediate exterior.

But what if your secondary gyrodine flux modifiers encounter a quantum inversion field and become depolarized?

Then there's a circuit breaker that stops the thing going *poof*.

[OMGeverynameistaken]

But what if your secondary gyrodine flux modifiers encounter a quantum inversion field and become depolarized?

Darn...that was going to be my question.

Obviously he has to isolate the ionic helical spin network from the quark-gluon interface array, but you can only do that with a metaphysical impingement of hypergolic string attachments.

And that would just be silly.

[Themiclesia]

Darn...that was going to be my question.

Obviously he has to isolate the ionic helical spin network from the quark-gluon interface array, but you can only do that with a metaphysical impingement of hypergolic string attachments.

And that would just be silly.

Ι think we need to discuss something here -- I'm only a first-year in physics... who dropped the course. Since it's the consensus of the thread that any type of FTL requires some form of acknowledgement and permission, it's my way of doing it.

This system is not without fail, and it is not instantaneous, exactly as you have suggested.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Obviously he has to isolate the ionic helical spin network from the quark-gluon interface array, but you can only do that with a metaphysical impingement of hypergolic string attachments.

And that would just be silly.

Ι think we need to discuss something here -- I'm only a first-year in physics... who dropped the course. Since it's the consensus of the thread that any type of FTL requires some form of acknowledgement and permission, it's my way of doing it.

This system is not without fail, and it is not instantaneous, exactly as you have suggested.

Even a first-year physics student who dropped should know that using standing gravity waves as a traversal space-time modulator risks random-walk displacement due to constructive interference from the background radiation of the Great Magellanic Cloud in the normal operating space of superluminal transit operations, potentially causing inter-iris diffraction about the transpolar membrane of your normal magnetic flux-re-composition mechanism necessary for the re-quantititzation process, despite the potential baffle reduction most spacefaring civilizations would find necessary to minimize the Higgs effective couplings and instantaneous protonic decay. Even description via electron crystallography lacks the threshold bandwidth to accurately describe the quantum wave-motion of the high-energy bosons found in your theory, and as such the boson apparition would be more akin to a Planck variable than any true material form, due to the interactions of Wien's law with the substrata of the q-foam the gravity waves would pass through. Essentially, your theory fails to account for inherent circumspect wavelength of internodal electromagnetic radiation, which would interfere destructively with the position vectors of your transmitted object, causing a likely catastrophic random remolecularization of the data mid-longitudinal packet.

[Thrashia]

My FTL was designed by George Lucas...nuff' said really.

[Themiclesia]

Ι think we need to discuss something here -- I'm only a first-year in physics... who dropped the course. Since it's the consensus of the thread that any type of FTL requires some form of acknowledgement and permission, it's my way of doing it.

This system is not without fail, and it is not instantaneous, exactly as you have suggested.

Even a first-year physics student who dropped should know that using standing gravity waves as a traversal space-time modulator risks random-walk displacement due to constructive interference from the background radiation of the Great Magellanic Cloud in the normal operating space of superluminal transit operations, potentially causing inter-iris diffraction about the transpolar membrane of your normal magnetic flux-re-composition mechanism necessary for the re-quantititzation process, despite the potential baffle reduction most spacefaring civilizations would find necessary to minimize the Higgs effective couplings and instantaneous protonic decay. Even description via electron crystallography lacks the threshold bandwidth to accurately describe the quantum wave-motion of the high-energy bosons found in your theory, and as such the boson apparition would be more akin to a Planck variable than any true material form, due to the interactions of Wien's law with the substrata of the q-foam the gravity waves would pass through. Essentially, your theory fails to account for inherent circumspect wavelength of internodal electromagnetic radiation, which would interfere destructively with the position vectors of your transmitted object, causing a likely catastrophic random remolecularization of the data mid-longitudinal packet.

Thank you, and I shall redraft my FTL with your articulate suggestions in mind.

[Santheres]

Fun as all this technobabble is, let's remember the actual topic of the thread. Quick, before Kyrusia awakens. As it is, he stirs in his slumber.

Themis: I think you overthought your FTL. From the sound of it, you launch little person-missiles in what for all intents and purposes is FTL, and then 3D print a ship around them when they reach their destination so that they can crew it. This is probably one of the more ridiculous things I've ever heard. There's nothing wrong with just "going really really fast."

[G-Tech Corporation]

Even a first-year physics student who dropped should know that using standing gravity waves as a traversal space-time modulator risks random-walk displacement due to constructive interference from the background radiation of the Great Magellanic Cloud in the normal operating space of superluminal transit operations, potentially causing inter-iris diffraction about the transpolar membrane of your normal magnetic flux-re-composition mechanism necessary for the re-quantititzation process, despite the potential baffle reduction most spacefaring civilizations would find necessary to minimize the Higgs effective couplings and instantaneous protonic decay. Even description via electron crystallography lacks the threshold bandwidth to accurately describe the quantum wave-motion of the high-energy bosons found in your theory, and as such the boson apparition would be more akin to a Planck variable than any true material form, due to the interactions of Wien's law with the substrata of the q-foam the gravity waves would pass through. Essentially, your theory fails to account for inherent circumspect wavelength of internodal electromagnetic radiation, which would interfere destructively with the position vectors of your transmitted object, causing a likely catastrophic random remolecularization of the data mid-longitudinal packet.

Thank you, and I shall redraft my FTL with your articulate suggestions in mind.

Seriously though, the difficulties I see for your idea are three:

Accurately measuring the gravitational signature of your object to be transmitted perfectly will be all but possible, as your measuring device by necessity will interact with that signature. Thus, the transmitted datum will have a certain amount of error, which is a problem when that error is in a precise part. If you send bulk alloys or materials then do the detail assembly work on site, that might be more feasible.

Furthermore, transmission via gravitic sublimation sounds to me like any passage through existing gravitational fields or fluctuations would lead to information corruption. Even if you avoid major gravity wells, even interstellar dust and comets would cause disruption. Minimizing your transmission range would minimize corruption, but it would still be a concern you have to account for.

Finally, your rematerialization process sounds like a non-spontaneous process. Would you ship a reassembly device via STL means to your destination first? That seems like it would be necessary to me.

[-The Unified Earth Governments-]

I was wondering, would there be any notable dangers to coils in hot and cold environments, because I was wondering if those could be used as some sort of set back or something for my guns, maybe to make people think about how they use their weapons or something.

I'm not sure about it though.

[Thrashia]

I was wondering, would there be any notable dangers to coils in hot and cold environments, because I was wondering if those could be used as some sort of set back or something for my guns, maybe to make people think about how they use their weapons or something.

I'm not sure about it though.

Not especially except for normal wear and tear expected to be found on any weapon in hazardous environments. However high heat might cause the coils to warp or change shape slightly -- but that should only be expected in very rare and singular cases since most often your guns will have the vital guts of the gun protected and covered from such extreme punishments.

[-The Unified Earth Governments-]

How well would Gravity based weapons be?

[Denne-Dotenburg]

So, ehm. Hello everyone! I'm, like, a complete noob to FT and the entire FT scene, but I'd like to get involved. One of the few ideas I had was a nation that was loosely based around and inspired by the combine, instead of being these Synth beings, comprised of a plethora of different species into one big standing 'Army' of sorts, it'd be a single species who, like the combine, have an Empire that spans over several species of the universe, but not to the extent that it does within that of Half-Life.

[StellarGate]

So, ehm. Hello everyone! I'm, like, a complete noob to FT and the entire FT scene, but I'd like to get involved. One of the few ideas I had was a nation that was loosely based around and inspired by the combine, instead of being these Synth beings, comprised of a plethora of different species into one big standing 'Army' of sorts, it'd be a single species who, like the combine, have an Empire that spans over several species of the universe, but not to the extent that it does within that of Half-Life.

First Welcome to NSFT! Glad to see new players that don't go nuking everything in sight.

I am no expert with Half-Life and its Combine, but I do know its a multidimensional empire of consisting of various synthetic, human and alien elements.

Considering the last part of your post, I'm assuming your not going to claim 50 different dimensions. Which is good.

Though the controlling part really depends on how you play it. In NSFT there are many nations who base their tech/nations of other games/books/movies/etc so you cane find elites, Klingons, and other well known aliens if you look hard enough, but claiming to control 'several races/species' seems like something you'd have to work into your history and make up your own races until you convince someone to give up their own.(which is unlikely.) How do they control them? Are they like a Hive-Mind? Implants in their brains? brainbugs?

And start small. You don't need to start out with 50 planets and 10 races under your control to have a good story. I started out with exactly 1 planet, quite a few others have as well. Take a gander at this post, sure it doesn't answer all your problems, but it gives you a good outline on what NSFT can be like at times.