Hum, so hum, okay. So how many civilizations would even take the effort to build a "Solid" Sphere, versus a disperse one, or just a ring world or like? True, how would you write one up for a gaming or just a book idea?
I know in my world idea, the whole act of building the sphere took the energy of a major part of the Empire that built it, and in the process they fell, in major part cause of the massive ego of the builders in even building the sphere.. That cause of time/space dialation, that you still find people from distant parts of the empire showing up, and finding out the empire collapsed centuries ago, but they are back home, still going and thriving.. News takes a long time to get from one end of a Galaxy, let alone a universe and across several dimensions. Not paratime dimensions but seperate ones? Much like how the Space Vikings, going back to Terra to find the enemy that their ancestors fled in the war they fought, has now fallen, and now what? How much of the Piper universe is the bases for the later traveller universe has long been a debate, same with the Battle Tech and others.. Not that Piper was not the only one writing about such things as Drop Ships and more As well as hidden agencies that causes chaos to keep things new and revitalized, shades of the Illuminati and such.. Didn't Asimov also have some odd comments about how things can be manipulated to seem to be chaos, but it is not that chaotic.. Seen it myself in real life, but I also do some pizza delivery at times, and odd how somethings happen, at odd times and it seems to be random, other than they fact certain things seem to happen the same way or close to the same each time. Example, leaving town heading home, there is a an off ramp, and I can leave going 55, 65 and not have a another car on the road the whole way out at 3am, but when I get to that off ramp, there is someone in the way as I get to that off-ramp, happens quite often..Maybe other factors in play but .. Alternate, what uses for a Sphere would there be, other than to live on/in the parts? Energy collection for sure. Especially of a dim home star, energy collection for living or for some machine? Aka Voyagers array? or Babyloon 5, or giant artificial array radio telescope or super weapon or what? Bug catapult or .. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Clunie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 4:05 AM Subject: Re: [world-create] Re: Dyson Spheres or Defense Network > > > Even a civilisation that can build a Dyson sphere can't make the > energy output of their sun disappear into nothing. The energy would > have to radiate somehow after they used it, probably as heat - a lot > of infrared radiation with strange and obviously artificial > characteristics, coming from a place that emits no visible light. This > was Dyson's theory, anyhow - he wanted to try to detect these objects > as proof of extra-solar civilisations. > > Jim C > > _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
