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That Honorverse space dock is almost a god mode addition, 'Wandering Engineer' or Dakah verses would be daunting. Perhaps the 5th or 6th order tech from the later E E "Doc" Smith 'Skylark' books, Seaton tech?
As a hard sci-fi, engineering and architecture fan who avidly watches NASA conferences and conventions, I'd like to point out that if you had a shipyard in space, bigger ships just make sense because you're not dealing with the strains of gravity and atmospheric flight. Yes, the 5 kilometers long luna class cruiser from WH40K is actually a perfectly reasonable ship to build when you have space shipyards.
Just saying, I'm gonna be very dissatisfied if the ships to come from Taylor's space shipyard are smaller than 3km.
Just saying, I'm gonna be very dissatisfied if the ships to come from Taylor's space shipyard are smaller than 3km.
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Full-on Macross SDF-1 (1982) would be fun... A capital ship big enough to have a (massive) transplanted Earth city in it... Worth mentioning? Yes, this starship is a full-on Transformer.
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absolutely. To be honest, truly large cargo ships will basically just be big trucks dragging dozens of enormous containers.
Space trucker will be a thing.
Big rigs, in Spaaaaaaaaaace!!
View: https://youtu.be/V4ddnrBT6hE?si=fxdPFCzG9UxB-i1u
Space trucker will be a thing.
Big rigs, in Spaaaaaaaaaace!!
View: https://youtu.be/V4ddnrBT6hE?si=fxdPFCzG9UxB-i1u
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How about warframe. As that is mostly limited to the solar system.
Edit: damn autocorrect
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How about Dune tech. I'm sure all Taylor's other AI related perks will prevent the whole "AI takes over the world and enslaves humans" bit. And their FTL requires Spice, so it doesn't grant her that ability.
If she doesn't have it already, Star Trek tech would be dead useful as well, for the replicators if nothing else.
Stargate Ancient/Altaran/Atlantean (they're all the same people) or Asgardian tech would be cool too.
If she doesn't have it already, Star Trek tech would be dead useful as well, for the replicators if nothing else.
Stargate Ancient/Altaran/Atlantean (they're all the same people) or Asgardian tech would be cool too.
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You and me both. Loved the series and cringed at Galactica 1980. Tried to get into the newer version, but it got way too soap opera for me. And the way things were going with the Cylons, I was honestly expecting to find by the end of the series that literally no one in the entire convoy was an actual human, and that they were ALL Cylons.
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Their FTL navigation requires Spice (melange), for the precog. The actual drives, not so much, ISTR. Taylor likely has FTL sensors which would get around the issue?
And the only reason they require spice is because they don't have the computers to do the calculations needed fast enough.
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One reason they were anti-AI in Dune was a lot of the thoughtful writers of the time were looking at the future, and tryng to figure-out why the stories they wanted to tell weren't trashed by AI, and later biotech. Nanotech (MNT) was added to create the 'terrible trio', later (mostly after Drexler, etc.).
Notable Niven's 'Known Space' also handled this (AI/AGI) issue.
Of course, you are entirely allowed to disagree with this PoV. YMMV. Etc, etc.
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Being a bit of a fan of robots, the anti-AI bias of BGC (original and later) did annoy, a bit. Still some fun stuff, watchable on VHS tape/DVD, if you were lucky/looked in the right places. The robot dog (daggit?) was fun...
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Here ya go, Kryslin's Scaling Up - where Tiamat & Bahamut decide Earth needs more magic when Taylor calls for help while in the locker.
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Even a Superdreadnought from "On Basilisk Station" is a massive (pardon the pun) leap forward in capabilities for both transport and combat.
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Or, to quote from the first page:
That pretty much sets the tone for the story.
First couple of arcs are kinda rough, then I got an editor and found a decent pace.
Hope you enjoy it.
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Really, to me, the anti-AI and anti-nanotech and anti-robot thing came about from a fear of The Other. It was a bit of conservatism sneaking into science fiction. "Can we trust this new technology we're thinking about? I know how crappy humans are, so no, we can't."
Mind you, the above is purely my opinion.
Mind you, the above is purely my opinion.
That's going to terrify some people.
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I'd agree with you. Same reason humanoid lizards are popular 'bad guys', they are not 'Us' enough, in the 'Us'/'Them' divide.
Unfortunately, that tendency comes free with being a homo sap, and with tribal-sized (Dunbar's Number) limits to civilization, and the backing of evolution for quick decision making, is one of the pains that needs to be socialised-out (that's the 'human-ing the children' bit, BTW, not the politics
).Pity looks like homo saps have painted themselves into several corners, where all the smarts (and wisdom) that can be applied are needed?
IMO? Yes, that means AI/AGI, that can friendly-interact with all the homo sap strange legacy reality-wranglings.
(We're going to need the (MNT) nanotech, and the biotech, as well, IMO.)
More robots/bioroids/??? (Bar-Bees?) Funny that.
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KC0IVQ, that statement is very funny because of the below question:
The original Jumpchain Item that Nimodes rolled included a disclaimer hidden in the Item text that The Shipyard can make Asgerds. Which for those unfortunate enough to not have read David Weber's Dahak series (seriously go read those, good trilogy) are described as Battle Moons, and one was hidden for 40-50 ish thousand years as the Moon. Yes, the big grey thing that is usually somewhere in the night sky. I really want to say that an Asgerd-class Planetoid is approx. 90% the diameter of Luna, but my copies of the Dahak books are boxed up and I can't get to them easily. So, Sesparra, unless Nimodes seriously nerfs the Shipyard, it can build much larger than the size of any known Forerunner ship.
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You know, if someone wanted to be sneaky then the lost Luna in 'Space 1999' could be a Battle Moon, which might explain the FTL movement, as long as a SEP field stopped the Moon Base staff thinking about things too hard?
A SEP field might explain why no Lunar probes/landings got suspicious? Also, in this scenario the ship AI is 'dreaming', as nothing has properly awoke it...
What happened to the previous Luna? Shoved into subspace to get it out of the way? (Go looking, there's evidence Earth's had Luna for a lot longer than 50kyrs. Unless, you're going for the 'Luna is regularly replaced' theory???)
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It got thrown into the sun so they could conceal the Dahak (the battlemoon) as our moon against cursory inspection by alien invasions. Their mission was effectively to be a long term picket line.
Notably they don't explain what they are going to do when they leave. In the books they left behind a gravity well generator to fix the tides (nothing is mentioned about the importance of moonlight) but it is not explained whether they intended to do this after a normal mission. And you would think strewing gravity generators around the region would inform any intruders to watch out for disappearing moons. Frankly they should have put in elsewhere in the solar system but the premise is what if the moon is an alien spaceship.
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Huh, wild
It has been many years since I have read that series. So some of the details (like the ship class name of the Dahak) have been lost to time in my memories. And I haven't read any jumpchain docs so I had no clue about that little disclaimer. That doesn't stop the fact that the series had some seriously advance tech. Not to mention some very extremely seriously scary tech. (A bioweapon that targets all life more advanced that a virus in complexitiy? SCARY AS F$%&!!!!!!!!)
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Dahak-class Battle Moon starships, going out hunting down Entities, by-and-by, does have a certain appeal...
(Yeah, the ships having long-range relay tech to shards left behind, based on parallel Earths, so parahumans can be aboard, does also sound attractive...)
(Yeah, the ships having long-range relay tech to shards left behind, based on parallel Earths, so parahumans can be aboard, does also sound attractive...)