Beta and Higher Notice for 03/27/2020
Added 2020-03-28 01:41:01 +0000 UTCENGINE LIST 2
added new section COLLOID CORE NUCLEAR ENGINE
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist2.php#collcore
ROCKETCAT'S UNIVERSE
added a GALLERY OF SHIPS
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/approcketcatu.php#capedreadships
PRELIMINARY NOTES
added new section INCLUDING SCIENCE FICTION
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/prelimnotes.php#greatunknown
INTERSTELLAR TRADE
added to Goods a quote TRAMP FREIGHTER
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/stellartrade.php#tramp
SETTLEMENT
added to Motives For Colonization a quote from BACKDROP TO CHAOS
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/stellarcolony.php#chaos
INTERSTELLAR EMPIRE
added to Empires In Collision a quote from THE GAME OF EMPIRE
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/stellarempire.php#notwar
FUTURE LANGUAGE
expanded the section THE MICRONAUTS
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/futurelang.php#micronauts
TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY 2
added to Rejuvination a quote YOUTH SPELL
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/scisociety2.php#yspell
added to Immortality a quote from THE DEMON BREED
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/scisociety2.php#dbreedimort
SPACE RESCUE
added to Intro a quote THE GREAT GALACTIC GHOUL
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/rescue.php#ghoul
ALIEN BODIES
added a new section ALIEN SENSES
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/alienbody.php#asense
HIGH-TECH ALIENS
added to Forerunners a quote from THE GAME OF EMPIRE
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/alientech.php#foredwell
FASTER THAN LIGHT 1
added to The Fourth Dimension a comic THE FINGER
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/fasterlight.php#4dfinger
added to Trouble With Stardrives an image from CAPTAIN VICTORY
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/fasterlight.php#capvict
Comments
Agreed. Servoris was more or less saying that if an author insists on hammering the square peg of a tramp freighter into the round hole of a post scarcity civilization, here is one way the fragments will look like.
Nyrath
2020-03-28 18:19:49 +0000 UTCThat bit on Tramp Freighters by Sevoris Doe does have some assumptions. The biggest is that "Post Scarcity" civilizations are even possible. And if they are, well, to paraphrase Captain Kirk: "Why do you need a starship?" If you can build things quickly, atom by atom, and make whatever, then you're at least a Kardashev II civilization, bordering on KIII. I made my opinion about Tramp Freighters over in the thread of the MeWe group, but I didn't want to talk about the basic assumption of fabbers and the like. If you want characters in your fiction/RPG that people can relate to, then don't use the magic dust (nanomachines) or the magical cornucopias (replicators) in your setting. You'd end up with the Roddenberry Paradox of having a setting that is as alien as any really alien world could be. I don't believe in the "Singularity", instead I believe in the "S-Curve". We're grabbing all the low hanging fruit right now, and it's going to level out sometime in the future. It will be more advanced, but until we can even pretend to be a Kardashev I civilization, we're not going to have any magic tech to spread around.
John
2020-03-28 17:51:23 +0000 UTC
