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Beta and Higher Notice for 03/27/2020

ENGINE 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 



Beta and Higher Notice for 03/27/2020

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

That 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


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