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Kathol rift wrote:I gave up on logic in the sci-fi story I’m trying to write, at least for space travel. We now have travel faster than 400 times the speed of light, and wormhole highways for instant transportation across the galaxy.

I did balance it a bit by making it so that faster-than-light travel would tear an engine from its housing unless the housing was made out of a certain rare metal, which is wildly expensive, but I still threw logic out the window for the travel itself.

Strala and Bunnies

Result after the extension !

Euralys 4-6 The-paradise

The-Paradise started attacking and in a corner the central defender of The-Paradise scored a goal, Then a Euralys goalkeeper's do a penalty that was scored by the captain of the-Paradise, In the 120th minute Van Degrace scored a goal that was useless, and he exclaimed to the camera: "Euralys, have mercy on us, We did what we could, Don't do anything to us, Please, We have given everything for our people, Please, Have mercy on us, Don't run away from the country, I will return to Euralys, please, rate our effort"

Euralys

The Municipalities of Antarctica wrote:(I gotta go-)
Well, we're sure you can come up with something viable for you, predator does seem a bit too bland though... perhaps some research on deep-sea creatures would serve well, as it should have a more unique name befitting of it's danger and purpose.

(See ya later)
I’ll do some research, and we’ll see.

We are pressing into service the Headhunter: An underwater missile-torpedo that travels at 291 knots and is effective at destroying submarines

Elixandropolis wrote:Result after the extension !

Euralys 4-6 The-paradise

The-Paradise started attacking and in a corner the central defender of The-Paradise scored a goal, Then a Euralys goalkeeper's do a penalty that was scored by the captain of the-Paradise, In the 120th minute Van Degrace scored a goal that was useless, and he exclaimed to the camera: "Euralys, have mercy on us, We did what we could, Don't do anything to us, Please, We have given everything for our people, Please, Have mercy on us, Don't run away from the country, I will return to Euralys, please, rate our effort"

Press release of the General People's Ministry:

Due to their defeat, it was decided that our football team was guilty of high treason, despite the fact that it was formed with baseball players who were totally amateur as far as football was concerned.

But due to the good mood of the Generalissimo, only half of the team will be tried next week.

Moreover, following his attempt to equalize at the end, the player Van Degrace is acquitted.

Elixandropolis and Salsacia

Kathol rift wrote:I gave up on logic in the sci-fi story I’m trying to write, at least for space travel. We now have travel faster than 400 times the speed of light, and wormhole highways for instant transportation across the galaxy.

Oh that, I handwaved that a long time ago. There's two modes of superluminal travel:

    1): an ancient network of hyperspace gates that link to a subspace tunnel network that links to every single star in the Milky Way galaxy and to a quadrillion more locations with no stars in them because this is a Milky Way galaxy reduced down to one Galactic arm due to... an accident of invasion. Oh, yeah, they can be reverse-engineered, but it's difficult to do.

    1a); Also know what's rad? You can potentially use these gates to fire literal Death Star-blasts at planets using the gate-network, so hook up a gate to a Dyson sphere designed to weaponize solar output and wherever your gate network extends you have unlimited control over the galaxy.

    2): ships that can use the aforementioned subspace network to travel by themselves, usually a lot less precise than if using a gate, but can take weeks to months. The power requirements are so large that fleets have to use carrier ships to go anywhere and justifies using the naval analogue and, of course, fighter ships for other reason.

    3): intergalactic travel is basically impossible because these subspace tunnels do not extend that far out by themselves so you're stuck at ordinary relativistic speeds.

Strala wrote:And the size. Also probably the number of bombers, fighters, and assault craft. I also got rid of torpedoes since I was lazy, Oh I also got rid of warp drive

So, basically, you have the equivalent of Xyston-class Star Destroyers -- everything scaled up, so you have bridge windows that look cathedral sized and cavernous rooms that are not supposed to be cavernous. Which, arguably, fits the Imperium... but wow.

Strala, Kathol rift, and Bunnies

Cohuila Y Tejas wrote:We are pressing into service the Headhunter: An underwater missile-torpedo that travels at 91 knots and is effective at destroying submarines

Va-111 Shkval: О, как мило.

Jar Wattinree wrote:Oh that, I handwaved that a long time ago. There's two modes of superluminal travel:
    1): an ancient network of hyperspace gates that link to a subspace tunnel network that links to every single star in the Milky Way galaxy and to a quadrillion more locations with no stars in them because this is a Milky Way galaxy reduced down to one Galactic arm due to... an accident of invasion. Oh, yeah, they can be reverse-engineered, but it's difficult to do.

    1a); Also know what's rad? You can potentially use these gates to fire literal Death Star-blasts at planets using the gate-network, so hook up a gate to a Dyson sphere designed to weaponize solar output and wherever your gate network extends you have unlimited control over the galaxy.

    2): ships that can use the aforementioned subspace network to travel by themselves, usually a lot less precise than if using a gate, but can take weeks to months. The power requirements are so large that fleets have to use carrier ships to go anywhere and justifies using the naval analogue and, of course, fighter ships for other reason.

    3): intergalactic travel is basically impossible because these subspace tunnels do not extend that far out by themselves so you're stuck at ordinary relativistic speeds.

So, basically, you have the equivalent of Xyston-class Star Destroyers -- everything scaled up, so you have bridge windows that look cathedral sized and cavernous rooms that are not supposed to be cavernous. Which, arguably, fits the Imperium... but wow.

I guess, so is that a good or bad wow? Personally I felt like the Warhammer 40k ships, especially the capital ships were far too small.

Mestovakia wrote:Va-111 Shkval: О, как мило.

I actually based it off of the Shkval

Cohuila Y Tejas wrote:I actually based it off of the Shkval

Except slower.

In the Council's Chamber...

Krysune: The Shigu economy relies on trade for income. You can't just declare a closed economy!

Anix: If we keep an open economy, there are chances that we will rely on foreign exports! And we know that will make us look weak to the world.

Lyra: Krysune is right. Besides, where could we get our medicines from?

Anix: Well we could always make our own!

Rotho: You are correct, Anix.

Krysune: Hold on just a minute! Rotho, think about the funding of the science department!

Rotho: A smarter populous does not correlate to better funding Krysune. It matters of how the educators teach the youth.

Anix: You're not wrong...

Kathol rift and Bunnies

Strala wrote:I guess, so is that a good or bad wow? Personally I felt like the Warhammer 40k ships, especially the capital ships were far too small.

It's a neutral wow considering how ridiculous WH40K ships are in general.

Mestovakia wrote:Except slower.

Oops I was looking at the launch speed

Jar Wattinree wrote:It's a neutral wow considering how ridiculous WH40K ships are in general.

Oh, thank goodness. I mean I'll take a neutral over bad any day.

Jar Wattinree wrote:It's a neutral wow considering how ridiculous WH40K ships are in general.

Imperium: Cease that heresy, Guardsman.

Jar Wattinree wrote:Oh that, I handwaved that a long time ago. There's two modes of superluminal travel:
    1): an ancient network of hyperspace gates that link to a subspace tunnel network that links to every single star in the Milky Way galaxy and to a quadrillion more locations with no stars in them because this is a Milky Way galaxy reduced down to one Galactic arm due to... an accident of invasion. Oh, yeah, they can be reverse-engineered, but it's difficult to do.

    1a); Also know what's rad? You can potentially use these gates to fire literal Death Star-blasts at planets using the gate-network, so hook up a gate to a Dyson sphere designed to weaponize solar output and wherever your gate network extends you have unlimited control over the galaxy.

    2): ships that can use the aforementioned subspace network to travel by themselves, usually a lot less precise than if using a gate, but can take weeks to months. The power requirements are so large that fleets have to use carrier ships to go anywhere and justifies using the naval analogue and, of course, fighter ships for other reason.

    3): intergalactic travel is basically impossible because these subspace tunnels do not extend that far out by themselves so you're stuck at ordinary relativistic speeds.

So, basically, you have the equivalent of Xyston-class Star Destroyers -- everything scaled up, so you have bridge windows that look cathedral sized and cavernous rooms that are not supposed to be cavernous. Which, arguably, fits the Imperium... but wow.

We dont talk of xystons here

Euralys wrote:Press release of the General People's Ministry:

Due to their defeat, it was decided that our football team was guilty of high treason, despite the fact that it was formed with baseball players who were totally amateur as far as football was concerned.

But due to the good mood of the Generalissimo, only half of the team will be tried next week.

Moreover, following his attempt to equalize at the end, the player Van Degrace is acquitted.

Would you like to join my basketball league?

Mestovakia wrote:Imperium: Cease that heresy, Guardsman.

You have sullied your hands with that filthy piece of parchment, Guardsman. How do you plead?! Too late HERETIC! *Insert bolter pistol shot sound here*

Kathol rift

Jar Wattinree wrote:Oh that, I handwaved that a long time ago. There's two modes of superluminal travel:
    1): an ancient network of hyperspace gates that link to a subspace tunnel network that links to every single star in the Milky Way galaxy and to a quadrillion more locations with no stars in them because this is a Milky Way galaxy reduced down to one Galactic arm due to... an accident of invasion. Oh, yeah, they can be reverse-engineered, but it's difficult to do.

    1a); Also know what's rad? You can potentially use these gates to fire literal Death Star-blasts at planets using the gate-network, so hook up a gate to a Dyson sphere designed to weaponize solar output and wherever your gate network extends you have unlimited control over the galaxy.

    2): ships that can use the aforementioned subspace network to travel by themselves, usually a lot less precise than if using a gate, but can take weeks to months. The power requirements are so large that fleets have to use carrier ships to go anywhere and justifies using the naval analogue and, of course, fighter ships for other reason.

    3): intergalactic travel is basically impossible because these subspace tunnels do not extend that far out by themselves so you're stuck at ordinary relativistic speeds.

So, basically, you have the equivalent of Xyston-class Star Destroyers -- everything scaled up, so you have bridge windows that look cathedral sized and cavernous rooms that are not supposed to be cavernous. Which, arguably, fits the Imperium... but wow.

Yeah, no intergalactic travel here. All my stories take place in one galaxy, which is about a tenth of the size of the Milky Way. There is one species that rose to spacefaring levels before other species had even gained the level of a multi-celled organism, and they made the wormhole “highways,” which effectively function as a series of hyperspace gates like yours. They are spread throughout what is known as the “civilized galaxy,” which takes up about 1/3 of the galaxy. They also invented FTL travel and the “Century Engine,” which, without using any wormholes, could travel from one end of the galaxy to another in 100 years. That is currently the fastest they can go without wormholes. It makes travel to other areas of the galaxy that don’t have the wormholes effectively impossible, so any empires that seek to expand in other parts of the galaxy are limited to planet-hopping. Also, because of this, there is effectively no communication between the “civilized galaxy” and the “outlands.” There are entire empires that the “civilized galaxy” has never even heard of, despite them being much, much larger than any of the civilized governments.

Jar Wattinree, Strala, and Bunnies

Argh!

What do you call these in english? I only know the german word and can't get a proper translation...

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/Hf6607d06268340c38d2cabf1d8903239Z/Zickzack-Haar-Bands-Haar-Gum-Clip-Zahn-Stirnband-Frauen-M-nner-Haar-accessoire-Alice-Band.jpg

EDIT: I found it, nevermind...

Strala, Kathol rift, Bunnies, and War peace 123

Wubdich wrote:Argh!

What do you call these in english? I only know the german word and can't get a proper translation...

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/Hf6607d06268340c38d2cabf1d8903239Z/Zickzack-Haar-Bands-Haar-Gum-Clip-Zahn-Stirnband-Frauen-M-nner-Haar-accessoire-Alice-Band.jpg

Are you asking for a specific product brand name? If not, thats simply what we call a hair band in english.

Jar Wattinree wrote:It's a neutral wow considering how ridiculous WH40K ships are in general.

laughs in the rock

Strala wrote:You have sullied your hands with that filthy parchment. What do you have to say about it you heretic?! Too late HERETIC! *Insert plasma pistol shot sound here*

"You inspire your men to read that vile parchment, Commissar!? YOU HERETIC!" *Heavy Bolter sound*

Anyone here watch space force?

Is there a new chapter?

Stickacia, Strala, War peace 123, and Elixandropolis

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