Ringworld PDB

[Miles]

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When the bug fixing starts to settle down, we'll have to press for more cool "features" like a weapon facility with some unique power -- maybe the ability to fire on the strategic map at targets in another sector? [/b]

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Ohhh Yeah! What this game needs is a really BIG gun. How about this:
- Ring Worlds (RW) and Sphere Worlds (SW) can fire huge bolts of energy. (How does the energy get out of the SW? (Shut up!))
- It hits and destroys a sector and it's contents, leaving behind a cooked planet or a new storm.
- There would have to be some kind of recharge interval.
- Maybe a SW can shoot at targets in another system?
- The energy can't travel thru a warp gate, but it does travel at light speed. It reaches an adjacent system in X years (X=distance in light years.)
- A looong distance shot always hits some sector in the targetted system. The chance of hitting the targetted sector is an inverse function of distance.
- Planetary/System shields can provide protection.

[Cybes]

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Originally posted by BKrani:
Or have the facility to mount enourmous sub-light drives on our planets and fly them off in a rosetta pattern.

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you're a niven fan too, i see. do we get transfer disk technology too?


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"Just think of it as Evolution in action" - 'Oath of Fealty', by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle.

[Markavian]

Hey, if you are going to build an entire sphere world, you wouldn't mass produce 100,000 or whatever of Hyper Density cables and Graveituff plating without a second thought!!

What you would do is plan the sphere world construction for many months, prehaps even years! You'd work out where cities would be placed, where industrial locations would be, you'd design them into the planet. Making a sphere around a sun (most probably hollow) you could easily build in 'gaps' into the surface of the planet to let energy be released. . .

. . . research the right tech, focus the energy coming off the sun through about 100 vents a few hundred killometers wide each, (think how big stars are) and fire.

Now, your not going to tell me that a ship with (a max of) 1100kt of space is large enough to survive such a bLast are you?

Planets may also get destroyed by such a weapon. . .