Mining a Sphere World

[Colonel]

I geuss you could say your getting the minerals out of the sun

[geoschmo]

The ring/sphere world component descriptions as gravity plating/generator as if in effect you are collecting all the micellaneous material floating around the system to use for the constructed world. You have to just ignore the fact that there probably isn't enough mass floating around the system to construct such a shell, and disregard that the exsisting planets and asteroids are still there when you are done.

Once you get past those two leaps in logic, it's a small step to think you could then mine that collected material for resources.

[Fyron]

There is always the material in the Oort cloud and Kuiper belt that could be used. Likely not enough to build a Ringworld, but it is something. Also, what is wrong with assuming that solar energy is converted into matter? Replicators anyone? Heck, Crystalline races have facilities that do this explicitly already.

[Phoenix-D]

The problem with using solar energy to make matter is it takes an absolutely ridiclous amount of energy to make a small amount of matter- you're basiclly undoing the matter/antimatter reaction. E = mc^2 is nice for bombs but a pain in the butt when trying to make matter:

m = E/C^2

From a game perspective, you can mine the ring/sphereworlds because if you couldn't they'd be pretty much useless.

[Fyron]

There is a lot of energy coming out of the star...

[mottlee]

You know...This is a game..you need little things to keep it "Fun" yes some things do not make sense to us BUT maybe in the future it will