"Real" ringworlds

[Dingocat85]

Originally posted by Aloofi:
Maybe a ringworld should occupy the 8 sectors around an star......

Yeah, that would be cool...instead of 8 planets in a circle, it would actually be one planet occupying 8 sectors . The sun would become part of the Ringworld when it was generated (to prevent solar bombs/supernova-ing stars)...but since the ringworld doesn't really block Solar light, the Ringworld should still generate solar effects - meaning Solar Panels, and that Crystalline stuff that's sun-dependent, would still work.

However, a Sphereworld - which totally encompasses a sun - would totally surround a sun, so it'd look like a big Sphere in the middle of your Galaxy ....Unfortunately, since the Sphereworld completely encompasses the Sun, building one should "disable" the sun, and keep solar panels/those crystalline generator things from working ...UNLESS you have a bi/trinary solar system.

That brings up more problems ...if you have three suns in a system that are very close together, and built three Ring/Sphereworlds, they'd overlap - not good. So, if a ring/sphereworld will ever take up the 8 sectors surrounding a sun (including the sector with the sun), there will have to be a hardcoded requirement: *NOTHING* can be generated within 8 sectors of a Sun, not even another sun.

(Another option with bi-trinary solar systems, is to give them the ability to build binary & trinary Ring/sphereworlds - but I severely doubt anything that huge would ever be implemented

[ May 13, 2003, 02:15: Message edited by: Dingocat85 ]