I was arguing against mushing together totally unrelated creatures, not making something that looks like an idealized hybrid. I’m totally fine with that. I wasn’t aware you were arguing for anything remotely like hybridization, I thought you litterally meant “you take some genes from this, some from this, and troubleshoot it a little” not “let’s see how we could make a man-ant, even if it’s 0% human or ant”
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So what is your argument against true hybridisation? I haven’t heard anything besides that the worst-case scenario for hybridisation doesn’t work out of the box and that other processes have a similar looking outcome
…UF DVGFHGJHYTSDGRHTFGYJUVTFRGSDHTFGYJFCTRDFGDTRYTJUKH i hate arguing with you. i literally said “you know okay, now that i understand your point of view that makes sense and im okay with it” and your response was “okay, how about we keep this going for literally no reason because i think you cherry picked your example or something”
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@BurgeonBlas I don’t really know what to say really… you are ignoring the core of @Deathwake’s argument (which I agree with) and it seems like you are talking about entirely different things using the same words. So maybe it’s better for everyone to let this topic cooldown, okay?
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using genetic engineering to create organic star ships that can heel and regrow. they would be powered by sunlight and ice asteroids
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good point. it is a little silly
Also that’s pretty much what the Yuuzhan Vong use in the later star wars books (everything they use either is or was living). I personally think they should be possible in the game.
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I actually think that’s possible, just not via genetic engineering a single organism. Perhaps having artificially created corals grow the frames for everything in a bath of hormone gradients to shape it and having special bacteria reform everything into metals or carbon allotropes. From there you’d have a sentient biomechanical brain, bacteria growing your food and ammo, and all the biology being fueled by radiotropic extremophiles in the reactor. Lots of living corals would be kept around to heal the ship, and a ship like this could easily be considered biological even if it’s a colony organism that grew around a fusion reactor.
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Gas Giants Mining and Mining Stations
Gas Giants Mining Stations would collect: Hydrogen; Helium; Methane and other Carbon based substances and, in some planets like Uranus, diamonds. (Maybe Hydrogen and Helium come in hand with nuclear fusion technology (stars), Carbon and Carbon based substances come in hand with different technologies and are probably wanted for many fabrics and materials and, finally, diamonds - or Rained Diamonds - are for the luxury market). It would make sense to mine this planets if it is ever possible, because the quantity of each substance here is huge.
The Mining Stations would be inside the atmosphere in adequate altitude and only devices would go lower to get the wanted substances. (Diamonds would be collected from the theoretical Diamond Rain of Uranus-like Planets with some kind of a hardened net)
I think I would be amazing to use the concept of Hot Air Balloons, Submarines (Different Densities in compartments in order to lift or to drop to a certain altitude) to these Gas Giants Mining Stations in order for them to be stationary at a certain habitable altitude level.
I think it would look really cool to bring some scientific concepts like this one into the game, because different planets have different minerals and geological/weather conditions and these Gas Giant Mining Stations have many markets to fill.
What do you think about it?
What about a technology that makes the strong force stronger and gives neutrons a slight positive charge? That way in a block of radioactive material the neutrons would repel each other and exit the mass or at least interact with electrons to slow down and it would never go supercritical. Imagine you receive an intel that terrorists have acquired some uranium and it is only a matter of time before they 3d print a nuke. So you start the device to make sure nukes are not working in major cities. Tv’s and smart phones are broadcasting the danger to the public and people start to be evacuated to underground bunkers. Meanwhile you go looking for the lost uranium.
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Totally impossible under known physics, awesome outside of known physics.
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Would a negative mass rocket be usable?
The idea is that with negative mass, you can have a net change in momentum without a net change in mass: Essentially you have a reactionless drive that doesn’t ignore conservation of momentum. Another side-effect is that it shouldn’t use any energy to make it work, hence being infinitely usable, or perhaps even a way to generate energy
First: requires strange matter.
Second: how would it carry a payload (though perhaps all you need it to carry is information)
Third: that could go faster than light!
Forth: clarktech
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burning carbon guns- take frozen carbon pellets, and cold fire rains on your enemy, while they also suffer from co2 suffocation
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Micro black hole generator, used to rip off the kugo blitz from the umbrella academy if done right.
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Von Neumann Probes would be very fun to use. If you were benevolvent, you could sent out fleet of space probes to terraform suitable planets automatically, or if you weren’t so benevolent, you could make them throw asteroids at planets with sapient aliens on them, removing primitive aliens from the galaxy before your enemies uplifted them and they turned against you.
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what about the death star from star wars
death star in canon uses kyber crystals to produce unlimited power. Honestly there are plenty of realistic(ish) alternate power sources (antimatter, dark energy, black holes, small black holes, spinny black holes, quasars, negative matter folding space to fit less efficient power sources like ordinary stars into a station the size of a small moon, bottled light) but they all have the same issue: they work better as bombs. enough energy to blow up Alderaan could launch tens of thousands of relativistic kill vehicles, or could be put in a package the size of an office building for everything but largish black holes and quasars, briefcase sized for kugelblitz, antimatter/bottled light (effectively same thing with different production methods), and maybe dark energy depending on the size needed to have a generator powered on it. These wouldn’t be easy targets, or even tough targets that if they are somehow taken out will put a dent in your forces. they’re advanced bombs. One cargo crate doing the damage of the death star makes so much more sense logistically speaking.
For clarification: in universe bombs would have made no sense cause kyber crystals can’t be efficiently synthesized, only being found in nature.
This isn’t me saying a death star like weapons are stupid or impossible i just think that before you can miniaturize power generation that much you’ll use Nicoll-Dyson beams and after it’d be really inefficient. You could do it itd just be kinda dumb.
Well, there is a way to use a black hole as a lazer, just al little push and… A galaxy of mass spits out the side of the black hole
Ok, maybe a little to much, lets try a little less on the next one.
Basically, black hole galaxy lazers are 1 shot but they take out the whole system, and the next few over, it’s a win-win to me.
Edit: that and you might be able to make a kugelblitz with the lazer.
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