04-24-2017, 05:36 PM
Hi All,
Im not new the OA, never posted on the forums before, but have been reading Encyclopedia Galactica for a while now. My question is on the lack of large civilisation ships. There is one yes, but the MPA, NA ship is more museum. Is there a reason why there are no mobile polities, vast spinning habitats connected or enclosed, functioning as an enormous mobile world. With the average distance between stars of 5 light years, a ship would either spend 5-10 years travelling from system to system, with people living as if they weren't in a mobile platform or if the ship was only a few km wide it could itlisie the wormhole nexus. I saw i think in the worldships article that worldships only moved at 0.1c and experienced cultural isolation. But there isn't any explanation for this, even if they did only move 0.1c they would still be able to utilise commgauge wormholes and be connected to the known net like any other world. A related question if and when the milky way has been settled would colonists to another galaxy in the local group use massive generation/world/civilisation ships or just take dozens of wormholes and then send people from the milky way either on route or when they've reached the target galaxy.
Cheers in advance for replies.
Im not new the OA, never posted on the forums before, but have been reading Encyclopedia Galactica for a while now. My question is on the lack of large civilisation ships. There is one yes, but the MPA, NA ship is more museum. Is there a reason why there are no mobile polities, vast spinning habitats connected or enclosed, functioning as an enormous mobile world. With the average distance between stars of 5 light years, a ship would either spend 5-10 years travelling from system to system, with people living as if they weren't in a mobile platform or if the ship was only a few km wide it could itlisie the wormhole nexus. I saw i think in the worldships article that worldships only moved at 0.1c and experienced cultural isolation. But there isn't any explanation for this, even if they did only move 0.1c they would still be able to utilise commgauge wormholes and be connected to the known net like any other world. A related question if and when the milky way has been settled would colonists to another galaxy in the local group use massive generation/world/civilisation ships or just take dozens of wormholes and then send people from the milky way either on route or when they've reached the target galaxy.
Cheers in advance for replies.