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Where are all the ships?
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Welcome to the forums Smile there are worldships in the setting:

http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4700364d11f02
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/552d0053889f1
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/487ba4c7aef9b
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/56758a236b14f (not worldships but describes a nomadic people in the last section)

Of course the golden rule is here if you think there's something lacking in the setting you're always welcome to write it up Smile a few general comments though; worldships are massive, emphasis on the mass. Top speeds are going to be quite low with accelerations even lower. Exceptions are projects backed by archai like the New Brooklyn fleets which utilise S3 overseers and displacement drives. But these are so expensive they can only afford to launch a fleet every few centuries. Theoretically you can take a comm-gauge wormhole with you but they are also massive (and you have to be careful not to create closed-timeline-loops. Or else...boom).

Essentially a "fast" worldship with Nexus access is a high archai project. They'd exist sure, but for the most part the archai seem concerned with other things. Worldships using lower being technology aren't going to be able to cart around a wormhole, nor accelerate fast. This isn't necessarily a problem, cultural drift is just a fact of life. After all the majority of systems in the Terragen sphere are not connected to the nexus.
OA Wish list:
  1. DNI
  2. Internal medical system
  3. A dormbot, because domestic chores suck!
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Where are all the ships? - by echammond - 04-24-2017, 05:36 PM
RE: Where are all the ships? - by Rynn - 04-24-2017, 06:26 PM
RE: Where are all the ships? - by echammond - 04-24-2017, 10:59 PM
RE: Where are all the ships? - by Liam - 04-24-2017, 11:40 PM
RE: Where are all the ships? - by echammond - 04-24-2017, 11:53 PM
RE: Where are all the ships? - by Drashner1 - 04-25-2017, 01:56 AM
RE: Where are all the ships? - by Rynn - 04-24-2017, 11:44 PM
RE: Where are all the ships? - by Drashner1 - 04-25-2017, 12:38 AM
RE: Where are all the ships? - by Cray - 04-25-2017, 03:20 AM

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