08-24-2018, 05:11 AM
It does sound like an interesting story 
a few comments echoing Todd:
1) .1c is the usual cruise speed of this period however most craft also carried their colonists and ecosystem in stasis. This craft is a live generation ship meaning it will need more mass and size to maintain an active ecosystem. This can account for the reduced speed. Exactly why this was chosen? I’ll leave that to you.
2) RE harvesting: an interstellar space craft is extremely unlikely to have the delta-V to do more than speed up to cruise and decelerate upon arrival. So if they did slow down to intercept a rogue dwarf planet or something that’s their one chance to do so. After that they’ll be practically stationary relative to the stars, moving at low tens of km/s (assuming they don’t just slow down to a complete stop relative to the body they wish to harvest).
3) As Todd says a superturing is an AI, a modosophont one specifically. It might make more sense for it to be on the cusp of ascension to S1 but limiting itself from any further self modifications for fear of a failed ascension. The potential fallout of which could easily exterminate the crew.
a few comments echoing Todd:1) .1c is the usual cruise speed of this period however most craft also carried their colonists and ecosystem in stasis. This craft is a live generation ship meaning it will need more mass and size to maintain an active ecosystem. This can account for the reduced speed. Exactly why this was chosen? I’ll leave that to you.
2) RE harvesting: an interstellar space craft is extremely unlikely to have the delta-V to do more than speed up to cruise and decelerate upon arrival. So if they did slow down to intercept a rogue dwarf planet or something that’s their one chance to do so. After that they’ll be practically stationary relative to the stars, moving at low tens of km/s (assuming they don’t just slow down to a complete stop relative to the body they wish to harvest).
3) As Todd says a superturing is an AI, a modosophont one specifically. It might make more sense for it to be on the cusp of ascension to S1 but limiting itself from any further self modifications for fear of a failed ascension. The potential fallout of which could easily exterminate the crew.
OA Wish list:
- DNI
- Internal medical system
- A dormbot, because domestic chores suck!