04-03-2021, 07:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-04-2021, 03:27 AM by stevebowers.)
Could we go back to first principles for a moment?
This extraordinarily large object, which I'm currently imagining as a very large toroidal Ederworld, has a radius of 40.85 AU. Is this a random radius, or have you chosen this for a reason? Because gathering 13.66 solar masses would be a daunting task, even for the Terragens - they would need to disassemble at least one large star, and cool it down to planetary temperatures - this would emit a vast amount of heat, since the central part of the star would be at millions of degrees kelvin. The waste heat of construction would be something like a small supernova.
Could we not make it smaller, while making it considerably more mobile. The amount of thrust required to get this object up to 10%c would also require nova-level power, and the object would require a lot of braking at the destination, as well.
This extraordinarily large object, which I'm currently imagining as a very large toroidal Ederworld, has a radius of 40.85 AU. Is this a random radius, or have you chosen this for a reason? Because gathering 13.66 solar masses would be a daunting task, even for the Terragens - they would need to disassemble at least one large star, and cool it down to planetary temperatures - this would emit a vast amount of heat, since the central part of the star would be at millions of degrees kelvin. The waste heat of construction would be something like a small supernova.
Could we not make it smaller, while making it considerably more mobile. The amount of thrust required to get this object up to 10%c would also require nova-level power, and the object would require a lot of braking at the destination, as well.