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Rogue Rings
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Hm.  I may misremember what toposophic level I was contemplating, but I did start by looking at the "sheer size of higher toposophic minds" when I was looking to see how large it needed to be.  

As said though, that's in the context of a story I don't seem to be writing at present; if this is a thing you want to see in the setting, it needs to be attached to a different story.

All told, it's considerably less convenient than a lot of other kinds of habitat; the aforementioned ringworld at 1 AU for example doesn't have any places separted by more than 250 million km. It's a few days of travel by high-speed maglev, at most.  

The Rogue Ring, on the other fist, has places separated by overland distances of about a hundred AU.  That's at least months of travel, even by high-speed maglev.

Also, I'm going to repeat that outside the context of that story, there's no mandate that a Rogue Ring should be any particular size. Somebody demonstrating the concept could do so by building something a tenth of that size or less, and it would still be a remarkable instance of an ISO type not previously built.
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Rogue Rings - by Bear - 04-01-2021, 04:34 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by selden - 04-01-2021, 06:05 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by stevebowers - 04-01-2021, 06:57 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Bear - 04-02-2021, 01:03 PM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Drashner1 - 04-02-2021, 02:11 PM
RE: Rogue Rings - by stevebowers - 04-02-2021, 06:28 PM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Bear - 04-03-2021, 08:15 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by selden - 04-03-2021, 09:02 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Bear - 04-03-2021, 10:37 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Vitto - 04-03-2021, 06:32 PM
RE: Rogue Rings - by stevebowers - 04-03-2021, 07:19 PM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Vitto - 04-03-2021, 10:56 PM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Drashner1 - 04-03-2021, 11:30 PM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Bear - 04-04-2021, 06:39 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Bear - 04-04-2021, 07:00 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by selden - 04-04-2021, 07:33 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Bear - 04-04-2021, 08:39 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by stevebowers - 04-04-2021, 07:56 PM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Vitto - 04-04-2021, 09:18 PM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Bear - 04-05-2021, 12:53 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Drashner1 - 04-05-2021, 01:57 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Bear - 04-05-2021, 01:15 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Drashner1 - 04-05-2021, 02:04 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by stevebowers - 04-05-2021, 02:56 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Drashner1 - 04-05-2021, 03:48 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by stevebowers - 04-05-2021, 03:55 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Drashner1 - 04-05-2021, 05:53 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by selden - 04-05-2021, 05:20 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by selden - 04-05-2021, 09:03 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Bear - 04-05-2021, 09:12 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Bear - 04-05-2021, 09:20 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Rakuen07 - 04-05-2021, 12:47 PM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Everything4404 - 04-06-2021, 03:46 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Bear - 04-09-2021, 03:44 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by selden - 04-09-2021, 05:55 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by stevebowers - 04-09-2021, 08:32 AM
RE: Rogue Rings - by Bear - 04-09-2021, 05:22 PM

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