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Rogue Rings
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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.
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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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