Winchell Chung โš›๐Ÿš€ · @nyrath
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For scifi writers and scifi game masters. An article about different power structures in different interstellar empires.

campaignmastery.com/blog/a-tal

#ttrpg #scifi #atomicrockets #galacticempire

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Winchell Chung โš›๐Ÿš€ · @nyrath
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Starmoth
A scifi universe building project

" a post-apocalyptic, post-capitalistic, interstellar setting where semi-realistic spacecraft coexist with unknowable alien ruins, paracausal creatures, open-source FTL devices and colourful, vibrant societies. "

starmoth.space/

#scifi #atomicrockets #worldbuilding

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Winchell Chung โš›๐Ÿš€ · @nyrath
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@maxthefox @MeiLin @angelastella

In the 1950s there was a TV and book series called Tom Corbett Space Cadet.

The rocket ships, as near as I could figure, had liquid-core or gas-core nuclear thermal engines. If not actual nuclear salt water rockets.
projectrho.com/public_html/roc

When landed, the remaining liquid nuclear fuel would be removed, for safety reasons.

The truck doing this was called the "Hot Soup Wagon"...
projectrho.com/public_html/roc

#atomicrockets

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Winchell Chung โš›๐Ÿš€ · @nyrath
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Realistic spacecraft bits, assembled by mikusingularity and I

#atomicrockets

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Winchell Chung โš›๐Ÿš€ · @nyrath
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@maxthefox @sudnadja @AEBdigital @pauldrye

Yes, FTL that cannot be used in a strong gravity gradient is fairly standard.

My empires are starting out as spheres so the stars can be roughly sorted automatically by the Python script. Because the dataset had 2,600 freaking stars. The idea was after the script did the grunt work, I could manually tweak the map to make it more interesting. Then trying to automate the tweaks.

Later I would try again with a bigger map.

#atomicrockets

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Winchell Chung โš›๐Ÿš€ · @nyrath
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@sudnadja @maxthefox @AEBdigital @pauldrye

I am still fiddling with a simplistic 13 empire approximated by the vertices of a cuboctahedron. Simplistic 100 ly radius bounding sphere, each empire sphere 33.3 radius.

Each systen is connected to 2 closest neighbors. Systems that are ยฑ20% of being equidistance from the nearest two empire centers are the neutral zone (white). Rest of systems belong to closest empire center.

projectrho.com/public_html/roc

#atomicrockets #galacticempire

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Winchell Chung โš›๐Ÿš€ · @nyrath
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@RogerBW @tkinias @mishamouse

Irritatingly, all foreseeable rocket engines are low thrust/high Isp ("high gear"), or high thrust/low Isp ("low gear").

Scifi fans could really use a medium thrust/medium Isp engine, but there doesn't seem to be any.

#atomicrockets

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El Dado Inquieto · @eldadoinquieto
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@jose_sku

Pues si quieres tener inspiraciรณn para detalles de tus aventuras te recomiendo que visites de @nyrath , es denso pero muy interesante ๐Ÿ˜‰ ๐Ÿง

projectrho.com/public_html/roc

#atomicrockets

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El Dado Inquieto · @eldadoinquieto
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@Sawehector

Mmm... Si tens temps, ganes i un coneixement mitjร  d'anglรจs potser et pot interessar fer una ullada a de @nyrath .

projectrho.com/public_html/roc

#atomicrockets

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El Dado Inquieto · @eldadoinquieto
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#atomicrockets

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El Dado Inquieto · @eldadoinquieto
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El Dado Inquieto · @eldadoinquieto
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โฌ†๏ธ Interesting, and I see that the the novel "Accelerando" by @cstross also uses it (and it's available as :cc_cc: :cc_by: :cc_nc_us: :cc_nd: here antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat).

Anyone interested in also can read

en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Accelera

and

projectrho.com/public_html/roc

(the last link from the excellent by @nyrath )

@michael_w_busch @jdnicoll @vidar @megmac @bookstodon

#WorldBuilding #atomicrockets

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El Dado Inquieto · @eldadoinquieto
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El Dado Inquieto · @eldadoinquieto
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@HeatherNatalie

Have you read by @nyrath ?

I'm sure you will find it very interesting.

projectrho.com/public_html/roc

#atomicrockets

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El Dado Inquieto · @eldadoinquieto
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@Tiberio

Ademรกs de los enlaces que ya han puesto creo que tambiรฉn te puede interesar este enlace de (el sitio web creado por @nyrath ):

projectrho.com/public_html/roc

#atomicrockets

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El Dado Inquieto · @eldadoinquieto
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Winchell Chung โš›๐Ÿš€ · @nyrath
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RocketCat's Combat Starship Power Allocation System
A proposed game mechanism gor game designers

projectrho.com/public_html/roc

#games #atomicrockets

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Winchell Chung โš›๐Ÿš€ · @nyrath
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Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

righto.com/2023/03/reverse-eng

#astrogation #spaceship #atomicrockets

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Winchell Chung โš›๐Ÿš€ · @nyrath
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Winchell Chung โš›๐Ÿš€ · @nyrath
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DART mission reveals asteroid Dimorphos is dry as a bone

space.com/dart-mission-asteroi

#isru #atomicrockets #asteroid

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