Thought i'd stop by to see what you guys are up to, and just as i suspected, the ideas without a proper motivation and guardrails have slipped into entropy.
But it's nice to see some of you care enough about a good inspiration to keep pushing it into existence.
While i'm here, i could clear up some misconceptions that i left behind...
Brianetta wrote:I can't see electricity being superceded by something "better" in 1,000 years. I don't hold to using Star Trek as a reasonable source of future speculation (it's called science fiction, but while there's plenty of the latter there's only
technobabblewhere the former should be).
Even SirXavious resorted to this. I still have no idea what he means by any of the following terms, and they only were from his last post on the topic:
PlasmaSteel, Aqueflex, cybernauts, Kineto-nuclear power, planet carbonization.
I wouldn't mind the fact that they're just fictitious inventions, except he never said what they actually do. Is cybernaut a profession? Is it one who sails on, or by means of, a computer? Perhaps it is just somebody who surfs the web? I dunno. I can't get enthused with words like these.
I guess clarity is not my strong point. But let's go one at a time:
1. I intentionally, in all of my futuristic forethinking, avoid already blazed trails put up by others who have an agenda on where Mankind (ie, people) should go. It is why i detest just about every fictional invention of Star Trek. It is NOT based on reality and based on the most absurd notions of not only scientific THEORY but also societal and economic progression. If you'd like a debate, i'll start a new thread in the general discussion forum.
2. Sorry, Brianetta, i thought i had fully described these concepts in previous threads. You are correct in that they are made-up words that have no existence in our present world, but at one time, so did words like Teflon, fiberoptics, robot (a Czech word), nuclear fission, terraforming, words 100 years ago you might have also called technobabble
.
PlasmaSteel: name brand for an alloy of steel made by processing iron in molten form with methanic acids (simplified version). One of its interesting characteristics is that the wider the field of its structure (the larger the piece of PlasmaSteel), the
stronger and more indestructible it becomes. This is due to future understandings of the relationship between the 2 nuclear forces, electromagnetic force, and gravity (geeks call it the Grand Unified Theory
). This makes PlasmaSteel the ideal metal for planet colonies and starships and makes for an interesting commodity in a new mod.
Aqueflux is again a name brand which i envision becomes an everyday word in future societies. It is basically a fiber-optic line whose internal "wire" is not a strand of glass, but of a purified fluid which transmits data much more effectively. Together with the invention of a new way of transmitting data with EM frequencies (computers that read color rather than off-on electrical pulses), the computers of the future (someone will nickname them 'cyberports', because you can apply the technology to practically anything -- even humans) will have processing speeds so fast that speed doesn't even need to accounted for anymore; multidimensional processing is limited only by the inventiveness of the humans programming our future computers (rather than the other way around as it is today).
Cybernauts are simply a futuristic word for robots that are constructed to work in the harsh environment of space, where there is no atmosphere (or if there is, it's highly toxic) and solar and planetary radiation bursts are a constant threat. I thought these could be an extra population beside humans that could be accounted for in the mod, or at the very least would replace Mail as a commodity that needed to be transported between industries and colonies.
Kineto-nuclear simply means the refined nuclear power of the future. Everyone would still call it 'nuclear power', but occasionally someone would want to distinguish the new means of processing electricity, with old, primitive way of nuclear processing they did way back in the 20th century, so they would say "Kineto-nuclear" -- future geeks simply call it KN
.
Planet Carbonization is the term used by Planetary Bio-Engineers of the future, who develop a process that, instead of preparing a planet so that humans may live there (we call it terraforming today), they prepare it for industrialization, decided based on the planet's resources and its viability. Terraforming is on the border of one of those ideas that is patently absurd, as humans require a very thin sliver of environmental conditions in which they can survive without help from spacesuits or the like. But i can see it being VERY easy to convert an entire planetary surface (given time) to something less hospitable and more metallic. So, what the hell, i call it Planet Carbonization!
These are only clarifications to make realizing this idea easier. I took great pains to make sure that all the industries and cargoes helped each other and that gameplay would be smooth and interesting. With that said, these are only ideas and can be bandies about until something workable is done.
Just please don't turn it into Star Trek mod!!
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