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06-06-2008, 05:27 PM
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| Will Render for Food   Realname: Joseph Lyon Join Date: Mar 2007 Age: 33
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 | A truly large ship model for a story I'm currently writing a story set in the present about Earth making contact with a dying race very similar to ours but radically more advanced. they've decided that because they're dying and their mission is so important, they want to leave their legacy to a compatible race and we are the only ones that fit the bill. they're entire empire exists on one starship, though it is a massive one. Its 7000 Kilometers in length by 3500 Kilometers wide by 1200 Kilometers high. To give comparison, the first Death Star was 120 Kilometers in diameter. I'm open to the design and just really want someone who is interested in free thinking a massive ship into existence to do some basic mock ups in either 2d or 3d form. I would be most thankful for any help that would come my way.  |
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06-06-2008, 05:47 PM
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| Will Render for Food Realname: Joseph Lyon Join Date: Mar 2007 Age: 33
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| Yes I do. That gives you some idea of the size of the craft. But then again this is a ship that makes point to point jumps. I'm just curious how many people could live on a ship this big, because this is supposed to contain an entire empire as part of the back story. |
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06-06-2008, 06:40 PM
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| SFM Guru  Join Date: May 2006 Age: 32
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| Interesting. I'd love to host it at my geocities site, in a non-trek section. I can't wait to find out why your alien race is dying. Ecological disaster? They figured things out about recycling, etc. but it was far too little too late to stay/reverse the damage they'd inflicted on themselves? A combination of social diseases, ecological deterioration, near-earth objects colliding with their homeworld due to a nearby sun gone nova sending debris of planets in the nova's wake like missiles into neighboring solar systems, and general lack of cooperation between their heads-of-state? |
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06-06-2008, 06:45 PM
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| SFM Guru  Realname: Marian Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Romania Age: 21
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 | This is certainly some interesting food for thought  |
| "For I dipt in to the future, far as human eye could see; Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be..." - Alfred Tennyson (U.S.S. Voyager dedication plaque) | |
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06-06-2008, 07:08 PM
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| SFM Oracle  Realname: Rich Join Date: May 2006 Location: Hull, Yorkshire, England Age: 38
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Blog Entries: 2 | The amount of people who could fit inside a ship that size would probably be in the order of hundreds of trillions, hardy sounds like a dying race. |
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06-06-2008, 07:52 PM
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| Still Alive   Realname: Andy Join Date: May 2006 Location: Syracuse NY USA Age: 24
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  | the ship sounds like it would be about half the size of Mars! you're going to have some peculiar gravity effects going on unless you go spherical also just doing some calculations based on the numbers you listed, and assuming a totally rectangular shape . . . your ship would have a volume of 29400000000km^3 that turns out to be 7442000000km^3 more than the volume of the moon! |
| | It's easy to see in these tired eyes, that blood has no value in modern life. | All time is held in stars, and it tears me apart. | [_]|||||||[_] | backstept.blogspot.com Last edited by backstept; 06-06-2008 at 08:04 PM. | |
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06-06-2008, 08:11 PM
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| SFM Nugget Join Date: May 2006 Age: 23
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| worldships are always allot of fun, i would still suggest cutting down the dimensions more to the size of a moon or so rather than outweighing the earth.. ill see if i can think something up over the next couple days but i'm not making any promises |
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06-06-2008, 08:14 PM
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| You hassle, you die.  Realname: F. Schnackenpfefferhausen Join Date: May 2006 Age: 21
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| You do realize that if that ship got close to Earth it's pretty sure neither would survive? Ah well, just call it fiction and leave out the scienence and it should be ok ... |
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06-06-2008, 10:31 PM
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| SFM Guru  Realname: Adrian Join Date: May 2006 Location: So Cal Age: 29
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but don't worry about plausibility, people thought the Dyson sphere was cool. | |
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