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No, though those and the Smoke Ring would be interesting to find.
No Stage Trees are from the Known Space stories along with other interesting things such as The Fleet of Worlds and the Ring World.
A Wiki about them https://larryniven.fandom.com/wiki/Stage_Tree
Interesting. Thank you. Now I fully understand their name.
Honestly, though, I wouldn't want to be in orbit of a planet that hosts a few of these trees when they mature...
No they can be very nasty, read the short story “A Relic of Empire” for more about them.
Still exploring in a new sector for me, Hawking’s Gap, using a Hauler to visit the systems and worlds near my Carrier. Almost everything is a new Codex entry for me and while I currently am not getting a lot of first discoveries for Cartographics I am doing very well with first mapped by and first samples for Vista.
I am getting more used to all the noises the Hauler makes in normal space but I have one concern with it, the fuel tank is small and in a large system with lots of planets to visit ship operations deplete it unexpectedly quickly. I haven’t added an additional fuel tank to anything in six years so of course don’t have one in storage anywhere, time to start looking to power modules down when not in use.
As far as its abilities as a planetary explorer the Hauler is actually pretty good and I have got it to land in some surprisingly tight spaces not taking an SRV along has meant more flitting about but surprisingly less walking. The field of view isn’t the best but it isn’t too bad.
Yeah, the field of view out of most cockpits is not the best. And I'm not just talking from the exploratory point of view.
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I'm sure it's a star cluster - travelled about 1000LY towards it before I had to log off yesterday, until it was more than twice the angle of view than in the earlier pic... so at a rough estimate, it should be at most another 1000LY before I get there later on - but after breakfast I think :]
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Interesting world & ideas - I'd heard of Larry Niven before, but not read his work - the idea of pre-technological space-faring species like the Stage Trees is quite intriguing, like the Stellar Phenomena / Molluscs, etc. in Elite - someday I hope I will eventually find Gyre
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Fascinating. Looking forward to seeing more of it.
If I had to guess, I would suspect those ammonia-based lifeforms sometimes to be found in the atmosphere of gas giants to be an ancestrial option for them...Interesting world & ideas - I'd heard of Larry Niven before, but not read his work - the idea of pre-technological space-faring species like the Stage Trees is quite intriguing, like the Stellar Phenomena / Molluscs, etc. in Elite (someday I hope I will eventually find a Gyre Wheel) ...perhaps these are the simpler life forms Thargoids originally evolved from?
Quite excited about continuing this journey today... if only I had the energy to go make tea... where is the Nutrimat when u need it?
Yes indeed, perhaps that is the kind of environment where these space-faring species originated?
Some intriguing similarities - the eight-fold symmetry of the Gyre Trees / Pods, the "pearl" in the Pods' crowns that looks very similar to that of the Scouts - also that they apparently emit caustics... added a video from Canonn above - some similar speculation there^
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Really fascinating. Maybe there is another specimen of these hidden somewhere in the outer farmost regions of our galaxy...Quite excited about continuing this journey today... if only I had the energy to go make tea... where is the Nutrimat when u need it?
Yes indeed, perhaps that is the kind of environment where these space-faring species originated?
Some intriguing similarities - the eight-fold symmetry of the Gyre Trees / Pods, the "pearl" in the Pods' crowns that looks very similar to that of the Scouts - also that they apparently emit caustics... added a video from Canonn above - some similar speculation there^
That CZ didn't go well. Died three times from a distant sniper goit. Gawd, I hate those... shouldn't be allowed.
Still won the day and got 6.5mCR for it though
Still won the day and got 6.5mCR for it though
I wish I had a few of those weapons of yours! And I wish I knew how to get them! (Stealing stuff from settlements that engineers require to upgrade the weapons?)That CZ didn't go well. Died three times from a distant sniper goit. Gawd, I hate those... shouldn't be allowed.
Still won the day and got 6.5mCR for it though
Anyway, I doubt I'm the first commander to see this view of Farseer Inc but I'll post it anyway.
Lots of power-on missions. Lots. And focusing on mission rewards that give material rewards.I wish I had a few of those weapons of yours! And I wish I knew how to get them! (Stealing stuff from settlements that engineers require to upgrade the weapons?)
Anyway, I doubt I'm the first commander to see this view of Farseer Inc but I'll post it anyway.
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And material trading with the barkeeps. Graphene is good to trade with as it's worth a lot of other mats
And, if you're doing suits, deliberately failing power-on's so you can tealeaf the PR.
I remember being given a book when I was in Sudia Arabia in 1991 called The Integral Trees, I think it was from the same author, pretty trippy story about people living on a giant tree floating out in space. I guess he is where Halo got their idea for that story line from Ring World.Interesting world & ideas - I'd heard of Larry Niven before, but not read his work - the idea of pre-technological space-faring species like the Stage Trees is quite intriguing, like the Stellar Phenomena / Molluscs, etc. in Elite - someday I hope I will eventually find GyreWheelTrees ...perhaps these are the simpler life forms Thargoids originally evolved from?
I just finished a very small moon (gravity 0.06) with 10 bios on it, managed to get all 10.
Thanks. I've made a note of all that.
Time to get your Executioner out and have some sweet, long-range revenge ;]
Good going - it's interesting how it seems to often be these small moons that are "teeming with life" [well, relatively speaking, in terms of low-atmosphere worlds ;]
...quite intrigued to read a bit more about Larry Niven's Ringworld concept - it's more of a flattened "Dyson Sphere", ie: stellar scale - Halo's orbiting ring was planet-sized iirc?
It's a great base design, fun to ride around on the bridges in an SRV - even though i remember falling down into the trenches in my fairly new SRV on my first visit there - it was pitch black darkness down there & i just couldn't find a way out (before night vision i think) - had to self-destruct to get back to my ship... ;pAnyway, I doubt I'm the first commander to see this view of Farseer Inc but I'll post it anyway.
...anyway, the mystery stellar cluster turned out to be less than 500LY away - found it by GalMap at that range & hopped the carrier in - it is an area with a high concentration of F A B O blue/white stars - it's the type O giants that are visible from almost 2000LY away, looking like a wavy line with an arrow pointing toward Heart & Soul, as viewed from the direction of the Bubble Nebula ...this one is 62.42 Solar masses & paired with a black hole:
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No problem! And you also need that most precious of commodities: timeThanks. I've made a note of all that.
