So the Red Planet was always my favorite planet.
- Thread starter Pokemeck
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I was upset when I got my permit and went to visit Mars, not as I had hoped to see it.
Yup. We can restore Mars' magnetosphere and terraform it but we can't develop tractor beam technology. lolololol
We already have multiple theories on possible ways to terraform planets, but we don't have much on tractor beams yet. So it makes sense that terraforming comes first.
Who said anything about restoring the magnetosphere?
In the time period the game is set, Magneto has become an actual person and his sphere was destroyed by some punk in a space ship because they had some sort of rebel cause against him. Anyways, blew up the whole thing to prevent the destruction of other planets. It was called the intergalactic battle with the more attractive name of Star Wars.
well it would not really be terraformable without a magnetic shield to prevent the sun from stripping away the atmosphere and returning it to dust
or single manned space ships capable of faster than light travel via hyper jumps and super cruises....yet we can't:
1. develop a proper 'flight management computer' (your standard 2015 airliner has an FMC) that handles autopilot and autothrottle + fuel predictions; or
2. develop an in-game commodity search function (no, you have to use an external website(s) for this)
just saying.....
Over the course of hundreds of thousands of years.
So on the way to developing FTL hyperdrives you don't think we would discover tractor beam tech?
Stay in school, kids. lol
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Would need to in order to successfully terraform Mars and have it retain it's atmosphere...........
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Well, the solar system still has 2 stations functioning as terraforming.
So it wouldn't be out of the question to assume that their job is not only to terraform but sustaining it as well.
As I said, since we already have theories for FTL hyperdrive to this date, but still don't have anything on tractor beams yet, we can assume that tractor beams are more technologically advanced than hyperdrives. But since we don't even have any theories on the matter yet, we don't even know if it will ever exist.
Also, while the hyperdrive is 100% crucial to space travel, tractor beams are not crucial to anything. Everything that tractor beams are supposed to do can already be achieved via simpler and cheaper methods (a.k.a. drones).
I understand all that sort of thing to be more or less implied until the planetary landings (and all associated planet detail generation) is implemented.
Would be cool to see some city lights on the dark side of some of those though. Maybe in intense dots scattered around some areas.