Let the II begin ! The Golconda
I would have thought Megaships would spend the vast majority of their time in inter-stellar space, where no-one could ever find them.I am still trying to work out how such a large ship that travels so slow (compared to current ships) has managed to stay undetected in a highly populated systems for so long.
Could be worse. The inhabitants could've thought it was an unusually long asteroid, created by some sort of extrusion process and ignored it until it started accelerating out of the system....I am still trying to work out how such a large ship that travels so slow (compared to current ships) has managed to stay undetected in a highly populated systems for so long.
A generation ship braking from a significant fraction of lightspeed to come to rest in a system would be dumping the sort of energy it would be hard for technologically advanced inhabitants of that system to overlook.I would have thought Megaships would spend the vast majority of their time in inter-stellar space, where no-one could ever find them.
A generation ship braking from a significant fraction of lightspeed to come to rest in a system would be dumping the sort of energy it would be hard for technologically advanced inhabitants of that system to overlook.
I'm currently thinking that:
The in-system authorities saw the ship when it arrived;
They made contact and were informed of the colonists' desire to remain isolated, which they agreed to respect;
The officers of the Golconda at the time were so paranoid about outside contact that they made no record of the encounter;
So when the current generation of colonists got into trouble they had no way of knowing that all they had to do was ring the next-door neighbour's bell and ask for help.
Ding, dong! Would you mind if we borrowed a cup of sugar?A generation ship braking from a significant fraction of lightspeed to come to rest in a system would be dumping the sort of energy it would be hard for technologically advanced inhabitants of that system to overlook.
I'm currently thinking that:
The in-system authorities saw the ship when it arrived;
They made contact and were informed of the colonists' desire to remain isolated, which they agreed to respect;
The officers of the Golconda at the time were so paranoid about outside contact that they made no record of the encounter;
So when the current generation of colonists got into trouble they had no way of knowing that all they had to do was ring the next-door neighbour's bell and ask for help.
The Golconda may not be stationery. If you drop into the local gravity well of somewhere like Mitterand Hollow the instancing brings you along with the planet, once you've caught up with it. There's also a few places where installations move away faster than you can catch them so, FDev internal consistency?I thought about this also, They are stationary near Planet B3, i assume that It would have taken them months, even years to slow down. So did they message long before stopping, it seems pointless that they plan to stop if they didnt know anyone was there.
I can send instant messages both Text and Vocal across the entire galaxy to a friends ship, so FLT communication is a thing in 3305.
However this Generation ship was lanuched before the advent of FTL travel, So would they have FTL comms? are they still using Radio which travels at Light speed.
If so why would the authorities of the Upaniklis system still possess equiptment that listens on standard radio channels, It would take hours to communicate between ships, stations and worlds so therefore obsolete.
Well most of the time it has been in normal space between stars, we mostly don't do that unless we are going to get a mug of gin and even then we aren't really in normal space even if we can see it..I am still trying to work out how such a large ship that travels so slow (compared to current ships) has managed to stay undetected in a highly populated systems for so long.
Star Trek, TOS "For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky"It was 'The Orville' had am episode like this, except the occupants didn't know they were on a ship, they didn't know they were heading for a star either.
Don't get me wrong, it would require some...unique individuals/society to let it happen, but if you slow down generations and plan precisely who has a children with whom, you can significantly slow down genetic drift even with a small population on a long voyage.Remind me not to get on a generation ship where you are the captain.
How many different CGs do you want to have set up by FD to meet everyone's opinion!?
I very well appreciate that they are driving the story further! - But imagine how much more satisfying it would be to interact with the ship itself instead of a nearby station.
Anyway this plot catches my interest...
Galcop died a long time ago.This CG is in direct contradiction to GalCop Federal law and regulations. Penalty for interference with a Generation Ship is marooning.