Dyson's Sphere?
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Interesting how close in would we have to be, it is a large area so I am guessing inside Mercury's orbit.
Ironically I just finished rereading Ringworld a couple of days ago.
I would have thought given how close to a star we pop out of hyper that we would be inside the sphere and looking at ground in every direction.
Robert Maynard
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At what distance from the Sun?
The surface area of the Sun is approx 6.1 trillion square kilometres.
Even if you gave every player a FC and every ship in the game, we’re still going to be just a little short of being able to block out all sunlight - and that’s just plonking everything directly on the surface. If you want to do it at the orbital radius of a Dyson Sphere…well
Even if you gave every player a FC and every ship in the game, we’re still going to be just a little short of being able to block out all sunlight - and that’s just plonking everything directly on the surface. If you want to do it at the orbital radius of a Dyson Sphere…well
Very doubtful at least for the Guardians. Their main bubble is centered around the permit-locked Regor region, which is based around Gamma Velorum - a Wolf-Rayet star that is very visible even though we can't visit it. They also have many ruins around HEN 2-333, another brightly visible Wolf-Rayet at the centre of (sigh) another permit locked region.
So while we're not allowed to see exactly what is happening in there, we can at least see light from the stars to know they're not enclosed.
Well no, not HEN-233, because that's surrounded by nebula just like the Guardians prefer, but if they ran out of nebula they might like to hide the stars another way. Although I believe HEN 2-333 is the only permit locked system in that region, having been there quite a bit myself I didn't run across another permit locked systems.
Robert Maynard
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Quite.The surface area of the Sun is approx 6.1 trillion square kilometres.
Even if you gave every player a FC and every ship in the game, we’re still going to be just a little short of being able to block out all sunlight - and that’s just plonking everything directly on the surface. If you want to do it at the orbital radius of a Dyson Sphere…well
I doubt that there'd be sufficient player ships and carriers to cover the 22.34 billion square kilometres at geostationary orbit above the Earth.
Unlikely that a race with FTL travel would build a Dyson Sphere, it's primarily a scenario for a civilisation trapped in its home system.
Maybe a very isolationist one, not willing to expand? Possibly afraid of the Thargoids, or other threats out there? If so, they might have "stealthed" their system. I suppose they could beam their excess heat in a direction where it's unlikely to be spotted: out of the galactic plane, or into a nearby black hole.
Maybe a very isolationist one, not willing to expand? Possibly afraid of the Thargoids, or other threats out there? If so, they might have "stealthed" their system. I suppose they could beam their excess heat in a direction where it's unlikely to be spotted: out of the galactic plane, or into a nearby black hole.
Given the sort of technology needed to build a Dyson Sphere I doubt any civilisation that could build one was actually trapped in their home system even without FTL travel. Is there even enough matter in a single solar system to build one.
Yes.
I find their vacuum cleaners very good - so I assume the sphere might be ok
I don't think having an almost infinite possibilities for content is a shame. Sure, that basically means that there's also a effective limitless scope to bash Elite for not having this or that thing due to it, and we've seen plenty of that, but unless someone has a spare 50million to drop to accelerate development for it, we will have to be content with the speed of development we currently have, though that isn't the same as 'we will never get x or y, what a shame.'
Don't get me wrong though, dyson spheres in the game would be awesome to see.
Why would Thargoids (or Guardians worlds) need apostrophes?
