worldbuilding
In recent questions: Whatâs the status of dark matter/energy in the setting? Munson sez: âThere ainât no such thing. Somebody just needs to correct their math, is all.â The honest answer is âI havenât established that yetâ⊠âŠbut hereâs some bullshit I just made up
Lumenna-SĂșnĂĄris System
So, having completed all ten planets of Lumenna in this series, we now move to its companion starâs nine, once again, beginning with the innermost: I/1. AndrĂĄr Class:Â Eurymic Orbit (period):Â 0.08 au (6.198 T-days) Orbit (ecc.):Â 0.06 Radius: 2,850 miles Mass:Â 2.51
Lumenna-SĂșnĂĄris System
I/10. Raziké Class: Alessån Orbit (period): 32.4 au (184.424 T-years/67,362.71 T-days) Orbit (ecc.): 0.06 Radius: 37,668 miles Mass: 1.01 x 1027 kg Density: 1.08 g/cm3 Cloud-top gravity: 1.86 g Axial tilt: 4.1° Rotation period: 12.1 T-days
worldbuilding
A reader pointed out on this Discord that this (go read it there) has a vaguely eldraeic flavor. Which it does. Not something a direct analog to which would exist *there* , mind you, inasmuch as defending yourself and civilization is something written right into the Imperial Charter, Section III, Article
Lumenna-SĂșnĂĄris System
(Iâd been meaning to get back to this series for quite some time, but never quite managed it. Until now, seeing as a generous reader on the Discord offered to make me a delta-v map for the System, which rather spurred me on to resume the project.) I/9.
demographics
So, I hear you like demographics. Or, at least, the comments on the last post tell me you like demographics. Describing the constituent species of the Empire can be a mite tricky, depending on exactly how you define things â leaving aside any nasty outworlder prejudices about the status of neogens
starship
Many of you, gentle readers, are also devotees of the Atomic Rockets web site. (As well you should be, if you are interested in matters rockety.) And, of course, you may have noted the Atomic Rockets Seal of Approval off in the right-hand column. But today Iâm going to
worldbuilding
It has been asked in various places what scares Imperial sophonts the most. Herewith is the answer: As a side-note, you will observed that the answers here are mostly existential, not physical. Physical fear never had much hold on the eldraeic psyche in the first place (none at all, for
heavy cavalry
âDrive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!â no-one with a tank, ever This is a recreation/reformulation/retcon of the original description of the Empireâs heavy cavalry legions, in light of both criticism received â and assistance to resolve it â and rethinking of my own. It
wet navy
Taking a brief moment to hand out a random factlet, let us turn from space navy to wet navy. Old school wet navy. Did you know that the most widely used rig back in the days of sail, especially by the Alatian fleet, the largest both mercantile and military and
economics
A longer-than-fits-in-the-margin response to a comment on the last post: How do you make money, the symbol of exchange-value, properly match the actuality of exchange-value? Have a fully backed currency (eg gold) and do really nasty things to anyone who so much as thinks of the possibility of maybe theoretically
worldbuilding
Specialist290 asks: So what do the eldrae make of the idea of âuseless machinesâ? The most famous example, of course, being the machine whose sole purpose, once turned on, is to turn itself back off. (Like so:Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86V_ICUCD4Â ) Insert usual disclaimer about the