Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-47205-20160329150225/@comment-47205-20160330072549


 * I'm not too sure about FTL travel being necessarily limited (perhaps it took 500 years to invent it but another 500 has passed since, for example), but then I'm sure some STL would still be in use, and that also raises the question of what kind of propulsion it uses. Should we introduce reactionless drives to make life easier? As for relativistic travel, the faster you travel the better because your journey takes less time from all reference frames, unless you're talking about keeping the length of journeys in ship-time fixed.
 * The Fermi paradox was another reason why I thought of having few naturally life-bearing planets. Having it set in the early universe was an idea that occured to me too, but we don't want to fix details of the setting like that just yet. Otherwise, maybe there are demons of some sort lurking around that the civilisation doesn't know about yet (or maybe even does). If it does turn out to be set in the main fictionverse then that's a given anyway.
 * I'll have to look into that brane model again and see if I can actually make it work. I don't suppose subjecting a starship and its crew to a huge rapidly-oscillating magnetic field is going to be a good idea, for example.