I've noticed that people consistently reference the lore, which means people tend to read it for the interest of reading it. It's really well written, and concise. I do feel though, that as a community, we should discuss it a bit more in-depth. Fill in the blanks, so to speak. I should be more specific when I talk about blanks, when I say blanks, I don't mean that there is anything missing from the lore, per-say, as it essentially covers all of it's bases. What I would like to see, however, is a deeper understanding of what exactly is going on, through the communities eyes.
The following are the links to the current lore quick-primer, and the Longsleep-Revival brief, in that order.
1) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pIZyKif0bFbBWten4drrm7kfSSfvBoJPgG9-ywfN8j8/pub
2) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fUO3KKbAbTxMP1lqphnnodY0NPoOVblCUkDw-54MDUc/pub
I had a bit of a moment, and while re-reading the longsleep survival brief, I noticed that the Ordo Historia stated that humanity is smeared across an area of the galaxy about 1,200 lightyears wide. I was curious about this, so naturally I investigated, and did a bit of math. Using a figure that measured the area of the galaxy in meters, I found that the galaxy has an area of about 6.65E60 meters. This is an absolute shitload, and I should mention that I am -not- by -any- means qualified to do this math, but bear with me, I then took the liberty of assuming that the area humanity has settled in is going to be cubic, because I couldn't be arsed into doing the math for the volume in meters of a sphere 1,200 light years wide, that said, I calculated the volume of the area humanity has settled to be roughly 1.63E29 meters in volume. (Likely less, given that I used a cubic format.) This is also a shitload, but not even nearly as large a shitload as the shitload posted above, in fact, in reference to the galaxy, the area that humanity has settled is about 0.000000000000000000000000000002451127819548872% the total area of the galaxy. I didn't put that into scientific notation for the "Wow!" factor, naturally.
That said, the core worlds concept effectively would not/can not exist, as the area being discussed here would be relatively homogeneous in reference to the stars. I would think core worlds would focus mostly of random star clusters in our local area, rather than the actual core of the galaxy. Which might have an impact on other things, such as the estimated amount of time for a civilization to reach transcendence, given a rough time period, my idea is that we might need a different time-frame to work with, given the lore.
I'm not -suggesting- anything, I would just like input from my fellow folks about what they think about the lore, and how can we as a community add depth to the game. (Without any actual programming on Tynan's part.) If we do come up with something amazing, we can naturally move it to suggestions, and perhaps he can handle it from there. All I am aiming to discuss is editing a google document, nothing that would take weeks to achieve.
The following are the links to the current lore quick-primer, and the Longsleep-Revival brief, in that order.
1) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pIZyKif0bFbBWten4drrm7kfSSfvBoJPgG9-ywfN8j8/pub
2) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fUO3KKbAbTxMP1lqphnnodY0NPoOVblCUkDw-54MDUc/pub
I had a bit of a moment, and while re-reading the longsleep survival brief, I noticed that the Ordo Historia stated that humanity is smeared across an area of the galaxy about 1,200 lightyears wide. I was curious about this, so naturally I investigated, and did a bit of math. Using a figure that measured the area of the galaxy in meters, I found that the galaxy has an area of about 6.65E60 meters. This is an absolute shitload, and I should mention that I am -not- by -any- means qualified to do this math, but bear with me, I then took the liberty of assuming that the area humanity has settled in is going to be cubic, because I couldn't be arsed into doing the math for the volume in meters of a sphere 1,200 light years wide, that said, I calculated the volume of the area humanity has settled to be roughly 1.63E29 meters in volume. (Likely less, given that I used a cubic format.) This is also a shitload, but not even nearly as large a shitload as the shitload posted above, in fact, in reference to the galaxy, the area that humanity has settled is about 0.000000000000000000000000000002451127819548872% the total area of the galaxy. I didn't put that into scientific notation for the "Wow!" factor, naturally.
That said, the core worlds concept effectively would not/can not exist, as the area being discussed here would be relatively homogeneous in reference to the stars. I would think core worlds would focus mostly of random star clusters in our local area, rather than the actual core of the galaxy. Which might have an impact on other things, such as the estimated amount of time for a civilization to reach transcendence, given a rough time period, my idea is that we might need a different time-frame to work with, given the lore.
I'm not -suggesting- anything, I would just like input from my fellow folks about what they think about the lore, and how can we as a community add depth to the game. (Without any actual programming on Tynan's part.) If we do come up with something amazing, we can naturally move it to suggestions, and perhaps he can handle it from there. All I am aiming to discuss is editing a google document, nothing that would take weeks to achieve.
