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Favorite scifi concept? (lemmy.ml)
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I'd love to hear about your favorite concept or idea you've read about or seen in scifi media.

My personal favorite is the Conjoiner Drive out of the Revelation Space series. These ship drives are dual drives on either side of a lighthugger and have a living being inside the drives to act as a supercomputer, which holds a wormhole open inside the drives. The wormhole links far in the past to the big-bang and uses the energy from the big-bang for propulsion.

In most scifi I've come across wormholes are used for FTL travel, and I thought this was such a unique and creative use of a wormhole it has stuck with me for years after reading about it.

So what are your favorite devices or ideas that have come out of scifi media?

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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The thing is, I'd at least want the mathematical rule governing speed versus mass proximity to stay internally consistent, so bringing up the interstellar speed massively would mean bringing up the interplanetary speed massively too, and right now, I think the latter is already tuned pretty well.

Did you play with a HOTAS? I lined mine up to match the virtual positions, so the feeling of presence was insanely good. This is making me want to set that up again, which I should probably do anyway for an Index/Frame comparison.

And yeah, the lack of mod support is a shame.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah they'd have to make up some lore, maybe make it so you have to fly away perpendicular to the other massive bodies in the system, or just plain increase the speed, maybe as it gets faster.

    Dude not only did I play with a HOTAS, I bought a HOTAS and drilled it into a dinner tray along with a keyboard, trackball mouse, and USB hub so I could even type blindly. I got very good at flying inebriated :)

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