CYBERSPACE SHIPYARDS

[colonel lacu]

For a long time, I was meaning to build something terrestrial, olden and massive, like a castle or Victorian manor. Then I watched a vintage classic about Michelangelo, The Agony and the Ecstasy, and the grandeur of it all decided that it should be a cathedral instead.

Despite it being something different, the construction process isn't quite as fun or fluid as I imagined, but you know, I'm not exactly doing what the old master did... Redecorating a ceiling for four years straight, painting while lying supine on a scaffold, with paint dripping into his eyes and all... The perseverance!

Man that makes me wanna build over the top gothic stuff in starmade again. Haven't really got to build that stuff since like 3 years ago when I made a massive mansion in Minecraft

Spoiler: Pictures of the mansion

 

[DeepspaceMechanic]

Man that makes me wanna build over the top gothic stuff in starmade again. Haven't really got to build that stuff since like 3 years ago when I made a massive mansion in Minecraft

Spoiler: Pictures of the mansion

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Now, that's something! Realistic, elaborate exterior, and an atmospheric interior...

 

[DeepspaceMechanic]

Blueprint: The gravity magnifier warpgate


Dave indulging in a space-age extreme sport:

Spoiler: near collision with a flying mountain (GIF)

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[Valck]

The gravity magnifier warpgate

Now, that's something! Realistic, elaborate exterior, and an atmospheric interior...

Isn't it, though?

Can't help but wonder how this might be made to "work" in "real" life; ie. how "realistic" could this be written in say, a sci fi novel...
To begin with, both asteroids would probably have to orbit a common barycenter. But then, one asteroid is teleported... elsewhere? And to counteract the sudden change in momentum, energy needs to be... extracted? Or in other words, can be harvested? And what happens on the "other side" - obviously somehow energy "over there" needs to get transferred to the smaller asteroid and transported "over here", but what are the consequences? Red shift/blue shift? Tidal "freezing" of entire star sysyems? Interstellar fracking – it boggles the mind.

Wouldn't be surprised in the least to see all manners of cosmic conflicts arising from such an inconsiderate, if not outright imperialistic use of technology ; )

 

[DeepspaceMechanic]

Can't help but wonder how this might be made to "work" in "real" life; ie. how "realistic" could this be written in say, a sci fi novel...

Can't say I'm even close to being well-versed enough in the subject to speculate on the details of how this would play out in reality... But the lore explanation I've given at the download page, well, that's like 10% sci, 70% fi, and 20% BS :D

To begin with, both asteroids would probably have to orbit a common barycenter.

Right, they do seem similar enough in mass that the larger one would at least wobble a lot, if not outright revolve around a point outside of its surface.

But then, one asteroid is teleported... elsewhere?

The way I imagined it is that the orbiting asteroid passes through the ring in the gate's inactive state, so the roid itself wouldn't be teleported. It just provides a moving gravity field, which is "captured then amplified."

And to counteract the sudden change in momentum, energy needs to be... extracted? Or in other words, can be harvested?

I'd be curious about an elaboration of this

And what happens on the "other side" - obviously somehow energy "over there" needs to get transferred to the smaller asteroid and transported "over here", but what are the consequences? Red shift/blue shift? Tidal "freezing" of entire star systems? Interstellar fracking – it boggles the mind.

The way I understand relativistic wormholes is that they simply bridge vastly separated coordinates, until they collapse (smoothening space's curvature back to normal, similar to how its reverted after black holes evaporate). Going through them is essentially simple translational motion, so matter-energy doesn't instantaneously disappear and reappear between their two ends, it just moves a shortened distance. But do tell if I'm missing something here.