Seraviel Wrote:That is an excellent idea - I'll throw together a first draft sometime next week. (I'm too busy today to write...)Quote:HRogge wrote:This is, however, the first I hear of China being part of those hostile to handwavium (I had thought of them going the exact other way, just to piss off the US). Any article where this is written? I might have missed that one.
The second concern is about China, which has been described as very hostile to Fen and Handwavium... I doubt they would do business with Fen at all... they even confiscate all waved things inside their borders I think (something I would not like to happen to Spot).
Maybe it would be an idea to restrict "Spot Cleaning" to some "Fen friendly" parts of the world... or move the foundation of this company to a later part of the timeline.
It might also be good to create a throughout Fen/earth relations article. Any opinion on that ?
Seraviel Wrote:Greenwood, Wonderland, Beta, Nouveau Paris, Babylon .5, Prometheus Forge, Disney's World, and Village of Hidden Asteroid are all asteroid habitats. Ki is a plant, as is Yggdrasil. That leaves Grover's Corners as the largest craft (as opposed to asteroid or lifeform) in Fenspace.Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:I'm sorry to say, Bob, but by 2014 Spot isn't even the second largest craft in Fenspace. It's third, behind Greenwood and Ki. And Spot won't catch up to Greenwood until 2018 at the earliest.
I've been meaning to mention this for a while, but the constant growth aspect of Spot bothers me. My bit of "Cool" in Fenspace is having the biggest freaking craft in the system. At the projected rate of growth for Spot, it's going to elbow aside my piece of Cool in just a few years. Worse yet, because the growth is apparently unstoppable, Spot will become an unwieldy juggernaut -- and by Infinities time will start having an astronomic size.
I personally thought your bit of cool was the largest unreal estate, and the largest natural earth habitat in space. And since the actual used space in Spot is less than a tenth (unless you count parking space, which I don't), you beat Spot by a large margin.
However, I'll bow down to the general opinion if it says to Spot is too much.
Thank you all for the reviews.
P.S. : Spot is already an unwieldy juggernaut by 2014, and the only thing that stops him from a stable orbit is its personality.
(Tangent: Perhaps the asteroid habitats should be removed from the Spacecraft Registry altogether and added to the Places in Fenspace list if they aren't there already. Opinions, all?)
Something to consider: if Black Spot ends up growing to be as big as Greenwood, and it keeps eating, then the Trekkies are going to want to do something about the "Doomsday Machine" in their midst. (What that "somethng" is, I'm not sure... but I doubt it would be pleasant for Spot.) Perhaps Spot could stop growing before getting that big...?
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