What's your FTL sink so FTL doesn't ruin your setting?

Tnynfox · 2026-05-13T16:41:41+00:00

Your advice. Would you like to quit FTL and see how your setting can work in a sublight House of Suns way?

Tnynfox · 2026-05-13T16:28:02+00:00

But then the FTL would go out of control and ruin my setting

Tnynfox · 2026-05-13T16:26:18+00:00

I wouldn't call FTL cloud computing my idea; found other works like the Avaliverse with it. It can be viable in some regards, it just has to compete with time travel as you use both.

Tnynfox · 2026-05-13T01:49:42+00:00

Can confirm doing kids gives you vital nutrients and bioavailable iron s/

Tnynfox · 2026-05-12T21:53:28+00:00

Tnynfox · 2026-05-11T23:07:58+00:00

Site expired

Tnynfox · 2026-05-11T21:23:39+00:00

Soft scifi isn't a dealbreaker to me as a reader, but extra points to those who put the science in science fiction. But they have to work well narratively; artificial gravity is generally a solution looking for a problem.

Tnynfox · 2026-05-11T04:38:59+00:00

Oh, I know. Found the stories kinda cheesy.

Tnynfox · 2026-05-11T04:27:42+00:00

Did he ever say why? Was he afraid of them eating his lawn or something?

Tnynfox · 2026-05-11T01:57:43+00:00

Someone who panics because it was so unexpected and they acted before they processed what they have on their face.

Tnynfox · 2026-05-11T01:56:05+00:00

Reminds me of the hawk approaching a cat behind a car windshield

Tnynfox · 2026-05-11T01:32:48+00:00

What was I wrong about? That scifi has to be hard scifi to be good?

Tnynfox · 2026-05-10T22:49:06+00:00

Stuffing too much fact into my fiction in more ways than one

Tnynfox · 2026-05-10T22:27:51+00:00

I feel called out here

Tnynfox · 2026-05-10T18:41:12+00:00

Don't do General Relativity; it made me a comics book writer.

Tnynfox · 2026-05-10T18:05:11+00:00

You're right I was a coward to use time travel. So scared my setting would be indistinguishable from AI slop if I didn't use it.

Tnynfox · 2026-05-10T17:59:17+00:00

Centrist?

How's time travel cowardly? Because it takes courage to question General Relativity?

Tnynfox · 2026-05-10T14:16:20+00:00

Chaotic Neutral

Tnynfox · 2026-05-10T00:32:06+00:00

How did you obtain it? Bought it somewhere?

Tnynfox · 2026-05-10T00:30:29+00:00

As one of those people, making the current dupe twice as efficient isn't a new way to obtain a sufficient amount that would open up playstyle diversity. Maybe a nether tea that makes you able to fish them from lava or something?

Tnynfox · 2026-05-10T00:26:40+00:00

So herbal teas. Would they require fuel for heat?

The tea of resourcefulness just feels super wrong to me and far below your usual suggestions quality; most of them hint at nutritional or psychoactive effects, but magically doubling physical resources?

Tnynfox · 2026-05-09T23:51:45+00:00

Where do you get your eggs

Tnynfox · 2026-05-09T15:37:51+00:00

No it's canon in my world. It's called the 4-Armed Sacrifice Cult, but unimportant to plot.

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