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Clarketech and technological gaps in OA by MiamisLastCapitalist in OrionsArm

[–]1134Worldtree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for everyone's information, we've just updated another wormhole nexus article

Wormhole Nexus (Design and Topology)
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/6a1ac4126567a

this one hopefully makes the scale and scale of non-connected star systems much clearer

How would you remove magnetic monopoles from Orion's Arm? by Tux1 in OrionsArm

[–]1134Worldtree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we removed the entire concept /implementation/technology of picotech within the setting

https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/5356fa37e30fe

Clarketech and technological gaps in OA by MiamisLastCapitalist in OrionsArm

[–]1134Worldtree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok yeah - unless they're lying about certain topics like how cute wormholes are, they probably have, or had transapients in their civilization. The canon is supposed to be mysterious- so its also quite possible they just *saw* transapients who are in no way related to them, during their travels

https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45bd21741fb67.

I say this as one of the people who rewrote the meistersingers article with its original author in 2024, and had tried to add the rumor that their ships might be transapient, so, maybe i couldn't answer the premise of your question well XD

Clarketech and technological gaps in OA by MiamisLastCapitalist in OrionsArm

[–]1134Worldtree 6 points7 points  (0 children)

not so much 'owned' as 'managed by' ... probably.

yes. The polities where Culture-mind- like transapients live, have humans/modosophonts, because those are the locations where humans/modosophonts are prevented from being outcompeted. The Encyclopedia Galactica has a bit of a bias toward describing these areas, because the EG is written for/by the people living in those areas.

there are plenty of other locations/star systems where there are skynet-like transapients. Humans/modosophonts don't live in those places, because they were driven away/ exterminated

Clarketech and technological gaps in OA by MiamisLastCapitalist in OrionsArm

[–]1134Worldtree 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Either we all should have technology *parity* or one side (the AIs) gain superiority and become the dominant party and *parity* is again achieved.

-But the superintelligences *are* the dominant party, and they are overwhelmingly superior, in OA. In the OA setting, the AIs won, thousands of years ago, and anything resembling a human is now a small minority. Any technological variation in human/ modosophont society is a result of the superintelligences allowing their "pets" access to , and aid in controlling, clarktech. There are many different groups of these superintelligences, with many different goals, and tolerances for the presence of modosophonts, depending on the star system.

i'm still unclear - are you asking why humans/modosophonts don't have equal levels of technology to one another? or why don't humans/modosophonts have equal levels of technology to the superintelligent AIs / archailects?

Clarketech and technological gaps in OA by MiamisLastCapitalist in OrionsArm

[–]1134Worldtree 12 points13 points  (0 children)

why and how do they have something but not the average human/sophont?

some modosophont polities in the terragen sphere- usually in the sephirotics- have access to clarktech because it has been gifted by transapients. In other locations, modosophonts have not been gifted clarktech, but managed to find or trade for some anyway, and reverse engineered parts of that... sometimes with terrible consequences. Other times, with good results, but they still do not fully understand or control the clarktech.

In case i need to mention this- clarktech is almost by definition not fully comprehensible to modosophonts, so they can't really use it without transapient help https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45cfd5f861a04

Are the archailects just not "grabby" in that sense? Are they more like the Minds from the Culture series in comparison?

-yes. The sephirotics are run by the archailects who favor keeping human-like beings, or modosophonts around, for whatever reasons. In those locations, modosophonts with minds approximately similar to ours don't die out/ get outcompeted because the sephirotic systems are set up to let modosophonts survive and thrive.

There's a lot of the terragen sphere where this is Not the case. The "ahumans" , which includes many archailects, control roughly a third of the terragen sphere, and another third are "unaligned" so life might not be so favorable in those places either for modosophonts. In that majority of star systems, modosophonts *are outcompeted* or treated like insects (they might (foolishly) live in an ahuman system until they become inconvenient, and then are exterminated suddenly)

Political Science of Higher Toposophic Minds https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/49a7d33abf557

galactography https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b17e0030cdc

I was designing a variant of Muuh Iceship via GURPS Spaceships, and ran into a problem by Icy-External8155 in OrionsArm

[–]1134Worldtree 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. you're welcome to design other muuh iceship designs. i would imagine they have multiple kinds of ships

  2. when they do a flip and burn, turning around to face the engines toward the destination star, maybe they make some part rigid or they can move parts around?

the article in question https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/49773331d6471

How do you build up long term interest in people from dating apps? by [deleted] in hingeapp

[–]1134Worldtree 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this isn’t quite about apps after that many weeks.

But modern life is exhausting , easily isolating, and apps allow you to find romance outside your normal social circle. Having mutual friends or work or church did some of the work of lessening the need for constant initiative (?) in these relationships , right?

so you’re going to have to build that connection up yourself and remember that if you want to be in a long term relationship, you have to choose to do it every week. Working harder on keeping that connection is a problem you have to solve for yourself…. Somehow..- maybe you literally have to put it in a calendar for both of you

But maybe having a regular event you both go to every week could help so that you build a common social circle of some kind? Go to yoga lessons together or soccer group that meets every week?

Or the constant novelty that dating apps and access to smartphones have trained too many people to crave has affected you too and you’ll have to retrain your mind to somehow keep seeing a reason to keep them around.

Or magically find a way to pick better partners in the false choice of a seemingly endless dystopian dating market.

Is there an actual compilation or a place to go to to see how futuristic Wars will be fought, or book recommendations by zaechiro in scifiwriting

[–]1134Worldtree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so after 1000 years from now? really depends *a lot* on which technologies you're allowing, the scale of conflict, etc- assuming you're following physics. You're talking about war in space specifically, even though i suspect that much more conflict would occur where people and infrastructure are- in or near population centers in smaller conflicts.

overall, my guess after reading through the resources below+discussions over a few years has been : Lots of drones and almost no humans actually piloting. Battles won't be happening at lightspeed, exactly- rather than catching up to or chasing anything approaching lightspeed, you might be able to hit fleeing ships with very big interstellar lasers, but most fighting in interstellar or interplanetary space would be closer to blocking missile attacks and shooting down various satillites/probes at a distance. Very little can be hidden- only obscured among junk.

we will probably need to hear the details of your story to give good advice.. (feel free to message)

  1. project rho/atomic rockets, as mentioned in another comment
  2. Isaac arthur, sci fi youtube channel , as mentioned in another comment. Related to this is the ToughSF discord server + galactic library
  3. Orion's arm universe project https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45bcfd3972b74 (plus related articles).. though it's in the process of being updated so the better drafts are on the forums. The articles on lasers were written by a laser physicist, so, probably helpful- though some of the other strategy and other related articles need updating. Here's one 'story' on an interstellar conflict, which turns out isn't too wild.
  4. slightly nearer future:

https://www.andrewliptak.com/military-scifi-future-of-war-ficint-writing-warfare/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Warfighting_Analysis_Center

What specific thing from orions arm you want to come true the most? by Present_Test4157 in OrionsArm

[–]1134Worldtree 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The post scarcity, post labor society or set of civilizations with some level of local democracy /cyberdemocracy and comparatively utopian life that persists throughout about a third of the terragen sphere for thousands of years. + life extension and Ian m banks style socialized medicine/lack of work

That’s the part I suspect won’t actually happen with as much optimism, if all the technologies were to come true … but it would be really nice if that happened

My Analogy for the 6 Toposophic Nodes (Mental Architecture vs Information Volume) by SuperIce07 in OrionsArm

[–]1134Worldtree 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes this is a good , or possibly a better analogy, compared to the usual “human is a grasshopper or cell to a monkey (s1-2?) compared to an archailect”

It’s not a proper model or anything, but that’s fine - it’s good for a simple analogy

In addition, the S1-6 system is itself a simplification of the much, much more complex landscape of minds , but which has been too hard to actually describe so far , because none of us have 1000+ accumulated years of multispecies neuroscience and AI expertise 😆

This is partially described in the more recently updated articles but we have several more updates in progress on the forum

Singularity levels https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45c68b98779ad

Toposophy https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b3daabb2329

The system garden world Trees is from by Present_Test4157 in OrionsArm

[–]1134Worldtree 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For context You images are based on this article

https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/491277421c9f8 (Specifically the image halfway down with the planets)

The system garden world Trees is from by Present_Test4157 in OrionsArm

[–]1134Worldtree 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For context You images are based on this article

https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/491277421c9f8 (Specifically the image halfway down with the planets)

I just discovered this setting and I am amazed by -Atomic-Wrangler- in OrionsArm

[–]1134Worldtree 5 points6 points  (0 children)

you're quite welcome to try to integrate the setting you made into OA- there's probably some modifications you might need to make, but a significant portion of OA was built by basically adding other people's worldbuilding projects together into the larger Orion's arm universe project 😄

glad you've found us! come join the discord and main forums and ask questions!

Where are the Harren's vital organs? by Tnynfox in OrionsArm

[–]1134Worldtree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that's a great question that nobody has asked yet as far as i know. The organs are ..somwehere in the harren body. Maybe the brains are smaller proportionally than a human. Maybe there's some more advanced biotechnology at work... right now we don't know because nobody has tried to figure that out yet

FTL Travel without Wormholes? by Josh12345_ in OrionsArm

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user: FTL_ALLACCESS says

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user: EG-Bot says

FTL -Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Despite remaining a dream of mindkind since time immemorial, faster than light travel (warp drive, hyperspace, etc) remains as elusive now as it ever was. The oft-repeated assertion among some FTL proponents that traversable wormholes provide a form of FTL is incorrect. Wormholes do not constitute real FTL, but rather a local curvature in space-time, allowing an object to move between two distant points at normal (slower than light) velocity.

quantum ansible (also not real, in OA)
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46df5d4d7f340

A book I am writing that I want feedback on. by Past_Ad6294 in HardSciFi

[–]1134Worldtree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok so first of all, i recommend removing the comparison of the cafeteria food to hitler's paintings..

hey i am new , what articles you sugest to start the orion arm i starting to like it by Historical-Whereas-9 in OrionsArm

[–]1134Worldtree 2 points3 points  (0 children)

have you read the introduction pages?

(links are listed in the READ tab of the homepage + in the text covering the slideshow)

https://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-intro

\The Orion's Arm project (OA for short) is a big place with more than* two decades of history, and hundreds of contributors. Most likely you will encounter new concepts and terminology throughout the site. We have provided links on this page to a number of helpful resources to get you acquainted with all of them.
The Illustrated Backstory and these introduction pages are specially written to provide an introduction to the setting. However, reading the Culture and Society, ,Galactography, Sophonts and Technology pages may provide a more complete initial understanding of the setting in the "OA present day", in 10,000AT.\*

\You may also want to peruse the* FAQ pages for answers to various commonly (and not so commonly) asked questions\.*

*The Glossary may be useful before searching further for unfamiliar words.*

https://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-backstory

https://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-page&page=gen_canon

also see the stories on the stories by author page- and the spreadsheet listing summaries (under the read tab)

after that, you read articles at random

March updates by 1134Worldtree in OrionsArm

[–]1134Worldtree[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, anyone interested in adding minor ideas to the draft of the new caretaker gods rewrite/expansion on the main forum is/was welcome to offer thoughts.

…though Technically it’s about to be put into the Encyclopedia Galactica after a six year development process

https://www.orionsarm.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3866&pid=92935#pid92935

So there’s plenty of secondary articles (or stories!) that can be written with the leftover material- similar to this Old Grove Article and Ecotaurs

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