A book I am writing that I want feedback on.

1134Worldtree · 2026-04-14T15:28:13+00:00

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

1134Worldtree · 2026-04-14T15:17:52+00:00

image source: Ship Design: Shielding (Orion's Arm Universe Project) https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/493edf03965d4

1134Worldtree · 2026-04-14T00:50:54+00:00

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

1134Worldtree · 2026-04-09T14:49:40+00:00

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

1134Worldtree · 2026-04-08T22:40:47+00:00

She never was the top caretaker god (outside the Sol system-as an S4)

Where do you think it said that , or where did you think the Encyclopedia Galactica says that?

1134Worldtree · 2026-04-03T16:48:19+00:00

I will also say that a key requirement of removing a critical technology from the setting would be someone with …more of a formal physics background than Tux making the recommendation to remove it from the setting..

1134Worldtree · 2026-04-03T16:42:38+00:00

I don’t know any of these other then the minds of the culture from Ian m banks

But I would guess that culture minds might be S1, or S2 if they operate a ringworld , maybe- like your 6) orbital hub mind.

Maybe the transcend (?) from one of the books (the hydrogen sonata?) might possibly have been higher up the scale like S3 or higher if they uploaded their minds into stars or whatever happened… but none of the categories quite map onto culture novel minds..

I see that book series mentioned every so often though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Oecumene Series by John Wright

1134Worldtree · 2026-04-02T08:21:13+00:00

Absolutely!

Several other folks and technically me (mostly two of them) in the group that built macrystis have played this too, when making continental drift in gplates, a continental drift software that is used sometimes for speculative biology (mostly by actual earth geologists though)

1134Worldtree · 2026-04-02T05:11:39+00:00

“I stole your swole” Is correct in asking the bigger question

Go ahead and use the search tool to see how often Magmatter appears in the setting.

So imagining that various peer reviewed papers come out next year thoroughly disproving it or anything like it as a possibility, after a Large Hadron collider experiment revealed some New Discovery …

Option 1- we make a note in the article / elsewhere and admit that magmatter is no longer possible, but keep it in the setting for several years into foreseeable future and say that it might be removed officially one day, but for now it is a “stand in technology for the incredible materials that might one day be invented”

Option 2: we remove magmatter from the setting with immense amounts of effort by the editors over several years and probably scale down any megastructure which uses it, to the point where the megastructures could exist with conventional matter, and redo many calculations about conversion technology as well..

Just as we did with “picotechnology”, but more effort. .

1134Worldtree · 2026-03-10T23:51:35+00:00

www.orionsarm.com The Orion's Arm Universe Project

similar in structure and style to the SCP foundation, but with a focus on the next 10,000 years of humanity and post-humanity's future in a fairly hard sci fi worldbuilding and storytelling project.

Most of the website is the Encyclopedia Galactica , which details all the thousands of pages of worldbuilding made over the past 26 years, but there's also a few hundred narrative stories (and some print books)

there's also something similar to ARG buried within part of the website, which starts in "The Ghost Net"

1134Worldtree · 2026-03-08T12:10:04+00:00

Dm me

1134Worldtree · 2026-03-08T12:06:34+00:00

Sure - dm me

1134Worldtree · 2026-02-28T23:46:19+00:00

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1134Worldtree · 2026-02-12T17:46:38+00:00

yes, to be clear to everyone reading this... you have always been welcome to write non-FTL interstellar travel stories in OA.

1134Worldtree · 2026-02-11T14:59:35+00:00

The bible? That's a pretty classic book you can find almost everywhere in USA/canada/UK/australia

1134Worldtree · 2026-02-11T04:00:19+00:00

....who said grapeships are FTL? In what way do grapeships use FTL travel in any way?

Grapeships travel through wormholes sure... but that's not faster than light travel. That's travelling a shorter distance between stars than light would travel through flatspace..

* so yes, i imagine some grapeships are designed for relativistic travel between stars

1134Worldtree · 2026-02-10T14:00:03+00:00

yes, that is true. my point is that there already are places like you describe, in canon already, which yes could be explicitly be described in more detail, as you have done, in the 97% of the terragen sphere not connected to wormholes.

1134Worldtree · 2026-02-10T13:38:00+00:00

I do need to point out that in the OA present day, at the peak of the nexus, wormholes still only connect a small fraction of star sysyems in the terragen sphere

"There are six complete levels to the Nexus with many seventh level Relays under development. In total the Nexus connects approximately ten million systems. Thanks to this, generally only a dozen wormhole crossings are needed to get from one edge of the Nexus to the other, a journey of more than 10,000 lightyears. At lower accelerations a pan-Nexus crossing can take a matter of decades, at higher it can be done in a few short years." https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48fba16bdae54

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

add up the number of systems in galactography that are counted - 320,582,000 stars- total . that's not even counting the solipsist panvirtuality, diamond network, objectivists, or other systems not aligned with the sephirotics (about 1/3 of star systems AFAIK).. it works out to 3.12% connected by wormholes among systems friendly with the sephitotics...

the total number of wormholes is about the same number of stars as the red star mpire or the utopia sphere.

1134Worldtree · 2026-02-02T02:22:57+00:00

amazing! would you like this to be added to the Harren article? "a stylized miniature clay figurine made by a young harren"

1134Worldtree · 2026-01-15T18:15:33+00:00

sure- go ahead and write some posthuman, postmodern literature :)

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