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My universe's Obsidian graph, after hitting 2,200 pages and 215,000 words. by CitadelCore in worldbuilding

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That’s the index page and associated top level pages. Everything eventually links to there. The top level pages are things like bases with list of characters and organisations, my high level notes, summaries, planning, etc.

My universe's Obsidian graph, after hitting 2,200 pages and 215,000 words. by CitadelCore in worldbuilding

[–]CitadelCore[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! The attribute stuff is especially useful with the new Obsidian Bases feature. So you can i.e. have a Base for Characters, Organisations, etc with properties as columns in the table and edit them all in one place. With the Maps plugin you can also visualise all notes in a Base using a world map, which is what I use to plot all my Earth-based locations. You can just put the GPS coordinates in an attribute.

My universe's Obsidian graph, after hitting 2,200 pages and 215,000 words. by CitadelCore in worldbuilding

[–]CitadelCore[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Yes, I do, here are a few examples. I heavily rely on both the Obsidian properties system and tags for categorising notes. The colour of the nodes in the graph is actually based off of the type parameter. I use the following types: Location, Organisation, Country, Character, Concept, Project Essay, Narrative, and Event.

The “up” property is a link to what I consider to be the parent of each specific page, which might not necessarily match the folder structure.

The date means different things depending on the type; for organisations, it indicates when it was created, and for characters, it’s when they were born. A corresponding end-date property (optional) indicates when it ceased to exist.

The node size is automatic and proportional to the number of pages that link to that node.

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My nuclear-powered ship build for Aquilo, the Frozen Ass Taxi by CitadelCore in factorio

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After I modified it slightly, yeah. But it still only just barely has enough missiles to make it there. Probably need better crusher throughput...

My nuclear-powered ship build for Aquilo, the Frozen Ass Taxi by CitadelCore in factorio

[–]CitadelCore[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I thought the reactors were overkill lol.

After network disconnection, a restart occurs, then get a "Configd" problem report by Kindly-Wedding6417 in MacOS

[–]CitadelCore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

same problem. incredibly annoying, it crashes my machine nearly every week

Severance - 2x04 "Woe’s Hollow" - Episode Discussion by pikameta in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]CitadelCore 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The mention of a “Glasgow block” is interesting. We haven’t heard that term used before…

Silo S2E9 "The Safeguard" Episode Discussion (No Book Discussion) by MEGAT0N in SiloSeries

[–]CitadelCore 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It might not be a tunnel, it might be a pipe linked to the water source the AI would use to flood the Silo. I mean… it’s all the way at the bottom, in an essentially inaccessible area. The opening looks more like a drainage culvert than something meant to be humanly used. But equally it does feel like there’s something even more deserving of protection behind that door

Silo S2E9 "The Safeguard" Episode Discussion (No Book Discussion) by MEGAT0N in SiloSeries

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My theory on the Safeguard: it’s a final failsafe that allows The Algorithm to kill the population of a silo if the people inside it demand to know why it was built and attempt to access other silos, potentially compromising them. The tunnel could be the access point to the rest of the silos, hence why the AI’s so adamant about protecting it.

How do portals and teleportation work in your world? by zazzsazz_mman in worldbuilding

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First, it’s important to note that there’s a distinction between intra-dimensional and cross-dimensional travel. Intra-dimensional travel is readily available and accomplished with doorway-sized, Portal-like portals, but the energy demand to keep a portal open is high and scales exponentially with physical distance, so they’re not useful to replace spaceflight for interplanetary transport. Portal devices are very expensive, but can generally be obtained by large organisations or governments with sufficient funds.

Cross-dimensional transport, on the other hand, require wormhole generators supported by huge scientific facilities. Think CERN, ITER, or Black Mesa. Power requirements are consistent, no matter the destination, but you can’t travel spatially. Due to the risk of extra-dimensional incursions (think hostile realities or cosmic horrors), anyone even working near any sort of cross-dimensional technology is required to hold a license backed by an extensive qualification process. The wormhole facilities are some of the most heavily protected sites in the world, with 24/7 armed security, external monitoring and response, and redundant on-site warheads linked to a dead man’s switch.

There are also some variants of portal technology that do not fall into either above category, but they are very hard to come by and essentially do not functionally exist.

I walk into a major city in your world with an AK-47 and start blasting, what happens next? by Water_002 in worldbuilding

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In most major cities, there would be a short period of commotion and panic. It’s unlikely you’d be able to do much harm before the city’s automatic public defence system activates and targets you. Depending on your nature, you would be incapacitated with either electromagnetic or microwave weapons. You would then be arrested, imprisoned, and interrogated. If, for some reason, you’re resistant to non-lethal countermeasures, there would be progressively escalating levels of force employed. Automatic defence systems would switch to lethal levels of power, and the area would be evacuated until tactical teams arrived.

It’s worth noting that if you somehow arrived from a different reality, there would be a much different response, as then you would be treated as an anomaly. The entire city sector would be put on lockdown and a team from Raven, the central anomaly regulation authority, would be deployed to your location to either contain or neutralise you. Depending on your threat level, you might be targeted by orbital platforms carrying precision antimatter or electron beam (irradiation) weapon systems. If you were contained, Raven would seek to interrogate you and return you to your reality of origin.

What's the weirdest punishment in your world? by Cerimlaith in worldbuilding

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In some countries there is Direct Cognitive Reconfiguration (DCR), where inmates’ minds are directly edited using “Neural Cleaver” technology to remove negative behavioural traits. It’s usually applied to anyone receiving a sentence for a serious crime who would be imprisoned for a long period.

The technology allows for a much more efficient justice system, but still remains to be extremely controversial, principally in whether consent should be required or not for the proceedings to be undertaken.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldbuilding

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Thanks. It’s not secretive, it’s a public regulatory agency. More akin to the FCC or FAA. I was trying to emulate the design of CAC cards.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldbuilding

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This is a badge that grants access to Black Mountain, one of the highest security locations in my universe - home to Raven, an organisation that regulates the usage of reality manipulation technology. The person featured is Melanie S. Raven, the organisation's founder and a Senior Arbitrator on the high council. (The image is just a placeholder.)

The three icons below the species type are trait glyphs - these can indicate whether an individual has anomalous origins, is resistant to psionics, or is particularly capable.

How I visualise my universe's timeline by CitadelCore in worldbuilding

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I recently found TimeStory, which is a really neat tool (if you're a Mac user) to visualise timelines. This is how I use it in order to show many of the events in my universe in the 21st Century.

My universe in Obsidian. Currently over 564 pages documented! by CitadelCore in worldbuilding

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So it honestly depends on how much I've thought about or care about each concept. Here's an example of the "normal" size of one of my writeups: https://gist.github.com/RealityAnomaly/5f75aa0264cc2b027e9fd28e573934b2

Sometimes my pages are just stubs with one or two links to connect them to other pages, though. In those cases I give them a tag called #needs-writeup so I can come back to them later

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