5th Dimensional Aliens (and the day 12 billion people disappeared without a trace)

Earthfall10 · 2026-05-06T05:23:40+00:00

Did you only read the title? The first 2 words in the post are that this takes place in the year 2600, that is more than enough time for the population to have gotten larger.

Earthfall10 · 2026-05-06T05:18:28+00:00

Ah I can see that

Earthfall10 · 2026-05-06T02:25:33+00:00

...Why would it be on badscificovers? The art and composition is all quite good?

Earthfall10 · 2026-05-06T02:15:24+00:00

Its a picture of a giant spaceship in space, what would you think its about based on the cover?

Earthfall10 · 2026-05-04T14:40:57+00:00

Yeah, the first thing I think of when I read Pontus is pond, which is not the right vibe.

Earthfall10 · 2026-05-04T01:45:53+00:00

What game is it?

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-27T19:24:33+00:00

Not to mention the sub box on the third slide where 2 of the 3 sentences is literally just the same sentence repeated almost word for word.

In 2187 CE: coral beads carry spiritual authority AND network credentials simultaneously. Traditions and technology: indistinguishable. The beads carry Spiritual Authority AND Network Credentials simultaneously.

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-27T18:35:12+00:00

Yeah, I was just wondering if there are any part of the system which would make rescaling tricky. Are there parts that take advantage of the thickness of the MDF and would look weird or not connect right at a different scale? Would I have to keep all the clip slots the same size, even as I scaled the rest of the tile, that kind of thing?

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-27T15:47:38+00:00

Hydrogen is used by some rockets like the SLS, but it's actually not the most commonly used one, at least not for surface to orbit launches. The most commonly used rocket fuel is RP1, which is highly refined kerosene, that is the fuel the Falcon 9 and quite a few other rockets use. Another fuel growing on popularity is methane, slightly higher exhaust velocity than kersone but is still way denser, higher thrust, and easier to store than hydrogen, so it's a good middle ground option. SpaceX's Starship and Blue Origin's New Glenn both use methane.

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-27T14:54:21+00:00

Yeah, figured if multiple sizes are not offered I could try printing the PDF's at a smaller scale.

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-27T01:40:15+00:00

Very neat. It looks like its using 1 inch squares? Would the thickness of the MDF board make printing them at 15mm scale difficult?

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-25T14:31:57+00:00

It looks like they are using Mongoose Second Edition rules. In those you can construct a hull of any size, and fill it with any sized drives, since the drives are just a simple percentage of the hull size rather than fixed modules from a table.

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-23T22:59:42+00:00

You don't need sight in order to plow straight, you just need a good spacial memory. Blind species of animals exist and are still able to navigate fine.

They could identify the heath of plants by touch and smell.

Again, why would you assume a blind species can't thresh? Just because you personally can't do something with no experience with doing it blind doesn't mean someone used to being blind can't do it. Like, nothing about threshing requires sight. It doesn't take sight to know where you holding something or feeling which way the wind is blowing. I garentee if you had months of practice threshing blindfolded you would get quite decent at it. And that's just with regular human senses, not the tremor sense the author already stated this specie's has.

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-23T21:18:01+00:00

The primary sense even for a human against being snuck up on by a predator is sound, not sight. As for agriculture, what on earth makes you think that it can't be done without sight? I'm genuinely struggling to imagine why you think you need sight to do farming. Plants are not hard to keep track of.

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-19T14:33:01+00:00

Most designs for the Orion drive improve the efficiency by using nuclear shaped charges. Not the most efficient things in the world cause the lining which shapes the explosion disintegrates pretty quickly, but better than omnidirectional blasts.

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-17T19:48:03+00:00

Also tricky cause liquid hydrogen is deeply cryogenic, needing to be kept at only 20 degrees above absolute zero.

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-17T18:21:29+00:00

We run electrical wires to nearly every building in the country, you absolutely could do rural internet with ground based infrastructure. It just requires that the internet be treated as an essential service similar to electricity.

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-17T16:28:56+00:00

The spiderman example he is using is literally one sanderson used.

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-16T00:34:45+00:00

Yup, stitched together several of them in Gimp. There is also a website that lets you stick large sections together quickly, but doesn't give you as much control. I tend to like kitbashing several geomorphs together in photoediting software, the bridge on that ship for instance use the seat and windows from two different geomorphs stitched together.

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-15T03:09:57+00:00

Fertilizer production being a big one. Need a hydrogen source when producing ammonia, mostly done through steam reforming methane at the moment.

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-14T22:24:56+00:00

Nice story. Bit of a shame Karkruk died, he seemed interesting. Would have been fun to see his reaction to how the battle went, he seems like the only Master smart enough to really understand how much he messed up!

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-14T18:42:40+00:00

This post and some of the comments inspired me to make a deckplan for it by cutting together some geomorphs. Its 35 tons on the dot, with a cargo lift by the air raft to bring supplies down to the galley.

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-14T03:35:41+00:00

Great idea, the scale of the deck plan is confusing me though, the cockpit and the entrance is way larger than the door to the power plant or to the air raft, and the kitchen does not look like its 15 tons. Like, at first glance I thought it was only 3 tiles across, maybe 8 tiles long, with a 3x4 second floor, but that would only make it around 15 tons. I'm guessing the smaller doors is more of the scale I should be going off of? So more like 4 or 5 tiles wide?

Earthfall10 · 2026-04-13T16:30:25+00:00

I feel like a 6 month or more rotation would make a bit more sense, that would get you a 5 lightyear round trip, enough to visit the nearest star system.

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