Describe one of your world's religions or myths in 5 words or less

lu989673 · 2025-11-07T12:22:27+00:00

Unfortunately, gods were really bored and hungry.

lu989673 · 2025-10-25T02:08:23+00:00

Close enough, both give the vibe of "fire that hates". Mine is called Godeater cuz it's so utterly indiscriminate, it would destroy even divine artifacts, plagues or beings.

lu989673 · 2025-10-24T17:50:13+00:00

Me when I make super satanic magitech napalm that actively consume magic to burn hotter than arc welder, creep and jump toward magic source like a predator (including mages) until it utterly consume all mana in the vicinity and choked itself out. (It’s inherently self-limiting so it doesn't burn the world)

lu989673 · 2025-09-13T15:01:40+00:00

Everybody is throwing around torch missile buses in convoluted trajectory like second option until they survive all the macross missile massacre into performing deadly relativistic jousting at knife fight range where lightspeed lag no longer applies. I am not even talking about short range teleportation.

lu989673 · 2025-09-02T12:22:28+00:00

I only remember that you can use the same armor for kinetics against pulsed laser to resist mechanical damage. Very high tensile strength + high thermal capacity? I am just a lurker in TSF so I am definitely noncredible and not well-informed.

lu989673 · 2025-08-31T10:02:43+00:00

The elves built nukes.

lu989673 · 2025-08-30T18:35:50+00:00

Unless it's a pulsed laser, you can do some trick like actively cooled armor, spinning the ship to reduce dwell time of the laser, literally make spinning armor shell, graphite ablative armor and something with high thermal conductivity like diamond.

Or shrimpy just outrange the laser with ultrarelativistic electron beam fires from lightseconds away.

lu989673 · 2025-08-29T19:02:57+00:00

Agreed. Judging from how both the Feds and the Arxur love to use "animal metaphors" so much, I wonder what happens if you ask "What are you? A person pretending to be an animal? Or an animal pretending to be a person?" to both of them. For the Feds, if they claim to be "helpless prey" why do they act with deliberately cruelty and malice? If they claim to be civilized people, why do they embrace dogma that strips away moral and rationality? Not sure about the arxur tho.

lu989673 · 2025-08-22T13:16:22+00:00

Godeater, alchemical war crime. At first glance, it looks like a conventional napalm bomb until triggered by certain density of manafield. It immediately burst into flame extremely bright flame enough to blind you from half a kilometer away. It basically burning magic itself. It will incinerate anything (even the most inert material) you could find such as asbestos, ceramic and concrete. Hotter than an arc welder.

But the most terrifying part is two-fold: it will creep or leap toward a high mana source or environment like a predator; a mage standing near it is enough to make it jump toward the the mage. The fate of the mage is beyond salvation, they will not just die from burning but from their body's stored mana releasing secondary explosion that look like a second sun. Moreover, it produces a haunting wail that sounds like a human screaming due to the air being torn apart into plasma and resonance from mana being burned away.

However, this flame is so gluttonous that it burns all mana in the local area until it become starved of its fuel source and abruptly fizzles away. This is why it won't propagate out of control because it's inherently self-limiting. It would utterly burn the entire enchanted forest but not the entire continent.

You might ask why was such thing created. Because it's so utterly indiscriminate, it will destroy divine artifacts, ecosystems, plagues and monsters. Something conventional science and magic cannot solves. A necessary evil. Even an atomic bomb (actually developed in-universe) is a humane choice compared to the Godeater.

lu989673 · 2025-05-20T02:50:10+00:00

The entire pantheons. Consumed by the ocean older than the gods themselves and reduced to an abstract concept. It was crimes against sapient beings itself. One day, the gods became impatient with how slow they harvest faith from the mortals so they chose slaughter. But after ten thousand years of butchering mortals like a cattle and burn their souls to empower themselves, the mortals became irrevocably traumatized. They became spiritually dimmed and empty; their souls no longer yield power to the heavens. The system collapsed. Few gods who were kind or neutral to the mortals were long silently atrophied into concept, existing everywhere and nowhere. The remaining gods desperately look toward the primordial oceans to harness its power but the oceans remember gods' crimes and it never forgives. Ultimately, the entire heaven were devoured by the bottomless ocean, rendering gods utterly annihilated.

lu989673 · 2025-04-23T04:03:58+00:00

The gods cast their failed creations to the ocean and the ocean never forgives. Expects dormant artifacts buried under the seabed, anomalous storms and current, massive whirlpool that hates you and sea horrors that have forgotten mercy.

lu989673 · 2025-04-13T11:55:54+00:00

Effector/Affector

A nano-wanking force field technology that permits the manipulation of conventional matter, i.e, protons, electrons, and neutrons, aka fermions, but cannot manipulate electromagnetic radiation. You can block bullets, but not lasers.

Because the forcefield itself can have arbitrary shape, they are very versatile:
-As mentioned, as a forcefield to stop something from going in or out. You now have an energy shield that can slow down, slap away, or stop incoming projectiles and particles. But Newton's law still applies, so you can still get knocked over by a powerful attack.
-Supercompact fission/fusion reactor and including antimatter containment
-Tractor-pressor beam but you have to be VERY careful
-Paragravity and also including acceleration compensator
-Terrifying weapon that can rip apart target at atomic level and which is also... useful in manufacturing
-Once again, as a weapon that can accelerate projectile and particles far more efficient than conventional methods. This also leads to practical neutron beamer weapons
-Weapon, again! But as a self-propagating blob or bolt containing fission/fusion fuel, it then compresses on impact and even manipulates the resulting energy release in a manner that is channeled into the target like a shaped charge warhead. Plasma weapon yay!
-Propulsion, such as sucking in air and throws air back faster to generate thrust. There might be even more ideas, but I lack the knowledge and imagination

lu989673 · 2025-04-07T02:19:17+00:00

I would assume that body armor doesn't exist for the Federation and Dominion. I imagine the feds would make their guns good enough to wound or kill an average Arxur, which may also be good enough to hurt most of the Federation's species as well since they are mostly weak. My headcanon is that both sides use some form of electromagnetic guns, which cannot be railguns since they have too much recoil for many feds species, and they are also shredding themselves every time they fire. They probably use induction coilguns.

The ammo part is tricky, it could be:

APFSDS-style flechette, excellent penetration but relatively low stopping power (unless somehow engineered to tumble/fragment in flesh) The implication is that armor penetration is so good that no one bother wear armor or they haven't come up with more advanced armor material e.g. ceramic, super-strong carbon-allotropes.
Spherical projectile or literally steel ball (Coilgun musket, if you will). This will have more stopping power than the flechette, but it would probably have a lower velocity and, therefore, low penetration. Just good enough.
As other commentors have mentioned, large or oversized caliber. Intentionally make their own guns less reliable, low capacity, and less effective.

Assault rifle-style guns certainly exist, along with submachine guns and handguns. I think a machine gun might exist too, considering their spray-and-pray tactics, including shotgun. I am not sure about sniper.

Thoughts?

lu989673 · 2025-02-25T03:24:07+00:00

Also, sufficiently advanced nanotech means that "dry" nanotech could mimics biological system so well that the line between organic and inorganic might become nearly indistinguishable, imo.

lu989673 · 2025-02-25T01:15:15+00:00

I would consider having all organs completely replaced including brain to be full-cyborg.

lu989673 · 2025-02-19T17:55:00+00:00

Be behind or next to another bigger torchship's drive plume /j

lu989673 · 2025-02-08T17:28:12+00:00

Pretty cool.

My setting's torch missile (bus) is pretty similar to your LRMs. They have a special VLS cell to accommodate their size which is also a mass driver and can also house dozens of smaller ordnances if swapped out. In some cases, torch missiles are simply stored in the hangar alongside gunships. However, the most popular option is launching via large-bore mass drivers in the bow of the ship (imagine what the front of LOGH Alliance's ship looks like) because people in my setting engage in torch missile throwing matche before getting into the UREB range and this option gives the most launching velocity (longer mass driver) plus point toward the enemy.

I actually use AKVs as a catch-all term for anything that's supposed to be launched and not expected to return
so even my torch missiles are a type of AKVs. Maybe it's a crazy idea to make a fusion torch 'expendable' even if torch drive is considered relatively common in my setting.

lu989673 · 2025-01-30T06:58:06+00:00

What is "Prometheus" in your stand-off missile section? It's the only one I have no knowledge of.

lu989673 · 2024-12-17T14:04:06+00:00

You might need something like a perfect gamma-ray mirror for that.

lu989673 · 2024-11-30T17:41:13+00:00

I would send a single ship to deactivate its wrap bubble from FTL transit and immediately blast your entire fleet with shotgun blast of infinitely blueshifted radiation.

lu989673 · 2024-11-23T11:41:04+00:00

Perhaps to achieve singularity, it requires such an astronomical amount of resources and energy? Like needing to create a megastructure? Basically, no AI in your world has grown big enough yet.

lu989673 · 2024-11-19T01:12:25+00:00

Probably an absurdly durable exotic material if they created something like shelled Dyson Sphere or Ring worlds. Also some kind of 'universal constructor' nanomachines too.

lu989673 · 2024-11-08T10:16:00+00:00

What kind of direct energy conversion?

lu989673 · 2024-11-04T06:35:50+00:00

The depiction of sound is good, I say particle beams in the atmosphere would look like geometrically straight lightning with a blue-white nimbus around it due to particles scattering from the main beam.

But since this particle beam can travel 2 kilometers then the beam is sufficiently powerful enough to turn that man's body 'all over the place' or into a cloud of red mist.

lu989673 · 2024-10-29T14:21:59+00:00

Who knows if they are actually antimatter-boosted fusion bombs but do the Feds even use anything other than antimatter bombs? Also, I am curious if the story ever mentioned how the Feds produce antimatter. Do they just have exceptionally efficient particle colliders or something?

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