Xanthuss
04-20-2011, 05:44 AM
We of course need limits and rules to have our world work, so I thought I'd post a place to discuss what rules are needed.
General things are that we need to limit expansion, so I was thinking, that with H's and K's permission, we could use K's version of H's idea.
What K suggested was that instead of scooping up interstellar gas to power themselves, ships could scoop up Dark Matter. Once used, waste Dark Matter would be re-released in space, and due to some reaction the processed Dark Matter would react to the normal Dark Matter and create structures, or creatures. These beings would be sentient but not sapient, and they would instinctively think of further ships using Dark Matter as enemies and threats. Therefore races who expanded to quickly would create hundreds of these things and in turn have their ships ripped apart by droves of the Dark Matter Beings. Then both the species and the DM being's go extinct.
That strikes me as a good way to limit expansion :)
Any other things you think need limiting, please post it here, and we can find a way to limit it if it needs to be.
General things are that we need to limit expansion, so I was thinking, that with H's and K's permission, we could use K's version of H's idea.
What K suggested was that instead of scooping up interstellar gas to power themselves, ships could scoop up Dark Matter. Once used, waste Dark Matter would be re-released in space, and due to some reaction the processed Dark Matter would react to the normal Dark Matter and create structures, or creatures. These beings would be sentient but not sapient, and they would instinctively think of further ships using Dark Matter as enemies and threats. Therefore races who expanded to quickly would create hundreds of these things and in turn have their ships ripped apart by droves of the Dark Matter Beings. Then both the species and the DM being's go extinct.
That strikes me as a good way to limit expansion :)
Any other things you think need limiting, please post it here, and we can find a way to limit it if it needs to be.