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The energy used must be enormous

But I completely approve of the idea, and the Xim do as well, and may seek to purchase this technology.


Yeah, there's some pretty impressive fusion reactors that Ch'ak uses to power all of their crap in addition to massive arrays of solar panels. Though I don't think they'd be willing to sell their secrets; at least not their most advanced technology. It's something that they are, understandably, rather protective of.
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Only if this process takes a very long time, like months or years.


Oh yeah, that's what I was going for. I mean, stuff like asteroids would take significantly less time to consume but I'm well aware that actual planets and moons are freaking massive. The idea came to me just because the basic idea of my nation is "single system with a bunch of megastructures in it" and megastructures would take ludicrous amounts of resources to create. So what better way to gather them than to just rip apart entire celestial bodies for raw materials?
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Yes, artificial gravity is completely fine, and you can assume that everyone has it in some form or another.


Fabulous. Because there's a reason I referred to the T'kai as the "builders and worldeaters of Ch'ak". I haven't put it up yet, but I imagine them having 'fleets' of Worldeaters which are, essentially, massive ships that use utilize exceptionally strong gravitational manipulation to rip apart celestial bodies (from asteroids to planets) for raw materials rather than go the more traditional route of strip-mining them.

That's an issue, is it? And it's not a particularly fast process; it's not like I'd be able to send Worldeaters to enemy planets to just completely destroy their worlds. And that's even disregarding the fact that they're less ships and more giant facilities with engines strapped to them and are slow and defenseless.

I just realized, that may be a good anti-boarding technique, to just, not have gravity on your ship. In less professional games it's the kind of situation no one plans for until it comes up, and then they go, 'Oh my guys totally have magnetic boots, or jetpacks, or something.'


The mention of jetpacks makes me thing of some dumbass soldier trying to use a jetpack to move around in the cramped corridors of a gravity-less space ship and just repeatedly slamming into the walls because there's no room to maneuver.
@LloydTurquoise Oooh, I wonder how the Doctrinate would react to Ch'ak's habit of harvesting entire solar systems for resources. You know, on account of their whole 'balance of the universe' thing they have going on.

EDIT: More general question; there is artificial gravity right? It's kind of a normal staple of sci-fi, so I just kind of assumed. And it's kinda necessary for the type of resource extraction technology I imagine Ch'ak using.
Oh my, that's pretty hideous. Could we at least shape it different? Sort of at least have the same shape as Raidne's? To short of show that it's, you know, a quarter of a galaxy. Really the fact that's it's just a blank square is my main quibble.
@Hael I went pretty creative with the system of governance, please take a look when I post it in the CS section!


Oh, that's pretty neat. Sure is a hell of a lot more interesting than mine. :D
Whelp, I think I'm finished with the species section of my sheet. I'd say my sheet is coming along nicely; shouldn't be too much longer until I'm finished.

EDIT: And excuse me? We wouldn't all be blobs on the map, Hael. God, some of us would just be a dot.
Double Alpha.
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For the Xim, I'm going for a dictatorship where the leader was genetically engineered for that role, then raised and educated to be a leader, and had their personality shaped (through a process I'll describe in the NS) to be the perfect leader. This person has nearly absolute control, and the people have absolute faith in their leader's abilities. It would even be considered unscientific to question the leader's power, as they are literally designed, breed, born, and shaped for that role.

I'm unable to decide a name, however. "Xim-Speaker" might be a good one, or maybe "Conjoiner".


You could call him 'the Quintessence' or something.
I just went with 'First Governor'. Not too imaginative, but it works well enough I suppose.

And I also found an image that works well enough for the secondary race of my nation; I'll probably get up an actual description later.
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