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by cntrational
2014-12-03 12:03pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: What would it be like to be on a Culture Orbital?
Replies: 6
Views: 2091

Re: What would it be like to be on a Culture Orbital?

Have you read the novels? Some of them. The answer to the first, second, fourth and last questions are "what/however the governing Mind wants." There's clearly enough atmosphere for weather, and on a clear day you can probably see much an arc in the sky. If you climbed a thousand miles up...
by cntrational
2014-12-03 06:54am
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: What would it be like to be on a Culture Orbital?
Replies: 6
Views: 2091

What would it be like to be on a Culture Orbital?

Wikipedia link if you're not familiar with the concept. To be specific, I'm not asking about how life would be like in the Culture, but what would physically happen to be on an Orbital. What would the weather be like? How would the sky look like, in day, twilight, and night? How would things behave...
by cntrational
2014-12-02 06:53am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Golem/robot-based economy (RAR)
Replies: 40
Views: 4452

Re: Golem/robot-based economy (RAR)

Purple wrote:Another thing to think about is maintenance. Do these golems require maintenance to function? A robot might require oil, spare parts etc. How much work does someone need to put into keeping a golem working?
Their bodies presumably need repairs from time to time.
by cntrational
2014-12-02 12:28am
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: Golem/robot-based economy (RAR)
Replies: 40
Views: 4452

Golem/robot-based economy (RAR)

Suppose we have a standard medieval fantasy world, with magic. Magic was normally restricted to mages, but is now slowly becoming available to everybody.. And along with that, comes the ability to create golems. Golems are basically magical robots in this setting, and can be used to automate things....
by cntrational
2014-12-02 12:18am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: New Member Introductions
Replies: 453
Views: 417474

Re: New Member Introductions

Hi. I'm cntrational. I'm from India.

I'm a big language and linguistics enthusiast, and even make my own conlangs. I'm a big mecha enthusiast, and find transhumanism very interesting. I'm currently working on a science fantasy conworld.