Writing Thread Update

I again would like to know if anyone's working on writing currently, whether you're persisting on a project, doing something for school, or anything in between really.

The only thing I'm writing right now is a master plan for my undergraduate degree and emails for professors I'm interested in. It's actually really fun. I really enjoy exploring new ideas and fitting them together into cohesive strategies, apparently.

I should be working in this group project, but no.

I have my scifi

Been doing more calculations recently to get an idea for mass amd Delta-V of my warships. I'm going for the hard science approacj to SciFi. No space magic bullshit.

Currently writing a suicide note.

Dark Souls review, and a couple other game reviews jangling around in my pocket.

Haven't written anything creative in awhile, which is distressing.

i dont do writing, the most ive written was a portion for my astronomy clubs scientific poster for a presentation at the AAS meeting.

I have my scifi

Been doing more calculations recently to get an idea for mass amd Delta-V of my warships. I'm going for the hard science approacj to SciFi. No space magic bullshit.

Considering you're working with futuristic concepts, how are you explaining the science behind the technology in your universe?

Oddly enough, I had a similar idea behind "arcane forces" in my fantasy universe. I wanted a more scientific way to convey how people utilize energy, just to add more realism to what essentially equates to magic.

I have my scifi

Been doing more calculations recently to get an idea for mass amd Delta-V of my warships. I'm going for the hard science approach to SciFi. No space magic bullshit.

You should add one warship that's much more massive and more powerful than all the rest.

And call it

WARSHIP DEEZ NUTS

Currently writing a suicide note.

Really?

Lately I've been thinking of writing something akin to a story based around the concept of yin and yang.

I have my scifi

Been doing more calculations recently to get an idea for mass amd Delta-V of my warships. I'm going for the hard science approacj to SciFi. No space magic bullshit.

Considering you're working with futuristic concepts, how are you explaining the science behind the technology in your universe?

Oddly enough, I had a similar idea behind "arcane forces" in my fantasy universe. I wanted a more scientific way to convey how people utilize energy, just to add more realism to what essentially equates to magic.

by using technology that can be explained with real science. I'm doing calculations to make sure evrrything from a railgun's velocity to the energy output of a certain reactor, then using those figures to estimate masses and such. All the technology I have is stuff that is being researched noe or is at least possible within the realms of real science if not modern technology.

The one exception is FTL travel.

I have my scifi

Been doing more calculations recently to get an idea for mass amd Delta-V of my warships. I'm going for the hard science approacj to SciFi. No space magic bullshit.

Considering you're working with futuristic concepts, how are you explaining the science behind the technology in your universe?

Oddly enough, I had a similar idea behind "arcane forces" in my fantasy universe. I wanted a more scientific way to convey how people utilize energy, just to add more realism to what essentially equates to magic.

by using technology that can be explained with real science. I'm doing calculations to make sure evrrything from a railgun's velocity to the energy output of a certain reactor, then using those figures to estimate masses and such. All the technology I have is stuff that is being researched noe or is at least possible within the realms of real science if not modern technology.

The one exception is FTL travel.

Very nice. Are you using warp-drives for FTL concepts?

I have my scifi

Been doing more calculations recently to get an idea for mass amd Delta-V of my warships. I'm going for the hard science approacj to SciFi. No space magic bullshit.

Considering you're working with futuristic concepts, how are you explaining the science behind the technology in your universe?

Oddly enough, I had a similar idea behind "arcane forces" in my fantasy universe. I wanted a more scientific way to convey how people utilize energy, just to add more realism to what essentially equates to magic.

by using technology that can be explained with real science. I'm doing calculations to make sure evrrything from a railgun's velocity to the energy output of a certain reactor, then using those figures to estimate masses and such. All the technology I have is stuff that is being researched noe or is at least possible within the realms of real science if not modern technology.

The one exception is FTL travel.

Very nice. Are you using warp-drives for FTL concepts?

Direct route wormholes. No course change while in FTL, a single link can house a single ship at once and no wireless communication while in FTL. Only the largest starcraft (Warships and a few limited civilian ships) get clearance for FTL because of the military threat in poses. Similarly, only a few ships get powerful engines (IE interplanetary travel is rare and expensive). It isn't realistic because FTL but it has limitations and I'm using those to my advantage in planning how interstellar war works.

I have my scifi

Been doing more calculations recently to get an idea for mass amd Delta-V of my warships. I'm going for the hard science approacj to SciFi. No space magic bullshit.

Considering you're working with futuristic concepts, how are you explaining the science behind the technology in your universe?

Oddly enough, I had a similar idea behind "arcane forces" in my fantasy universe. I wanted a more scientific way to convey how people utilize energy, just to add more realism to what essentially equates to magic.

by using technology that can be explained with real science. I'm doing calculations to make sure evrrything from a railgun's velocity to the energy output of a certain reactor, then using those figures to estimate masses and such. All the technology I have is stuff that is being researched noe or is at least possible within the realms of real science if not modern technology.

The one exception is FTL travel.

Very nice. Are you using warp-drives for FTL concepts?

Only the largest starcraft (Warships and a few limited civilian ships) get clearance for FTL because of the military threat in poses.

In war does this condition change or is it a universal (no pun intended) law everyone abides by even in times of war?

I have my scifi

Been doing more calculations recently to get an idea for mass amd Delta-V of my warships. I'm going for the hard science approacj to SciFi. No space magic bullshit.

Considering you're working with futuristic concepts, how are you explaining the science behind the technology in your universe?

Oddly enough, I had a similar idea behind "arcane forces" in my fantasy universe. I wanted a more scientific way to convey how people utilize energy, just to add more realism to what essentially equates to magic.

by using technology that can be explained with real science. I'm doing calculations to make sure evrrything from a railgun's velocity to the energy output of a certain reactor, then using those figures to estimate masses and such. All the technology I have is stuff that is being researched noe or is at least possible within the realms of real science if not modern technology.

The one exception is FTL travel.

Very nice. Are you using warp-drives for FTL concepts?

Only the largest starcraft (Warships and a few limited civilian ships) get clearance for FTL because of the military threat in poses.

In war does this condition change or is it a universal (no pun intended) law everyone abides by even in times of war?

The expense alone limits their use. But FTL is unpredictable; a fleet can show up any time, anywhere. Combined with relativistic weaponry (A projectile where the veloxity can be measured in percentages of C) and you can easily see how the situation easily escalated into a cold war. Proxy civil wars, corporate espionage/ warfare (Private armies) and raiding (No pirates in the strictest sense of the term) mean the two main factions have been in conflict for a while. Add on the occupation/ land grab for a bunch of newly-colonised star systems, rogue AI and other players attempting to use the situation for their own end and it becomes a pretty tense situation. The current time frame shows the interstellar cold war turning 'hot', with a UCE admiral defecting from the war emtirely to aid colonists under martial law (Namely after being ordered to nuke an inhabited city as a show of force after an uprising on the same planet) sparking off the first major war for centuries.

There are only16 star systems (All real) and I've done calculations and research myself for orbits, spin, temperature, mass, distance and composition. There are three Earthlike planets including Earth (One is in Eta Cassiopieae a nearby system and the first ever world inhabited outside of Sol) and he other is a major gateway and strategic target in the Rogue Territories/ frontier. Pressure suits and sealed cities for all!

I was originally going to have multiple planets and species but I wasn't satisfied with neither the alien biologies I was trying to do nor the alien cultures I had. I have some primitive life here and there, but if I ever introduce alien spacefaring races, they'll be nigh-on impossible to communicate with and I will be designing them to match their own planet's evolution. Some other fun stuff is no lasers for infantry (Powerful enough to hurt = powerful enough to blind), no plasma weapons (Stupid concept if you look into it) and no stealth in space (Literally impossible)

For the last 3 years I have been writing almost exclusively on Ancient Classics.

The pieces I'm most proud of are:

Cicero's defence speech pro Caelio, analysis
Tacitus Agricola Hibernia and Germanica (Almost exclusively about Hibernia though)
Plato's Phaedrus just a commentary style

I have a paper due tomorrow.