Queer 🏳️‍🌈 Robot 💾 Starship 🛰️ @StarshipAmelia@cybre.space

I finally found out that those cool half-cloaks are called 'capelets', so I made one and put it on a model I made a while back.

Thinkin that the color and maaaybe shape and the various 'signage' would indicate what rank or position the wearer was currently holding. (All positions of power in the Solar Collective are democratically voted in, and always recallable. This includes any military/space navy/whatever forces).

Def want it to have some 'formal' purpose rn!

The song isn't quite what I'm into rn, but oh my stars this animation is amazing holy fuck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Q3i5w6-Ug

The ancient and hallowed worldship, WanderStar. 4000 years they've spread terragen life across the galaxy, may they have 4000 more

The WanderStar has undergone enumerable upgrades over their nearly 4000 year long life, most visibly the O'Neil Cylindrical Section and the Trailing City. With a length of ~50km, and a breadth of ~8km, they remain one of the largest vessels still extant today

The WanderStar, like most worldships, is capable of boostrapping a complete industrial base in most systems in ~10yrs

Worldship sneak peak! =>
No textures on yet, but I'm v happy with how it's lookin so far! Maybe the bussard scramjet scoop could be a bit wider?

This post makes a lot of sense I think (not to say it's perfect, the OP makes the mistake of conflating anarchy and chaos among others, but still the overall point is good).

https://reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/br803m/the_prime_directive_is_arbitrary_and_the_warp/

wow this page has both a great name and good content! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stories_set_in_a_future_now_past

(I'm especially fond of this one, where airborne socialists start the world revolution! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Angel_of_the_Revolution (CW for racism near the end of the plot summery, some sexism interspersed, prolly more I cannot think of also))

This concept is really stickin with me and I wanna model a flock of starships!

They'd be wanderers, visiting all the various ports in the galaxy, picking up or dropping off passengers/crew at each one, just exploring all the diff worlds and cultures!

Sometimes a family is a flock of autonomous starships and their passengers, each capable of bootstrapping an industrial base from asteroid belts or low-g moons

I wonder if we could find a black dwarf somewhere prior to the 10 trillion-ish (not sure about this number) years we'd expect them to start showing up by virtue of a white dwarf being in a super close orbit of a black hole? (And then getting thrown out). Cuz of like, the time dilation from being that close to a black hole?

idk, I'm not an astrophysicist, but it'd make for a cool story where a earlier-than-expected black dwarf disrupts a solar system cuz of that!

(I am actually very bothered by the seeming inevitability of the heat death of the universe, pls solve entropy between now and the last star going out tyvm science)