07-11-2015, 08:53 AM
Aren't people going to be allowed to be on huge space ships? The Enterprise? Star Destroyers? We might not "own" the ships, but being on and interacting with huge space shit is half the fun of space!
If people wanna do the whole "space exploration" aspect of things, are these tiny bitty little planets gonna be able to support civilizations? Can we do Star Trek serials with that (which is my idea of "space exploration")?
I think that keeping things tiny might not be the best solution. And again, relative size is more of a measure of things than ACTUAL size for a space verse. Measuring out exactly the size of each planet or planetoid isn't really addressing the "people spending too much time on a planet" problem. If there's a tiny desert planet that persists forever, it's total square millage doesn't really matter. I don't really know the total area of the Endless Dunes, and I really don't NEED to, because my story will occur there based on the theme, not off of a map. Same can be said of any permanent planet; the story will occur regardless of the mapped, specific size.
If people wanna do the whole "space exploration" aspect of things, are these tiny bitty little planets gonna be able to support civilizations? Can we do Star Trek serials with that (which is my idea of "space exploration")?
I think that keeping things tiny might not be the best solution. And again, relative size is more of a measure of things than ACTUAL size for a space verse. Measuring out exactly the size of each planet or planetoid isn't really addressing the "people spending too much time on a planet" problem. If there's a tiny desert planet that persists forever, it's total square millage doesn't really matter. I don't really know the total area of the Endless Dunes, and I really don't NEED to, because my story will occur there based on the theme, not off of a map. Same can be said of any permanent planet; the story will occur regardless of the mapped, specific size.


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