Recent content by Elohim

Yay, new Heroes! Watching it now... Although Mohinder Suresh seems to have turned into a randier version of Beast from X-Men. Odd.

Don't worry, I'm not going to overwhelm my readers in-story Tolkien-style =p I'm just building the universe as comprehensively as possible, Eddings-style. It's just that I have far too many ideas, which is why I'm developing 6 universes (or 'frames' for stories) at once...

@Tim: Internal gravity has been achieved (for human ships at least) through a variety of technologies spun off from the O'Neill cylinder. Mass drivers a la Centuari devastation of the Narn homeworld are technically possible. Newtonian physics apply to space combat, much like in David Weber's...

I believe the Forever War and Hyperion both have some sort of relative time-dilation in their wargames, but mostly from travel, i.e. those inside the hyperdrive warp spend less time moving than the rate of time in the outside universe might suggest...

Ooh, me likey... So something like the New Bushido of Hyperion or the rules of war in Dune? I admit I was envisioning some kind of codified practices of war for the two main powers, the Earth Empire and the Kyriosan Cluster, mostly concerning not bombing the hell out of civilian planetary...

That makes sense, between enemies that only control one planet or one system each... But say the Earth Empire attacks a sovereign planet which is far far weaker (say a low-populace mining colony), what then? Some sort of infrastructure would need to be maintained by the invaders, so an...

I've been writing stories for my own amusement since I was four, but recently I've turned more to building my own internally consistent universes instead. I've been working on one of my scifi universes recently and I was just thinking - How assymetric is future warfare likely to be...