Matrioshka

[Serin117]

This is a piece that has floated around my brain since I started noodling away at a fan episode back in 2015.
If I ever won the lotto, this construct and the nebulae its cradled by would take centerstage in a post-Destiny mission of exploration aboard a Vesta refit class ship with T'Ryssa Chen in the Captains chair.

 

[publiusr]

I love worldbuilding--like this: https://kardashev.fandom.com/wiki/Globus_Cassus

 

[Serin117]

I love worldbuilding--like this: https://kardashev.fandom.com/wiki/Globus_Cassus

Now that's interesting!
I think I could probably make one of those, too. The terrain setup I'm using here is pretty procedural, so it could easily be applied to shapes like those. Its just... the atmosphere begins to get weirder and weirder the stranger the shapes get.

Some closer shots of my brain.

 

[Atolm]

I love that
and I'd love it even more as a ship... A "planet" cruising through the cosmos.

 

[Serin117]

I love that
and I'd love it even more as a ship... A "planet" cruising through the cosmos.

Thanks!
And yeah. In the script, it does jump away at the end.
There are many places to search for minds to help it calculate the solution to the mistake it exists to correct.

 

[Serin117]

An an example of how stupidly simple it is to throw this terrain group on stuff...
Knocked this up today in a few hours.

 

[publiusr]

Now if you want big
https://pictures.abebooks.com/WHOLLYMOLY/13045307528_4.jpg
https://pictures.abebooks.com/WHOLLYMOLY/13045307528_5.jpg
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=53252.0

https://kardashev.fandom.com/wiki/Topopolis
https://forum.cosmoquest.org/showthread.php?164366-Ringworld&p=2404062#post2404062
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=13045307528&searchurl=tn=science+digest+october+1982+lost+tribes&sortby=17&an=degarmo+scott+hal+bowser+kenneth+s+r#&gid=1&pid=5

Lunar caves and more
https://deeepunderground.com/
file:///C:/Users/clayw10/Downloads/Extraterrestrial%20Cities_5_3.pdf

--good place for an arcology.

 

[Colonel Midnight]

I love that
and I'd love it even more as a ship... A "planet" cruising through the cosmos.

Something like the Bowl of Heaven, from the book of the same name by Benford and Niven?

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Atolm]

Something like the Bowl of Heaven, from the book of the same name by Benford and Niven?

Cheers,
-CM-

Aye mate.

 

[Serin117]

This only ever gets worse.
Who needs spheres or swarms.
I DEMAND SQUIGGLES!

 

[publiusr]

Thanos approves