Okay, first of all, if this is not the place for this, a Mod can move it, but I placed this here because it has to do with "hard science" and is meant to be serious.
I have an idea for a Trek BBS "game" that is basically a cross between the Sims and a focus group. My idea is this...
All of us here on the BBS (who wish to play) will participate in the creation of an entirely new world, from absolute scratch. My premise is to take a hypothetical newly-discovered Earth-like planet in the Goldilocks Zone of its parent star (or stars), and basically colonize it, and develop/build it from the ground up.
This means that we could select and choose everything... what types of government(s) we have, what nations we have, civic planning, infrastructure, military, economic system, energy source(s), you name it. The goal being to see how we humans would make our world if we could start with a clean slate today, knowing what we know now about what has worked, and what has not worked.
So to begin with, here are the few particulars I have right now, to clarify and get us started...
- The planet will be Earth-sized, and be named Fortuna, for the Roman Goddess of fortune and luck.
- Fortuna is basically exactly like Earth... only the landforms are different... you CAN come up with new life forms, if you wish, but there is NO intelligent humanoid life that is native.
- Fortuna has two small moons... one almost exactly like Enceladas, and the other almost exactly like Io, and the two moons have polar opposite orbits to each other.
- The Fortuna System has an asteroid belt, along with a few gas giants, and one "Venus-like" planet, as well as an Oort cloud.
- Fortuna orbits a yellow G-Type star just like Sol.
The basic opening scenario is this... the nations of Earth have banded together to fund a massive expedition to Fortuna, in the hope of establishing the first extrasolar human colony. A fleet of massive colony ships set sail from Earth to Fortuna carrying thousands of human colonists, along with all the very basics needed to survive and establish basic settlements from which to begin using native resources to create the new native infrastructure.
Upon arrival and offloading of the colonists and materials, the ships will remain in orbit, cut off from those on the ground, while crews on the ships construct orbital infrastructure, which will link the surface of Fortuna to space, and provide a means from which to access the two moons. Among the orbital infrastructure, will be resources needed to establish resource collection operations on both moons, and travel links from Fortuna to the moons and the orbital infrastructure.
Upon completion of the orbital infrastructure, the colony fleet will depart Fortuna, and head back to Earth, leaving the colonists behind, to do for themselves, and establish their new home on their own. And this is where we come in...
We can collaborate to create an entirely new world, developing everything from individual civic codes and street names, to huge nation and fleet-building... we can create a whole new history on a new world, and like the real world, everyone here would have a hand in it... people of varying opinions, backgrounds, faiths, politics, etc. That makes it more genuine than something just one man comes up with in his imagination.
I imagine the continent layout on Fortuna to be something like this (I used a manipulated image of Jurassic Earth):
So, if you would like to give this a try, cool... a Mod can sticky this thread somewhere, and we can start planning life on Fortuna. If not, then oh, well... I figured I'd throw the idea out there anyway. So, what say you all?
- BolianAuthor
I have an idea for a Trek BBS "game" that is basically a cross between the Sims and a focus group. My idea is this...
All of us here on the BBS (who wish to play) will participate in the creation of an entirely new world, from absolute scratch. My premise is to take a hypothetical newly-discovered Earth-like planet in the Goldilocks Zone of its parent star (or stars), and basically colonize it, and develop/build it from the ground up.
This means that we could select and choose everything... what types of government(s) we have, what nations we have, civic planning, infrastructure, military, economic system, energy source(s), you name it. The goal being to see how we humans would make our world if we could start with a clean slate today, knowing what we know now about what has worked, and what has not worked.
So to begin with, here are the few particulars I have right now, to clarify and get us started...
- The planet will be Earth-sized, and be named Fortuna, for the Roman Goddess of fortune and luck.
- Fortuna is basically exactly like Earth... only the landforms are different... you CAN come up with new life forms, if you wish, but there is NO intelligent humanoid life that is native.
- Fortuna has two small moons... one almost exactly like Enceladas, and the other almost exactly like Io, and the two moons have polar opposite orbits to each other.
- The Fortuna System has an asteroid belt, along with a few gas giants, and one "Venus-like" planet, as well as an Oort cloud.
- Fortuna orbits a yellow G-Type star just like Sol.
The basic opening scenario is this... the nations of Earth have banded together to fund a massive expedition to Fortuna, in the hope of establishing the first extrasolar human colony. A fleet of massive colony ships set sail from Earth to Fortuna carrying thousands of human colonists, along with all the very basics needed to survive and establish basic settlements from which to begin using native resources to create the new native infrastructure.
Upon arrival and offloading of the colonists and materials, the ships will remain in orbit, cut off from those on the ground, while crews on the ships construct orbital infrastructure, which will link the surface of Fortuna to space, and provide a means from which to access the two moons. Among the orbital infrastructure, will be resources needed to establish resource collection operations on both moons, and travel links from Fortuna to the moons and the orbital infrastructure.
Upon completion of the orbital infrastructure, the colony fleet will depart Fortuna, and head back to Earth, leaving the colonists behind, to do for themselves, and establish their new home on their own. And this is where we come in...
We can collaborate to create an entirely new world, developing everything from individual civic codes and street names, to huge nation and fleet-building... we can create a whole new history on a new world, and like the real world, everyone here would have a hand in it... people of varying opinions, backgrounds, faiths, politics, etc. That makes it more genuine than something just one man comes up with in his imagination.
I imagine the continent layout on Fortuna to be something like this (I used a manipulated image of Jurassic Earth):
So, if you would like to give this a try, cool... a Mod can sticky this thread somewhere, and we can start planning life on Fortuna. If not, then oh, well... I figured I'd throw the idea out there anyway. So, what say you all?
- BolianAuthor
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