I want to run a super advanced sci-fi/fantasy adventure, post megastructures

I want to run a super advanced sci-fi/fantasy adventure, post megastructures

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I'm kinda thinking the setting will be in the middle ground between Blame and Numenera, with some Culture and eclipse phase ideas thrown in. the players would be residents of some massively developed system, attempting to utilize technology beyond their comprehension to glimpse the working and purpose of the greater universe

I love shit like this because this is how I would view "science-magic/magitech" in my mind.

To bad there are so many people who say that magic has to be this mysterious force that no one understands even if the fireball spell is completely understood and repeatable.

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You should try Sufficiently Advanced, then.

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Go read Blame!

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What is being depicted here?

I'd say 3 Ringworlds being transported by a mega-engine.

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here's another shot

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There's a picture I saw on here a very long time ago and haven't since.

It was some sort of giant space-construction site, around a huge tank with what looked like a massive fetus inside it.

The filename was called "Making Gods" if that helps.

Was it this?

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No, it took place in high orbit of a planet, with ships and things moving around.

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Oh, that does sound interesting. I'd like to see that. Someone deliver, please!

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This is a great thread, thanks

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Are 1000 megastructures put together a gigastructure?

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Literally why

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Seriously coold thread.

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Isn't it something from Mass Effect?

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Nope, it resembled a human fetus, except for its size.

I hope I've not done that thing where I've made it up without realizing, again.

Mistranslation, it's 4.8x10^8

The key difference between magic and "SCIENCE" is the technobabble in between. If you explain holding a whole city sideways "because localized antigravity machines" or something then its SCIENCE. Magic explanations tend to just end at "because magic."

The other key difference is if you need a machine to do your laughing in the face of physics or not.

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Its like a museum. They recreated the whole city.

Obviously its a waste of space to have it horizontal. Its a museum not for living in. So they used their mastery of gravity to build it sideways.

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Why?