Steamforger wrote:Option A made me instantly think of "Pandorum", only with live people instead of monsterish things. I'd go for A.
It actually reminds me of "Building Harlequin's Moon" by Larry Niven.
I saw "Pandorum," good flick, but little in common except the idea of STL colonization.
Had never heard of "Building Harlequin's Moon" before, which is odd since I've read most of Niven's catalog, but from the synopsis I just read there are a lot of parallels. The pacing will be...much faster and the conflicts will be resolved through more direct means.
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom,...Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you...; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Who wants to wait that long? Just aim the gravitonium beams of the U.S.S. Make-Shit-Up to a random asteroid of where you want your planetoid, reroute it through the deflection dish, bypassing the GNDN pipe, using your standard M6 crowbar to serve as a power conduit, then just turn the engine up to 11, and BOOM!!!! Planetoid instantly coalesces where you need it.
"Arms are honor; slaves have neither."
"I am Chaos, I am alive...and I tell you that you are free!" -Eris Discordia
NVGdude wrote:A - note that A instantly made me think of "Mutineer's Moon" though.
Not sure why, unless you mean making a moon up from debris. In Mutineer's Moon the debris came from the previous moon and was merely used as a disguise.
And anyway, with the exception of one piece of technology, the story will be hard science fiction. No artificial gravity, no AI (at least not AI that works the same way a human brain does), no FTL, and very restricted nano-tech and morphic-engineering (genetic, surgical, and chemical manipulation of the human form).
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom,...Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you...; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
NVGdude wrote:A - note that A instantly made me think of "Mutineer's Moon" though.
Not sure why, unless you mean making a moon up from debris. In Mutineer's Moon the debris came from the previous moon and was merely used as a disguise.
That's because I was actually thinking of Building Harlequin's Moon, by Niven and Cooper.
Mutineer's Moon is of course, as you say, completely different.
Steamforger wrote:Option A made me instantly think of "Pandorum", only with live people instead of monsterish things. I'd go for A.
It actually reminds me of "Building Harlequin's Moon" by Larry Niven.
I saw "Pandorum," good flick, but little in common except the idea of STL colonization.
Had never heard of "Building Harlequin's Moon" before, which is odd since I've read most of Niven's catalog, but from the synopsis I just read there are a lot of parallels. The pacing will be...much faster and the conflicts will be resolved through more direct means.
I was referring more specifically to the waking up and finding you're in the shit aspect.
