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- 02 Jun 2015 11:13
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
- Replies: 21
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Re: Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
Yes, I wouldn’t go deep into how the FTL drive works, unless it's critical to the setting or plot -- e.g., a culture based around wormholes which have to be dragged into place at sublight speeds. To sum up the whole thing so that we don't derail this thread, FTL is not exactly relevant, and where i...
- 01 Jun 2015 15:10
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7735
Re: Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
If your FTL involves actually going faster than light, then yes, it involves time travel. If your FTL involves bending space, with no actual movement, like an Alcubierre drive, which involves causing your spaceship to move by bending the space in front of you while expanding the space behind you, t...
- 30 May 2015 16:07
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7735
Re: Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
I'll be straightforward : Unless the Universe hates us all and FTL travel does really imply time travel, no, they don't.Khemehekis wrote:Do the Ancients have time travel?
- 29 May 2015 13:45
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7735
Re: Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
Note on Names Before my first installment, I want to give a small precision regarding the many names that will appear. There will be four types of names : 1. Omniscient names 2. Translated names 3. Exonyms 4. Endonyms The third and fourth categories are obvious; they refer to actual names used with...
- 29 May 2015 03:07
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7735
Re: Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
What is the tech level and hardness of the setting, excluding the magic bits? Actually, you need to include the magic bits to actually understand the tech level. As the history spans over 50 millenia, one should not expect things to be static during its history. However, the Ancients have crossed o...
- 28 May 2015 04:46
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7735
Re: Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
I'm particularly intrigued by the novel (as far as I know) concept of "social-sci-fi". Well, it's not exactly new; Star Trek's economy without scarcity does some little exploration of how humans could become if scarcity was cut off the equation. However, as an inspiration, I must say that...
- 27 May 2015 11:04
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7735
Re: Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
Subscribing. I would like to know if it’s more of an SF world or a fantasy world. You don’t mention it in the OP. I had written it in the first version of my post, but the whole thing got deleted and I had to rewrite it. And then, as you can see, it did not appear. I'll add a mention in my initial ...
- 27 May 2015 09:27
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7735
The Adopted Pseudo-Neutral Point of View
The first subject to be discussed is the Point of View adopted in this whole treatment; it has to be explained and, I hope, well justified externally. The Adopted Point of View I will not be using an omniscient point of view; instead, I will be using an point of view internal to the conworld. There ...
- 27 May 2015 08:51
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7735
Taasao - Yiuel's Conworld
So, there you go. I have decided to describe my conworld, Taasao. My conworld Taasao places itself in a category not unlike that of Star Wars, combining elements of fantasy and sci-fi. However, while Star Wars is more about fantasy than sci-fi, Taasao is more about sci-fi than fantasy. There is some...
- 26 May 2015 08:21
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Yabushio: timeline
- Replies: 152
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Re: Yabushio: maps, flags
For aesthetic reasons, I don't really want any numbers to be over two characters in length (or three, including the mon sign). Cutting off two zeroes gives the largest numbers possible while staying within two characters: 拾文 10 mon 伍拾文 50 mon 佰文 100 mon 伍佰文 500 mon 阡文 1,000 mon 伍阡文 5,000 mon 壹萬文 10...
- 25 May 2015 08:52
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Yabushio: timeline
- Replies: 152
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Re: Yabushio: maps, flags
Probably, the best thing to do is merge the Kakushu line with the Airport Express line, extending it to Manda (skipping Takenoshita and Usuda), and making a parallel line that hits all the local stops. I can't make it too complex, tbough, because I don't think the population's big enough to support...
- 25 May 2015 06:46
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Multiverse Inn
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Re: The Multiverse Inn
Though communicating with them might be a problem. "I doubt there's a language that's yet to be untranslatable here. You may not understand how I can talk to you in your language, but neither do I. Do you have a name, or should I give you one?" B - Well, this promises a lot more than I th...
- 25 May 2015 06:06
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Yabushio: timeline
- Replies: 152
- Views: 43558
Re: Yabushio: maps, flags
A comment on your transit system : it will be prone to congestion, if population densities are high in the central region, as all lines lead to a single point, which is the only transfer between your major lines. Otherwise, that maps-for-free thing is awesome; now I can finally have fun and create ...
- 25 May 2015 05:18
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Multiverse Inn
- Replies: 583
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Re: The Multiverse Inn
*change of character* From the outside of the inn, one could here a pair of voices. If anything, the voices seemed angry at each other. - Look at your feet, all four. You can't possibly think of going any further tonight, you dim-witted quadrupedal idiot. And so are my own two. We are done for today...
- 25 May 2015 04:17
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Multiverse Inn
- Replies: 583
- Views: 128950
Re: The Multiverse Inn
I don't really understand what a religion does for Men or why they have them. There is a Daine here, Redbritches is his name, who knows a lot about such things. I think he might agree that All That Is and this Huge Encompassing All might be the same thing, or leastways if they're different, they're...
- 24 May 2015 15:44
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Multiverse Inn
- Replies: 583
- Views: 128950
Re: The Multiverse Inn
Mekviro, I too know the feeling! Twas in this place I first learnt there are worlds and worlds in All That Is, even beyond Gea! Sometimes I still catch myself thinking of the folks in here as coming but from some distant country... I've a friend that wants to come and visit this place, too. I told ...
- 23 May 2015 05:09
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Yabushio: timeline
- Replies: 152
- Views: 43558
Re: Yabushio: maps, flags
A comment on your transit system : it will be prone to congestion, if population densities are high in the central region, as all lines lead to a single point, which is the only transfer between your major lines. Otherwise, that maps-for-free thing is awesome; now I can finally have fun and create S...
- 22 May 2015 11:20
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
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Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Isn't that an auxiliary verb? It might be something like 'have.AUX' then. To me, that suggests some kind of special auxiliary form of the verb to have . Which is a bit confusing, since the verb is conjugated in the exact same way regardless of whether it's used lexically or as an auxiliary. Not exa...
- 22 May 2015 02:17
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Multiverse Inn
- Replies: 583
- Views: 128950
Re: The Multiverse Inn
"Genetic transformations? Do I look even a little human to you?!" (Takes a deep breath and calms down.) "It doesn't matter, but why are there so many humans, and not others like me and Argenzu?" (Turns to Yiuel's character) "So do you have a name?" Oh god; I thought I ...
- 22 May 2015 01:57
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Language history documentaries
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5585
Re: Language history documentaries
Don't know where I got the provided that; certainly not a gallicism I am too guilty of.
But yeah, part of my job it is, and I am not exactly the shyest guy on this planet.
But yeah, part of my job it is, and I am not exactly the shyest guy on this planet.