EVE Fiction

I'm a huge fan of sci fi. Being a science teacher and all I enjoy the imagination about future technology. There is however some things that will be same regardless of what parts or time of space we visit. One of those things are the elements we find on earth will also be found all over space. The minerals that exist will be composed of those elements. The minerals that exist in EVE do not have an equivalent on earth and will never have. What I'm trying to say is that sci fi applies only to what intelligence does with technology. Nature will remain the same.

What if mining instead was based on the periodic table of elements? Minerals in asteroid belts contain minerals rich in Iron, Tungsten, Iridium, Gold, Silver, Platinum, Osmium, Palladium etc. Rarer asteroids could contain some rare earth metals. Gas clouds could contain the nobel gases. Ice could contain half metals and light metals. Alkali metals could be found in sea water from PI. Some of the realy rare stuff could be isotopes that are either natural occurring or produced in factories.

This would be lovely! This would be so awesome and would also be educational and relateable :D

This is after all EVE and not WOW.... This is SCIENCE fiction and not MAGIC fiction XD

You mean the place where celestials are nailed to a spot on their orbits?

Expecting anything realistic from soft science fiction just diminishes the enjoyment rate. It took me years after Kerbal Space Program to -not- be bothered by all the inaccuracies games and movies have. It's terrible trying to enjoy a story while thoughts keep popping up like "the axial rotation of that planet is way too fast" or "burning that way would result in an escape trajectory, not a landing".

One barely notices magic ship propulsion systems and made up minerals if he's already ignoring just how basic things in the cosmos works.

No we don't but we would expect them to be composed with the elements we have on earth. We would also expect the most common ones to be like the most common ones we have found impacting earth. i.e. iron asteroids. Thus Iron should replace tritanium, or at least name it Titanium instead of Tritanium...Unless tritanium is an alloy of some sort..in which case it would not lock like a smoky quarts crystal...what ever.
In order to follow the lore, I would keep the names for the common and obvious elements that would not be forgotten. Such as oxygen, carbon, iron etc. The rarer stuff like those rare earth metals could have other names, but keep their abbreviation... For example Lutetium (71Lu) could be named Luminairium instead after the Gallente Luminaire system.



That depends on how it is implemented. I don't think slightly more correct chemistry would harm the joy, but perfectly correct could. My point is, using your analogy with Kerbal Space Program, at the moment the chemistry in game is so bad, the planets would be flat and square if the physics was equally as bad :D

That is a very good point. I also realized that the effort it would take to change such a thing and then balancing it etc etc etc, would be a nightmare for CCP. It would be a total cascade effect of changes. However, aren't the moon materials various non-fictional elements already?

There are alternative ways to picture the periodic table that would fit the EVE, I guess.
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I'm going to have to disagree with you on the minerals always being the same.

In other regions of space there are other factors involved in how minerals are made that are not present in New Eden. For example minerals in an extremely radioactive environment would interact with other minerals differently when the human touch has been applied.

I have also noticed that many times humans have thought the world around it conformed to a single notion but in reality nature evolves in order to survive. Take the fish that is able to survive in sulfuric acid and boiling temperatures as if the acid was water.

Most of what we understand to be true has been discovered over and over again to be true. The truly amazing discoveries are the finds in little dirty caves that everyone has assumed to conform to a norm.

Cool conversation.

Science fiction is the fictionalization of scientific topics. Good Science Fiction keeps to its story at the expense of real science. Also though Good Science fiction used detail and imagination to explain its fiction. Look at the Mass Effect series, The element Element Zero is the explanation for all of the fictional science that takes place in the world. Look at Star Wars, Jedi use the force not magic even though you could easily classify the force as magic George Lucas named it the force, and gave the reader a way of explaining how the magic is taking place. All of these muggufins allow for easier suspension of disbelief.

The way you can tell how good a science fiction writer is how far they go to make sure there is an explanation for something that is otherwise indescribable. Hey CCP tell me how the warp core works already!

As a teenage high school nerd that got through Chemistry Honors two years ago with I think either a C+ or B-, I remember it mentioned that Mendeleev left spaces between elements in the periodic table to allow for elements that were yet to be discovered.

That, and the materials we dig up from asteroids are minerals, not necessarily a specific element. In effect, we could be more closely mining a compound such as salt (NaCl, but you already know that). It wouldn't be impossible to think that some of these mineral formations are composed of elements that already exist, but formed and reacted with one another differently due to the environment of space.

That, or I'm talking out my rear, hence C+

First, the Power Grid you saw inside your fitting window are actually 'available power' to be used on modules, after you have deducted all the power required to power up all the essential systems e.g. warp core, engines, rudimentary shield and armour systems, tactical suite. The ship power reactors provide a LOT more power than you see in the PG of your fitting window.

Warp core uses and stores ALOT of power inside them, most of which is spent on containing whatever it was that allows the warp core to function. That is why when there's a reactor failure the ship explodes spectacularly. Even capital ships tend to get totalled by warp core failure. Most of the time when the ship is destroyed, the reactor fails, hence the explosions. The reason why other ships don't die is because their defense systems are just that good.

Capacitors just provide the 'activation energy' needed to kick start any process the ship systems perform to make things happen. 'Activation energy' should be familiar to anyone who knows chemistry.

We dont know efficiency of this instalation and how its build. Its all speculation. Maybe its enough to cause a smaller explosion than you think it would be. Also it could be build to minimize the damages if explosion is inevitable, like with current cars that have bendable, energy harvesting materials in structure.

If all of the elements found on Earth are the same across the Universe then all life forms across the Universe would be comparable to the life found on Earth albeit slightly different due to a planet's gravity if the same elements of Earth are found else where on planets in the Universe.