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Praetor Meles
Black Mount Industrial
Breakpoint.
#21 - 2013-09-05 10:30:34 UTC
Miles Parabellum wrote:
Also, once the first star is mined to depletion, it turns out it was one of millions of homeworlds in a vast empire built by an advanced hydrogen-based race of living gas/plasma clouds.
This will trigger Incursion v. 2.0.
Also, there may be ancient space ship trees and killer robots involved.

(By the way, how did that franchise end? I never got a copy of the last book in that series)


I read the first book in that series, and found it sufficiently poorly constructed that I never bothered with the next one - even though the first chapter of the next one was included as a "teaser".

Did it improve any in the next book? I have to say I do find myself wondering how it ends from time to time...

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#22 - 2013-09-05 10:33:03 UTC
How would you mine a wormhole from a sun? Ugh
Praetor Meles
Black Mount Industrial
Breakpoint.
#23 - 2013-09-05 10:35:22 UTC
Tippia wrote:
How would you mine a wormhole from a sun? Ugh


With a shovel.

Bring oven gloves and goggles.

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#24 - 2013-09-05 10:38:00 UTC
Praetor Meles wrote:
Tippia wrote:
How would you mine a wormhole from a sun? Ugh


With a shovel.

Bring oven gloves and goggles.

I've always been told that goggles do nothing, and I was in Terran Republic, so I should know. Oops
Miles Parabellum
Core Collapse Inc
#25 - 2013-09-05 10:48:52 UTC
Praetor Meles wrote:
Miles Parabellum wrote:
Also, once the first star is mined to depletion, it turns out it was one of millions of homeworlds in a vast empire built by an advanced hydrogen-based race of living gas/plasma clouds.
This will trigger Incursion v. 2.0.
Also, there may be ancient space ship trees and killer robots involved.

(By the way, how did that franchise end? I never got a copy of the last book in that series)


I read the first book in that series, and found it sufficiently poorly constructed that I never bothered with the next one - even though the first chapter of the next one was included as a "teaser".

Did it improve any in the next book? I have to say I do find myself wondering how it ends from time to time...


Nope, the quality of the literature was ****** all the way through. Still, kinda captivating. If I could remember the name of the series, I'd probably read the third (and hopefully last) book, just to find out how everything turned.
But I agree. Poorly written drivel from cover to cover.
Praetor Meles
Black Mount Industrial
Breakpoint.
#26 - 2013-09-05 11:51:25 UTC
Miles Parabellum wrote:
Nope, the quality of the literature was ****** all the way through. Still, kinda captivating. If I could remember the name of the series, I'd probably read the third (and hopefully last) book, just to find out how everything turned.
But I agree. Poorly written drivel from cover to cover.


It was called "The Saga of Seven Suns".

And I regret to inform that it actually appears to be seven books. I think that was what clinched it for me - if it had been two or three, I might have chewed through them just to see what happened. But seven books that are at best "mixed"...I think not.

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Peter Raptor
Galactic Hawks
#27 - 2013-09-05 12:13:13 UTC
Why would you mine the sun? I mean you'd just stare at a white screen for hours on end?

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Alistair Cononach
The Legion of Spoon
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#28 - 2013-09-05 15:03:26 UTC
I could see "Coronal Plasma Collection Array" as a Module on a specialized Industrial Hull, to "mine" for various Plasma Types that could be used in Industrial/Manufacturing chains, sure.

Different Star/Stellar Category Types could provide different types of Plasma, for different uses (Powering Warp Cores, use in Ammo warheads, as parts of chemical reactions, combined with stuff from PI to make more better stuff, ect).

It's not a horrible idea really. Pretty much everything in EVE should be able to have whatever it's made of extracted in some way, and used in some way to make stuff. Collecting plasma from the outer atmosphere of a star to get unique forms of plasma is not entirely out of the real of possabillity in a Sci-Fi setting, right?

Consider it the stellar version of Gas cloud mining. In terms of "in space" there could be a warpable celestial (like current no-scanning-required sites) called "Stellar Flare" that when you warp to it (always very evry close to the star) would have some gas-cloud-alike plasma coulds you could get to within 20km of a harvest.

Not a bad idea at all.
MeestaPenni
Mercantile and Stuff
#29 - 2013-09-05 15:13:45 UTC
A chance based type thing. Launch a "solar collection" drone after carefully setting its trajectory and stand a chance of collecting valuable materials. Like for research and stuff.

I am not Prencleeve Grothsmore.
Takari
Promised Victorious Entropy
#30 - 2013-09-05 17:08:20 UTC
A Dyson Sphere must be built!

Built in, destroyable, boosters give system-wide benefits like +XX cap recharge rate to all alliance members in system.
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coo'kaktaa
00101100 Coolant Fabriq
#31 - 2013-09-05 17:20:55 UTC
Alistair Cononach wrote:
I could see "Coronal Plasma Collection Array" as a Module on a specialized Industrial Hull, to "mine" for various Plasma Types that could be used in Industrial/Manufacturing chains, sure.

Different Star/Stellar Category Types could provide different types of Plasma, for different uses (Powering Warp Cores, use in Ammo warheads, as parts of chemical reactions, combined with stuff from PI to make more better stuff, ect).

It's not a horrible idea really. Pretty much everything in EVE should be able to have whatever it's made of extracted in some way, and used in some way to make stuff. Collecting plasma from the outer atmosphere of a star to get unique forms of plasma is not entirely out of the real of possabillity in a Sci-Fi setting, right?

Consider it the stellar version of Gas cloud mining. In terms of "in space" there could be a warpable celestial (like current no-scanning-required sites) called "Stellar Flare" that when you warp to it (always very evry close to the star) would have some gas-cloud-alike plasma coulds you could get to within 20km of a harvest.

Not a bad idea at all.



Now we're talking.
Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#32 - 2013-09-05 17:24:22 UTC
coo'kaktaa wrote:
the subject says it all. i wish we could mine the sun. imagine the rewards. nuclear isotopes. new and even more unstable worm holes. the ability to remove light from your part of the galaxy. a truly game changing idea.






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Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#33 - 2013-09-05 17:25:36 UTC
Tippia wrote:
Praetor Meles wrote:
Tippia wrote:
How would you mine a wormhole from a sun? Ugh


With a shovel.

Bring oven gloves and goggles.

I've always been told that goggles do nothing, and I was in Terran Republic, so I should know. Oops




With your guns shooting 10000000² bullets second and clips with bazillions of you can't fear much stuff can you? Lol

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Osabojo
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#34 - 2013-09-05 20:23:09 UTC
Peter Raptor wrote:
I mean you'd just stare at a white screen for hours on end?


Not if you went there at night.
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#35 - 2013-09-05 21:47:41 UTC
Osabojo wrote:
Peter Raptor wrote:
I mean you'd just stare at a white screen for hours on end?

Not if you went there at night.

Isn't this an AFK mining thread?

I mean you want to mine this massive thing, and get Hydrogen and Heloim isotopes from it, right?

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Lido Seahawk
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#36 - 2013-09-05 22:00:32 UTC
Miles Parabellum wrote:
Gorn Arming wrote:
I bet if you keep at it long enough you could even uncover a rare deposit of capital letters.


Also, once the first star is mined to depletion, it turns out it was one of millions of homeworlds in a vast empire built by an advanced hydrogen-based race of living gas/plasma clouds.
This will trigger Incursion v. 2.0.
Also, there may be ancient space ship trees and killer robots involved.


This is factually incorrect. The truth is much more horrific-

We, the Miners of High-sec, have already discovered the advanced technology necessary to mine stars. However, we have decided to keep this technology secret, due to the fact that once depleted, a star tends to collapse into a black hole, sucking in the entire system and leaving behind a steaming pile of something resembling minecraft. Knowing that such an ending to Eve, one system at a time, is horror that no pilot can bear, this technology has been hidden away in a giant secure container in a very, very High-sec place, never to be revealed. Ever.

There is, unfortunately, one madman who has gathered about him a horde of murderous minions who travel through Eve mindlessly ganking miners by the thousands with the misguided and vain hope that the directions to the HOLY CONTAINER OF HIGHSEC may be found in the smoldering wreck of some random exhumer. What he plans to do with this knowledge is anyone’s guess.

But the next time you hear Jimmy and his New Order slavebots chanting about the need to “save” high-sec, ask yourself: Self, what do they really mean by that?

Be afraid. Be very afraid…

May I have your stuff?
Sirinda
Ekchuah's Shrine Comporium
#37 - 2013-09-05 23:37:39 UTC
Mythrandier wrote:
Gorn Arming wrote:
I bet if you keep at it long enough you could even uncover a rare deposit of capital letters.



Thanks mate, now I have coffee all over my desk :(


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Captain Tardbar
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#38 - 2013-09-05 23:51:55 UTC
coo'kaktaa wrote:
the subject says it all. i wish we could mine the sun. imagine the rewards. nuclear isotopes. new and even more unstable worm holes. the ability to remove light from your part of the galaxy. a truly game changing idea.


You know what I was thinking the same thing. Create a solar powered mining barge. Sit there 24/7 without ever moving. Make the cycle times similar to old ice mining. The materials would have to be worthless to be balanced.

It would give those who want to watch netflix and play EVE something to do again.

But yeah it seems like its kind of stupid that minmatar have solar panels yet no one seems to be interested in solar power.

It would help bring out a steady source of gank targets too.

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Sir Substance
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#39 - 2013-09-06 03:00:41 UTC
Alistair Cononach wrote:

Not a bad idea at all.


Don't lie, its a horrific trainwreck of an idea Lol

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Viziam
Amarr Empire
#40 - 2013-09-06 05:38:59 UTC
I think the sun should be a pvp ground in Dust.. Imagine how many girls that would start playing immidiately.

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