Deep Space worldbuilding

Okay been awhile since I've made a worldbuilding post where I have most figured out

Okay the world is a bit like my Endless setting, Space Exploration, Large Ships with Warp Drives, Subspace Gates, Space Colonies, fully sentient AI. Stuff like that.

Though I have changed a few things. For one thing humanity has 7 Solar Systems, small ships now have their own Triton Particle Emitters, Motungs are in fact, not even common or even there and are a relatively recent if impractical invention, and the UCSF has a new counterpart in the Jovan (Yo-vaun) Empire which is powerful enough to gain the will of people and get 2-3 colonies in every solar system. There is 4-5 in each system, save for the 7th as it is a new addition.

To say nothing of how the A.I.s were a accident and the United Space Colony Federation set about enshrining laws that give A.I.s basic rights, especially since many were already planning on holding a revolution seeing as the scientists responsible tried to dumb them down.

There is one set of Minovsky Physics for this universe, the Pailsen Particle, used in specialized emitters it seems to emit a sort of "drag" affect where in Space a ship would normally keep on moving if it didn't have some way of affecting it's current motion (such as thrusters all over) the Yoran particle seems to be that outside force as if some sort of gravitational anchor. This allows Fighter ships to be made without large amounts of thrusters strapped on.

Now to cover 2 things under the Rule of Cool.

• Fighters
• Motungs

These will never get any explanation on why they are used. They just are.

So now, questions, ideas, what does everyone have to say?

edited 21st Apr '15 10:02:50 AM by EchoingSilence

Pailsen is too deliberate a reference. I'd change it.

And you don't need a large amount of thrusters on a space fighter, necessarily - enough mass released "that-a-way" is what provides thrust, so a Round Mover-style mobility rig should be more than enough. (Or rather, it's not the thrusters but the propellant that weighs you down.) You might as well give smaller ships Triton Vectoring And Maneuver Manipulators, to cut down on the total amount of technobabble.

There's a perfectly good explanation for why Fighters and Motungs are used: Uncle Sam's septuplet descendents ordered everyone in the setting to use them at some point, and no one's invented better equipment yet. Heck, it took us a good... 90 years? To go from manned war planes to drones.

Sounds good otherwise.

edited 24th Apr '15 11:48:22 PM by DeusDenuo

You didn't mention weapons.

Alright. I'm still calling the 7th Solar System the Yoran system. And Motungs are actually a recent development by the Jovan Empire. Funnily enough gravity systems are the reason why in Star Fox the Arwings can fly as if Space Is Air. So I was going for something like that.

Largely weapons are kinectic, though particle beam weapons are being produced by the USCF, which goes from large mega particle cannons to repeating blasters. If you have the knowhow (or at least the blueprints) you can in fact build energy weapons.

Though Kinetic weapons are still supplied in large thanks to the fact that Asteroid Mining has made resources more abundant for building, hence so many space colonies.