Due to the drunken rantings of a friend about their ideas for a video game.


I shall play an empire of loli pirates.

No techs greater than 10k may be researched normally. After that point, everything must be salvaged, stolen, or reverse engineered.

Lower gravity tolerance (due to little bodies) but heightened temp range due to already being full of hot air.

I'd imagine that, at such a distance, just pointing towards the general position of Earth would suffice.

I also suppose that my Islamic Caliphate has ships with a room with a mechanical floor that rotates so the mats can be placed pointing directly towards the home planet.  Or praying is okay but if circumstances don't permit it customs dictate that it's okay not to pray.

This actually comes up in something I'm writing. There's also the question of what constitutes a "day" in space given that historically the prayer ritual and several bathing/fasting ceremonies correspond with sunrise and sunset and depending on where you are that can be once an hour or once a year.


There have been several Muslim astronauts already and a council of religious scholars in malaysia has attempted to put together guidelines for praying in space

http://syariahmaqasid.blogspot.com/2010/03/guideline-of-performing-ibadah-at.html

Can you imagine the hand-wrangling for Muslims on Mars to decide how to place their mats so that they are facing towards Mecca? Every prayer room needs an telescope so that you can locate Earth first.

I'd imagine that, at such a distance, just pointing towards the general position of Earth would suffice.

I also suppose that my Islamic Caliphate has ships with a room with a mechanical floor that rotates so the mats can be placed pointing directly towards the home planet.  Or praying is okay but if circumstances don't permit it customs dictate that it's okay not to pray.

My next game will be interesting.  I'm sure you've all heard of Twitch Plays Pokemon?  Well my idea is to try something similar with Aurora.  I plan on having a thread on a different forum in which I post updates, list a few possible courses of action, and then let the other posters decide what I do.  Should be fun.

Sounds interesting. Keep us updated!

Anyone know how to effectively use dropships and how to put the troops into the dropships from a main ship. This is for my test game of my pseudo-UNSC game (playing as the UEG [Unified Earth government], the civilian government before and after the martial law of the human-covenant war put the UNSC in charge).

You need to launch the dropship into a separate TG from the troop transport and then give it orders from the TG window to "combat load" the unit(s) you want, if I remember correctly. It's been a while so I might misremember whether they needed to be in the same TG or different TG's.

My next game will be interesting.  I'm sure you've all heard of Twitch Plays Pokemon?  Well my idea is to try something similar with Aurora.  I plan on having a thread on a different forum in which I post updates, list a few possible courses of action, and then let the other posters decide what I do.  Should be fun.

I was also thinking that Catholics have one advantage in the interstellar age, in that Latin will likely be the common language of "air traffic control" for starships.  Just as English is the common language for airports today.  Why Latin?  Because when you're dealing with relativity, and the passage of (relative) decades or centuries for round trips, you need a language with a fixed grammar and lexicon.  You can't rely on any still-evolving language, like 21st century English, to still be intelligible a thousand years from now.  It's going to be hard enough to train up a starship pilot, so why also require a Latin degree, when you could, instead, just train a pilot who already got Latin in grade school?  Again this doesn't apply much to Aurora.

I'm REALLY attached to my current campaign but someday I'm going to create a truly weird alt. history setting that begins in 1600 A.D. With early modern alchemists inventing a galaxy-jumping transnewtonian drive that can take them all over the universe. Jesuits will feature prominently, ships will be heavily shielded and made out of wood, with "mass drivers" that are modeled off of 17th century cannon, and the aliens will be modeled off of things from astrological/demonological lore. Lots of unusual rules: no missiles, no armor, no lasers, no fighters, no terraforming, ect

When DON'T the men in black feature?
hmm, actually,  the MiB as Jesuits, that has potential...

Matt