Promethiel

It could be for return packages to earth, but with the rail gun already in place, that seems somewhat useless.

On the other hand, it would be difficult to aim the rail gun, whereas the space tether would be somewhat easier to aim.

In this scenario, we’re just missing powering the rail gun self-sufficiently for a tidy operation. So a method to convert that angular momentum into electrical power for our rail gun would be the final step I think.

Fly wheels, gears, electrostatics in the tether. All equally undeveloped at scale as our tether except in principle so maybe the tether makers in the scenario already had an idea in mind.

The question is…will they settle on a steam turbine in space somehow lol?

Nevermind learning empathy. That one is going to be tricky for you, I feel.

Luckily, you don’t need it to reach the correct outcome. Look into the other concept that is kept from you, the same reason why companies seek to “collude” in the “free” market.

Selfish Altruism; it’ll make your life easier and still save your descendants. Do it for you.

Almost every skill provides new dialog skill checks ranging from merely funny to altering your options for quest resolution.

As you progress in new or other skills, you reveal new parts of quests that every BGS and similar game before would require new games for.

The set pieces for the Main Quest and Factions are rife with alternate paths and options to also make use of new skills.

The Ryujin one for example, I’m up to 6 runs and still enjoying variating. Mind control guy to hack computer and blow up door? Which of the three vents is best, the one that requires Gymnastics and space magic? The one behind the security computer?

Alternate “timelines” switching up the Main Quest/replacing it entirely.

A system emulating the idea of endless possibilities for a discrete purpose; You can easily add more of all of this to the mix with as much or as little fanfare as you want, and it’ll fit right in.

I for one, hope individual devs start getting lee way to remix quest lines the same way they were allowed to do new environmental stories for future DLCs like they did for Skyrim’s DLC tenure.

I can keep going. Seriously. There’s plenty of game and innovation alongside the rest of what makes a human released software product a jank mess of an attempt to deny the Universe’s entropic march.

Just gotta be willing to trade a smirk for a smile for a lot of people reading this.

“Reality is stranger than fiction,” is not merely pith, but as grim and perverse a promise as “May you live in interesting times,” is.

It also leaves a door open for future innovation as well.

An “update to quest dialog and option flow for some players” patch notes can hide entirely new quest iterations from people.

Everything done and repeatable can be adjusted, expanded, or added and the lore is already there to back it.

IMHO they’re gonna have a tricky time trying to balance things since they clearly also want “the classic BGS” experience to remain valid, but it doesn’t have to be for lack of innovation.

It is 12:30 PM. I am reading this exchange with no emotion until this comment. I have been stirred to tell you this: “Fuck you, Promethiel whispered calmly”.

Are people not allowed to point out the corn nuggets in the shit sandwich without being mocked by you? Do you know more about that commenter than you’re letting on or do you just enjoy unloading on would be allies?

‘Made in “His” image’ is clear; to be anxious is to be divine.

Seriously. Skip it for a second. The audience is curious. Why is my brown ass an ally of someone who is gonna be so cavalier when we’re both dodging brown shirts? So that I don’t rather find you and hand you the length of rope before you’re dragging me and mine with you, answer the fucking question these better adjusted fucks are asking. After Orange Fas–fuck it actually, pass the shrooms and see you in the mass grave.

It’s making it, from the tons of hydrogen it has in the fusion process. The energy and the reason stars even do this is because all of that mass that close together spontaneously does that; starts fusing.

We can’t have any, because a star will use up all the hydrogen to make helium, then start using all of the helium to make carbon and oxygen. Then start to make…

This is overly simplified and it varies from star to star (the more massive the star, the longer it churns through “making” elements into more “complex” elements) until its core is all iron, at which point fusion becomes a net negative.

From there other things can happen like novae. All throughout this life process though, that “elemental conversion” is happening faster on the outside as opposed to the core, and stellar winds do blow off heavier elements that enrich the interstellar medium.

We need a shovel that can plunge into the sun’s core if we want its helium, TL;DR.