The Far Echo Islands
25-11-2007, 23:13
The Far Fetched Farcaster Theory on the NS State of Existence
Abstract:
I have pondered before the way NS exists, I’ve heard multiple Earth’s, Gas Giant, et cetra, but I’ve never been satisfied with how they work. None truly seem to explain why NS seems as one Earth and why everyone can so seamlessly sail from one to another. While this theory is based off Multiple Earths, it is slightly different. So here goes.
Theory:
In the novel Hyperion, by Dan Simmons, there are a type of interstellar travel created by folding space onto its self multiple times and making a near instant transition between far distant places. Also, there is something described as the river Tethrys that flows across many worlds through many farcasters in one seemingly continuous stream.
I propose this is how NS works but somehow the farcasters automatically read your mind and are invisible. You would unknowingly pass though they infinitesimally and imperceptibly all at once and you would come out a specific location.
The concept of distance between nations is formed by the fact that the farcasters are only in specific locations, and you have to sail to them to get to them, however, they are always on the path between nations.
Each linked world is the diameter of Earth, and no farcaster can be placed more than 12,000 miles apart therefore no nation can ever be more distant from another than the entire diameter of the Earth. Farcasters are again located sparsely, so the relation of one nation to another between farcasters determines the intra-farcaster distance. (i.e.: Kirav’s colony of Satellitia is very close to my country and therefore there is no farcaster between those locations, and, while the intra-farcaster distance can be up to 12,000 miles, in this example it is about 872 miles.)
Of course ‘close’ nations would be located on the same Earth-like Planet; however, medium distance nations may and may not be located on the same Earth as Farcasters are randomly spaced. By this theory, some regions can claim entire Earth-sized planets and their member nations still be able to interact with nations in other regions.
It becomes a seamless plane of existence that has dated back to the beginning of NationStates and all its Earth-like planets, therefore even ancient tribes could have passed through the farcasters as in this theory it is assumed that some ‘forerunner’ (excuse the Halo cliché) built the farcasters before the current state of existence ever began.
The reality of NS space, by this theory, that while most inter-atmospheric farcasters do lead to an alternate reality version of the Sol System, it is possible that there are more than one of the Sol System copies and therefore many nations may colonize one celestial body, such as the moon.
Comments? Questions?
Abstract:
I have pondered before the way NS exists, I’ve heard multiple Earth’s, Gas Giant, et cetra, but I’ve never been satisfied with how they work. None truly seem to explain why NS seems as one Earth and why everyone can so seamlessly sail from one to another. While this theory is based off Multiple Earths, it is slightly different. So here goes.
Theory:
In the novel Hyperion, by Dan Simmons, there are a type of interstellar travel created by folding space onto its self multiple times and making a near instant transition between far distant places. Also, there is something described as the river Tethrys that flows across many worlds through many farcasters in one seemingly continuous stream.
I propose this is how NS works but somehow the farcasters automatically read your mind and are invisible. You would unknowingly pass though they infinitesimally and imperceptibly all at once and you would come out a specific location.
The concept of distance between nations is formed by the fact that the farcasters are only in specific locations, and you have to sail to them to get to them, however, they are always on the path between nations.
Each linked world is the diameter of Earth, and no farcaster can be placed more than 12,000 miles apart therefore no nation can ever be more distant from another than the entire diameter of the Earth. Farcasters are again located sparsely, so the relation of one nation to another between farcasters determines the intra-farcaster distance. (i.e.: Kirav’s colony of Satellitia is very close to my country and therefore there is no farcaster between those locations, and, while the intra-farcaster distance can be up to 12,000 miles, in this example it is about 872 miles.)
Of course ‘close’ nations would be located on the same Earth-like Planet; however, medium distance nations may and may not be located on the same Earth as Farcasters are randomly spaced. By this theory, some regions can claim entire Earth-sized planets and their member nations still be able to interact with nations in other regions.
It becomes a seamless plane of existence that has dated back to the beginning of NationStates and all its Earth-like planets, therefore even ancient tribes could have passed through the farcasters as in this theory it is assumed that some ‘forerunner’ (excuse the Halo cliché) built the farcasters before the current state of existence ever began.
The reality of NS space, by this theory, that while most inter-atmospheric farcasters do lead to an alternate reality version of the Sol System, it is possible that there are more than one of the Sol System copies and therefore many nations may colonize one celestial body, such as the moon.
Comments? Questions?