Timeline for Killing a star safely
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 11:03 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 23, 2019 at 8:24 | history | edited | Carsogrin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Discussion? Added material on thinking through the scenario. Main idea deleted; left (and posted) the rest.
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| Jul 23, 2019 at 5:38 | comment | added | Carsogrin | @OP: I am thinking you might have to flesh out the “insect” detail a bit. Do they travel at sub-light speed, or teleport…? (…And how?) Is there anything interesting about how they spot the next star? Do they prefer some types? How big are they? Maybe they hang around the now dead star for 6 months during the procreation period. What do they actually do to the planets (and why)? (Perhaps they interfere with planetary orbits… even if just by being there.) When they are about to leave, is their path predictable? (Do they notice radio or gravitic communication? Do you have ansibles?) | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 0:25 | comment | added | Mazura | make it more explicit what the insects do. OP skipped the fun part: deciding the objective. Instead they handed us an entrapping backstory with a simple question: how to entirely block out the sun. That's not the objective; survival is the objective. For that I need intel... all of it. +1 | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 18:17 | comment | added | Henry Taylor | Your answer has raised some interesting issues. I had originally though of the insects as planet eaters but I want them driven by instinctive phototropism, so even after they have eaten a solar system, it the sun is still shining, it will be brighter than even the closest star. They would therefore just buzz around the now childless sun until they starve, leaving no great threat for the universe. I think I will answer this issue by making their procreation process somehow consume the sun. That would leave darkness behind an every growing swarm. Thanks for the help! +1 | |
| S Jul 22, 2019 at 16:25 | history | suggested | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2019 at 15:18 | history | answered | Carsogrin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |