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Total Members Voted: 20

[Vorthon]

...Dammit, I really need to brush up on my equations.

[IronTomato]

What's so bad about a 6 month journey? Nobody said a journey to Mars would be easy, or quick. We'd just need to bring plenty of supplies, and have a ship so amazingly dwarfy that Armok himself would bow before it.

Have we talked about ship engineering yet?

[GreatWyrmGold]

Bo, we haven't even decided what the ships would be needed to do.

[Graknorke]

Bo, we haven't even decided what the ships would be needed to do.

Keep about 500 crew alive and content for half a year, and carry enough supplies to build a base on Mars.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Bo, we haven't even decided what the ships would be needed to do.

Keep about 500 crew alive and content for half a year, and carry enough supplies to build a base on Mars.

There's thousands of us, and there was discussion of other Space Operations, ranging from orbital bombardment to asteroid colonies.

[King DZA]

Edit: Apparently our king is also Knight of the order of the Elephant.

I'm what now?

[TopHat]

I think he meant the Belgian king.
You're a knight of the order of... of...
We really need to think up a cool name.

[10ebbor10]

I think he meant the Belgian king.
You're a knight of the order of... of...
We really need to think up a cool name.

The Order of the Martian Cross
The Knights of the Twelve Bays
...
And yeah, meant the Belgian king.

[miauw62]

The Knights of the Twelve Bays sounds pretty neat.

[Helgoland]

The Knights of the Twelve Bays sounds pretty neat.

The Knights of the Twelfth Bay.

[Vorthon]

So. About the spaceship thing. I recently read an essay by Larry Niven, detailing various megastructures. One of the things he described involved taking an asteroid, focusing sunlight on it using a specially shaped mirror, melting it, spinning the resulting glob, and turning it into a hollow sphere to serve as a hull for a spacecraft. Sounds interesting. Although that'd probably be better for trips to the outer system, or potential interstellar trips. Unless you guys feel like waiting until Apophis makes another close pass.

[OREOSOME]

Will we put our leadership's brains inside Large Mechs? Or will they remain organic?

[Vorthon]

No. Put the brains in spaceships. With plenty of processing power and the ability to produce humanoid avatars.

[GreatWyrmGold]

So. About the spaceship thing. I recently read an essay by Larry Niven, detailing various megastructures. One of the things he described involved taking an asteroid, focusing sunlight on it using a specially shaped mirror, melting it, spinning the resulting glob, and turning it into a hollow sphere to serve as a hull for a spacecraft. Sounds interesting. Although that'd probably be better for trips to the outer system, or potential interstellar trips. Unless you guys feel like waiting until Apophis makes another close pass.

Um, we need spaceships to get us to the asteroids...

Will we put our leadership's brains inside Large Mechs? Or will they remain organic?

I'd suggest uploading a few backups and possibly a copy or two of the leaders onto cephalopod processing units once I invent them, then we can hook 'em up to anything.

[Vorthon]

Like I said: It's only good for outer system or interstellar expeditions, unless we decide to wait for the asteroid Apophis to make another close pass.