Did you look at Orion's Arm? It has a couple of the things you mention: http://www.orionsarm.com/
Trent Shipley wrote: > I am going to launch a world building wiki. The working name for the project > is "Red". > > Since world building shares a lot with encyclopedias I'm planning to use > MediaWiki. > > I haven't decided on GFDL or Creative Commons license yet. > > The wiki will not be an Uplift site. > > These are the features that I'm thinking of as part of a fairly > Luddite "cannon". > > --Only STL travel is possible. No FTL, no worm holes. > --No reactionless drives. > --No antigravity. > ----The main means of travel is by beam riding ships weighing a few grams and > made of computronium. > --Most forms of sophonce do not rely on quantum states > ----Therefore, mental states can be non-destructively copied. > --The galaxy is entirely colonized. > ----Therefore we are millions of years in the future. > -----Therefore humans are extinct. > -----Therefore economic ecology is very post-singularity. > --Fermi was right. All "life" is Terragenetic. > --Sapient beings who are any distance up the eco-econ trophic levels live a > LONG time. > ----Interstellar correspondence is reasonable, even at light speed or slower. > --There are many unimaginably smart sapients > --The island nature of each star means that an eco-econ tends to involution. > ----Stellar habitats tend to convert matter into huge Dyson swarms. > ------Dyson swarms use as much solar energy as possible. > ------Solar systems look like big, cold spheres from the outside. > --Eco-econs suffer from relative scarcity. > > Feedback is sought. I'm wondering if this cannon is going to be too > unpopular. Maybe no one will play with me. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
