Solar System?

[Petrus]

Can you make a transspace jumpdrive clone that takes you back to the gate in the Oort cloud if you use it inside a stargate? Or maybe make a "deluxe model" that has a couple new destinations besides all the normal ones. Then you could go to a few other novelty systems. Maybe one with a bunch of dead planets and asteroids and only one, giant monster/ship whose harvesting you interrupt.

That, or just put another stargate in the first system like what Cardinal was getting at. You could add a mission where you'd find out that the remaining peoples' of Sol had become xenophobic and set up a giant cloaking field around the stargate, but that after completing a mission in the later star systems, you could get access to the cloaked gate and take it back.

[Apemant]

Can you make a transspace jumpdrive clone that takes you back to the gate in the Oort cloud if you use it inside a stargate? Or maybe make a "deluxe model" that has a couple new destinations besides all the normal ones. Then you could go to a few other novelty systems. Maybe one with a bunch of dead planets and asteroids and only one, giant monster/ship whose harvesting you interrupt.

That, or just put another stargate in the first system like what Cardinal was getting at. You could add a mission where you'd find out that the remaining peoples' of Sol had become xenophobic and set up a giant cloaking field around the stargate, but that after completing a mission in the later star systems, you could get access to the cloaked gate and take it back.

Very great ideas. I like this, visiting Sol system would be so cool, esp. if there were some mission involved. As for getting there, it's no problem - it's easy to make a special object which just objGatesYou to the Sol system. Just like you said, a one way ticket, and to get back you'd have to solve some quest. Like it very much.

[Periculi]

Yes, you could throw a Tourism station in SK that sold a gate item which you could use to take yourself on a little trip to anywhere (available)

[Ttech]

Yes, you could throw a Tourism station in SK that sold a gate item which you could use to take yourself on a little trip to anywhere (available)

Maybe...

[kaypy]

lol, visit mother earth- but be sure to bring your hazmat suit!

I suspect folks in this thread are considerably overstating the level of destruction in the Sol system. I would consider the place was pretty trashed, but not unrecoverably so.

My interpretation of the current situation is that its more of a political and economic backwater than a ruin. Its doing fine, but just isnt *important*

Right now I'm thinking of the Sol System as the present day Middle East only without the oil. In other words, it is a somewhat under-resourced tourist attraction that is neither the economic, nor political, nor military center of anything.

(quote from 2.5 years ago when the Middle East was somewhat less trashed)

Its also worth noting that Earth has several specialty agricultural exports, so its biosphere cant be in *that* bad a shape...

Chardonnay produced by the ancient methods of Australia is today considered to be the best in the Commonwealth. ... Huge farms on Earth raise this once extinct animal to produce a delicacy known throughout the Commonwealth. ... Even after the disastrous tectonic quakes of the 22nd Century, the island city states of New California on Earth continue to make the most excellent of red wines. ... The finest Earth sake is made in a small town in Japan. ... This crate contains whole salmon from the Earth oceans around Iceland. ...

[Ttech]

lol, visit mother earth- but be sure to bring your hazmat suit!

I suspect folks in this thread are considerably overstating the level of destruction in the Sol system. I would consider the place was pretty trashed, but not unrecoverably so.

My interpretation of the current situation is that its more of a political and economic backwater than a ruin. Its doing fine, but just isnt *important*

Right now I'm thinking of the Sol System as the present day Middle East only without the oil. In other words, it is a somewhat under-resourced tourist attraction that is neither the economic, nor political, nor military center of anything.

(quote from 2.5 years ago when the Middle East was somewhat less trashed)

Its also worth noting that Earth has several specialty agricultural exports, so its biosphere cant be in *that* bad a shape...

Chardonnay produced by the ancient methods of Australia is today considered to be the best in the Commonwealth. ... Huge farms on Earth raise this once extinct animal to produce a delicacy known throughout the Commonwealth. ... Even after the disastrous tectonic quakes of the 22nd Century, the island city states of New California on Earth continue to make the most excellent of red wines. ... The finest Earth sake is made in a small town in Japan. ... This crate contains whole salmon from the Earth oceans around Iceland. ...

Thats what I was thinking too, the only planet that needed hte Hazmat suits was Mars. So images and postioning?

[Fossaman]

All of that is groundside stuff, though. What about space infrastructure? I got the impression that Earth is an entirely different polity than the commonwealth from reading the background material. The commonwealth may well have decided just to leave Sol alone after the war.

[Ttech]

All of that is groundside stuff, though. What about space infrastructure? I got the impression that Earth is an entirely different polity than the commonwealth from reading the background material. The commonwealth may well have decided just to leave Sol alone after the war.

hmm, but it still would be albe to be gone to from the SK gate

[Cardinal]

Its also worth noting that Earth has several specialty agricultural exports, so its biosphere cant be in *that* bad a shape...

Terran eggs

[Ttech]

Its also worth noting that Earth has several specialty agricultural exports, so its biosphere cant be in *that* bad a shape...

Terran eggs

really?