I don't know what this is or where it came from, but I'm 'avin it!

Oh, and this one too:

You want Sith? Because this is how you get Sith!

Just now, Desslok said:

You want Sith? Because this is how you get Sith!

Trust me folks, don't do this! Once you get Sith, you can spray and spray and spray and you'll never get rid of 'em.

21 minutes ago, Desslok said:

You want Sith? Because this is how you get Sith!

It looks like Palpatine's version of the Cinderella castle from Disney Land.

And it works.

Man it does a little bit, doesn't it?

It's amazing what you find just surfing the suggested links on deviant art. This one just screams out "Have a lightsaber fight here!"

29 minutes ago, Absol197 said:

Trust me folks, don't do this! Once you get Sith, you can spray and spray and spray and you'll never get rid of 'em.

ROFLMAO!!!

17 minutes ago, Desslok said:

Man it does a little bit, doesn't it?

It's amazing what you find just surfing the suggested links on deviant art. This one just screams out "Have a lightsaber fight here!"

I'd say it's an even better place to fight Bowser.

These are amazing! Sharing with my dudes.

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You all might enjoy http://fscape.tumblr.com/ then - not all of it is appropriate to this theme, but a LOT of it is, especially back a bit in the archive.

Have you been following 2P51's "NPCs...PCs...Monsters...n stuff...art" thread? It is a veritable gold mine of images which make perfect jumping-off points for fleshing out locales (in fact, I believe at least one of those images was in that thread).

8 hours ago, Desslok said:

I don't know what this is or where it came from, but I'm 'avin it!

Is that an artificial planetary ring, because it looks like an artificial planetary ring and it’s amazinng.

12 hours ago, Norr-Saba said:

Is that an artificial planetary ring, because it looks like an artificial planetary ring and it’s amazinng.

Those support struts must be massive.

Possibly, unless it is high enough into the planets atmosphere to actually be in orbit, tben they wouldn’t need to be support struts but rather access points to the planets massive space station.

Edit: took another look at the image and even though it is above the cloud line it does indeed look to be anchored to the planet using massive struts, also very interesting

21 minutes ago, Norr-Saba said:

Possibly, unless it is high enough into the planets atmosphere to actually be in orbit, tben they wouldn’t need to be support struts but rather access points to the planets massive space station.

Edit: took another look at the image and even though it is above the cloud line it does indeed look to be anchored to the planet using massive struts, also very interesting

To be in orbit and have those be access struts, it would have to be out at the geostationary orbit point of the planet. For Earth, that distance is 35,786 kilometers (22,236 miles) above the surface of the Earth. Or about 3 Earth diameters away from the surface. Any closer in than that and it would move relative to the surface of the planet which would cause it to drag those struts around.

11 hours ago, Norr-Saba said:

Possibly, unless it is high enough into the planets atmosphere to actually be in orbit, tben they wouldn’t need to be support struts but rather access points to the planets massive space station.

Edit: took another look at the image and even though it is above the cloud line it does indeed look to be anchored to the planet using massive struts, also very interesting

That is *way too close* to be in geostationary orbit, even a MEO (middle earth orbit) like GPS is way farther out than that (MEO is about an factor of 4 larger than the radius of the planet), so no that ring is definitely not an orbital space station, but then star wars ignores realistic physics so maybe the artist did too. MEO orbits twice a (sidereal) day, GEO only orbits once a ĺsidereal) day. Or maybe the planet spins really fast and has short days but then I'd still expect GEO to be at least a factor of 2 to 4 larger than the radius of the planet.

11 hours ago, Kallabecca said:

To be in orbit and have those be access struts, it would have to be out at the geostationary orbit point of the planet. For Earth, that distance is 35,786 kilometers (22,236 miles) above the surface of the Earth. Or about 3 Earth diameters away from the surface. Any closer in than that and it would move relative to the surface of the planet which would cause it to drag those struts around.

I'd say ninja'd but it wasn't even close, I didn't read to the end before replying.

Given they eventually built Starkiller Base I see no problem with this!?

On 16.10.2017 at 10:21 AM, copperbell said:

Given they eventually built Starkiller Base I see no problem with this!?

Given that coruscant is basically that, just covering nearly the whole planet with it (and now as high as this one) … I have no problem either with it. Must be a booming world, yet not finished developing to a full-scale city world.
Or they are environmentalists aiming to keep at least some of the ground level nature intact.

I wonder if anyone in the Star Wars Universe got the bright idea to build a Halo Like structure, but you know, not a galaxy killing superweapon.

Or a Dyson Sphere?

1 hour ago, copperbell said:

Or a Dyson Sphere?

With Hypermatter Dyson spheres are rather impractical and useless. Technical the centerpoint station is still a dyson sphere even when the sun at its center is artificial.

Something similar applies to ringworlds and similar habitat superstructures. They are impractical in context that repulsors are super-cheap and the galactic population density is rather low. Not even coruscant is at its limit, so building ring worlds would be 100% prestige projects.

edit:

Oh and btw, in the real world dyson spheres are rather impractical and useless as well. A partial dyson swarm would be more than enough as energy source to build a blackhole engine, which is magnitudes above the energy output a dyson sphere could generate. (fusion vs complete matter annihilation as energy source)

On 10/14/2017 at 9:48 PM, Shaved Wookie said:

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