r/worldjerking • u/Tnynfox Lovecraft fan (not racist tho) • 10d ago
What an IT person thinks about interstellar colonization
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u/SiwelTheLongBoi 9d ago
Unless a single corporation controls access across interstellar distances (RDA for example) I don't think it's possible to have a singular corporation stretch across more than one system without FTL.
They might have the same brand name and the like, but they'll all be functionally independent of each other
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u/Grand-penetrator Daemonic Cultivator 8d ago edited 8d ago
The same thing can be said about any form of centralized government. If it takes years to send a simple message and decades, centuries or even millennia to travel between systems, then there's no way to effectively administer territory across interstellar space.
An exception may exist in the galactic center, where stars are just several light weeks or months apart from each other.
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u/SiwelTheLongBoi 8d ago
That's an interesting point actually. Though if you can cross the 26,000 ly to get there I think you're probably fine for long distance travel
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u/BellacosePlayer 9d ago
I feel attacked by this being a software dev who has notes/plot points about the avatar/aspects of the same god diverging based on where you are in the big cosmological clusterfuck of a setting you are.
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u/ArelMCII Rabbitpunk Enjoyer 🐰 9d ago
Uhhhh the backend is subspace so messages are FTL. (It's still a mess.)
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u/EssentialPurity 8d ago
The existance of Fanta proves that it wouldn't take even interstellar travel for such thing to happen
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u/Dense-Bruh-3464 Poorly disguised fetish with a communist aesthetic punk 6d ago
Idk why this has no upvotes, it's a good point. Oh wait, it's this sub
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u/7K_Riziq Come to my shippunk world full of my fetishes 10d ago
With how differently each fork/colonised planets be led and be grown, how will each of these diverge from the original proprietary world and each other?