Traidir
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.02.09 01:43:00 -
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I posted this idea once before, just before Incarna came out, while the Minmatar CQ was still in production. Although it's time to influence the CQs might have already passed, the idea might still have some merit as production of new station environments goes forward:
It would be neat if each of the different races had different methods for developing artificial gravity on their various station types: just as the different races used to have different propulsion types and just as they still have different sensor types.
This idea is purely for flavour, and would help to give each of the race's station environments its own "mood".
For example, Amarr, who have grav based propulsion drives, could simply use high tech gravity generation: producing gravity at will in any direction desired.
The Caldari, so proficient at hydromagnetic physics, could easily use magnetic booting or electrostatic charges to attach citizens to their work environments.
In classic Minmatar fashion, the body and mind must adapt to a more simple, low tech, solution: centripetal force.
The Gallente's more melting pot society would, perhaps, have an amalgam of different approaches pulled in from all sectors.
In this way, Amarrian citadels would be capable of bold, straight lines and Escherian stair ways and crossovers.
Caldari corporate office structures could be modular, perhaps submarine like, and any chosen wall could as easily be a floor, or ceiling.
Rotating vistas, up-curving corridors, and differing levels of gravity (based on distance from rotational center) would define the Matari paradigm. (stanford torus)(O'Neill Cylinder) (the cylinders would be somewhere inside of those big square stations, which, judging by our floating ships, don't have gravity everywhere anyway)
Finally, the Gallente would present with a functional and economic mixture of the various approaches (or perhaps some approach I haven't thought of).
And, of course, every race can have subsections of station that were designed using technology learned or purchased from the other races. This would allow all the previous game-fiction scenarios to be played out without violating continuity and would let Incarna content already designed still be used without starting over. |