The Ninted Colony > Defining "space leap" technology > Subspace To go faster than light, we probably need to escape our time-space jail in some way or another. Use a wormhole, create one instantly, stream through a membrane dimension as energy or whatever. The practical implications are more important.
Should the "leap" be more or less instantaneous or a quick dash through a tunnel? Will we use portals for the "leap" and will they be required or just beneficial?
I can't make up my mind.
907 days ago | 0 Comments | 1 Thumb-up
You active your subspace drive, thus tearing a hole (and you're suckt in the hole) in subspace (an other dimension parallel to space) which you can enter, the hole closes behind you, you arrive in a tunnel, just keep flying ahead, the computer will calculate when to exit, the computer gives a signal, you shut down your subspace drive, a hole appears in front of you, you are automatically suckt into it and then you are at your destination, the ship has covered a few light-years in just a few minutes. From the outside it looks like your ship exits from a blue light (when you're in subspace, the people in space cant see you until you exit, so if you are exiting and the front half is in space and the other part in subspace, you will only see the front if you are in space).
Under this: the entering, the tunnel, and exiting (2 pictures of a ship exiting) :
The Ninted Colony > Defining Ninted > Blue planet Name of solar system/star: Not planned to be disclosed to the audience.
Name of planet: It has one but only astronomers seems to care about it. Everybody else use a nickname, often depending on religion.
"Ninted" is the most commonly used nickname, it has a clear majority. "Utopia" is less used. Some Christians tend to call it "New Eden". (The list goes on.)
I would like to get some theories about what happened to Ninted or the freighters and why Earth or Mars didn't intercept a distress call from any of them.
Also, it might be useful (for the story) to have a few factoids about Ninted.
908 days ago | 0 Comments | 3 Thumb-ups
Ninted is blue so their has to be a lot of water so it could be the most important planet for the production of hydrogen which is needed to power and/or cool the reactors of the space ships.
And if you are questioning yourself: why not on Earth? than this might be the answer: the hydrogen produced on Earth is used in the petroleum-and chemical industry's and the rest of the water is needed for drinking and for the farms to support the vast population of Earth. They also produce hydrogen for the spaceships but only in small quantity's. And the water supplies on Mars are to small to set up huge hydrogen production facilities.
The Ninted Colony > Defining Ninted > What outer colonies always do Name of solar system/star: Not planned to be disclosed to the audience.
Name of planet: It has one but only astronomers seems to care about it. Everybody else use a nickname, often depending on religion.
"Ninted" is the most commonly used nickname, it has a clear majority. "Utopia" is less used. Some Christians tend to call it "New Eden". (The list goes on.)
I would like to get some theories about what happened to Ninted or the freighters and why Earth or Mars didn't intercept a distress call from any of them.
Also, it might be useful (for the story) to have a few factoids about Ninted.
909 days ago | 0 Comments | 2 Thumb-ups
It happens often that a colonie, when it is far away from the leading planet (in this case Earth), declares itself independent, thus provoking a war between the leading factions and that colonie or an alliance between the colonies (in this case: Earth and Mars against Ninted and maybe an other ally, an other colonie or a powerful alien race (with superior technology) which where only known by the Ninted).
The Ninted Colony > Placing technology in time > Why place the film in time at all? by: Paul Day
Why define the time at all? You tend to get this with films set in the future "a few years from now" etc...
But we don't do that with films set in the past. So it's not the 'near future' it's an ambiguous present. "100 years ago we sent some people to some planet" sort of thing.
909 days ago | 0 Thumb-ups
There is no need for specific date, you could e.g. start the pilot episode with text saying something like this:
"20 years ago humanity colonized Mars.
18 years ago leaping was invented.
15 years age humanity expanded to a third planet - Ninted.
3 days ago ships stopped returning from Ninted. Nobody knows why."
That gives you some kind of internal timeline without specific dates. Just adjust the timeline as needed.
The Ninted Colony > Defining "space leap" technology > Leap cannon by: David Jansson
I am thinking, to fit the name, something like in Mass Effect, only placeable on ships. Basically a cannon that creates a corridor of thin space infront of the ship, less space, less inertia to overcome, and light speed is suddenly as many times faster as the space is thinner. Then, you just leap into the corridor before space collapses back. I think the ship would be sucked into the space "vacuum", sort of speak. Turn off the cannon, woosh, back into space. You would probably need to do it incrementally, or you would literally crash into space...
909 days ago | 1 Thumb-up
Not quite I think. But it could be the same thing I guess. A stretching of space. It would make wormholes more understandable as traversable.
The Ninted Colony > Defining "space leap" technology > Leap cannon by: David Jansson
I am thinking, to fit the name, something like in Mass Effect, only placeable on ships. Basically a cannon that creates a corridor of thin space infront of the ship, less space, less inertia to overcome, and light speed is suddenly as many times faster as the space is thinner. Then, you just leap into the corridor before space collapses back. I think the ship would be sucked into the space "vacuum", sort of speak. Turn off the cannon, woosh, back into space. You would probably need to do it incrementally, or you would literally crash into space...
The Ninted Colony > Defining "space leap" technology > Leap To go faster than light, we probably need to escape our time-space jail in some way or another. Use a wormhole, create one instantly, stream through a membrane dimension as energy or whatever. The practical implications are more important.
Should the "leap" be more or less instantaneous or a quick dash through a tunnel? Will we use portals for the "leap" and will they be required or just beneficial?
I can't make up my mind.
964 days ago | 0 Comments | 1 Thumb-up
It should be neither moving through a tunnel or instantaneous, but maybe the shifting of the universe all around the craft. Perhaps the ship will remain motionless while the universe and everything within is shifted all around the craft. Of course I guess this would look as though the craft were moving, but it could be explained I guess.
The Ninted Colony > Placing technology in time > Why place the film in time at all? by: Paul Day
Why define the time at all? You tend to get this with films set in the future "a few years from now" etc...
But we don't do that with films set in the past. So it's not the 'near future' it's an ambiguous present. "100 years ago we sent some people to some planet" sort of thing.
987 days ago | 0 Thumb-ups
Paul's is definitely the best suggestion, don't give a year at all.
It's not hard, when did you last hear a specific year mentioned in Star Trek for example? (The "stardates" might mean something to fans but they don't seem to make any sense to the average viewer, I certainly don't understand them.)
The Ninted Colony > Defining Ninted > Space pirates Name of solar system/star: Not planned to be disclosed to the audience.
Name of planet: It has one but only astronomers seems to care about it. Everybody else use a nickname, often depending on religion.
"Ninted" is the most commonly used nickname, it has a clear majority. "Utopia" is less used. Some Christians tend to call it "New Eden". (The list goes on.)
I would like to get some theories about what happened to Ninted or the freighters and why Earth or Mars didn't intercept a distress call from any of them.
Also, it might be useful (for the story) to have a few factoids about Ninted.
1010 days ago | 0 Comments | 2 Thumb-ups
Nothing bad happened on Ninted. The now long overdue freighters was ambushed and captured by space pirates. The weapons on the freighters were designed for blasting asteroids and not small ships, so they were no match for the pirates.
The distress call was disabled by the pirates (deployment of message drones or whatever).
The Ninted Colony > Defining "space leap" technology > Leaping As Energy To go faster than light, we probably need to escape our time-space jail in some way or another. Use a wormhole, create one instantly, stream through a membrane dimension as energy or whatever. The practical implications are more important.
Should the "leap" be more or less instantaneous or a quick dash through a tunnel? Will we use portals for the "leap" and will they be required or just beneficial?
I can't make up my mind.
1010 days ago | 0 Comments | 1 Thumb-up
this was my shot for the task defining Ninted it gives also an idea how it could work.
In this hypothese Leaping is entering a machine that basically breaks you down into energy. There is a entrance where you are transformed in energy and put in little objects small enough to be leaped, and of course an exit where you are reformed to your old form, the time you are being leaped you are asleep (the same thing is happening with messages and objects). The entrance and the exit are put on the same wavelength and then you can travel between the entrance and exit.
now every technology has it's faults. The Leaping machines can be affected by strong magnetic storms, what the colonisators don't know is that the local solarsystem is ravaged by heavy magnetic storms, tests have prouved that the leapingpassageways are not affected by anything whatsoever. Since they don't realise that the storms affect the machines so heavily they stay sending messages and other things. When they notice that there is noting coming trough anymore they try to send someone through the passage way in a different more dangerous way, putting hem is a sacophage and reduce his size untile he is as big as a molecule, but stays awake to see what happes. But he doesn't return either.
When they check the machine, magnetic storm is over, the see that according to the dashboard everything is normal. But when they look inside the machine is so heavily damaged that they can't repair it. Since the main station is on earth they will have to sit and wait intile someone is leaped to them in the way they have. But they do not know that on earth everybody is trying to figue out where those magnetic storms are coming from...
