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ok, I'm new to the forums and I recently stumbled upon some universe named Vir Inter Astrum, set around the 24th century... sadly mankind isn't unified yet but whatever... I was wondering what would happen if the earth that made first contact (leaving time issues away and saying that to earth is 2402) is VIA's Earth... I mean, we'd be on a better place regarding tech and numbers of ships but besides that... what?

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In all seriousness, though, I'm not really sure what you're asking. In the two and a half centuries you're postulating, the whole shape of the galaxy may be vastly different from what it is now: the Loroi and the Umiak may no longer exist, or one may have wiped out the other and has acceded to dominance.

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can you post a link to this series or whatever it is so I can look at it

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Anonymous... The Emperor delivers.
have`nt read through it all yet though
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AstrumetImpera wrote:ok, I'm new to the forums and I recently stumbled upon some universe named Vir Inter Astrum, set around the 24th century... sadly mankind isn't unified yet but whatever... I was wondering what would happen if the earth that made first contact (leaving time issues away and saying that to earth is 2402) is VIA's Earth... I mean, we'd be on a better place regarding tech and numbers of ships but besides that... what?
If you're going to ask "what if" you need more information than that.

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I'm not familiar with the setting, but a quick glance suggest that it seems to be an attempt at a "hard" SF setting that tries to be more realistic, so despite the extra 242 years of development, the 25th century VIA humans aren't ahead of Outsider's 22nd century Humanity technology-wise. They appear to have a better-established colonial presence, but still a smaller total human population. The largest warship (excluding carriers) appears to be a 252m heavy cruiser armed with lasers and missiles, and powered by a fusion engine capable of only 1.3G acceleration. There are a lot more of them, but they're significantly less capable than Outsider Humanity's warships.

I lost interest in investigating the capabilities of the carriers when I saw that the fighters look like this.

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I have to agree with fred; if you're going to ask "what if?" you need to bring more info to the discussion. I'd never even heard of "Vir Inter Astrum" until I happened upon this topic. But, I have access to the Net and Arioch is right: the humans of VIA wouldn't really be any better off than the humans of Outsider.

Not overly impressed with it, really. Though I had to chuckle a bit at their inclusion of Esperanto; it's different, if nothing else.

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Should probably be Lojban instead of Esperanto.

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:lol:

You're killin' me, fred. If you're going to go with a conlang, might as well go hardcore, right?

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hardcore
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Mr Bojangles wrote:You're killin' me, fred. If you're going to go with a conlang, might as well go hardcore, right?
Might as well go with one that's designed with the majority of the world in mind.

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What if instead of TCA the Systems Alliance (Mass Effect setting) is the representative body of Earth and all human colonies in space ?
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The comic would be 350 full-color pages of asari and loroi getting it on. :P
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Carl Miller wrote:The comic would be 350 full-color pages of asari and loroi getting it on. :P

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Onaiom wrote:What if instead of TCA the Systems Alliance (Mass Effect setting) is the representative body of Earth and all human colonies in space ?
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