Quasar with massive ocean.

[Blue Ghost]

Okay. Here's an image that is said to be from early in the universe's formation. It's essentially a quasar. Ah, but here's the thing, according to spectroscopy that cloud surrounding it is, get this, water.



Imagine quasars aren't just extragalactic things from uncounted millions of years past. Can you imagine you and your players flying through one of those things?

 

[McPerth]

I'm afraid I cannot see the image. Not sure what's the problem.

 

[Blue Ghost]

Try here;

http://www.wallpapervortex.com/ipad_wallpapers/ipad_17772_3d_space_scene_quasar.jpg

 

[McPerth]

Now I can see it, TY (and curiously, now I see it in your first post too )

 

[Blue Ghost]

Anyway, McPerth, imagine an ocean that is as wide as a galaxy. That's what you're looking at in those pictures. If you were standing next to it you would not be able to comprehend its entire size. An ocean in which you could pour a hundred billion Earths or more.

Doesn't that fire your imagination?

 

[salochin999]

refuel and fish at the same time

 

[Blue Ghost]

As long as there's no power plant or manuevre break downs, you're set for life

 

[WistfulD]

Probably more useful in a different game system, where routine maintenance is a less frequent thing, or can be done more easily on-ship.

 

[Blue Ghost]

Ah, but this is, well, reality. True, we don't know how dense that water is. It's probably about as dense as a nebula, or, at the very least, a fine mist. But if it's essentially a super colossal ocean spanning many tens of thousands of parsecs ... I mean, that's just simply incredible. I'll say this, it would go a long way to solving Northern California's drought

p.s. all you people East of the Rockies, ship us some of yer snow.

 

[Blue Ghost]

Imagine the misjump of a lifetime. You and your players exit jump (assuming you're not the ref), and the ref describes this vast wall of something sloshing against the side of your hull, or perhaps a mist or a vapor and globs of water splashing and spraying your scout, or, you actually jump into a section of "ocean" that's hundreds of parsecs wide. Imagine you go outside (in a vacc suit) to have a look, and this "thing" of water just seems to reach into infinity.

Truth be told that photo is from the time of the quasars, which was bit before our galaxy, much less our solar system, got under way. Ergo that photo is something out of the distant past. But, like I say, imagine....

 

[G. Kashkanun Anderson]

There are still quasars out there. Quasar 3C405 is burning a hole in the Cygnus A galaxy just 600 million light years away from here -- or at least it probably is, given the time frame involved.

Conditions in the early universe were more conducive to quasars, but that doesn't mean one can't still pop up from time to time. It's even considered an outside possibility that the collision between our galaxy and Andromeda may spark a quasar to life.

 

[Blue Ghost]

Interesting. I had no idea. It would be fascinating to visit the one in the pic I posted. There's an adventure waiting to be written there.

 

[Blue Ghost]

I found a link with some info; http://laserstars.org/news/3C405.html

Very interesting about quasars. All the more reason, I think, for Traveller to rethink itself a little and evolve.