Ring Worlds and Dyson Spheres revisited.

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From the other thread on Teleporters:

First comes elemental or raw matter transport at TL 19-20-21. By TL 21, there is system-wide (elemental/raw) matter transport.

Then there are three more technologies, each with plusses and minuses:

Portals. TL 24 construction, but requires a Pocket Universe. So you either have to use one some extinct culture already invented, or wait until TL 31 to create your own. Transportation is instantaneous, but there are some reasonable caveats. Max distance from a portal to the prime portal is 36 light-minutes (4.5 AU). The portals in SOTA are examples of these.

Psionic Engineering. TL 25. Psionic engineering implies mechanical teleportation (i.e. stepping disks, as well as a kind of stutterwarp drive). The psionic skill Teleport is instantaneous, and limited to world ranges. The "teleport platforms" from Twilight's Peak (TP) is a paired example of this. The reason the TP platforms are not basic raw matter transporters is because they can transport people without harming them.

Teleportation. TL 25. Teleporters are Star Trek-like, and follow the speed of light rule. Perhaps they have no range limit (but is that SAFE?)? An example of this is found in Knightfall, with the "Transporter" artifact.

I think there is some confusion between the terms Teleporter and Transporter in the T5.09 doc.

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[Blue Ghost]

From the other thread on Teleporters:

First comes elemental or raw matter transport at TL 19-20-21. By TL 21, there is system-wide (elemental/raw) matter transport.

Then there are three more technologies, each with plusses and minuses:

Portals. TL 24 construction, but requires a Pocket Universe. So you either have to use one some extinct culture already invented, or wait until TL 31 to create your own. Transportation is instantaneous, but there are some reasonable caveats. Max distance from a portal to the prime portal is 36 light-minutes (4.5 AU). The portals in SOTA are examples of these.

Psionic Engineering. TL 25. Psionic engineering implies mechanical teleportation (i.e. stepping disks, as well as a kind of stutterwarp drive). The psionic skill Teleport is instantaneous, and limited to world ranges. The "teleport platforms" from Twilight's Peak (TP) is a paired example of this. The reason the TP platforms are not basic raw matter transporters is because they can transport people without harming them.

Teleportation. TL 25. Teleporters are Star Trek-like, and follow the speed of light rule. Perhaps they have no range limit (but is that SAFE?)? An example of this is found in Knightfall, with the "Transporter" artifact.

I think there is some confusion between the terms Teleporter and Transporter in the T5.09 doc.

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I think "teleportation" is unaddressed in the rules in terms of mechanics and various types. For the purposes of this thread ... I think as long as you can get girder-X or part-Y to position-A or position-B, then you're good, because you're (ideally) moving around inanimate objects for the purpose of construction.

If you have some kind of freaky bio-mass, like a smart-plastic or organic material that literally has a mind of its own, but is used for construction in space habitats and perhaps starships, then you might have some issues.

Teleportation of living beings, humans in our obvious instance, becomes a question of hw the teleportation actually works. "Star Trek" teleportation is said to disassemble and reassemble molecules. Creating a personal hyperspace tunnel would not involve such mechanics, and the "teleportation" would essentially be like travelling a people mover or escalator.

Another brand of teleportation would be where the item is grabbed as a whole by some field or force, than "magically" transported to another location, but again it would not involve screwing with the individuals molecular makeup; i.e. possibly killing them if something goes wrong.

For a Dyson Sphere, telekinesis construction, to me, would seem to be an anchronism, because if you have that kind of construction ability, then why would you bother to build a Dyson Sphere in the first place? But that's just my opinion.