The planet is the setting of the little-known space opera, also called Rigel 9, released in 1985. ![]() You might have ventured to Gethen, with its glaciers and androgynes.īut you may not yet have made it to Rigel 9, a world that offers small red aliens, two-toned shadows from its double sun, and-depending on who you believe-a beautiful golden city. Le Guin fan, you’ve likely spent a lot of time in Earthsea, home to endless archipelagos and magical beings. But it can send its spies to a known warlike race and hav them steal their discovery (after the target race has researched them, of course).The supergiant star Rigel, which inspired the space opera Rigel 9, is hundreds of thousands of times brighter than our sun. Say, a totally peaceful race can by default not research battleships, or bombs. It would be, however, great if certain techs were unreseachable for some races, but achievable through espionage. So different names and description texts (if they exist as such) are the most logical reason, also with the race-unique special-tech. I'm aware that you cannot really "design" weapons or systems or ideals to look different (aside from the sheer amount of time to make just a basic template and the disk space such design-sets would require for several races). I mean it feels like they've been copying the design off some board, not really inventing it on their own. Sure the design is different (a Kra'Hen cruiser looks different to Gothan cruiser etc), but a medium laser is a medium laser and sure as hell looks akin for every species. The irk I have with games such as IG2 or the GalCiv series is that the techtree is the same all the way. Regarding the tech-trees, I'd say mostly great. This civil war-like riot will cost a fairly small percentage of population, cutting them down to an only slight less-than overpopulated number. This continues until it reaches a rebellious state at which they will overthrow the governour/leader. shipments of food and a steady growth of occupations in, say, the military), planetary morale will slowly drop due to the planet being more crowded and people literally stepping onto eachothers toes/claws/whatever. ![]() Unless there's a safety system for the poor (without it, unemployed people cannot get food and thus the same applies as with no food source), people will begin to emigrate in several waves, costing big (but not starvation-sized big) loss in population, cutting it down to well under the population limit. ![]() At some point in time, there will be more people than jobs. external shipments), the next major issue will be unemployment. ![]() This continues until whole landscapes are littered with dead bodies und the food-stocks are sufficient for the few intelligent-enough people that don't fight but make food. From these people, one will declare himself a leader, other will veto and more fighting ensues. Unless the governour/leader can call in external forces to pacify the masses, the richer people will be attacked and killed by lower-class citizens. With a limited food-supply (unable to ship in from external planets that have more than they require) the people will risk starving and begin fighting between eachother, until the planet devolves into a chaotic civil war. I mean, looking at it from an objective view, what happens when a planet is overpopulated?
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