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== [[Web Comics]] == |
== [[Web Comics]] == |
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* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has several big, weird and [[Precursors|evidently old]] objects, including... |
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** "Zoojack" - a prison of an unknown owner for species previously unknown, yet mysteriously speaking Galstandard. |
** "Zoojack" - a prison of an unknown owner for species previously unknown, yet mysteriously speaking Galstandard. |
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** "Oisri" - the nearly Moon-sized "asteroid" made of superdense alloys with total of 1.2 Earth's mass [[Artificial Gravity|artificially]] masked [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-03-11 to 0.07] locally. An UNS military analyst suspected that it may be an annihilation plant - thousand times bigger than humans have and [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-03-18 over ten times bigger] than the greatest ''ever'' created known... which survived just long enough to prove that "bigger is exponentially better". {{spoiler|They are wrong, of course. It turns out to be something ''much'' nastier than that.}} |
** "Oisri" - the nearly Moon-sized "asteroid" made of superdense alloys with total of 1.2 Earth's mass [[Artificial Gravity|artificially]] masked [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-03-11 to 0.07] locally. An UNS military analyst suspected that it may be an annihilation plant - thousand times bigger than humans have and [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-03-18 over ten times bigger] than the greatest ''ever'' created known... which survived just long enough to prove that "bigger is exponentially better". {{spoiler|They are wrong, of course. It turns out to be something ''much'' nastier than that.}} |
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** "Eina-Afa" - ancient space station that goes beyond "[[That's No Moon]]", because 8100 km across is more like ''"[//www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-20 you could drop Mars into that can, and then tuck Luna and Europa on top]"''. [//www.ovalkwiki.com/?title=Eina-afa Its article] on Ovalkwiki has drawing to scale next to some objects of Sol system, Oisri and Death Star 2.0 (pixel size 10 km). |
** "Eina-Afa" - ancient space station that goes beyond "[[That's No Moon]]", because 8100 km across is more like ''"[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-20 you could drop Mars into that can, and then tuck Luna and Europa on top]"''. [https://www.ovalkwiki.com/?title=Eina-afa Its article] on Ovalkwiki has drawing to scale next to some objects of Sol system, Oisri and Death Star 2.0 (pixel size 10 km). |
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** [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-03-10 Then] there was a discussion of Galaxy scale telescopes. It's an array, however — individual nodes are pocket sized (until unrolled), there's "just over a trillion" of them spread that wide. |
** [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-03-10 Then] there was a discussion of Galaxy scale telescopes. It's an array, however — individual nodes are pocket sized (until unrolled), there's "just over a trillion" of them spread that wide. |
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** Extragalactic worldships, comparable to gas giants. |
** Extragalactic worldships, comparable to gas giants. |
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** Pa'anuri warships. Since the Pa'anuri size and mass are comparable to a planet, those things are big. 130000 km wide<ref>rather high in gas giant range (Jupiter is about 143000)</ref>. Mostly empty, but the individual "narrow" decks are still several times larger than the entire Earth surface. And it's a warship, not just a mobile habitat. |
** Pa'anuri warships. Since the Pa'anuri size and mass are comparable to a planet, those things are big. 130000 km wide<ref>rather high in gas giant range (Jupiter is about 143000)</ref>. Mostly empty, but the individual "narrow" decks are still several times larger than the entire Earth surface. And it's a warship, not just a mobile habitat. |
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