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Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

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Wonderful to see the continued, I always thought it had immense promise, and I was on the edge of my seat as the major tech deviations from the baseline setting were just about to pop off when it died.

This was a wholly unknown setting for me, and quite interesting, I'm going to have to take a day or so to reread the whole thing before devouring the new chapter, but given the historic quality of your work cliffc999, I have no doubt it's a masterpiece, thank you so much for deciding to share more of your words with us again.
 
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I was on the edge of my seat as the major tech deviations from the baseline setting were just about to pop off when it died.
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Yeah, that's the point where I always choke when writing one of these fics. My worldbuilding brain goes into decision paralysis.

Still, I'll never grow as a writer if I don't at least try to do some of the things I'm not great at, so, here we go again.
 
It's back!

I'm gonna need a reread because I was pretty sure the last time involved the SI getting kidnapped, but whatever. It's back!
 
Nice, glad to see this is back. I remember liking this, but I really have to re-read to remember all of it, though I really do get what you said beforehand, about the problems in being able to continue worldbuilding past a certain stage in story development.

I've thought about it before as a writing exercise with concepts like the Celestial Forge, and though there are a few good avenues to go down that aren't solved directly or immediately with overwhelming force (internal struggles, cultural adjustment to new technology, people misappropriating said new technology and using it against the MC, etc.) I've also thought that other viewpoints would be a pretty good way to circumvent that. Have Private Joe Schmoe react to suddenly being given a big-ass cannon, or looking at his buddy who got augments and is suddenly a terminator on the battlefield. Or alien reactions to these developments, with a mix between the soldiers having to fight against these abrupt increases in technology and their scientists trying to figure out how they work, and having some new insights into their own techbase as a consequence, which lets them not be rolled over as easily.

I feel like this approach comes with a few downsides as well, though, since it kinda goes against a normal story's progression, with the protagonist becoming less of the hero of the story, and more like a plot device around which the setting unfolds and progresses, though it could be a cool premise.

Also, I don't know if you've read it, but a really cool comic recently came out which shows very good ways to write OP characters called 'The Power Fantasy'. Not as applicable to this story specifically, but I think it shows a good way in which situations with OP characters can still be interesting and tense, especially if there are other characters around the same strength level.
 
A fun reread later, still sad but understand why she decided to ditch the ceph sample, I'm hopeful she gets something good with the new burst of CP.
 
thanks for the chapter its been a while, hope you are back. I understand why her invention pace is slow, but I would love to see her building out her own personal space. and not just for the military. maybe a speeder bike or a super car, or maybe just a nanny bot. something fun that she can tinker with instead of all the stress building.
 
I really enjoy this fic but I feel like you've set yourself a land-mine, between all the retroactive changes and the outside perspectives you've done with the Academic committee, it feels like there's either a paradox that happened somewhere that invalidated some of what you've written, or somebody is going to really examine her and mistake her as a spy or something
 
Great to see this back, am looking forward to seeing what other things she might add to her invention list.
 
From my understanding, having jump-9 ships and FTL comms risks winning too much, and crushing the Vilani in a war badly enough that the central government takes notice while they still have the superior capacity to be able to crush the Terrans in return with overwhelming numbers.
But the MC has the celestial forge and can probably get ahead of the problem. Hopefully.
 
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