Writing Day #1: Part Two
Jan. 21st, 2008 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jasonandrewAfter lunch and the break, I did some technology research for Until the Stars Grow Cold.
I figured out how I want to do FTL.
Cosmic Strings are strands of super dense concentrated energy less than an atom thick, but could conceivably be tremendously long. Pilots call these Cosmic Strings Ley-lines. Ley-lines crisscross the cosmos in a series of snakes and ladders. The idea is a ship could fly along one of these Ley-lines at a top speed that would only be a fraction of the speed of light, but which would actually be many times the speed of light in normal space relatively speaking. And the routes could be guarded and all manner of stories could happen there.
I figured out I wanted to use Plasma Heated Weapons, but I need some sort of name for the hand weapons. I need to figure out something cool and dangerous sounding like Blasters. I've seen Blasters several times in different places. And, I'm afraid that it is too generic. Coming up with a cool name for the pistols is driving me nuts.
I completed Chapter One for Until the Stars Grow Cold at 2,000 words.
I figured out how I want to do FTL.
Cosmic Strings are strands of super dense concentrated energy less than an atom thick, but could conceivably be tremendously long. Pilots call these Cosmic Strings Ley-lines. Ley-lines crisscross the cosmos in a series of snakes and ladders. The idea is a ship could fly along one of these Ley-lines at a top speed that would only be a fraction of the speed of light, but which would actually be many times the speed of light in normal space relatively speaking. And the routes could be guarded and all manner of stories could happen there.
I figured out I wanted to use Plasma Heated Weapons, but I need some sort of name for the hand weapons. I need to figure out something cool and dangerous sounding like Blasters. I've seen Blasters several times in different places. And, I'm afraid that it is too generic. Coming up with a cool name for the pistols is driving me nuts.
I completed Chapter One for Until the Stars Grow Cold at 2,000 words.