Culture vs. YV

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Rah
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SirNitram wrote: Incorrect. A suicidal ship wonders about the nature of the phenomenon he is approaching.
Not a phenomenon, gridfire. The Culture knows exactly what gridfire is. It powers their ships, they use it as weapons, etc...
SirNitram wrote: At no point does it state the energy density is sufficient to 'destroy the universe'.
The Gridfire was spreading in an omnidirectional wave, than the Mind concludes that if it spreads like that forever it would destroy the universe. Simple as that.
SirNitram wrote: Indeed, that you believe simply a high energy would 'destroy a universe' is quite telling about how much you don't know about what you babble.
I didn't write the book, what I believe is irrelevant. I also do not believe there is a grid of energy between this universe and another.
"They suggested that such enormously powerful and intellectually refined entities ought to have names with a little more gravitas, to reflect their near-god-like status; the immediate and sustained reaction of one of the Culture's ship manufacturies was to name all its subsequent vessels things like: Stood Far Back When The Gravitas Was Handed Out; Gravitas, What Gravitas?; Gravitas... Gravitas... No, Don't Help Me, I'll Get It In A Moment...; Gravitas Free Zone, etc "

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Rah, please stop this kind of behaviour immediately. You're not at SB.com here, and we don't need a "Culture Fan-Whore" custom title being added to our list of derogatory names.
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Allow me, this thread has run its course.

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