Culture fanfiction? I'm looking for Culture > SW fics too

Mopeyennuui · Post by **Mopeyennuui** » 2005-02-09 02:21am

Well? Any takers?

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2005-02-09 12:27pm

Most of the reason there's so little of it is because nobody can really think of a good way of sticking them together. And any SW > Culture writers will be found, beaten, and sodomized by a large black man named Bubbha. If this is to there liking, then we can find a large white woman named Bertha.

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2005-02-09 05:37pm

Here, let me write a Culture vs SW fic, just for you.

One upon a time, there was a happy little Culture drone, named Admiral Valdemar. One day, while merrily going on his way, he found a wormhole that led to to a galaxy far, far away. Always wanting to explore, he went through the wormhole, but found a really mean empire and other hostile forces. Five minutes later, he came back out of the wormhole, leaving that galaxy a burning ruin. He then wandered off, hoping to find a decent donut shop.

The End.

What ya thank?

Crom · Post by **Crom** » 2005-02-09 07:37pm

I would think an outline would like the following:

(1) Culture Minds discover a means of travelling to another universe, for reasons not explained they are limited to accessing only one universe. They are incredibly pleased by this, since the Culture has been wanting to do this for a while.

(2) Culture initiates contact with SW-Universe. Proceeds to manipulate the fuck out of the SW-Universe for a few generations to get things right.

(3) A few problems emerge during this period, forcing Special Circumstances to grab poor Culture citizens or mercs, who the Minds calculated are ideal for the job, and they are sent out on grueling missions that almost kill them and scar them psychologically just so that the Culture can avoid some horrible outcome.

(4) Repeat (3) as much as necessary.

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2005-02-11 02:26pm

The really interesting way to do that, Crom, would be to set it in such a way that there are no changes whatsoever in the established SW universe. Essentially, they bite off more than they can chew in trying to produce change in an entire galaxy without being noticed. Or, they only go for smaller scale efforts, so there's no reason to think that there'd be noticible changes anyway. It's not like they've ever delt with anything on this scale before (though admittedly I've only read a few books), though of course the tech disparity does make a big difference.

Essentially, writing a behind-the-scenes fanfic rather than a typical versus. If I were doing it, I wouldn't spend too much time setting up situations where my characters are in or cause scenes from the films or books, but I would

One particularly interesting bit is that droids are so commonplace that there shouldn't be any problem getting a drone just about wherever you want it, outside of perhaps insertion.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2005-02-11 02:37pm

Well, one of hte major problems with Culture/SW fanfics are the problems that the Culture have no where near the speeds of Star Wars and that the Culture is nowhere near the size of the SW galaxy (The Culture, in and of itself, only takes up a percentage point or four of the Milky Way Galaxy, and a couple dozen Core worlds out number the Culture people-wise. They only have the uber-firepower advantage, but it doesn't matter because they're only willing to use it defensively.

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2005-02-11 07:36pm

Err, could I get a check on the speeds? Numerical comparison, preferably.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2005-02-12 01:25am

Alan Bolte wrote:Err, could I get a check on the speeds? Numerical comparison, preferably.

Highest stated/recorded Culture speed was made by Sleeper Service in Excession, and reached a cruising speed of 235,000 times the speed of light, but only after changing most of it's mass into engine. The average Plate class (Sleeper's stated type of GSV) is stated to have a cruise speed of 104kl(kilolights), while Range classes have ~145kl. Superlifters and ROUs, however, can achieve speeds of ~200kl, but only for short bursts (it damages the engines)

Compared with SW, which has stated speeds up to of 3.5 million c, there is just a mite bit of discrepency.

Mlenk · Post by **Mlenk** » 2005-02-12 04:36am

Singular Quartet wrote:Well, one of hte major problems with Culture/SW fanfics are the problems that the Culture have no where near the speeds of Star Wars

Wouldn't it be pretty easy for the Culture to just reverse engineer SW hyperspace tech?

Messiah · Post by **Messiah** » 2005-02-12 11:06am

Mlenk wrote:
Singular Quartet wrote:Well, one of hte major problems with Culture/SW fanfics are the problems that the Culture have no where near the speeds of Star Wars
Wouldn't it be pretty easy for the Culture to just reverse engineer SW hyperspace tech?

Yes, it would be. But not necessary. The Moffs and Admirals and what not could very well be agents transplanted by Special Circumstances. The SC agents would blend in to the Galactic Empire and have access to their Hyperdrives, it not particularly necessarry for them to be transported by Culture ships, or atleast after the first leg or so of the trip.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2005-02-13 12:06am

Mlenk wrote:
Singular Quartet wrote:Well, one of hte major problems with Culture/SW fanfics are the problems that the Culture have no where near the speeds of Star Wars
Wouldn't it be pretty easy for the Culture to just reverse engineer SW hyperspace tech?

Probably. Given the average abilities of a GSV, it wouldn't surprise me to see the average Culture ship with a hyperdrive on the inside of month or two of aquiring one. This, however, assumes that the Grid can be accessed within SW Hyperspace which is the Culture's primary power source, but they could also reverse engineer a hypermatter reactor or just build really big capaciters. The OUs might be pissed for a while, but they'll just have to hang around GSVs for fast transit.

Dark Hellion · Post by **Dark Hellion** » 2005-02-13 03:29am

Actually, the highest speed of a Culture Vessel is the Killing Time at a over a trillion C. However, it could mantain this speed for only a very short while and even using it for less than a tenth of a second resulted in severe engine degradition (it was limping around afterwords). The Cultures paranoia of safety seems to lead them to only use speeds that would cause no engine degredation at all and the only reason the killing time would do such an outragious thing is that it is an ROU noted for thier suicidal tendencies and it had to in order to beat the Pittance fleet.
So ~250 kilolights is the fastest a Culture vessel will cruise at, but they can do a lot faster.