What about Centerpoint?

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-01-27 01:33am

To everyone in this thread: Please read the quotes I posted.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2003-01-27 04:10am

Hey, RedImperator?

Little bit of a life lesson for you, here. Free of charge:

If you're unfamiliar with what's being discussed, shut the fuck up. Got it?

First of all, spinning a hollow sphere is a shitty way to generate gravity compared to the systems available to the New Republic.

Point the first: Centerpoint was NOT under the control of the New Republic. It was an artificial world of the Corellian system. A good chunk of its construction was disorganized and haphazard, and there was no overall plan. In short, people just randomly decided to start living in it.

Point the second: Centerpoint's overall design resembles a cylinder more than a sphere.

Second of all, in this post, you're still speculating about how an ancient artificial gravity system might have failed while the weapons survived.

Ignore the speculation about broken-down gravity systems. There's no evidence it was ever installed. Got it? Understand now? Are you BEGINNING to comprehend?

Your story changed between your first reply to me to your third one here from "maybe they had artificial gravity but it broke down over the course of 30,000 years, you idiot" to "you idiot, it never had artificial gravity".

Hello. Welcome to the world of "speculation". Please learn a thing or two about it before you open the Abyss of Stupidity that seems to have implanted itself between your nose and your chin. Have a nice day.

"Technowank"... fuckin' technophobes...

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2003-01-27 04:22am

A good chunk of its construction was disorganized and haphazard, and there was no overall plan. In short, people just randomly decided to start living in it.

A bit of clarification.

People in the Corellian system (which, apparently, was artificially constructed, via Centerpoint) found a big, empty space station thingy. They decided to live in it, not knowing its true purpose. They started adding on to it, as they saw fit. Some people just welded a busted starship to the hull and used that as living space. This went on for centuries. Evidently, nobody saw fit to oversee the whole operation or put forth the effort to bring the whole station up to spec. I'm sure some sections of it had artificial gravity... just not the original parts, such as Hollowtown.

I hope this has been educational.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-01-27 08:34am

Illuminatus Primus wrote:
RedImperator wrote: They can control gravity enough to push planets around from tens of thousands of lightyears out and crush stellar cores to force supernovas, but they can't generate their own internal gravity?
Or it stopped working in the last 30,000 years. You decide.

It's probably older, Corellia might have had inhabitants longer than that.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-01-27 08:35am

Crayz9000 wrote:Let me make it clear: the station was NOT DESIGNED with artificial gravity as we know it in Star Wars. It apparently was built from the start to SPIN to make gravity, which is why it has the double-lobed sausage shape.

I'd like to see some pics of it, my imagination has it looking like a gigantic mutated version of a voyager probe.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-01-27 12:15pm

The scan quality isn't very good (I did it several years ago) but anyway, the double-lobed sphere thing in the middle is the artist's renditioning of Centerpoint Station.