/vtwbg/ - VTuber Worldbuilding General

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What if your general was not just a general but a nation, devoted to your oshi and their will? Enter this general where the fanbases and generals of /vt/ are reimagined as rival nations fighting bitter battles for the glory of their oshis.

Previous thread: >>49976386

just enjoy Edition

Interactive map:
https://vtwbg.github.io/

Introductory document for new anons:
https://rentry.org/vtwbg-intro

CURRENT GOALS:
- Have fun

>Note that the map is set in stone.
>Casual Stories or Greentexts of your general in /vt/ land are much appreciated.
>Ignore any trolls, falseflaggers or dramafags. Report, hide and move on.
>Try to keep hornyposting, socposting and funposting to the absolute minimum until we hit the bump limit.
>Please think twice before posting if you're intoxicated or feeling moody.

THREAD REP TRIPCODES:
https://rentry.org/vtwbg-rep-trips

CLIMATE & TECTONICS POSTS (AIDS LORE/PLACEMENT):
Ocean Currents:
https://rentry.org/rvqz9
Weather Systems:
https://rentry.org/nnvbx
Climate Analysis:
https://rentry.org/vtwbg-climate
Tectonic Plates and their Movements:
https://rentry.org/dmkyc
Geologic Provinces:
https://rentry.org/ztaf99
Minerals:
https://rentry.org/Minerals-Ores-VTWBG
Weather:
https://rentry.org/VitubiaWeatherSystems

MAGIC SYSTEM:
https://rentry.org/chuubanite

FLAG POSTS:
https://rentry.org/vtwbg-flags

VITUBIA ARCHIVE:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HM_UK-qNKXQgFH-ixcWsCC3oAgBnFrxCKRPXdKiPMwQ/edit

SPACE ARCHIVE:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ukyK3_sidebA_kLuH8i1I6TuVyFkWeJSYvyhqT6FMRU/edit?usp=sharing

Stellar Objects:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FIoW2jXshYn5FD2b5g7IJX4MILYFOI9hRboE-dAyjtg/edit?usp=sharing

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>Vote Results
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CURRENT PROMPTS
Feel free to submit your own prompts to inspire others!
https://rentry.org/vtwbg-prompts

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LORE CATCH UP:
Last thread's new lore/discussion you might have missed:

>>50065686
>>50372109

Reply to this post to be included in the next thread's lore catchup.

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Why one so soon? It's bump hours.

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VTWBGG WebGame Anchor
https://rentry.org/vtwbgg

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VTWBGG is a web-based civilization sim currently in development. This anchor is for:
- New Country requests
- Feedback
- Gameplay suggestions/ideas
- Sharing Trade Codes
- Posting Trade offers
- WAR

Current TODO:
- Figure out system for quests interacting with other quests
- Figure out how to combo quest cards
- World Events
- Monument Races
- Continue working system balance (numbers are hard)

Trade Codes:
Dev: MSBkR2hsY205dmRHRmtiV2x1
VMS: NSBUWGxqYjJ4dlozbEJibTl1

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https://rentry.org/morinium
It’s kinda random but I want to ask if Morinium’s cooling properties will lead to it emitting light or otherwise have a color?

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Trying to calculate how long it would take to drive a jeep caravan from /nasa/ to /who/'s borders. There's only dirt roads now so top speed would be 60 kilometers an hour at best.

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>>50424990
That's correct! All the Morinium properties tend to intensify together (since they're all correlated to how active the vitubium is). So Morinium that is going through cooling processes will also emit light, barring some niche usages. And appropriately, that colour will be pink, though some variation in hue are possible. Picrel would be the colour of pure, "standard" morinium emitted light. How did that come up?

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>>50425712
I don’t know if it counts as spoilers but basically I was planning my writing and I figured Morinium-based cooling would be very useful for weapons that can’t rely on heat sinks or air to cool down. I’m thinking if people can tell whether a weapon is cooled by Morinium or other more conventional cooling system like quenching just by observing its operation from a distance

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>>50426033
Yes, that is one of the best uses for the stuff in space. Heat management is a huge concern in a vacuum, and radiators tend to be bulky and fragile by nature of maximizing surface area, so a material that can make waste heat just go somewhere else would be useful.
There's also the stealth aspect, since (unlike radiators) morinium absorbing heat doesn't emit an infrared heat signature. However, that process would emit a significant conceptual wave emission, which would be easy to monitor. So it'd only be stealthy to less advanced or comprehensive sensor packages.

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>>50426420
Would liquid metal work in space as a coolant?

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>>50426760
Yes, it would work great actually! That's what is called a Curie point radiator. Most designs I've seen rely on how ferrous metals lose their magnetism at high temperatures (that temperature is the Curie point), so what you do is you shoot a stream of molten metal out of your ship, then the stream with a high temperature and surface area radiates the heat away and cools down below the Curie point. Then you can simply use a magnet to attract the cooler metal back to the ship, send it through a heat exchanger, and melt it again. Rince and repeat.
On top of having fewer bits that are easy to break, they also would have the massive advantage of looking really cool.

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>>50426420
>morinium absorbing heat doesn't emit an infrared heat signature
Doesn’t it have an emission spike at 704 nm? I feel like it’s close enough to the edge of infrared that some of the energy released would be in IR. I wonder how a conceptual wave sensor would work…

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>>50427080
You're right, but the trick is that the Morinium doesn't need to be exposed to the vacuum of space, unlike a radiator (which radiates heat of the ship to the rest of the universe). So you can enclose it so as to contain all light emissions and prevent their detection. I haven't put any numbers on it, but supposedly the heat energy absorbed by the morinium is greater than the light energy emitted, otherwise I don't think it would cool very well.
That's a good question... I think a basic idea would be that if vitubium emits conceptual waves using energy, you can use vitubium to absorb conceptual waves and detect a change in energy level. Similar to how a radio antenna can be used to both detect and emit a radio signal (though they tend to be optimized for one or the other.)
Or maybe some devices could work more like a compass with magnetic fields, and show the direction and strength of a conceptual field as a proxy for the conceptual waves. A bit like the Galileo thermometer-inspired VT-meter from Sojourning which raises the bubbles in response to the ambient magical field.
>>50427533
this is true

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>>50427555
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>>50427555
Oh, good point! I guess if the weapon's cooling system isn’t visible then it can be harder to tell how it’s cooled (or maybe the fact that it can be covered already shows it’s not relying on radiator for cooling)

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>>50428086
Yep, to a trained eye the difference would probably be as obvious as telling apart a bolt-action vs a semi-automatic rifle. Unless your rifle was designed to have fake radiators, if you wanted to hide you were using a magical energy weapon for some reason. Although the conceptual emissions would always be detectable.

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>>50426999
The magnet sounds like a defense vulnerability if you can block the radiator with magnetic dust. Then again if you know where the enemy would shoot then you can engineer defenses around that.

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>>50431403
Yeah, that could be a good counter. Still, it would be easier to defend small ports to expel and suck up liquid metal from, than trying to armor large radiator panels that need to be exposed to the vacuum. The idea is that if the enemy shoots your liquid metal, it doesn't really matter, the projectiles/missiles just go through or explode the liquid metal harmlessly. On the other hand, if the weapon hits thin radiators, it disables them.
So you exchange vulnerability to common weapons for a vulnerability to a dedicated countermeasure.

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>>50431928
What about intercepting bullets. Bullets and torpedoes cannot go the speed of light. So they can be shot down if reacted in time.

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>>50432252
Good thought, point defense. They'll often use lasers for that, since as you say stuff doesn't go faster than light. It's being looked into IRL for current militaries, to deal with missiles targeting ships for example. I think there may be some platforms already in use? I'm not sure.

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>>50434318
Cute butt

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>/meat/'s back
where are the meatbros? wheres founder? parapgraphs? the akira larper? the sad ame poster?

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>>50437882
>founder
buck broken
>paragraphs
conceptualizing concepts
>akira larper
betrayed us for cunny
>sad ame poster
being sad ame

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>>50439969
Oi! I am still here!

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>>50439969
We should do them honor by making a memorial garb out of the skins of the innocent

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>>50420882
peace

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>>50444511
Rape

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Any ideas as to sci fi melee weapons like swords and shit? I want me a hyper vibration blade

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>>50444835
ive always liked the heat hawk that zakus have. just heat up a blade

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>>50446471
forgot pic related for those who too lazy to google

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>>50420418
so uh, anyone need marble? I have like 1.7k and don't know what to do with it

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>>50434318
Shuba's Shubum

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>>50451512
Idk, my game has been down for a few days now.

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>>50456091 me
Oh nwm, it's back up now it seems.

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>>50451512
Is marble a luxury or a commodity? If the latter, I'd take about 800 off your hands for luxuries.

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>>50460888
nope, it's a. luxury

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>>50461383
Ah, commodities are a real luxury, huh.

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>>50465088
That's a rare Shion

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>>50454926
High quality fabric

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>>50444835
Hyper vibration blade is a classic, hot blades like >>50446894 as well. The humble chainsaw can actually be made relatively plausible, with the right teeth and speed. Atom-scale wires are another cool option, basically wires that cut out of being really thin. Plasma-based stuff is standard, like plasma torches. I think you could do something with lasers, but I feel like ranged weapons are definitely a better use of those.

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>>50485013
>hot blades
I have to question the ability of those to cut metal, desu. You don't see a hot piece of iron bending the hammer when its being forged.

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I like pile bunker!

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>>50485285
Yeah, most metals tend to get softer as you increase their temperature, iron and steel for example. Some engineered materials are orders of magnitude harder than others at the same temp though, for example, inconel stays almost at maximal hardness at temperatures that make common steel alloys very soft.
While those materials don't currently exist, it's plausible that specialized materials could be developed that get hot enough to melt metal while retaining their strength. Maybe some kinds of metal-ceramic composites?
>>50485335
Based. One issue with melee weapons is that you need to use your limbs to swing or thrust it at speeds fast enough to deal damage and bypass defenses, the pile bunker doing the thrusting action for you bypasses this drawback. It would be pretty well suited to that armor piercing chuubanite weapon.

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Do you think metal threads woven into mesh can work for space cloth armor for melee? All it needs to do is tangle the enemy's weapon arm like how you can swing your cape to wrap a rapier maybe?

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>>50489713
If you weave something akin to concertina wire in the fabric, it might. If it can stop tank threads, it can probably tangle limbs and weaponry? It would also make your cape an effective anti-personnel weapon.

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>>50490233
Well the metal woven cloth is for mechs and power armor. Also I don't think that wire is thin enough for a good weave on smaller mechs. Maybe it can be for bigger mechs? Though you'll have to make sure the blades don't catch with themselves when weaving.

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>>50490848
Maybe you could scale the shape of the wire up and down? I think the most important part is that it has those little hooks for stuff to get caught on.

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>>50492115
I'm also thinking about vibrablades and how they can cut through metal. Don't know how the cloak would deal with vibrating blades.

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>>50496323
I think they'd be a decent countermeasure against simple tangling, since the ultrasonic vibration is designed to make the blade kinda frictionless, so it wouldn't get jammed as easily through friction. But with the hooked metal wire thing, if the wire is hard enough to not get cut I think it would still prevent the blade from cutting.

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>>50497877
I guess the trick is to design the wire so it weaves into cloth but still has hooks on the outer layer. Keep in mind the energy it takes to produce the cloth is high. Not to mention repairing the cloth is costly. Bullets would still go through it. Cloak exists as a deterrent to melee weapons. It takes high skill to use. So it'll most likely be a weapon for custom built mechs and pilots.

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>>50498344
Makes sense, only the most elite and based mecha have capes.

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Speaking of mecha is there any love for smaller mech suits like arm slaves from Full Metal Panic? I thought about writing a comic where mechas are car-sized instead of Gundams.

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>>50499636
Tons of love, I think FMP is a better show but some of my favorite mechs in that category are the ones from Code Gayass, some of the knightmares look terribly cool.
What goes down in that comic?

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>>50501417
A bunch of conspiracies in 2051 that became true in 2020. So I gave up on it.

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>>50501608
Out-memed by reality... classic

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>>50501608
>>50499636
So obsolete?

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>>50517541
holy shit, look at the amazing shading and perspective