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Topic: Hoo-ray! SC2 Guide finished. (Read 10910 times)
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Arne
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Of course, if you start analysing the shield concept, it doesn't hold up very well. It's fun (and very geeky) to elaborate on it though.
The slave shield looks as if it's a 50% opaque red 'shell', from both the inside and the outside. I'm guessing that the light passing through the shield is still white, but turns red as it bounces back up on the shield (Hayes mentions the red sky). If it delays light and radio variably for every given spot, stretching and compressing, it would be harder to communicate with micro signals atleast. But as someone said, you could probably just put a giant shutter in front of the sun and blink it (slower than the warping of the shield).
Since shielded planets have shading, I'd guess there's night and day.
A cool slaveshield could be some sort of sphere as used in Clifford Simak's 'The largest world' (swedish title). It's about a giant impenetrable shell around a star, sort of like a Dysan sphere. It's built of a material that makes radio and electronics useless, so people living inside the sphere has to get down with farming and that kind of stuff.
Of course, it would be pitch black from the outside, and it wouldn't work well with just a planet...
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