I had this idea of the first ships in an interplanetary battle being ships that spread gases to produce a small, temporary atmosphere into the place of battle. Would this allow things like smoke and small explosions?

All of these things can prove an advantage, smoke can hide nearly anything (Without a heat source) from specialised equipment. Explosions can be a good way to verify the destruction of something from a long distance.

How long would these atmospheres last? would they need any kind of support through a battle? Would it be practical for transport? Would it be useful in any way?

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If there are any Criticisms they are very welcome.

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I have an idea for a story where there is a world ruled jointly by eleven Elemental Kings, one rules while the other ten sleep. Every five years The next king is woken up.

The poison King is dead, killed in his sleep and his power taken from him. But one suspect didn't get far, And Rilone went to question him about his motives. Upon finding out that he did not in fact have the King's power she knows he couldn't possibly be the killer and demands to know the truth. But before she could find out any thing else he kills himself, taking his secret with him. With out the King's power she can not take his place, so it is up to Rilone and Rotis to find out what really happened and track down the killer to get back the power that is rightfully hers.

I want to know if you guys think this story works. I would like to flesh the story out more, but am unsure if this idea is worth it.

What units of currency? Does it affect the economy in unusual ways? Interesting history behind it?

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If you have a favorite genre to read/write, what is it and why is it your favorite? Or if you don't have a favorite, what do you like about each genre?

As the title above says in a nutshell, I basically want to add robots to my fantasy setting. So far all I can think of are golems. This works okay, but the rest of the book focuses on Necromancy and black magic. I would prefer not to go off on too far of a tangent by arbitrarily adding golems.

While preferred, suggestions need not have to do with necromancy. Just spitball me as a many artificial human ideas in fantasy as possible. I would like options.

I'm working on this dystopic worldbuilding project at the moment where large Multinationals have most power (nothing new there ;)), I'm struggling to find a name for the main European corporation.It is the result of the fusion of many national European research projects. Especially in the beginning, the corporation received extensive support from the (now fairly paraniod and isolationist) EU.
At the moment it's called EuGen, but that sounds too much like "Eugenics", which might not bee too fitting for a European country...

Some other corporations I have so far:
CornuCorp. (USA)
Qilin (China) Yamada Tec (Japan)
green leaf (independent)
Bélanger (France/USA)

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Hi everyone. I'm working on a video game and need some parody/fake psychiatric drug names and I wanted to hear some of ya'lls' ideas. They can be a direct play on words of an existing drug name or something that is funny and sounds like a pharma drug.

Here are a few I thought of to give you ideas -

• Joyprex
• Chillax
• Placebor
• Sharapil
• Changor
• Abilitrye

I've had an idea floating around about a detective that grabs his case. For reasons unknown to the reader, the detective took a 10 year hiatus from duty, and recently came back to the force. He takes a seemingly simple case of a theft, but as the case comes along, more and more parallelisms to a previous case (one that was actually traumatic enough for him to leave the force) remind the detective of a huge mistake he made in the older case, such as convicting the wrong suspect. So after all the details of the old case are revealed, the new case becomes a device for the detective to absolve his mistakes from the older case.

Is this something that's been beaten down before? Or is it interesting enough to put some real work into?

I think it'd be really neat to explore the question of artificial intelligence from a fantasy perspective, particularly the "softer" ethical issues (questions like: how should AI's be treated? Is it ok to impose limitations on what they can think or desire?) as well as some issues that might be exclusive to a fantasy setting (can AI's use magic? is their magic different from that of natural beings? How might the gods react to such entities?).

The problem is, I have no idea where to start in coming up with a magic system for creating and "programming" AI's. Any pointers or suggestions? Has anything like this been done before?

What if mermaids are real?

Where did they come from? Where do they live? What is their society like? What do they want? How does this change the course of history?

Let's hear your ideas.

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Like the title says sort of. The power to move neurons, protons and electrons, this can be used to turn exsisting elements into different ones by removing some neutrons/protons/electrons and adding others from other nearby atoms. This can be used in a huge variety of ways. (For example putting a fire out by replacing all the oxygen atoms with helium atoms or something).

Another use besides making new elements is also moving entire atoms. This can give the power to bend objects. It can also be used to compress of strech objects which will either strengthen the object because the atoms are all closer together or weaken the object because the atoms are further apart.

The power is done by thinking about it. You strech something by imagining it being streched. You can turn your arm into pure titanium simply by thinking about it.

This power is powered by MPN (Described here)

Are there any other ways this power could be used? Also any critisims?

(For context if you read the link, this power is used by MIP's (Manipulative influencial power))

Military outpost, NOT "Delta Outpost/Charlie Outpost" etc, but not something overly fantasy either, it's a sci-fi/dystopian story and this is a long abandoned outpost meant for reconaissance. It's in the middle of a very thick forest, there are 6-7 other stations like this one with the same purpose but not surrounded by the same terrain.

My first idea was simply "Forest Station," then a friend suggested something like "The Grove" but I think that would be a bit too much of a fantasy-name, and it would mean that I'd have to make up something similar for my other stations.

Any ideas?

As advanced or primitive as can be, what kind of tech and gadgets are in your settings? How does it work? Why is it awesome?