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have no idea what Horizon Zero Dawn is but if it’s a video game I haven’t played one since Super Mario II on Nintendo in the early 90s so it’s not surprising I don’t know about it.
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See below for more on using the seismological stuff– I think stomping would be too clumsy but infrasound rumbles might be just the ticket! I honestly don’t know what a gravitational wave is though so I’d have to look that up. I don’t need it to break in more ways, the solar flares are more than enough, I want this to be a very stable and usable technology that has been mostly reliable for at least hundreds of years, so that it not working right now is a genuine surprise and crisis. Like, they’ve had sunspots that lasted a week or so, fairly often, but never something that’s gone on for months as this has. And so they need a Citified Genius to come up with better shielding for all the units if this is going to be a thing.
gnefariousgnorc replied to your post “So I need more worldbuilding refinement for this solarpunk mammoth…”
Could the transmitters have very long-lived batteries that the academics haven’t had to make in a while? Sorry I haven’t replied to that last post yet it’s been a weekend
oh no worries on replying i was absorbed in writing stuff anyway.
I considered batteries and I think I’ve got power sources squared away anyway. The issue won’t be that just the translators aren’t working, but that all tech across the area isn’t working, so the batteries are irrelevant.
I need to work out how the translators work while they’re working, is what I was worrying about.
tereghan
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“So I need more worldbuilding refinement for this solarpunk mammoth…”
Maybe… The communicators aren’t new tech, if it’s post-apocalyptic, but old? Animals can communicate at higher and lower frequencies than humans can hear at, right? So maybe the communicators are actually a *better* kind of radio, and consequently *more* vulnerable to the interference therefore? And maybe the pastoral people may not be all that familiar with tech anyway, since most of them are in the wilderness most of the time?
I already have the plot point that the pastoralists need to go to the city for anything beyond basic repairs, so that’s the impetus of the story, yeah.
But the frequencies thing is maybe somethingI can work with. Like, elephants do a lot of rumbling to communicate, much of it below the threshhold of human hearing, so maybe the translators work by transforming their infrasound rumbles into human-understandable words. That could be displayed on a text readout, maybe. They’d be restricted in what they could say, but I imagine they probably don’t think in words natively either so they’d already not be prone to using them, so it would all be learned behaviors for the benefit of the translator machines.
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have no idea what Horizon Zero Dawn is but if it’s a video game I haven’t played one since Super Mario II on Nintendo in the early 90s so it’s not surprising I don’t know about it.
more behind cut!
See below for more on using the seismological stuff– I think stomping would be too clumsy but infrasound rumbles might be just the ticket! I honestly don’t know what a gravitational wave is though so I’d have to look that up. I don’t need it to break in more ways, the solar flares are more than enough, I want this to be a very stable and usable technology that has been mostly reliable for at least hundreds of years, so that it not working right now is a genuine surprise and crisis. Like, they’ve had sunspots that lasted a week or so, fairly often, but never something that’s gone on for months as this has. And so they need a Citified Genius to come up with better shielding for all the units if this is going to be a thing.
gnefariousgnorc replied to your post “So I need more worldbuilding refinement for this solarpunk mammoth…”
Could the transmitters have very long-lived batteries that the academics haven’t had to make in a while? Sorry I haven’t replied to that last post yet it’s been a weekend
oh no worries on replying i was absorbed in writing stuff anyway.
I considered batteries and I think I’ve got power sources squared away anyway. The issue won’t be that just the translators aren’t working, but that all tech across the area isn’t working, so the batteries are irrelevant.
I need to work out how the translators work while they’re working, is what I was worrying about.
tereghan
replied to your post
“So I need more worldbuilding refinement for this solarpunk mammoth…”
Maybe… The communicators aren’t new tech, if it’s post-apocalyptic, but old? Animals can communicate at higher and lower frequencies than humans can hear at, right? So maybe the communicators are actually a *better* kind of radio, and consequently *more* vulnerable to the interference therefore? And maybe the pastoral people may not be all that familiar with tech anyway, since most of them are in the wilderness most of the time?
I already have the plot point that the pastoralists need to go to the city for anything beyond basic repairs, so that’s the impetus of the story, yeah.
But the frequencies thing is maybe somethingI can work with. Like, elephants do a lot of rumbling to communicate, much of it below the threshhold of human hearing, so maybe the translators work by transforming their infrasound rumbles into human-understandable words. That could be displayed on a text readout, maybe. They’d be restricted in what they could say, but I imagine they probably don’t think in words natively either so they’d already not be prone to using them, so it would all be learned behaviors for the benefit of the translator machines.
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