Goonhub
04-27-2018, 11:52 AM
So, the other night I had an idea. It can be executed in one of several ways (plus, I'm sure, more than what I've thought of off-hand below) and I confess that I am no coder and haven't the slight bit how tenable any of these are.
But, basically, I was thinking: we should be able to have grey goo disasters. For those of you less familiar with the term, it's basically when self-replicating nanotech gets out of control. The Flock Drones and the Blob are both a bit similar to this, but each differ in a few ways.
Anyways. I was thinking the way the grey goo would work, probably, would be something like liquids currently are, or kudzu. It would spread through the station - slowly at first, but exponentially growing in speed. I don't think it would eat/destroy floor tiles, but rather I think it would replace them with grey goo floor tiles or something. It would also extend outwards into space, even, building new floor tiles over space tiles. So in the aftermath of a grey goo disaster, you'd have lots of random extensions to the station possibly. The goo would eat objects/furniture/corpses, as well as walls. I'm not sure what interactions it would have with crew or critters - maybe it turns them into lawless borgs, or maybe it's completely harmless to flesh - a sort of benign blob. I dunno.
How fast it spreads, how fast it eats things, and what it can eat would all probably vary based on how deadly/dangerous we want the thing to be.
OPTION ONE: The grey goo is a random disaster, like asteroids, spatial tears, and so on. There's obviously precedent for this - both the blob and kudzu used to be random disasters.
OPTION TWO: The grey goo is a traitor item, like kudzu is now. Presumably for roboticists.
OPTION THREE: Don't spill nanomachines on the floor, for the love of god!
Whatever the case, I naturally would expect that in the universe of SS13, rather than this sort of event/scenario being called grey goo, it is instead known as the grey tide.
But, basically, I was thinking: we should be able to have grey goo disasters. For those of you less familiar with the term, it's basically when self-replicating nanotech gets out of control. The Flock Drones and the Blob are both a bit similar to this, but each differ in a few ways.
Anyways. I was thinking the way the grey goo would work, probably, would be something like liquids currently are, or kudzu. It would spread through the station - slowly at first, but exponentially growing in speed. I don't think it would eat/destroy floor tiles, but rather I think it would replace them with grey goo floor tiles or something. It would also extend outwards into space, even, building new floor tiles over space tiles. So in the aftermath of a grey goo disaster, you'd have lots of random extensions to the station possibly. The goo would eat objects/furniture/corpses, as well as walls. I'm not sure what interactions it would have with crew or critters - maybe it turns them into lawless borgs, or maybe it's completely harmless to flesh - a sort of benign blob. I dunno.
How fast it spreads, how fast it eats things, and what it can eat would all probably vary based on how deadly/dangerous we want the thing to be.
OPTION ONE: The grey goo is a random disaster, like asteroids, spatial tears, and so on. There's obviously precedent for this - both the blob and kudzu used to be random disasters.
OPTION TWO: The grey goo is a traitor item, like kudzu is now. Presumably for roboticists.
OPTION THREE: Don't spill nanomachines on the floor, for the love of god!
Whatever the case, I naturally would expect that in the universe of SS13, rather than this sort of event/scenario being called grey goo, it is instead known as the grey tide.