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Thursday, half-day at NgithOwl
* penthius freewriting, a low potential sketch of a Familia a Familia encounter.
* Lots and lots and lots of research about spaceships, and FTL alternatives.
* Posted previous writing log.

I had forgotten the level of research necessary for writing a science fiction (can I say it?) novel. It's like giving birth; there's gotta be a biological process that makes you willing to forget most of it, or you'd never be willing to do it again. This, despite me liking research and finding science interesting.

I now have three pages of notes (and at least 7 immediately linked-off articles still to read) about future spaceflight and ways to sidestep the whole "breaking the laws of physics" problem that arises when planning a setting with regular interstellar travel. The slow ships (slowships) are still able to move between inhabited planets in months, not decades or centuries. The fast ships, natch, are much better at this because they were designed for it, not rehabbed from old generation colony ships. That's just from me trying to figure out the general type of ship, not even going into deeper design issues.

( Noodling about spaceflight and FTL and worldbuilding. )