Monty Wild

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@VLAZ Why don't you add your own answer, then?

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@Dmyt Consider worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/260085/75. Is gravity involved? If so, compress matter to an artificial black hole, then reverse its gravity so that the temporary black hole evaporates. Instant total matter-to-energy conversion.

@Mary @Dmyt I'd thought of having the sessile organism be one gender, and the other gender being a migratory fish that the sessile gender catches and eats in order to reproduce, releasing a bunch of eggs and sperm in the process, which fertilise to become plankton. The motile gender grows and goes on a migration while new members of the sessile gender settle down and grow.

So the women who were dosed with hialutabu, killed 'painfully' and eaten are reincarnated (thanks to reincarnation anchors that work as in worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/215307/75 and worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/233825/75) get to come back in their next life (and may or may not be a woman again) and say how good it was, thus perpetuating the practise.

In a way, I've drawn from real-world history for Ruquelis. The Toltecs, Olmecs, Maya and Aztecs and other central american tribes had religious human sacrifice, and the Spanish who conquered them wrote that some would-be sacrifices whom they rescued demanded to be taken back to be sacrificed. Consider en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Maya_culture

However, hialutabu has the effect that it cross-wires pain sensations to the pleasure centre, so no matter how unpleasant or harmful, users of hialutabu experience all pain or discomfort sensations as pleasurable. Hence its addictiveness, even across incarnations.

@Dmyt Ideas are free... just make up your own name and rules for how it works and you won't be plagiarising anything.

@Toph The hialutabu-producing organism would have to have a restricted range. Since they can be kept in captivity for long periods, they can be harvested when necessary, and then milked in a lab.

Lilim used to breed true and women became extinct long ago, but there was magical interference to bring back women for social reasons, and that change started the current imbalanced genders problem.

@Toph Answers to worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/233745/… show that lilim can survive if they're the apex gender. However, the lilim on Ruquelis didn't read that study, and cull women. They originally came from Earth roughly 10,000 to 6,000BC, and lilim did become extinct on Earth.

@Dmyt That's a good idea... I had the idea that the sessile organism that produces hialutabu is only one sex of the species, and the other sex is something completely different that hasn't been recognised.

So, @Toph an insect which reproduces in large numbers, even if it can't or won't reproduce in the lab, isn't vulnerable enough.

So, for the production of hialutabu to be able to be stopped in the story by a small group of spies, the species that produces it has to be vulnerable in some way.

In some contries on Ruquelis, women are considered to be meat animals. They grow up and are educated for the benefit of their next incarnation, and are then cooked (often alive, with a dose of hialutabu) and eaten. There are people who want to stop the cannibalism and murder, and halting the production of hialutabu is one step.

So... the lilim have set up institutionalised murder of women on Ruquelis. They justify this to themselves because people reincarnate, and hialutabu makes death pleasant - addictively so. Reincarnated people can remember their previous incarnation's death and want to repeat it.

The story is that on the world of Ruquelis, there are men, women and lilim. Lilim are women with wings, but they give birth to all three genders, while women give birth only to men and women. However, the lilim daughters aren't distinguishable from woman-children before 6-9yo. Lilim also have a lower birth rate. So, lilim are afraid that they'll be out-bred by women.

@Dmyt Hialutabu's 'purpose' is rather f-ed up, which is why my story has someone who wants to get rid of it for good. To make that possible without necessitating mass murder and the destruction of libraries, the critter has to be impossible to breed in a lab.

Since it's a product of an alien biome, the hialutabu compound's effect on humans is a pure coincidence, and it has other uses with its intended prey.

Oh, that's easy. worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/257907/75.

The dart would carry the drug that is being harvested, and could in theory sting a person.

@Dmyt Maybe not Tunicates... but a sort of tunicate cone-snail chimera-like thing perhaps. Sessile, but hunts using an attached dart like a cone snail.

I was thinking of something that lives in the sea, since it's easier for an organism there to be poorly understood, especially from an alien biome that has been colonised for a few thousand years by people who were at the start of the bronze age when they arrived.

I thought of a microbe... but they're also all too easy to breed. I need something that my MC can find some way to change or exterminate, and the lab specimens will eventually die, leaving no source for the drug.

@Dmyt Have a look at kulturaskanons.lv/en

The Mushroomer, since mushroom collecting is popular.

The Memory of Dainas, from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daina_(Latvia)

from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Latvia#National_dress

Lielvārde leader

Red and white rye-baker as a reference to their flag and rye bread which is very popular there.

Titles for the Latvian hive-mind... how about The Baltic Forester, since Forestry is important there.

I'm after an idea for something from an alien biome colonised by humans that they exploit, but have no idea how to breed. They extract the drug from it, but when they die, they have to go out and get more.

@Dmyt Porcupines can breed in captivity. Even if they're alien porcupines, it seems that they could be farmed.

Oh... it also needs to be something with at least one long spine that could in theory cause an epidural injection on a human at the back of the neck in just the right circumstances. That event need only be a 1 in a million chance, though. Possible, not likely.

Any suggestions?

I also have an opinion-based question. I've been trying to come up with an organsim that produces a drug that can't be synthesised. For story reasons, I want it to be something that can be grown in captivity and the drug harvested from it, but can't breed in captivity, so it has to be obtained anew from wherever it naturally occurs when the previous ones die. I also want it to be something that isn't a species that would cause an ecological collapse if it was to be helped to go away.

@Dmyt Aside from oi, tu! klausies!, I'd be a bit stumped too. Perhaps you can post some of the others so that we can see what sort of titles you have in mind.

Please remember: Votes on review-my-idea are for how well the idea is described, not how good the idea is.

@user721108 I don't need to know about cooling, just how to calculate heating due to speed... very approximately.

@causative The individual gyre tunnels may be 200,000km to 400,000km long, and voyages in the millions of kilometres. The aircraft would slow down after each leg for navigation checks.

@sphennings I'm deliberately not providing the details of the aircraft, because I want to be taught how to fish, not just be provided with a fish.

@RobertRapplean No, there's no ablative heat shielding. I just need to be able to work out for myself what temperatures will be generated at a given airspeed, so I can tell if the hull is going to soften or melt.

@Thibe In my story/TTRPG, the gyre is at 0.35 ATM pressure, it has wind streams running in both directions at up to 2,000kph, and the ships fly down the gyre close to the streams to take advantage of the wind at 5000kph relative to the streams, so ~7000kph total. However, since I don't know how to calculate heat, that's just a guesstimate.

@AlexP The first words of the question are, "I've designed an atomic powered aircraft with reactionless propulsion". Reaction mass is not a problem.

@AlexP Why is it not believable? Personally, I believe that the heat accumulated from pushing through so much air so fast would make the hull melt or the occupants roast alive (hence this question), but if there's enough propulsion power, it seems at least theoretically possible.

@gs These aircraft fly through the gyre, which is a system of air-filled distance-reduced tunnels between the stars. If you leave the tunnels, you leave the gyre. Gyre tunnels between stars can be several hundred thousand kilometres long... like flying from the earth to the moon, but through air the whole way. There is no 'avoiding the air'.

@AlexP I basically empirically adjusted for transonic and supersonic drag. However, this aircraft could spend days at speed, so conduction of heat from the skin to the interior could be an issue.

@sphennings You have a point... I'll edit the question to focus on the identification issue.