Once you hit 100% efficiency, there's no where else to go but down You can't be sure! possibly some sort of enhancement could boost the power output to 110%. A photon accelerator? Who knows! Actually, placing solar panels near the sun is far more efficient because of the greater concentration of solar radiation. Take a look at Dyson Spheres. Yes, I understand that, but a hard line connection to th
Well... In reality (because I like scfi to take reality into account as much as possible) Current solar panel technology has only about 12% efficiency. You could imagine that by the time this game is to take place efficiency should be at 100% or better! There would be no need for a space station orbiting the sun with the task of harvesting solar power when you could build a complex on a planet for a fraction of the cost. No doubt solar panels would be common place on rooftops or at la
If the crew is being killed to almost extinction and the ship is still functional, then I'm assuming that a boarding party of marines is doing the killing. If they kill everyone maybe they just take over the ship? and possibly take prisoners (to use somehow). I love to be able to use crew in some way or another. Every large ship should have marines for security, and a larger amount of marines with researchable boarding ships in a hanger bay. I do not think it is difficult at all the
The thing about anti-matter is that if you had the technology to "harvest" any substantial amount, it would have the destructive power to put an end to any and everything. You would not only be able to destroy the surface of a planet, but completely destroy the planet itself. No need for fleets, armies, or any of that good stuff. I have a hard time thinking of a Universe at war with anti-matter being plentiful. It would make a good "very rare" hard to build and expensive bomb. Only in enough
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