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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Expanse: space will always try to kill you, humanity still sucks, everything still hurts, everything is still dirty.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Far superior option. Mostly because it has real space physics with minimal hand waving.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Minimal hand waving

Except for the alien tech. The proto virus or whatever it's called. People talking from the dead. Teleporters to the other side of the universe. Crystals growing out of people's heads. Alien bug swarms. And a whole bunch of other hand-wavey things.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, good point. And fuel density and accessibility.

I guess I just really like space physics without fake gravity, but instead being generated by thrust. And the realism of the time everything takes to travel.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Fuel's easy, they have fusion reactors.

Now, how the fusion reactors work is a little more hand-wavy...but they are definitely proton-proton chain, not deuterium-tritium, so any old water will do, and the solar system has a lot of water.

In fact, the main cast were crew on a water hauler before shit kicked off

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah they really nailed the space combat. It's exhilarating to watch. In Star Trek they don't have any of those things going on because the ships are big and slow during combat, and because they have inertial dampers that cancel the inertial forces experienced by the crew using hand-wavey magic. Heh.