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Rigen 25 May 2021 23:28

The unfolding solar sail illustration is my own work, adapted to some extent from a photograph of an umbrella by MONNIN Jacques; the aforementioned file is from the collection of the Musées de la Haute-Saône and has been published on Wikimedia Commons as part of a cooperation project with Wikimédia France., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38067841

The map of outer solar system object is modified from an image by user WilyD of Wikimedia, released under CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2614330

The image of two SCP-6000 instances is slightly modified from an image by Hubble Space Telescope/Keith S. Noll - Image dataset J9RP69010 processed and extracted from https://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?id=10800&mission=hst, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90458585

The image of [REDACTED] star is slightly altered from a photograph of the star Regulus by Drew Farwell CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25051355

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Parasite microbes that want to take over the universe,

LeafJensen 27 May 2021 08:50

but cannot really get very close to the earth, so they just transform into solar sales and wander around?

Seems like an overly ambitious target for SCP-6000-1 to aim at this target. Are they endangered? And I didn't really understand the title. Why Endlessly Fucking Space?

Re: Parasite microbes that want to take over the universe,

Rigen 27 May 2021 11:25

+spoiler

Endlessly Fucking Space refer to the giant space station that is pretty much phallic in shape endlessly shooting tadpole-shaped craft towards distant stars. Fucking is a verb.

The microbes that the sails carry are terraforming tools to transform planets they hit into something more habitable to their creator. I don't really want to corroborate on how are the creators faring, I want people to have headcanons about this. Maybe they simply don't have FTL and want to make sure they don't spend time sending actual people to empty star system. Maybe they seeded star systems because they thought they're alone in the universe and took it as their sacred charge to fill the galaxy with life. I guess it also possible that they are microorganisms and want to conquer the universe, and did not predict macro-scale multicellular lifeform could exist and hamper their progress.

The -C instance was functioning perfectly, but was stopped from impacting any rocky bodies by the Foundation, and hence prevented from doing their terraforming job. What I wanna imply from the -A and -B instances is that someone in the far past have stopped the two instance the same way. Maybe the Daevite, or the Mekhanite, or the Martians, or the Venusian, or the Anunnaki, or the Lunarian, or the Children of the Night, or Those Which Have No Name.

Re: Parasite microbes that want to take over the universe,

ZG1906 29 May 2021 03:58

Not gonna lie, I read it like the Buzz Lightyear meme:

Endlessly…
(Waves arm vaguely while staring into the distance)
Fucking Space. As far as the eye can see!

I was a little bit disappointed that it wasn't playing on that emphasis lol

but the article was alright and the title makes more sense now >__<

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Rounderhouse 30 May 2021 01:08

#6

This one doesn't really have a lot going for it. Or a lot period. It's just kind of a concept presented without substantial implication or intrigue. Like the worse end of Series 1 stuff. Short articles get by on implying shit, fridge horror. This just up and states it, that presumably if these hit planets they get turned into biospheres for colonization. I guess if the implication is that this is how Earth happened than that could be interesting? But if that's it you don't do nearly enough to imply it, which means that you have an incredibly basic concept stated using far more words than it's worth.

J Dune 30 May 2021 01:18

There’s barely a narrative here. Extraterrestial colonization is not a new concept on the wiki, and this article takes that basic, basic concept and adds absolutely nothing to it. Half of your story is in your author post.

Furthermore, this is really impenetrable. I don’t shy away from using “big”, science-y words on the fake scientific document writing site, but here, the writing comes at the expense of both entertainment and smooth writing. Despite being under 1000 words, I routinely had to reread sentences to parse what was happening, and I still had difficulty with the majority of the article.

Sergeimosin 30 May 2021 07:43

I like the core concept of a giant, ancient space station that's just quietly sitting there seeding life on random worlds. It marks a nice break from world ending horrors and scenery chewing villainy. If it was a regular numbered article, I'd happily toss it a +1. That said, the execution is too thin on the ground for me to vote for it as a 6000 candidate.

I also don't think it helps that it's meant to be a giant dong. That bit just feels shoehorned in.

GremlinGroup 30 May 2021 18:09

I'm gonna have to agree with the others - while the base idea is interesting, there's really not much going on here, and you don't do much to build up any sense of tension or intrigue. The threat has come and (most likely) gone and given that the Foundation was able to deal with it perfectly, there's no real liklihood that it'll be a threat in the future. I do wish there was more to this.

Jacob Conwell 31 May 2021 18:57

Eh. Not really a lot going on here for me as a reader, I'm afraid.

While I get behind an alien seed shooter launching life into the cosmos, this takes that concept and… well, is kind of boring with it. For all the interesting developments that could potentially happen in such an article (including an example of the potential colonization of another exoplanet) you just decide to not pursue those, much to the detriment of the piece.

-1.

-1

margssentif 01 Jun 2021 21:07

pretty devoid of substance. the humour is pretty meh and on top of that the file is not easy to read.

If I were you I'd ditch the penis joke and try to go deeper(haha) with the concept.

ThunderBug 18 Jun 2021 04:59

It seems like all this article is is a dick joke. Nothing against that but it shouldnt be the focus of an article. Theres no fridge logic or even any narrative here. When I finished reading it I honestly thought I missed a collapsible or redirect.

-1

A final frontier

Maxyfran73 18 Jun 2021 11:10

I mean, it's… it's fine? My main issue with it is that it's just exists. It's not bad per se, but it's not good either. It explains the thing, then it ends. Which, again, not bad per se, but just… Yeah, it just feels pretty barebones n' empty.

That, coupled with an apparent phallic joke that is just there because why not… Hmmm. Tentative novote but extremely close to a downvote.

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