Talk:To Armageddon/Outline

To answer your questions,


 * 1) Migedon is a tetrahedrally shaped, spindly space station with a large living quarters in the core. Think of a carbon molecule, then think of a three-sided pyramid. Teleportation occurs either along one or more of its faces, or within its volume, hence the spindly legs.
 * 2) Teleportation is done by creating a plane or volume of miniature wormholes that allow either 1) teleporting matter to somewhere random, thereby disintegrating it; or 2) teleporting matter cohesively and intelligently to a specified location, thereby warping it.
 * 3) Under this system, teleportation is done by using massive amounts of energy to activate the wormholes - energy that tokamaks (fusion power) can provide. If Migedon were to blow through an asteroid, thereby creating a tunnel of nothingness in its path by disintegrative teleportation, it would require massive amounts of energy and thus would have to proceed slower than if it had more tokamaks on board.
 * 4) Migedon already has pre-set programs on board that allow it to demonstrate its abilities. Migedon is already proven a successful technology by the start of chapter 1.
 * 5) TsAGI is the Russian equivalent of NASA (correct me on this).
 * 6) HAARP on wikipedia. A modified form of HAARP constitutes the core of Project Yellow (and since it's never really successful, it's not all that critical).
 * 7) Everything has to start with one. And Migedon I destroys Migedon II before it comes "out of the shipyard".
 * 8) Sarah doesn't start off as a mass murderer; instead she is convinced of the "righteousness" of her actions by the documents of Project White.
 * 9) As for Har Migedon, that occurs because of the intrigue I outlined in the plot. As far as I know, it's psychologically realistic...

Cheers, 13:33, 18 June 2008 (UTC)