Ringworlds and other Ultra-tech worlds

So, eventually a civilization gets to the point where they can go faster than light, control gravity and in general 'play' god, there are many reason a civilization might want to make ringworlds or other superstructures many of these reasons might be beyond mere human comprehension.

But anyway, it would be cool to see a ringworld, a giant band around a star that provides an extremely large playing area and if you dig down far enough you can explore the internal workings of these bizarre superstructures...but beware, the ancient aliens may have set traps and robotic sentinals which might guard the technology.

 

You could sort of achieve this with 'tech' biomes as well : )

 

.....Halo much?

 

Hey, Ringworld predates Halo by quite a bit : )

Actually, it was out even before Atari.

This really makes me wonder why no one produced this in the late 70s...

 

There was a ringworld game made at one point, it was a point and click adventure.
another example would be the orbitals from "The Culture" novel series, there were large space stations the size of planets very much like the rings from halo, only without the superweapons and with billions of people living on them

 

I, The Great Celestial Wombat fully endorse this idea!
I like all of Larry Niven's works, especially the Ringworld books.
Oh, and the Wellworld books by Jack L. Chalker.

 

The idea of "artificial worlds" have been around as long as sci-fi has existed, as trope as it my be its always intrigues me on how the idea is "used". Ringworlds, worlds made from metal, ect. The possibilities are endless.

 

In the context of a 2D platformer game... on a practical level, what difference would it make?

 

Instead of a core they would just open up to space.
And you would have a mechanical layer right before the outer hull of the ring.
Oh just had thought...what if you punched through the outer hull?
You would start venting your world's atmosphere into space?!

 

That'd be one Hell of a game mechanic if they implemented something like this.

 

In the Ringworld novel a giant asteroid "punched" a hole from the outer shell through the entire structure, creating a giant "mountain" of distorted landmass on the inner shell called Fist-of-God. The only reason the atmosphere didn't leak is that the hole at the top of the mountain was at too high an elevation.

As for a player mining through the hull by himself... well, the tensile strength of the material required to build a ringworld is prohibitive. Basically it needs to be as strong as the interior of a neutron star. Niven called it "scrith." It's nothing our six major Starbound races could handle.

 

I would like to see this implemented, even though it would basically just be a HUGE planet. Dig deep enough and you'd find technological wonders, possibly even a "lost civilization" of engineers that keep the whole place running without the surface population even realizing.