LienRag wrote: ↑Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:40 pm
Doesn't the void actually digs into space itself ?
Well, I never thought of that...
Summing up my "knowledge" about Void:
- In general, void is empty space. Nothing to see here.
- In Starcraft and other sci-fi worlds, the Void is another dimension, actually full of nasty stuff quite horrible for beings of this dimension.
And that's it.
In FreeOrion, it seems to me that the Void is similar to that other horrible dimension. We have techs that allow to extract knowledge (RP) from the Void and techs that use the destructive forces reigning in the Void to wreak havoc into this dimension.
We could have something that allows ships to enter into the Void and shoot from there to ships in the normal dimension without allowing retaliation (you can't aim properly, focus your beams, the void disrupts missiles/fighters engines...) but I would say a priori that the worst part of that strategy would happen to the ships entering the Void for that.
If the "Void trench" is used as a barrier between your ships and your enemies... You have some control over the trench (at least, your ships are closer to it and can used it as cover, leaning out of it to shoot and then take cover again).
Oh, the same could be done in asteroid belts without fancy technologies. The Void version would be a late tech (policy, ship part, whatever) that can be used anywhere, and the asteroid belt would be situational, probably a military policy.