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hogwildwilly t1_jdppfut wrote

It's been a few years since I've read them, but I don't remember any good guy/bad guy dichotomy. Just multiple layers of survival. Also something about using gravitational waves as catapults? I need to reread

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FlyingPasta t1_jdpq3ck wrote

Yeah it didn’t have clearly defined morality, just groups fighting for resources or conquest. Gravity waves were for propulsion iirc and how they discovered FTL, like that demo the woman did in the bathtub with the soap and water. The coolest part imo was how they played with the dimensions and sizing of subatomic particles if you remember that, or the spying mechanism using quantum-entangled light speed particles. How the “dark forest” theory was fleshed out made scary amount of sense. Very fresh as far as the sci in scifi goes, much different from the usual tired “are robots really alive??” tropes and such.

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