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| rdfs:comment | - These diseases were the advanced civilization's fault of course, and they weren't able to stop it either from spreading. The last surviving group makes a frantic abandonment of the contaminated planet but succumbs anyway with their spaceship ending up being a Big Dumb Object that gets in everyones way. Or for something simpler, take an asteroid for example, they just float around space, but are still large enough for someone to waste their time fighting over what to name it. Even though all asteroids are big dumb objects, this is all too commonplace.
- Such is the Big Dumb Object. It's really, really big and really, really powerful. It could be a weapon or a habitat. The Big Dumb Object is always technologically more incredible than anything the discoverers have ever seen before, but, if it's dangerous, it probably has a silly weakness like logic, antimatter, or a well placed torpedo in the right air shaft. Sometimes it's disguised as a natural phenomenon. See also That's No Moon. The term "Big Dumb Object" for these things was coined by author Roz Kaveney. Compare That's No Moon, Standard Sci-Fi Fleet, Dyson Sphere.
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| abstract | - Such is the Big Dumb Object. It's really, really big and really, really powerful. It could be a weapon or a habitat. The Big Dumb Object is always technologically more incredible than anything the discoverers have ever seen before, but, if it's dangerous, it probably has a silly weakness like logic, antimatter, or a well placed torpedo in the right air shaft. Sometimes it's disguised as a natural phenomenon. See also That's No Moon. Its makers may be alive in a far-off, remote region. They may have Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence, and this object is nothing more than leftover dust in comparison to their new existence. They may have gone extinct, and this object may be the last artifact of their society. The object may be some device or even an organ used by Eldritch Abominations to devour other worlds; it's possible that the object is an Eldritch Abomination. In any case, if they were so powerful and now they're all dead, what chance do we have? Since Big Dumb Objects are so old and filled with advanced technology they are often the target of a race by several parties to unlock their secrets. In this case many Big Dumb Objects double as a MacGuffin. The term "Big Dumb Object" for these things was coined by author Roz Kaveney. Compare That's No Moon, Standard Sci-Fi Fleet, Dyson Sphere. Examples of Big Dumb Object include:
- These diseases were the advanced civilization's fault of course, and they weren't able to stop it either from spreading. The last surviving group makes a frantic abandonment of the contaminated planet but succumbs anyway with their spaceship ending up being a Big Dumb Object that gets in everyones way. Or for something simpler, take an asteroid for example, they just float around space, but are still large enough for someone to waste their time fighting over what to name it. Even though all asteroids are big dumb objects, this is all too commonplace.
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