Skapade Louis Wils Allmänna produkters # 2-skrov utrustad rymdfarkost, " Lying Bastard ", skapa berget Fist of God på Ringworld?
Nej. Berget var där länge innan Louis Wu hade upptäckt Ringworld.
Guds fist skapades av en månstorad asteroid som kraschar in i Ringworlds yta och deformerar den och penetrerar genom materialets yta i ett berg som sträcker sig in i rymden, över atmosfären.
Lyckligtvis för Ringworlds invånare, för om det inte hade gjort, hade luften blivit långsamt och stadigt från Ringworld tills det inte lyckades upprätthålla en vanlig atmosfär.
Citat från Ringworld där Louis Wu visualiserar bildandet av Guds fist:
He saw the, system of the Ringworld, sterile, tidily clean, empty of ramships, empty but for a G2 star and a daisy chain of shadow squares and the Ringworld.
He saw a foreign body passing near, too near. He watched its hyperbolic fall from interstellar space, and he saw its path interrupted—by the underside of the Ringworld. In his vision the foreign body was about the size of the Earth's Moon.
It must have been ionized plasma in the first seconds. A meteorite can be cooled by ablation, by the boiling away of its own skin. But here the vaporized gas could not expand; it had forced its way into a deforming pocket of the Ringworld floor. The landscape had deformed upward, its carefully planned ecology and rainfall patterns shot to hell over a region greater than the surface of the Earth. All that desert ... and Fist-of-God itself, raised a full thousand miles upward before the incredibly tough Ring floor ripped to let the fireball through.
Fist-Of-God? Tanj, yes! Watching from a Ringworld prison cell, Louis Wu had seen it clear in his mind's eye. It must have been visible clear to both rims: a ball of hellfire the size of the Earth's Moon ripping up through the floor of the Ringworld like a strong man's fist through a cardboard box.
The natives could be thankful that the Ring floor had deformed as much as it did. The hole was easily big enough to let all the air out of the Ringworld; but it was a thousand miles too high ...
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The Vampire Protectors Bram and Whisper knew that the impact would draw the Ghoul Protector Cronus to the Repair Center, setting the stage for an ambush. Louis Wu tells Bram "You let Fist-of-God hit the Ringworld!"... pg 336 Del Rey Mass Market Paperback edition
Hive-Intelligence-tävlingen nämns i The Ringworld Engineers, i en bortkastad kommentar från Hindmost. De visas inte i någon av historierna hittills.
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