what is the mod it needs

LOL I completely made that up. XD

I shall dedicate this as a temple and a monument to Hasbro, the sacred god of toys.

High? This is a 420 temple! xD nice build!

Would you mind if i used this in a public server?

Besides, let's be clear, here... there already is a religion of SE, and there has been for a very long time...

HAIL KLANG!!!

:P XD

To be fair, Humanity hasn't even surpassed space, at least not in numbers or lengths of time in which any of this'd matter yet. As for "sci-fi nonsense," there are many well loved sci-fi stories with religious-yet-spacy settings; Warhammer40K, HALO, and Stargate are first to come to mind. It's a plot device, and in this game most content creation is done by the community… so same goes for any stories we tell in that content, including the (non)existence/details of beliefs. The community decides what is "necessary," both in story with their creations and in gameplay, with mods, etc. A machinimaker could have a field day with this thing. example: imagine a race of religious zealots with xenophobically exterminatory tendencies, (Covenant, much?) this as an atmospheric module detached from a *goddamn huge* flagship, (WH40K, much?) to attempt to convert targets before murdelizing any refusers. (Orii, much? :P) there's definitely room for it, gameplay/content-creation-wise.

I think I confused some people.

I said "religion... in a space game?"

Religion on this planet, stops at the cosmos, as religion has never surpassed space. While many things are tied into space, with religious implifications... Astrology, Mythology and Constallations. But, overall... the only implification of religion in space... is simply upon our own doing and sci-fi non-sense. And it's unnecessary within a game, especially this one.

The Church of Unitology in Space Engineers, eh?

Nice one.

Nice work sage.

... be aware that the next 3 comments are basically in reverse order, because of how steam sorts comments; as a warning to any readers, either those mentioned in the referred to comments or those simply passing through at a future time, you'll want to find part1/3, as it's a good read, (albeit a long one... :P ) but not one you'll wanna start halfway through... :P

good luck with WW3, future peeps! :P :D

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it's in this that i agree with both you and @endernine, as your statements are not necessarily mutually exclusive; the current set of religions (at least in their current forms) are/would be a hindrance to mankind, but to become useful, they'd need such drastic overhaul that we might as well start from scratch... but many people, whether through life circumstances or whatever else, will need *something* there for them whatever it may be; we can't necessarily go completely without, either. something that can feed any of man's spiritual needs that need feeding, but without ever interfering or being any sort of hindrance to man's scientific/intellectual endeavours would fit the bill quite nicely; and hell, if it's values leaned towards the worship of knowledge itself, it could even be a help instead of merely neutral, as suddenly the endeavour to learn/explore/etc is being chased with a *literally* zealous dedication! :P can't say i see any problems with *that*... :P

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that said, most major/current religions are both in organized form and demanding of blind unquestioning belief... the exact characteristics that turn them bad. they hail from times where they, not science, were the main authority on how the universe functioned, and times when the tech didn't exist to go find out the answers; as such, they're full of made-up stuff dun sounded gud... :P place a bunch of huge factual inaccuracies/impossibilties, right alongside demands that those falsities be believed and defended as inviolable fact, and boom; unquestioning faith in the imaginary causing blind believers to fight against the facts of reality utself, and ignoring anything in disagreement with them; those are the problem believers, not the recovering drug addict, the formerly homeless man, or the person volunteering to help the less fortunate.

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@RLGamer1981 Religion itself is not necessarily bad; it is when it Organizes, forms powerful institutions by taking advantage of mass blind faith, and uses said power to actively fight logic, reason and intelligence that it becomes the problem it currently is, societally. religion in an individual form can be of far more help than harm to many people, especially those in hard times and/or desperate need; they can draw much needed emotional comfort from such a source, and if it helps them sleep at night or live at day, who are we to begrudge them that? faith is not the problem, as it is little more than an emotional state applicable to anything one can hope or strive for; BLIND faith is the problem, as people with questionable intent and religious authority can, if blindly believed instead of questioned, manipulate faithful masses and gain power they don't deserve and shan't use well... individual religion is not the issue, organized religion is.

Hey Sage, I hope you don't mind that I extended your temple a bit with some scripting. If you demand it, I will take it down. Here's the link: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=802175198

+RLGamer1981 religion is a much a part of the human psyche as anything else. even if the relgions of today die out they will simply be replaced with other forms of worship.

I saw the video on YouTube. Wasn't too impressed with it. I like the floating base idea, but religious... in a space game? Ew. Doesn't seem to match at all. Religion stops at the Cosmos.

Really nice work. I might create a script to make it moving, as alternative to the autopilot. That would work despite the limited forward thrust.

I'm turning this into a capitol building on my offline save.

will this explode from pistons???





I sure hope so...

@jonnytaco

The Marker, its from dead space

I really like the swirly obelisk thingy in the middle. Who are we praying to today?

Looks great! You can add a gravity aligner script (for example https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=567481214) to keep it level (except in drone mode, because script overrides gyros and remote AI will not like that I guess :) ).

Nice work sage

Lovely build

Praise the Marker