Yes, but we don't know how to find it.TheWayOfTheCon wrote: September 29th, 2026, 1:36 pm With the right reaction(s) attached, could a single-engine cordership be theoretically possible?
Construction Challenges and Ideas
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Re: Construction Challenges and Ideas
I figured as much.NNlk05 wrote: September 29th, 2026, 6:50 pmYes, but we don't know how to find it.TheWayOfTheCon wrote: September 29th, 2026, 1:36 pm With the right reaction(s) attached, could a single-engine cordership be theoretically possible?
I could've chose a better username, but oh well.
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Re: Construction Challenges and Ideas
Because we can build diagonal c/12 macro-spaceships and puffers and rakes, there are lots of things (like this idea from 2020, or the "swarm of Caterloopillars" from 2017) that we could attach to a block-laying switch engine that would technically turn it into a single-engine Cordership.TheWayOfTheCon wrote: September 29th, 2026, 1:36 pm With the right reaction(s) attached, could a single-engine cordership be theoretically possible?
We just haven't turned up an elementary 1EC yet. And we don't really have a better way to look for one than to just keep running apgsearch.
We also don't have a "smallest known" engineered 1EC, because current designs would be big enough that they'd be kind of embarrassing to even look at.
It's hard to call something a "single-engine Cordership" with a straight face when the period is in the millions and you have to zoom and pan a lot to even find the darn switch engine.
See also the "bootstrapping 1EC" idea.