![]() ![]() It was constructed by the Pak Protectors, now mostly extinct, who had a common origin with humans. The ring is spun at a speed to provide 0.992G of gravity on the innerside, while 20 giant shadow squares at about the orbit of Mercury occlude the Sun to provide night. The total inner surface of the ring is equal to that of 3 million Earths. It is 997,000 miles wide, about 125 Earth-diameters. ![]() The game is intended to be set on the Ringworld itself, an enormous single world discovered at the far reaches of Known Space, a ring around a sun at approximately the orbit of the Earth. "Known Space" only serves as a background for the game. Human allies include intelligent dolphins and orcas. ![]() Important Alien civilisations include the Puppeteers, paranoid pacifist herbivore centaurs, and the Kzinti, carnivorous warlike felines, who fought multiple wars over hundreds of years against the Humans, being defeated each time. " Known Space" (also the commonly used title for Larry Niven's future history science fiction series) is about 80 light years in diameter with 10,000 stars, including Human Space (40 light years diameter, 524 stars in 357 systems, 30 billion humans, ⅔ on Earth), as well as neighbouring Alien civilisations. ![]() The setting is a distant future based on extrapolation of as much hard science as Niven had available. The Ringworld science fiction role-playing game was published by Chaosium in 1984, using the Basic Role-Playing system for its rules and Larry Niven's Ringworld novels as a setting. ![]()
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