Tim Little wrote:
 > Strange matter wasn't made by just squashing ordinary nuclear matter,
 > it was transmuted via some catalytic process with a great deal of
 > energy, typically in factories orbiting close to a star.

OK. I thought there was some suggestion from astrophysics that nuclear
matter could be converted in an intense gravitational field e.g. inside
neutron stars.

So you go beyond degeneracy to quark matter, etc.

<useful detail snipped>

 > After going through the rest of the post and rewriting some of it, the
 > name of the online setting came back to me: Orion's Arm, and looks
 > like it is still going.

Right. There's an enormous amount of stuff there. Might be worth taking
a closer look...

Rob O'Connor