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Honestly, 'Seed-head' and 'Tail-wag' sound like the kind of nicknames they probably had from back in their training band days.

I don't have a preference, I am committed to following the story until you finish it as I've been here since around 2004 or so. I wouldn't turn down more frequent updates, but as long as you keep working on it I'm ok.

Well, Phoenix Point is from Julian Gollop (original X-Com creator), so I have high hopes. Really, if they get the AI right to dynamically morph the threat as promised, this will be absolutely amazing. I'm looking forward to see if they can pull it off.

Not to take away from the US Civil War discussion, but wasn't Switzerland technically a Confederation for a few hundred years? Obviously before it's current incarnation as a Federal Republic of course...

Siber wrote: Edit: Tangentially, I'd also like to point out that you can't really guarantee that a country that calls itself something fits the proper definition of that thing, in fiction or in reality.

A wonderful case in point: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea!

Congratulations! Now you just have to make an Outsider-verse mod for it!

Well, based on my personal military experience, once you move into a purely 'passenger' mode, it is pretty common to fall asleep. So I can identify with Beryl.

Does this mean we have a guest appearance by the Pol?

Finally, if you're thinking about launching a projectile from and adjacent system at relativistic speeds and waiting for the years to pass till it hits, that also creates problems. Interstellar space is not empty, and orbits are not 100% predictable over such monumental distances and timespans (n-b...

I simply don't see how morality plays into a fight for survival when one opponent taking any sort of idealistic high ground will lose, with defeat likely amounting to extinction. For the moral philosophers out there: I would argue that using Kantian ethics, that the inherent duty of species surviva...

Arioch wrote: And I don't think of him (Picard) as someone who surrenders.

I agree wholeheartedly. I think his speech where he refuses to retreat in the face of the Borg incursion helps cement that for me.

Binary is only relevant for electrical engineering. Programmers use either decimal or hexadecimal. Not quite true, there is still relevance to Networking. I use the binary for teaching manually figuring subnet ranges. And when trying to explain what I mean when flags are set in a TCP header. Althou...

...everyone knows a gun becomes more dangerous if painted pink, black is for posers. This. This is one of the gems that become the reasons I love reading/lurking on this board. Thanks discord! And while I acknowledge the maintenance/stabilization/sighting advantages of accessories, I was referring ...

...and finally, there ARE pretty heavy regulation on select fire(automatic weapons) in the USA, the so called assault weapons ban is all about cosmetics, 'tacticool' and black and dangerous looking....basically you want to ban picatinny rail for accessories like telescopic sights, flashlights...and...

But we have observed superluminal (FTL) events in nature! Cherenkov Radiation anyone?

Or wait, did you mean superluminal in a vacuum? That's a whole different kettle of fish there...

-jk- I couldn't resist the temptation to tweak what exactly FTL was being applied to.

Just to clarify, hemp plants and marijuana plants while related, are different varieties of the Cannabis plant. While I have read that the relationship is like that of a chihuahua and a wolf, in that those are both in the Canis family. I think that the difference is that hemp and marijuana can actua...

Ok, in the light of the new wealth of information made available on some of the other secondary and tertiary races in the Outsider-verse, I was hoping we could get a little more information on the relationship between the Historians and the Pol, as well as information about the Pol themselves. Obvio...

Hopefully this won't be taken as cherry picking my points, I just wanted to clarify some parts of this. Correct, but those interactions are simple. Writing secure input code for sensors and such would be trivial. I'll take your word for it. I don't get paid to code systems, just break them.:lol: Whe...

It was my pleasure.

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Of course change the brackets to the solid instead of the squiggly ones I used. Hope that helps.