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What I find more curious is that they're wearing armor that looks like it could function as a space suit, but their hair extends outside of the helmets. It'd take a pretty spiffy seal mechanism to make that even vaguely practical. Looks cool as anything, I'll grant, but seems a tad bizarre.

Who cares if he mentioned the Loroi or the Umiak? He's speaking the trade language, which pretty much guarantees he's in contact with someone involved in the current astro-political situation. That basically guarantees he's at least heard of the Loroi and Umiak. Now, if he'd played dumb for a few mo...

Not what I was expecting either BUT I think we're okay. If Beryl asks, Alex can pass it off as a reference to a human cultural hero (not really a lie) and be covered. Cultural references are always going to be difficult to translate ("Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra!") so she won't be expecting to reall...

The stars do move relative to each other, but not nearly as much; the Sun's movement relative to the average motion of the stars around us (Local Standard of Rest) is only about 10 km/s. That's a displacement of 16.7 light years in half a million years. You're right of course, but what matters isn'...

Gah. This is gonna bug me until I ask about it. If I remember right (and my knowledge of Soia history is shaky at best), the Soia empire fell about 500,000 years ago. As we ponder that figure in relation to evolution and whatnot in this and other threads, I feel compelled to note that galactic geogr...

You know, thus far we've been thinking of the Umiak's new capabilities as a cloaking device, but perhaps that's not the correct metaphor. Maybe it's more like electronic counter-measures that can reduce the signal that Farseers detect without quite eliminating it. This would make any given Umiak str...