Loroi ideas about military decorum may well be different than human ideas.
For all we know, Tempo may have dismissed Beryl via sanzai.
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- Thu Dec 31, 2015 2:19 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 110!
- Replies: 63
- Views: 50600
- Mon Dec 28, 2015 11:53 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 108 & 109 Discussion
- Replies: 116
- Views: 63974
Re: Page 108 & 109 Discussion
Humanity is on a peacetime footing. For comparison, consider that in 1931, the US Navy had 308 ships of all types. By the end of WWII in 1945, that number had climbed to 6768, more than a 20 times as many. US army active manpower peaked at something like 50 times its peacetime size.
- Fri Dec 11, 2015 9:36 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6292
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
While some hotheads might call for precautionary genocide, such a course of action has some major problems. Just one of these problems: Loroi can't detect humans, so they can't be sure that they've gotten them all. If even one shipload of human refugees make it to Umiak space, then the Loroi are on ...
- Wed Nov 11, 2015 5:30 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 107 Discussion
- Replies: 111
- Views: 78837
Re: Page 107 Discussion
When did the UK fully adopt the metric system? AFAIK, they started metrification in 1965, but still haven't really completed it, since one still buys beer in the pub by the pint. The UK didn't adopt a rational (decimal) currency until 1971. The US has had one since 1792. So... we'll let you be behin...
- Thu Nov 05, 2015 10:11 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: How would introduction to advanced technology hurt a culture
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10219
Re: How would introduction to advanced technology hurt a cul
The "dark" in "dark ages" might not refer to he grimness of the period so much as our lack of knowledge about it. People weren't leaving as much information about themselves and their lives behind, so that period isn't well illuminated, historically speaking.
- Mon Nov 02, 2015 10:54 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: WIP Discussion (Part 1!)
- Replies: 2709
- Views: 1886140
Re: WIP Discussion (Part 1!)
Depending on how the Loroi military organizes itself, it is possible that the Clearbrook is part of the 51st Strike Group, but just not part of the strike element.
- Mon Oct 26, 2015 4:15 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6292
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Multiple ships can travel independently and still arrive at a single destination at the same time. This doesn't make them a convoy. Even if multiple ships are leaving from the same supply depot and arriving at the same rendezvous, staggering their departure is more efficient, unless your supply depo...
- Mon Oct 26, 2015 1:00 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6292
- Views: 5306778
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Actually, convoys were less efficient than ships operating independently. Assembly of the convoy takes time, with many ships waiting around for the rest to be ready to go. Then, once moving, the convoy moves at the speed of its slowest ship. Finally, when arriving at its destination, many of the shi...
- Mon Sep 21, 2015 5:21 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6292
- Views: 5306778
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
I thought it was there so you didn't have to sit on the frigid porcelain. And once it is there, you make it hinge up so you can clean under it.
- Sat Sep 19, 2015 1:37 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 105 discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 30731
Re: Page 105 discussion
I once compared spacecraft to seacraft and I'm pretty sure you said spacecraft were heavier. So I took the mass of a seacraft of similar length, doubled it, and did not assume that was the actual mass, just a guess. Insider doesn't give the masses. Another way to do it : Scale down from one of the ...
- Thu Sep 10, 2015 4:11 am
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Fan Fiction] Looking forward to the Mirror (Completed)
- Replies: 671
- Views: 450010
Re: [Fan Fiction] Looking forward to the Mirror
There's a good chance this was just a probe by the Umiak to see what they were up against. What weapons do the defenders have? Do they have combat specialists? Are they really aliens, or is this a Loroi trick? Risking 32 Hardtroops may be a low price to get answers to these questions. If there is a ...
- Sat Sep 05, 2015 3:06 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: WIP Discussion (Part 1!)
- Replies: 2709
- Views: 1886140
Re: WIP Discussion (Part 1!)
An average English speaker has about 20,000 words in their active vocabulary. If Beryl can learn 5 words per minute (Alex speaks the word, and gives a brief definition) then it will take her about a week of 12 hour sessions to get them all. Though I suspect Beryl would spend a LOT of time telling Al...
- Mon Aug 31, 2015 9:51 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: WIP Discussion (Part 1!)
- Replies: 2709
- Views: 1886140
Re: WIP Discussion (Part 1!)
The thing is, these might be REALLY good pickup lines to the Loroi. Their males, being outnumbered 10 to 1, might not have never had to 'up their game' or even develop one in the first place... More likely, though, the Loroi will just be confused and put off since their males don't have to do this k...
- Thu Aug 27, 2015 10:01 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Did Russia win WWII?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 49543
Re: Did Russia win WWII?
My opinion is that, by August 1945, most of the Japanese leadership was looking for a way to end the war without having an invasion of the home islands, and without losing an unbearable amount of face. The two atomic bombs mostly provided this. Fighting and losing to other (non-Japanese) men is sham...
- Wed Aug 26, 2015 3:44 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Did Russia win WWII?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 49543
Re: Did Russia win WWII?
No disagreement here either about them doing the heavy lifting. But, to expand the metaphor, I don't think they could have lifted enough* without the steroids the west sent them, without Germany being 'lighter' from a poor diet due to the western blockade/bombing campaign, and without the (less that...
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:09 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Did Russia win WWII?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 49543
Re: Did Russia win WWII?
Yes, the USSR was on the winning side in WWII. No, the USSR almost certainly would not have won if it didn't have the rest of the allies on its side. Can't say for sure, of course, since what might have happened is always conjectural. But here's my reasoning: 1) If there was no war in the west, or t...
- Sat Jun 20, 2015 4:00 am
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Fan Fiction] Looking forward to the Mirror (Completed)
- Replies: 671
- Views: 450010
Re: [Fan Fiction] Looking forward to the Mirror
Loroi might be able to learn to understand Trade very quickly, but actually learning the precision vocalizations needed to speak it clearly and quickly might take longer. Speech is not natural to the Loroi as it is to Humans, and most of them don't really have much use for it in their day to day liv...
- Mon Jun 15, 2015 10:31 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6292
- Views: 5306778
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
The spring idea would work for reducing the g force on the brain-box from very rapid jolts of acceleration, but wouldn't do much to counter sustained acceleration. As to the liquid bath thing... I think the liquid has to be the same density as what it is supporting, and the more of a difference ther...
- Sun Jun 14, 2015 2:14 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6292
- Views: 5306778
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
In regards to the acceleration tolerance advantages of cybernetic Umiak... It kind of depends on how inertial dampeners work in the setting. Are they incremental, meaning they simply subtract their rating from the perceived acceleration effects within the hull, such that the crew of a ship with 25g ...
- Fri Jun 05, 2015 2:56 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6292
- Views: 5306778
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Got a hold of the codes, or just stripped the IFF badges off of the killed or the captured.