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Over on SB someone asked how long it would take for humanity to catch up at our natural rate of progression, and Arioch said roughly 60 years. It definitely wouldn't be centuries for us to catch up. That's probably a very optimistic estimate if I am to judge by these two entries of the insider: htt...

Wouldn't a gravity well have the opposite effect to a hill for defensive purposes? Not really, on a hill you fight against gravity as you try to climb it. As a spaceship you fight against gravity as you try to maneuver close to it in a combat situation; slingshot maneuvers and all that are well and...

I now wonder how a Loroi would react to my great grandmothers from my father's side. One stopped at 12, the other at 11; the youngest born amidst WW2, none died in infancy and almost all reached adulthood. I got lots of cousins of whom I know nothing about. Supposedly both my great grandfathers cal...

Influential enough to have 7 kids. :D Greywind's mother (currently unnamed) was part of the Mizol establishment on Deinar during the Neridi Succession War. She supported Eighth Dawn, and when Eighth Dawn became Third Emperor, Greywind's mother rose to very high office, possibly even the Diadem. I t...

Not there yet? I dono, while it might seam inconvenient, having a fully computer run AI ship doesn't seam all THAT advanced, especially if its not for the long hall, and the Umiak seam to have a lot of impenitence to develop the tech. Now being able to develop such technology SAFELY, that may be di...

That's one of the theories going around, telepathic sensing only works on organic species so that is a hole that could be exploited. The issue however is that the Umiak aren't there yet technologically, their tech level requires crew to run their ships properly, to provide its constant maintenance a...

Khalkha divisions (p. 88) carry a large amount of provisions just for that reason. In military logistics there is a law of diminishing returns in regards to the amount of supplies and consumables a unit carries, the issue is a full fledged chapter in Sun Tzu's art of war even. To cut a long point s...

You know, since the Gunboat idea is being implemented in Beacons, this makes me wonder how the Tenoin are going to react when they learn Jardin was the one who convinced them of the idea. I imagine Talon and Spiral might be very angry when they learn it was his idea. Depends on how successful the c...

Good to know! :D While it's understandable why the Confederacy and Union were harsh on pirates, due to the pirates' inhumane treatment of others, it almost seems like the Terran Confederacy, with its strict rules, went through a phase something equivalent to the McCarthy-era. It wouldn't surprise m...

I'm wondering more, which government is behind these pirates... Spacefaring is expensive, and will remain so. And you need to dock and buy stuff for your ship. Metal plates, and vacuum sealing don't grow anywhere where a space sailor can collect it and use some hammer/saw/... to adapt to what he ne...

Scout Corps ships like Bellarmine don't have "enlisted" crew members. The Scout Corps is more like NASA than it is like the Navy; its missions are long range deep space operations that stretch ship endurance to the limit, and so the crews must be as small as possible. Every member of the crew has a...

Also, is it just me or have Alex kept the Loroi in the dark regarding how love rank ensign is? During the attack on the Bellarmine, he said that he was "not on the bridge" (page 60) as if he could usually be expected to be there (and not running repair works). Can we assume that Alex original rank ...

Fascinating. I guess they were "upgraded" because there's no longer as much need for cruisers, and the tech was available to beef them up anyway? That must also make them really, really hard to update with newer equipment. Destroyers became a de-facto 'jack of all trades' ship since WW2 as they wer...

Curiously, they are testing them on amphibious transports rather than destroyers. LPD-27 USS Portland is the current testbed. Modern warships are REALLY cramped in terms of equipment, to install a new kind of weapon would require both a refit and the removal of an installed weapon because there is ...

Krulle wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 31, 2021 1:23 pm

Again, I enjoy your stories very much.
Thank you!


There is a paragraph, that looks unfinished, though...
"Alexandra commented as she"...

Thanks, fixed it and some other errors I found.

And Reforged is back on the menu. After a surprisingly uneventful side trip to Earth, Alexandra finally meets someone whose paygrade is high enough for the mess she found herself in. The next part is something that I have been looking up to writing since the moment I first came up with the story its...

Chapter 6, part 1 To an unknowing observer the sight of four Loroi prisoners being escorted one by one to the shuttle bay in order to wait for the shuttle that would take them down to Earth would seem like overkill. With their hands and feet bound in chains, their heads covered with a black hood an...

>they'd learn that despite them being attractive, a human male won't always want to have sex with them. That's where you are wrong :) Constantly thinking with your libido is a good way to make stupid ass mistakes. So many young marines and soldiers do that by marrying strippers, simply for the reas...

She'll remember Micky Mouse and ask for an explanation once she knows what it means. I also have no idea why Jardin said that at that moment. Considering the 20th century songs he sung when he was drifting in space I have adopted the head cannon that a 20th century fad is in full swing with the you...

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