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Frankly, if the enemy is within practical jumping range, you should be doing that anyway.

Except Spock never sat in Kirk's lap.

Cooties.

"Exit from jump is a very "noisy" event... the energy from the spacetime disruption is released as a bright, characteristic flash of light. Anyone in the system (who's not preoccupied with fighting) will notice it, and any inhabited system will have detectors looking specifically for this signature....

I was thinking more in system. I assume that there is a way to "System hop" while deliberately is a landing at the outermost periphery, at which point it would be "Drive and all non essential systems off." A lot can be learned, even from the local equivalent of the Kuiper Belt.

There is no way to know for sure, but I think Beryl was simply jealous. I like how everyone thinks Tempo is engaged in some sort of deeply woven plot. What did she do to earn so much reader distrust? I mean, poor girl is probably just thinking "What else could *possibly* go wrong with this damn miss...

SaintofM: you might be interested in this series of blog posts at Rocketpunk Manifesto: http://www.rocketpunk-manifesto.com/2012/03/space-warfare-xvi-origins-and-scratch.html It's ten years old, but still informative, and the comments section is excellent. I linked the last one because that contains...

There's also the ease with which the audience can find out what characters have been depicted realistically, and which have not. I once wrote a novella featuring a Japanese female protagonist, and boy was it hard to satisfy the beta readers. One of them had lived in Japan for a number of years, and ...

That's how it turned out, yes. As I said, it has no impact on the actual plot. Still, Earth had to try.

It turned out to be a flying vacuum cleaner! Yet still exceptionally useful to know.

The Umiak cant presume they will win, and the Loroi probably assume they will survive.

They are on the order of millions of miles. You cruise to the outermost regions of frontier systems, and use passive sensors and small probes to spy on the aliens while they go about their tasks. "Stealth" is just a euphemism for "Distance divided by energy radiated".

Since the Loroi have amplifiers that can increase the power of Teidars, do the Loroi have tech that can suppress sanzai or PK powers? As with the amplifiers, there are materials and shapes known to the Loroi that can dampen psionic abilities, but none (known) that can completely shut them down. The...

How long has this war been going on?

Reminds me of when that Soviet pilot flew his Mig-25 to Japan. US Intelligence had a field day. That was when they discovered it was made out of steel, and not aircraft aluminum.

"She can't."

What a tragedy...

Fun for us, the audience. I wonder what Tempo's plan is.

It would be hilarious if it turned out that Alex had been lying (and it would completely resolve this whole debate). I think the Loroi could find Earth pretty easily if they wanted to--they don't need coherent radio signals, just optical evidence of a planet with a biological and industrial markers ...

Once Humanity chooses a side, which they apparently will be forced to do, they will presumably get some limited access to their alliance's tech. Humanity won't be very useful if they are still paddling around in the interstellar equivalent of a canoe, not even as enslaved cannon fodder.

I think the very best thing they could do is transmit advance intelligence on the Umiak fleet deployment before they get to the battle space. Might give themselves away, but it would be worth it. If the shuttle's com system has a mode that the Umiak can't monitor, then they might not even risk that.