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I wouldn't put too much stock in dreadnaughts. Yes they're big and bad, but I would rather have a shielded cruiser fleet with superior weaponry than a smaller bunch of mid tier weapon dreads. I don't usually go dread until well, well into the AM era. I do the opposite and push for early dreads. dre...

Start out with humans, I find them the easiest because nodes direct where you can and cannot travel to. Tarka have freedom of movement, and I personally like them the best, but it can be daunting. The zuul are the hardest, because they are a pure momentum race. We could probably arrange some kind of...

Your idea that there are too many workers is Malthusian Malthas was wrong because businesses were actually investing their wealth in growing the economy, that has changed. How fast is world population growing? And just how long do you think that will continue? Wage stagnation has been occurring for...

"a laborer will only accept a wage for what their labor is worth" Your caveat is correct, demand for food is inelastic, and work or starve is not exactly a free choice. Though, for the time being atleast we have enough of a safety net to forestall such decisions, which is why so many are simply drop...

In addition, wealth is unevenly distributed, with the wealthiest 25% of US households owning 87% of the wealth in the United States, which was $54.2 trillion in 2009. (citations removed) To put the concept of trickle-down simply, the rich keep getting richer and the masses ride their coattails into...

Ktrain wrote:In what sense are scouts expendable? I mean if you are looking at the situation from the perspective of Civ4 I guess that could be a correct assumption.

Someone going into the unknown is taking quite a bit of risk, so they'd better not be something you can't afford to lose.

From my butchered heinlein quote, to bolter mechanics, to shermans. god bless you guys.

yeah, but thats not nearly grimdark enough.

hi hi The thing that always cracks me about Warhammer 40,000 is that they have these big huge spaceships, and then they fight on the ground with troops and things. :lol: Seriously though, I don't mind too much, I mean they've essentially got magic, so who am I to complain? You can melta it, you can...

you're leaving out the best part of that comic.

Comic 59 has a map of where Naam is and its jump routes, the steppes are only about 20-30 LY wide from the look of it. Earth is way off to the side.

The Umiak can't be too bold with their own forward scouts, or they'll get eaten by loroi raiders.

dont forget that Terran sector is more on the umiak side than the loroi one. maybe their scout didnt go far enough to try to detect human colony. even more reason to scout out the area. If you want to scan out that area you need to send ship, and umiak wont like having loroi ship in their territory...

Did they push hard enough to cause any organ failure or did they let up on unconciousness?

dont forget that Terran sector is more on the umiak side than the loroi one. maybe their scout didnt go far enough to try to detect human colony.

even more reason to scout out the area.

fredgiblet wrote:No. Earth is 200+ light-years away, we don't have a definite range for Farseers, but it's less than that.

If it is directly out of their range, then they probably canvassed the area around Earth with scouts at whatever farseer range is and concluded nothing was out here.

The farseer would also be able to spot planet earth were humans not shielded in all likelyhood.

I think a comparison question to humanity's contribution would be, "How easily could Victorian level industry help the current US Navy?" This is the perfect example, America today lacks a merchant fleet(because of very poor industrial/trade decisions on our part) and we use ships produced by the re...

We weren't technologically multiple generations behind the Soviets in WW2. If using slow-poke Terran ships impedes timely shipment of required parts and materials, faster Loroi ships will be used...building an extra ship won't help if its parts don't arrive in time. The apparent limitations on our ...

Factories, workers, raw materials and so on. Manufacturing demand is elastic(agriculture by contrast is not and wouldn't likely get replaced), and as much as we can produce will find a use somehow, somewhere, in a fully geared up war economy. To use the WW2 example, America's economy did not platea...

*SNIP* Interesting and well put. Alas, 99% of the readers will se hot space elves on one side and ugly bugs on the other and it's clear who the evil guys will be in their mind. It seems to me that Arioch has spent more time and attention on Loroi, so I find it unlikely that they are the bad guys. I...