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Actually, on closer inspection of that tapestry I noticed that 2-3 of those skulls are oddly shaped and distinctly not human in appearance. Lastly, that wasn't made by Arioch but one of his friends I believe. The only real oddity of the Loroi I would find from thinking about it "in-universe" is they...

Thats because they rely largely on their Farseers for detection, and they were too busy fighting the Umiak at the time to pay attention to anyone coming into the solar system with their non-psychic sensors. The only thing that could be "hidden" behind is a star, and thats only if their so close insi...

Effects of low gravity? The biggest problems colonizing the Moon and Mars would not be effects of health but the dust. As I understand the lunar soil was a logistical nightmare for the Apollo crew, and that stuff is what you have to settle on when colonizing the moon. For Mars well those constant du...

Well, for Humans smell is also very significant, and I think it varies which stimulus is the dominant ones and which ones just supplement the dominant ones for each gender. Would that apply to the Loroi too? I think that whatever might cause attraction would be negated by the natural resistance Alex...

That is gold right there, oh my god I couldn't stop laughing. I had to stop for a little while when Alex's point of view came up cause that was so funny.

I'm getting the impression that he's complaining about a lack of a space suit, or going "well what do you expect..." response while pointing to the Loroi behind him. Or Beryl teasing Alex by the percieved interest in Fireblade (based on one of Arioch posts about the elevator incident and her perspec...

You peaked my interest, so some more questions. So I presume that Loroi would love Cats cause their cuddly ok, but what about Dogs? They've got the utility and are cuddly although a diffirent kind after they grow up. (Or do I have to bombard you with images of puppies?) Would they take a liking to H...

Some questions, 1) Has Alex so far convinced the Loroi he is totally not a psychic? If not will he ever convince them or will cognitive bias prevail? 2) If he fails to convince them otherwise that Humanity is not a psychic race would they be pretty miffed about the one race that could communicate to...

Then theres the part where he'll have to explain where Terran comes from when someone asks him, which would result in him giving them an explanation of how it is derived from something that represents the opposite of what it means in trade making him sound completely phony to them and inadvertantly ...

If they do that then it's obvious that they can't probe his mind well, if at all, from a distance. Also, something tells me that the singing is going to kickstart some interesting things this chapter.

EDIT: My money is on Cloud whats-her-name being the one trying to wake Alex up.

You are forgetting one thing, space vessals in the outsider 'verse are really expensive. It is very inefficient to send anything for deep space exploration missions with more then what is necessary for the vessal to do it's job. Not to mention that it's pointless if everything you have is so far out...

So I figure this is like the Chapter 1 cover, and this is something that happens inbetween some unspecified amount of time that passses offscreen. The same way we see Fireblade holding Alex's bloodied helmet after recovering him. @Gudo: I think Alex makes it pretty clear he doesn't understand Loroi ...

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that she's eyeing him suspiciously because he's saying something in English and not Trade, knowing how paranoid the Loroi are about Umiak infiltration she would find it suspicious that he would speak in English and not Trade. That or the long wind of silenc...

I'm really curious as to what their reactions will be to the way he says whatever it is he is going to say. If he has too many ums and ahs in there it might leave the impression that he didn't really care that they died, or he really cared alot because he said that those sounds mean't he was thinkin...

Or we could just set-up a joke wiki and blatantly lie. But really, I don't really like this idea, personally I find the Wiki to be very slow and ridiculously laggy on pretty much any computer I read it with. I think it would be better to just set up a sticky thread with links to all relevant cannon ...

About Psi, Arioch has discussed some of the mechanics in the insider, and for sanzei he compared it to handheld radios. The Loroi are like two way radios able to send and recieve "thought signals" while the other races are only one way radios that only send out signals but cannot in turn recieve the...

I never understood the idea that the Terrans could only be a useful meaningful contributor by fighting on the frontlines and not establishing stable supply lines and other logistics. EDIT: It's not like they have a magical new element we don't have access to so whatever materials they have we could ...

Beryl didn't know if he was alright without asking implies that they only know basic composition and anatomy, not the more specific details like biochemistry. EDIT: He lost consciousness from a lack of oxygen right after he saw a big ship coming at him, thats probably why he recovered at all and the...

Alex might also be asking confirmation about something, from the look on his face.

@Arioch: So basically you are almost practically admiting that an entire subset of living beings might possibly have the unique trait of not sending out any thought signals at all for the Loroi to pick up on. Great, more fuel to the fire. And Dolphins and Whales, funny how they resemble potentially ...