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I dunno, would they actually be used to male interest? I mean, their males apparently mate due to physical dependency, so... What he probably meant was that the Loroi are likely used to the following sequence of events: I arrange a mating encounter. I meet a male. The male couples with me, we don't...

Arioch wrote:When it comes to telepathy, being able to probe the opponent's intentions while guarding your own is a subtext of pretty much every game.

Lotai for the win, then.

Everyone seems to believe it was the Umiak who blew Alex's ship. That's premature, I'd say. (My personal guess is it was the Historians). Why the Historians? Blind guess, mostly. AFAIK only three races have plasma focus weapons: the Loroi, the Umiak and the Historians. Of them, the Historians are b...

Everyone seems to believe it was the Umiak who blew Alex's ship. That's premature, I'd say. (My personal guess is it was the Historians).

While the Loroi seem to have good replenishing capabilities for their army, still, every pregnant Loroi will need a break of a few months at least. I don't think manpower is an issue on either side of this war. Both are large interstellar empires with presumably tens of billions of citizens/subject...

Looks like the assault is much bigger than originally thought. Maybe now there's cause for alarm? Looks like our friend "Stray" wasn't kidding about the reckoning...

The viability of habitable plants around red dwarfs is a huge question, since red dwarfs make up such a huge majority of stars in our galaxy.

Plus, I don't understand how someone can say this is uninteresting. I love the enormous amount of worldbuilding that went into this project; it's engrossing and, in many aspects, better than most other sci-fi worlds. And sure, everybody would love faster updates, but whining about it and accusing th...

English is quite simple compared to other European languages. Yes, it has stupidly irregular and unnecessarily complicated spelling, but it mostly lacks grammatical gender, a noun case system, a shitton of verb conjugations etc. etc. etc. Compared to, say, Czech, English is very easy to learn on a l...

They're certainly much more common in the Union/Hierarchy/Periphery/Nissek region than they are in the Great Wasteland that is human territory, for the reasons you mention. I'd say they're still relatively uncommon, but it's a large area with thousands of star systems, so there are a lot of them. T...

And BTW, how common are habitable worlds in Loroi space, or the Local Bubble in general? (In this setting.) By habitable, I mean the narrow definition of the term (breathable atmosphere, liquid water, biosphere, survivable by Human/Loroi standards). Given the many precursor empires and their terrafo...

EDIT Disclaimer: I do not in any way condone atrocities, however all the gas chambers I've seen turned out to be showers and the Nazis themselves didn't record even close to 6 million Jews to have existed in their territory. Not sure if this is supposed to be a joke or not, but it is in very poor t...

I assume seeing the results of Loroi anti-neutrality policy with their own eyes would give Alex a slightly different perspective of his rescuers/hosts... He might be more cautious about clarifying that humanity intends to declare for the Loroi once contact is established, so as not to provoke his h...

Ah, that makes sense. But it would have been a nice bit of drama

I am just wondering: the route shown on the map seems to cross the former Tithric territory (devastated by Loroi in reprisal for the Tithric inability to stop Umiak crossings, the so-called "Tithric genocide"). How carefully did the humans scan the systems they were passing through on their way to N...

(...) But exceptions may exist. While Loroi females as a whole might not feel the instinctive need to safeguard and protect human men, Beryl for example did warm up towards Alex, though in typical Listel fashion it might be more a meeting of intellects, and the two of them did sort of see eye to ey...

Giving my two cents here: (...) Socially the two are in complete different situations. Human women are traditionally protected, it's a biological imperative that women are kept out of harms way by the stronger and expendable men; this is blindingly obvious even on western societies where ALL of the...

Was my character invited to the meeting?

I'd also point out that what we consider "racial" features (skin colour, hair, facial features) are all in fact pretty recent changes in human appearance. For instance the East Asian subtype is what, 10-15,000 years old? I don't believe that this is correct. My understanding is that earlier hominid...

I don't think that the loroi where modelled after us or our ancestors. they could have just as well been modelled after some other species and then accidently evolved into a shape similar to ours. That would be too much of an accident, whereas developing mildly "Europoid" features due to random res...