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fredgiblet The muzzle velocity was listed, not acceleration for terran mass drivers. Double Velocity and you quadruple the KE. Just a point. Terrans are Terraforming basicly any world they come across they think can be usefull. Meanwhile the Loroi and Umiak are rendering worlds barren and no mentio...

Somehow I don't think people who are perfectly willing to commit xenocide and scorch worlds from orbit are going to get squeamish because we, too, like to kill eachother. They created a DMZ by burning it into the galactic landscape. They're plenty violent. ;) Well technically it's not a Demilitariz...

Or maybe we actually fight much much more than the Loroi? They say their hisory is one of constant bloodshed, but for all we know they might freak out if they read about human history and our nearly nonstop quest to kill the guy in the next country. This is rather self flattering concept. Reminds m...

I could see humankind acting as auxiliaries, which is to say, filling spaces on ships. The problem is whether the Loroi would need that; I kind of doubt they have the industry to crank out a bunch of new ships or to hand out obsolete ones, and they're pretty paranoid about handing out tech to peopl...

I think a good analogy might be microprocessor technology. If I took a recent Intel CPU and took it back in time 20 years and gave it to Intel, they couldn't reproduce it. Even if they have all the schematics and understood perfectly well how it works, they're not going to be able to make a chip th...

Out of curiosity, The Insider Loroi Ships page describes the Wave Loom device as "problematic." Why is that? I recall this being covered before, but I forget the answer. Long charging time, heating issues, and leaves the firing ship dead in the water for short period of time after discharging IIRC....

The vessel depicted is a ~600m TT-style superheavy, not the monstrous ~2km ultraheavy. Ah. I WOULD be odd for a regular Umiak fleet to be burdened down with a ship like that. OTOH, that STILL does leave you with Ultra Heavies that could probably wipe out the entire human fleet just by ramming into ...

Let's put it this way. The amount of time it would take humanity to modernize to Loroi/Umiak standards even WITH help from the Loroi/Umiak, it'd still take to long to have any impact on the story, or even the long term Loroi/Umiak war. While the war has been dragging on in stalemate for a long time,...

That Umiak super heavy has to be extremely heavily armored. Because going by the rough ship sketch in the insider, it's not just 2.2 km long. It's 2 kilometers wide. That's a mind bogglingly huge target. Even at extreme ranges dodging is going to be a bit of an issue. Alex getting sight of this thin...

It's called an ambush, and it doesn't mean the Bellarmine was careless. Hell, the two other Loroi strike groups that went into this system had the exact same thing happen to them. I'm sure that as the Loroi salvage teams have been picking through the wreckage, they've been making preparations to de...

fredgiblet wrote:

Rosen_Ritter_1 wrote: I doubt the mission planners would be that careless.

Does Stillstorm? Because planning your course of action based on the assumption that the dudes who just got themselves blown up wandering into a warzone AREN'T careless sounds a bit silly.

But even this leaves evidence behind. I´m pretty sure the Umiak can analyze that there´s something strange going on. Mixing up the debris with Loroilitter would make a terran ship more undetectable. Except by now the Umiak have clearly been able to observe a non Loroi wreckage that they're guarding...

don't think so , I think the Loroi will be quite thorough in their distruction of the Bell even if they were in a hurry. But even this leaves evidence behind. I´m pretty sure the Umiak can analyze that there´s something strange going on. Mixing up the debris with Loroilitter would make a terran shi...

I was right about the smug expression. Alex asks about the kill ratio, and Beryl is of course proud of her strike groups capability to come back with more heads.

I wonder if Beryl was supposed to be that forthcoming with strategic information. Well they COULD throw him in a cell and not tell him anything. But that didn't offer THEM much insight about the strategic information about humanity that they want to know about. That's why they got Alex as a diploma...

I do think along the same lines as mjolnir that some sort of wedge of armour between the main ship and the engines might help the ship survive loss of containment in an engine by sparing much of the ship from the resulting blast. It could allow a ship to continue functioning somewhat (perhaps under...

Insider states that the Loroi Female average is 5' 7", while the males are generally 5'. cf. Insider: Loroi I think the outsider said it was unusual for tall Loroi males to be above five feet. So I'm guessing a five foot Loroi male would be considered respectfully tall. Though Beryl does seem a bit...

sunphoenix wrote:Well Alex Is an attractive fellow! Gentle eyes, honey colored hair, tall healthy frame, strong-willed personality, and a respectful demeanor. What's not to like?

Well, in terms of being unusually tall, a Loroi being attracted to Alex would be like a man attracted to 7+ foot tall women.

Came over from the old forum just to have some interesting discussions.

Actually in a modern military it isn't. Combat effectiveness is often directly proportional to training and combat experience. if you considder crews to be expendable then you never get that experience. Thats why modern NATO tanks have blow out panels, not to save the tank, but to ensure the crew s...