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Alright writer boy. The stars just aligned again in living memory, make with the feels fiction. Damn, I did say I'd write moar when 113 dropped, didn't I? :] Well, I can; heck, I've had ideas for awhile, but I'm prepping to run a solo-player Pokémon ttrpg thing for a friend, too, so don't expect in...

http://well-of-souls.com/temp/highland-cockpit-wide-beauty-shot-aft1.jpg The word on the screen at right is besos ; on the door, lastenras . I also wonder what the symbol on the door means. I'm fairly confident it means "here be the shitter". That, or it's a Loroi symbol for EVA/internals storage. ...

Topic Shift! The new NASA Starliner spacesuits look pretty nifty! https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-spacesuit-unveiled-for-starliner-astronauts It's 2017. I thought they were going to be rolling out mechanically-pressurized suits that kept the astronaut's skin at a reasonable pressure without using ...

I don't think I'm completely backwards here, and I think it is a matter of scale. Steep insertion angles produce higher g-forces than shallow angles, for any given re-entry velocity. The X-15, with it's re-entry angle of about 20-23º experienced 5g during pullout. Unless you're doing retrograde bur...

hi hi Perhaps it has the delta v to drop straight into the atmosphere at a steep angle, but there are other problems with taking that kind of reentry profile. The Highwind is big enough to have inertia dampening at least, but other smaller craft may not be so fortunate. Dropping something into the ...

hi hi I think the wolf's head image is the silhouette of the shuttle from above or below. Possibly an overview systems condition monitor? Compared to the old US space shuttle, the view from the front window is relatively unobstructed. I'm sure the Loroi have more advanced materials which make that ...

Our current models of planet placement are pretty weak, and still can't really account for Hot Jupiters with much certainty. But really, it is more like the system of moons orbiting Jupiter than it is the planets orbiting the sun, in terms of distance vs relative size. Yeah, the exciting thing is t...

Uhm.. hey Arioch... any news on when that new page update you mentioned might be finished? Not pushing or anything.. just wondering...you told us keep gently nudging and all... Gently? He said to jump up and down on his head! :) So... yeah, some update would be nice. He was working on the next page...

stealth does not work in space, nor does it meaningfully work for surface ships, nor aircraft, although the speed involved with aircraft means a slightly shorter distance you are detected at can actually be useful, for ground troops it CAN work though, enough clutter to hide around in. and as menti...

dragoongfa wrote:Also remember that Beryl, Fireblade and Tempo have 'bad reputations' in their GURPS character sheets. Dream team members don't have that.

It's a racial trait, not a personal trait. All Loroi have a bad reputation.

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ShadowDragon8685 wrote:If there isn't space or infrastructure, would they just do the relaxation in a larger-than-strictly-nessessary-for-cleansing shower, then?

If there is room for a large shower, there is room for a small tub.

Sure, but there may not be room for a small tub and a small shower, yanno?

The tub is more about relaxation than getting clean (you wash before getting in the tub) and so can be omitted in the case where there isn't space or infrastructure. But the Loroi like their tubs. So... Basically, the Loroi bathe like humans from Japan? Fair enough. If there isn't space or infrastr...

I get some of my best ideas in the shower. It's a magical meditation chamber. :D Especially if you combine showering with sitting innatub. The typical shipboard Loroi washroom has a small-ish communal tub surrounded by benches in which the Loroi give themselves (and each other) sponge baths before ...

Jardin was uncomfortable; he was really, really uncomfortable. This was the exact sort of thing that hack science-fiction authors had been inventing for centuries - the kind of thing he'd actually envisioned when he had dreamed about joining the Scout Corps as a young teen - and now that he was here...

Arioch wrote:My goal is to have a new page up next Monday. I don't know if I'll be able to accomplish that, but I'm announcing it here so you can jump up and down on my head if I don't get it done.

Goomba-Stompin' Footwear on standby.

Definitely "put it in the cupboard". The cupboard is always the right place for things that look inconvenient. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajRRbnerug8]Yep. Cupboards. Definitely the best place to stuff inconvenient things. Though I'm pretty sure she's just reacting to Jardin asking somethi...

Also, death stare? I think that's more her "what the fuck is that thing? Am I supposed to kill it, initiate mating rituals with it, or put in the cupboard?" look. lol... more likely... "Why's THAT Pink Male in my cockpit? He might touch something and break it and he's not even in a protective G-Sui...

Hrm... IF Negative Hyperspace is in fact a finite curvature with a mnogo singularity at the core, that would mean that, in theory , you could take a dive through the realspace plane from hyperspace into Negative Hyperspace, at such an angle that your trajectory is a parabola around the mnogo singula...

deafscout wrote:good story

Thank you. I'm glad you like it.

If the effect of gravity in negative hyperspace mirrored that of hyperspace, then as with hyperspace, all objects would eventually return to normal space, and negative hyperspace would be just another section of hyperspace. However, negative hyperspace is the inverse of hyperspace, and the curvatur...