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Arioch, have you thought of making the forum available through Tapatalk or something similar? Is there a mobile format for the board that I might have missed?

Thanks,
CJSF

*Are* any of the latest Umiak ships/crew being detected by Farseers? Alex has just wondered why all the ships/crew aren't equipped with this new technology or ability, but how does he know they aren't? Nothing we've seen in the comic since Naam indicates that any of the Umiak are currently being "fa...

Much of the dialog since Alex started looking at the star maps is in the vein of making the audience aware of the story. What passes between the Loroi on the shuttle (not the Loroi out in the fleet or on Clearbrook) as the current crisis unfolds would have been done in sanzai, probably reflexively. ...

Of course, a bigger concern (that has been touched upon by us arm-chair web-comic authors) is what if a Scout Corp ship made Umiak contact much earlier than Bellarmine's encounter, and a decision to ally with them has been made and the Umiak found out how to leverage humans to block the Farseers? Th...

Gorbash wrote: And just to go off on a wild crazy idea -- one way the Umiak could "automate" their ships would be via enslaved Historian AIs. I bet that would be a fun little problem.

..or NOT enslaved, which is a different fun little problem!

CJSF

Alex could have literally meant that the stories of telepathy/ESP were "old" from his point of view. Say in our very near future we (I know, unlikely) come to the consensus that these sort of things are bunk and not scientifically valid or whatever. That means "stories" of ESP and investigations int...

On another note, Beryl had enough time to straighten herself up by now, even if the shuttle is burning at full thrust, or getting herself another seat - she does look quite comfortable in her current position now, despite the grim situation :) I think it's literally been seconds in "real time".. or...

"New enemy forces..." sort of implies that they have identified them as Umiak though, doesn't it?

CJSF

Krulle wrote: Shall we assume those are Historians, coming to the rescue? (one may hope!)

Eh? Am I missing a panel?


CJSF

(someone may have already said this)
Am I the only one who can't help but hear Talon's and Spiral's voices with stereotypical "eastern European" accents? I know that's a bit USA-centric of me, but I can't help it!

CJSF

hi hi The more I think about it, the less confident I am about Loroi relationships. I mean, it is totally normal where I'm from for friends to give each other a hard time, but not really being serious as a trust thing. But Beryl doesn't even seem to notice Alex's expression when he said it's "Wonde...

entity2636 wrote:There she certainly is acting upset more than being genuinely upset...

I was thinking in this page that Moonglow has a melodramatic expression that's a bit of a put on, that she's really so, so concerned. And again, to me it seems like Ashrain is just damn annoyed.

CJSF

Arioch wrote:Yes, the multiple star nature of the Alpha Centauri system made it a more difficult target.

Does Humanity have any history/legend like The Expanse's Solomon Epstein? Or any space analogue to the Flying Dutchman?

CJSF

Apologies if this has been addressed before: What actually happened after Alex is escorted off the bridge at the end of Chapter One? Strike Group 51 was facing off with a huge Umiak division that had the ability to cloak itself from farseeing. Did the fleet flee? Did the Umiak forces leave once Bell...

Yes. It seems to me that the "absurd coincidence" Alex and Tempo have discussed is going to be fairly important to the story. I feel that unless Alex does something or has some sort of advantage/ability that will quickly and directly have an positive impact for the Loroi, his plight and anything reg...

Maybe they either found a way to use the Well of Souls to their advantage (some sort of time-viewing?) or the Historians are the best evil double-crossers to have ever crossed a double.

CJSF

anticarrot wrote:Not that it really matters in the end.

Well, for how things go for the Loroi (and Alex), perhaps not. But for the story (i.e., us) I expect is quite important.

CJSF

I don't care how you spin it, Alex having any relationship with a Loroi (female, presumably) risks way to much in terms of diplomatic relations with him specifically and with humanity in general. It is also massively unprofessional. I can see the *tension* being there, and an expression of feelings,...

I don't see why, given sufficient networking and display technology why you'd even need a bridge, per se. There's no real reason to have a centralized command center in the traditional sense. If you distribute your control capability to various well protected parts of your ship, if any one or two of...

What's the tolerable temperature range for Loroi -- bare to the elements and no windchill, since clothing expands on that sort of thing dramatically. It's very similar to the human range. The Loroi have a lower baseline temperature, but the limits at the extremes are mostly the same. Why is the bri...