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Arioch wrote:

cacambo43 wrote:How is your nom de plume pronounced?

It's a Hebrew word, and so I think the correct pronunciation is "AR-ee-ock", though in practice I usually hear it pronounced "AIR-ee-ock." Either is acceptable.

Seems like it's pronounciation would be easier for us non english slavs

Firstly, we're talking about communities that actively aid & abet terrorists, knowingly. Those people who let the terrorists live in their houses? They are not our allies, they are knowingly supporting our enemies, they themselves are our enemies. In some cases you look the other way, in others you...

hi hi I personally believe in proactive solutions. I think the drone strikes are a great example. Everyone within 100 meters of one of these fools should know they are at risk. If our civilians aren't off limits buddy, yours aren't either. Maybe the civilians will get a clue and kill their bad acto...

I mean this: Civilization! = Empire. The Roman Empire was the name of the roman civilization. It crushed and integrated any other culture that dwelled within its borders. There were no other nations within the Roman Empire they wiped them out. You’re thinking of ethnic groups. The nations that were...

Well, our ancestors sure were. But my feeling is the large majority of today's people wouldn't last long in our ancestor's "shoes". actually that's relative. Take the draft. Basically it turned people from all kinds of walks, with vastly different physical abilities into fairly high end specimen in...

Actually that brings up another question. One of the many reasons we humans developed intellect in the first place (yes i consider humans to be smart) was our frail physique or the other way around that our big brains made powerful ape physique obsolete (mountain chimps are no joke). Anyway what i ...

Civilization as we know it is highly interconnected, but before the American Civil War, most Americans hadn't been outside of their state, and many likely hadn't been outside of the area of their birth. The same goes for the ancient Chinese, Japanese, whatever those desert red-heads that lived nort...

I just don't see the benefit of such a program. "It would be cool" doesn't seem to me to be adequate justification for what I think would be a very expensive and ethically controversial program. I agree, I've never understood the value or focus on uplift projects in Sci-fi. I think the answer to th...

I think human technology is just at the cusp of where they could attempt such things, but I think it would take substantial effort and capital, and I can't imagine why any human government or organization during this time period would think it was a worthwhile investment. I think there would also b...

Does humanity have mobile ground based weapons that can shot accurately into space ? They would have to be very mobile in order not to become sitting ducks A space born attacker can technically attack you from the other side of the system if he so desires and you have no way to stop him from the gr...

So I presume it would be best to take new characters from the survivors on the station? Since there might be a wider range of them. There are still a lot of crewmembers aboard Cydonia, that are not mentioned in detail. Playing a new Loroi character or a survivor on the station might be a bit diffic...

So I presume it would be best to take new characters from the survivors on the station? Since there might be a wider range of them.

I'm game...though I'm sort of wondering where all the interest int he currently running Cydonia Rising Game evaporated too...? Those of us outside of it aren't aware of it? :P There is still the possibility to participate, if someone wants to. However, I was a bit busy with other stuff (among other...

Arioch, a question in the Umiak thread got me to wondering: how large of a region do the archeological studies that the Loroi, Nissek, Historians, and Umiak know of cover? Is it just their zones of influence + a small border (or large border, in areas where they're in contact with another race that...

Two years for civil war isn`t very long at all, some African countries has be going on with that ten times as long. Civilization, if you want to call it that, in those affected countries just barely staggers on. I don`t think Humans are "less warlike" just more controlled in their going about it`s ...

the ancient Rus were basically vikings(correction, varangians, slight difference there.)but they got genetically outbreed by the locals, same with the language, russian is slavic, as are the people really. It really depends - remember that russia is a huge huge place that while having mostly one la...

the ancient Rus were basically vikings(correction, varangians, slight difference there.)but they got genetically outbreed by the locals, same with the language, russian is slavic, as are the people really. It really depends - remember that russia is a huge huge place that while having mostly one la...

So in other words humanity is inexperienced outgunned and outnumber do we have anything going for us? Do remember that humanity does have at least some experience in more or less constant warfare in some parts of the world up to today. And most likely for a fair bit beyond. I'd not be surprised if ...

sunphoenix wrote:I'm game...though I'm sort of wondering where all the interest int he currently running Cydonia Rising Game evaporated too...?

Those of us outside of it aren't aware of it?

Would that even be possible? When the navy was formed were the colonies even capable of building their own warships? http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120823225061/babylon5fanon/images/2/2b/Warlockviews.jpg http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs10/i/2006/096/4/1/Forge_Class_Standard_Shot_by_starfleet....