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Contextually I'm guessing that this is arrived at by taking the KE of the described railgun projectiles in the weapon profiles page and then getting a joules-per-damage point conversion? The validity of that as a general rule is up to you I guess, but I'll run with it for the moment. With a divergen...

I'm personally not sure about the premise that shielding and focusing magnetics are apples to apples, but... first of all, it's Loroi, not Lori. It's amazing how consistently people mangle that and only that. Shield with the same strength per m2 as the firing chamber can stop the beam once range pas...

Look up Casaba Howitzer We already real world super giant laser(particle cannons) capable of outdoing the Lori and Umiak if we had sufficient fissionable material to mass produce them. If bomb-pumped weapons were superior, then the aliens would be using them too, only at higher energy levels. What ...

Given the broader history we know of out-of-comic, and the difference between the way the historian treats Alex here and how it treated the Loroi on the bridge, this strikes me as much more likely an attempt to sabotage relations between humanity and the Loroi than any earnest attempt to protect Alex.

P.s. You can feel it in a lot of strategy games, closer to the theme- EaW Remake, placing few ISDs betwees SSD and enemy turns large piniata into chainsaw for enemy fleets. Those games are not tactical simulators, they're games designed and balanced around making getting the expensive cool thing a ...

I think it's a safe bet that the radius out to which humanity can irradiate every useful thing into uselessness in a timely fashion is a much smaller distance than what is feasible for Loroi or Umiak scouts or couriers to cross if they get the idea that there in that direction is doing something ver...

"Wow, someone out this way was able to build and deploy a lot of nuclear weapons! That amount of industry could be useful."

Warning: Game design noodling below! An idea occurred to me on a variation of that. Let's say not that the urkuk scrapguns do 4d6 damage, but instead that they add 4 d6s to a pool. The L'amour gets 2 d50s in it's pool. Both of these are flexible dice that can be used for attack and defense. Attacks ...

If you assume that the Tron Legacy plot of deploying an army from within the machine to take over the world would have worked, and I guess even if it didn't if you account for the realization of Quorra, then you're breaking the laws of physics really really hard. Re-outputting someone who'd been pre...

For the time being I'm inclined to stick with dragoongfa's development plan, so drydocking this turn, warehousing afterwards.

Martial: Whalers. Third verse, same as before. We've got good bonuses on it now, and I'd be surprised if there weren't more goodies in it for us to get. Diplomacy: Urkuk. I think us being able to communicate with the people we might encounter at any time is probably the most important preventative a...

First off: Yay! I've missed this! To the options! I suggest [X] Viscous Substance [X] Vile Cysts [X] Pulsating Membrane On the ground that we've got a weird problem to solve(jump sickness) which we don't understand, so if we study the bits of the natives that we don't understand maybe we'll stumble ...

@MBehave: I'm reasonably sure the problem people are having is not so much with the fact that you are disagreeing with Arioch, but the manner in which that disagreement was conducted. In deference to Arioch's request I'll leave it at that.

A full answer to that question seems pretty certain to be an important spoiler, Zorg.

With the forces present in the system, and Umiak ships able to attack it with no Loroi warships in position to defend it, that station was almost certainly dead no matter what, the only question is when. This maneuver didn't end with the worst possible outcome(yet, though we can assume that it won't...

Thanks for digging up the link, I've updated the page to account for them.

I thought I'd made a thread for this, but I don't see it, so I'm making a thread for this now, since I updated it today. I've made a webpage with a handful of widgets that make creating authentic in-universe writing a little easier. It has three functions, one of which I added today. One flips input...

I distinctly remember a reference somewhere to 'room sized' amps for farseers...

Hm. Food for future drama? If Beryl has soaked up all his memories accidentally, then if he insists on keeping himself on the front it'd make a lot of sense for the Loroi to transfer her to somewhere behind the lines to keep at least one repository of knowledge about humanity safe. The attachment fa...

This isn't Halo, the coordinates for earth aren't a jealously guarded game-changing secret.