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How would the Loroi react to an assassination? Has there ever been a Loroi who could not communicate telepathically from birth? Or someone who's thoughts could be heard, but cannot hear those of others? Or vice versa? If, say, a Loroi suffered some sort of trauma (brain damage, torture, electroshock...

The Umiak as occupiers do not appear to interfere with the internal affairs of subject nations, as long as they are able to meet their tribute demands. So, the Umiak don't even alter the industrious sections of planets for creating Umiak technology? Or is Umiak tech more of a conglomeration of all ...

Really? Course at the point in human history outsider is space will be a lot less exiting right now in 2013 it's awesome but it's pretty much a fact that humans get bored easily and with space becoming less and less exiting soon they will stop getting so many new recruits True, sooner or later, spa...

Out of 25000 people 100% aren't going to volenteer actually people who volenteer for military service are a very small minority of the population True, however the TCA can draw on the entire combined population of humanity, including that of Earth. Even if only a small fraction of a percent chooses...

The colonies were set up by many sorties of ordinary FTL freighters and transports. I don't know why folks seem to imagine some mammoth colony ship that does it in one shot. 4X space games, perhaps? Sublight starships take centuries to get anywhere. The story is set only 150 years in the future. It...

I'm now imagining an umiak on stage with a microphone, having a rap battle with a Loroi, both of them are all tatted out and are wearing sagging pants and flak vests. thanks for that mental image. I'm suddenly imaging the Mando battle chants, from the Republic Commando series of books. There's a lo...

How were the extra-solar planets colonized? Were the survey vessels equipped with an FTL drive, and the following (initial) colony expedition made the trip via sublight speeds (with some form of cryostasis to cut down on lifesupport) or were the colony ships also equipped with an FTL drive? And how ...

What kind of reactors are Terran ships equipped with? A fission reactor would allow for longer periods between refueling, due to the long lifetime of the reactor piles, yet a fusion reactor would allow for a far higher energy output. Exactly how large are the weapon mounts on these ships? And would ...

Do the Loroi have an equivalent of cats, dogs, horses, or other domesticated animals? Or does it vary from planet to planet?

And, if so, can they be taught to fetch?

Just how rare is the type of person you can teach to operate a space ship? I mean how rare is it to find someone with the skills to be on the crew of a human spaceship are we talking 1 out of 100 or 1 out of a million I'm guessing the TCA and any other spacer corps are volunteer groups, so most lik...

Odd question, but what does 'ECS' stand for? Earth Colonial Ship? Wouldn't the TCA go with something that isn't so Earth-centric? Do the individual navies of each nation have their own naming conventions, or do they abide by the system set down by the TCA? Does each planet have their own orbital shi...

(...) Thank goodness the Colonial Fleet hasn't mothballed the mass driver cannons Mass drivers have approximately zero cost to damage when they encounter a shield, but also have approximately zero contribution towards combat-mode damage-per-second for the ship that carries them. They're very potent...

So in other words humanity is inexperienced outgunned and outnumber do we have anything going for us? We have a strategically valuable position, we have maps that can give the Loroi backdoor access to the Umiak, the reverse isn't quite as true.. We also have a significant, if outdated, industrial b...

Does the Umiak have a hivemind, or a Queen, like ants, or can they breed and think freely amongst themselves? Do the Umiak enforce their caste system onto other species, or do they just leave them as is? And, a big one, do the Umiak possess a technology equivalent of the Loroi's far-sensing abilitie...

Murica wrote:So in other words humanity is inexperienced outgunned and outnumber do we have anything going for us?

Uhhhh... Loroi far-sensing abilities can't detect us? Not sure if the Umiak have a similar capability.

How does the Loroi shield technology work? Is it that shield generators, when detecting an approaching warhead, generates a localized distortion (magnetic, gravitic, etc.) immediately in front of the warhead, causing it to explode from the impact? Or do the generators create two semi-permanent 'band...

What kind of trade goes on inbetween the worlds of Humanity? Is it mostly immigration (more people for the colonies), refined ore to processing facilities, or does each colony have their own production sites, and ship out finished products instead. For example, would there be a market for Proxima-bu...

On the topic of weapons, what kind of lasers are the ships armed with? The sort of 'scarring-the-hull, cutting-armor-open, possibly-see-some-bubbling-at-edges' sort of lasers (akin to high-powered industrial laser cutting tools) or the kind of laser where there's enough power in the beam that, despi...

(...) It could be used, for example, as safety to prevent a non-Loroi from operating a device. However, I'm currently thinking that this is not a good idea, first because any mechanical detection capability at all should inevitably lead to mechanical analysis of telepathy (which I don't want), and ...

(...) Some may resent Earth's influence, but most conflicts have been local disputes. Many of the colonies are rivals. The potential war that the Colonial Fleet was founded to prevent was between Yinghuo (the largest Martian nation) and Aldea. Did the individual nations on the colony worlds develop...