Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

[SaintofM]

Can Loroi catch a sunburn? If so, what color does their skin turn from it?

Yes. In humans, burns and other rashes are reddish because the blood supply is increased near the surface of the skin, so it follows that sunburn in Loroi would be bluish. Same goes for any other similar phenomenon, such as blushing.

I can see it now: Alex compliments Fireblade on something, and she blushes a bright blue before doing some violence on Jardn to keep the status Quo

[Hālian]

Can Loroi catch a sunburn? If so, what color does their skin turn from it?

Yes. In humans, burns and other rashes are reddish because the blood supply is increased near the surface of the skin, so it follows that sunburn in Loroi would be bluish. Same goes for any other similar phenomenon, such as blushing.

I can see it now: Alex compliments Fireblade on something, and she blushes a bright blue before doing some violence on Jardn to keep the status Quo

Fireblade is rather dark-skinned (at least among the loroi we've seen so far), so it probably wouldn't be as visible.

[Hālian]

In the Loroi tradition, customizations to uniform or vehicles are considered to represent a sort of medal or citation, and so can only be done with permission. Since they are a symbol of prestige, such markings tend not to be comical or frivolous. Examples in the comic are the crescent moon insignia on Moonglow's ship Tsunami, and the black Imperial Guard stripes on Ashrain's Black Razor.

Am curious if there's a list of these medals/citations, or at least the major ones.

[Arioch]

Am curious if there's a list of these medals/citations, or at least the major ones.

I think that such citations would be individualized. The Loroi are the sort that would much rather gift a custom greeting card rather than buying one off a rack.

The two obvious general classifications of such citations in a fleet context would be a citation for an individual ship, and a citation for an entire squadron or group. The latter would be a much bigger deal.

The custom livery for a special unit like the Emperor's guard is sort of like the second case, in that the ship would still retain the special markings even after being tranferred to a different unit.

[SaintofM]

One area of space travel we are currently having to deal with is the lack of protection from radiation. Astronauts say you can see your cells dying when you close your eyes. Given that most of the races in the story that we have seen or have at least been mentioned in the extras have to deal with this sooner or later. How do most if not all of them space faring ones, including the Loroi, protect their ship passengers from Space Cancer?

[Arioch]

One area of space travel we are currently having to deal with is the lack of protection from radiation. Astronauts say you can see your cells dying when you close your eyes. Given that most of the races in the story that we have seen or have at least been mentioned in the extras have to deal with this sooner or later. How do most if not all of them space faring ones, including the Loroi, protect their ship passengers from Space Cancer?

Protection from radiation is one of the basic conceits of starship science fiction, along with FTL travel... it's a prerequisite to do anything. You need it in everything, including EVA suits. So we have to assume that materials science has made such protection relatively trivial -- that is, not requiring lead or some other dense material.

That aside, these ships use particle beams as weapons, so protection from radiation is a key function of the armor and deflector screens.

[Demarquis]

Yeah, I'm going to say that once you have the technology to travel faster than light, achieve 30+ g's acceleration in sublight, and fire particle beams across thousands of miles, you can figure out radiation protection.