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So what rank do support caste Torrai usually start out as? Would they go straight from their top caste rank to something like Torrai Sadait or Torrai Manneil? Or are there specific ranks for the support castes to be promoted to that aren't on the insider? The titles listed in the Insider page are m...

If I recall correctly, Emperor Greywind was not liked by many Torrais because they felt she did not earn her position, among other things. Since Greywind herself comes from an influential family, did she get the privilege of climbing the ranks through the Sorimi track? No, Greywind came in as a sen...

I think we have discovered some retrograde exoplanets, but as far as I know they're all "hot Jupiters;" they've been kicked out of their regular orbits but they're too massive to be ejected from the system. I think that the odds that a terrestrial-mass planet could get into and stay in a retrograde ...

I noticed on the Caste Titles page that lowest rank for Nedatan caretakers is Detair Mogin which is an O4 rank. Is the Detair caste like the Torrai where they start out as a different caste before becoming Detair? If so, what castes do they usually come from and how do they become Detair? Do Detair...

1. Do all Listels have perfect memory from birth or is it a combination of genetics and training? Eidetic memory is hereditary, though I expect there is training that can improve one's use of it, especially as regards organization and recall. 2. Do Listels suffer more than other Loroi from traumati...

The insider says that Listel act as telepathic archives, witnessing important conversations and committing them to memory. We also see them doing other jobs such as tactical analysis and scientific research. Do some Listel act purely as archives with the other jobs being separate specializations, o...

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Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:49 am

Arioch wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:23 pm

The official clock is based on Perrein time

Why Perrein? Was this a compromise when making first contact with the other Loroi, or first setting up the Loroi Union, to convince everyone that Deinar culture wouldn't be completely dominant?

Yes.

What does the standard Union calendar look like? Do Loroi operate by weeks or months? If so what are some of their months called? Calendars are mostly a local phenomenon that generally only have significance on a particular planet. There is a standard clock by which official times and dates are kep...

There's no easy way to blow up a star. The only way I can think of is to somehow stop fusion in the core to trigger a core-collapse supernova... but if you could do that, you must have magic technology that would probably make short work of your enemy. However, triggering a supernova is a very ineff...

Snoofman wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 02, 2023 7:42 am

Eternal endurance

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The Loroi sister worlds article talks about the major Listel academies being on Taben and Mezan with other research academies. How are the Listel involved in scientific research? Do they do research themselves, or do they mainly follow researchers around and record their findings, like how they mem...

The threads on individual pages have a limited lifespan, so I don't consider it a problem if the discussion wanders a bit off topic. Aerospace subjects are appropriate to this forum, I think.

"To a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."

Pretty sure B-1 was always meant for low level. It now flies high altitude missions since the original mandate is gone, but I don't think that was anything that changed between A and B. The B1-A was designed in the 1960's as a high-altitude Mach 2.2 supersonic bomber to replace the B-58. It was can...

You cannot "turn" a high altitude interceptor into a ground attack aircraft. That would be a totally different machine then. Why not? It just requires mounting a different kind of missile. An aircraft designed as a high altitude interceptor will often have poor low-altitude performance, unless it's...

Don't worry, there isn't going to be a test later. ℹ️ A brilliant, unconventional officer is sometimes appreciated by his superiors, but I think at least as often not. That Kikitik was sent a second time on an attrition assault might have been a bureaucratic oversight, or it may have been that someo...

Kikitik-27 didn't "flee the scene." He attacked, achieved his objective, and withdrew with a substantial portion of his fleet intact. The reason that Umiak attrition missions often lose the majority of their ships is that a) much of the force is in deteriorating states of readiness, and b) as long a...

And, as I recall, it could only reach its advertised top speed of Mach 3+ by burning out its engines.

Wouldn't Human speech also be a bit different considering this is hundreds of years into the future? I don't think anyone speaks the same way we did in the 19th or 20th century, not just in English but likely every language from Hindi to Arabic to Chinese. Alex might have some sort of accent compar...

As was said, it's mainly down to individual tastes. For example, if the Loroi females were taller than human men and more masculine, I'm sure that there would still be human men who were attracted to that, even though it's outside the norm for what human males are supposed to be attracted to. Simila...