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Yes. We humans are not THAT inferior in combat. Ok, no chance against a psionic/telekinetic specialist like Tempo or (berserk) Fireblade. But what i got from the Insider those are quite rare. "Normal" Loroi in combat against humans are not THAT superior, especially not against well drilled and arme...

What are Loroi plans, if they have any, with respect to the Umiak and the territory they occupy when they win the war? I am not talking about how they plan to win the war (at present they may have other more urgent things on their hands, such as not losing), but assuming they defeat Umiak fleets and...

So what did the construct mean by "aboard your ship" – did it mean the shuttle, as the context here seems to suggest? I am a bit confused. Why would the construct refer to a Loroi shuttle to Alex as "your ship"? How would being in the data banks of a Loroi shuttle teach the construct English? Surel...

So what did the construct mean by "aboard your ship" – did it mean the shuttle, as the context here seems to suggest? I am a bit confused.

"What is this P - O - R - N?"
"It's, err, a form of audiovisual entertainment."
"Interesting, may I see it?"
"..."

I'll try to find some images later, but if you care to, compare the picture of the Antaran Leader with the Historian Hologram. The latter seems rather close to the image of a skeleton of the former. Cross reference that with their advanced technology, highly telepathy adverse nature, and guardiansh...

My suspicion is that the Neridi (diminuative traders and administrators) are actually the *Gnolams*, while the Historians (four-armed highly advanced race) are the Psilons. An offhand comment somewhere suggested that the Meklar eventually mutated in concept to the Mannadi, although the similarity b...

Since Outsider is partly inspired by Master of Orion II's races, I was wondering if we could draw 1-to-1 parallels (with a huge grain of salt). This is mostly for fun, so feel free to suggest different matches. Elerians -> Loroi (telepathic matriarchal blue-skinned space warrior babes, duh) Klackon ...

I never found the star wars story very logical, especially whatever the heroes did. I found the teddy bears (Ewoks) lovely, although the costumes were not well done. And their "language" was far from impressive. And them being an actual factor in the fight against hypertechnological enemies? Laugha...

I still think they'll cut all power, drift and pretend they're a piece of debris from the station. The Umiak are far and are still "wobbly" from the jump. They won't examine the individual pieces of "debris" too closely.

The best strategy now would be to shut down everything and just drift until picked up by Prophet's Reason. The explosion will have temporarily blinded Umiak's sensors and the drifting shuttle would look like a piece of debris from the destroyed station. It might just work.

I'd say that aesthetics are only something sci-fi writers consider. For "real" designers of (space) combat vessels, function is paramount. You don't build ships to look good, you build them to be powerful, well-armed and sufficiently protected. If the resulting design also pleases the eye, that's al...

I guess I'm having problems understanding how you can observe something before it happened. The point is, as I tried to show in my pictures on the preceding page, that there is no such thing as a universal "now" time. It's relative for each observer. That's all fine if you're not allowed to travel ...

Many of the natively-evolved intelligent races had starflight-level technology at some point during the Dreiman-Soia epochs; the Fenrias were the only ones who started this period with it, but by the end, most had it, including the Tizik-tik Umiak, Mannadi, Lurs, Tithric , Jilaad, and a number of s...

Can you imagine how the Loroi would win a war against the Barsam and the Neridi, when the Umiak are at the other side of their own region? They would have to fight a 3-front war, at least. Plus, the "client races" might be less enthusiastic about providing you witht he best materials and technology...

I still don't get why the Loroi agreed to form the Union with the "lesser" races like Barsam, Neridi and others, when they likely could have just defeat and occupy them. Submitting to war crimes tribunals? It seems a bit "out of character" for the Loroi. Was it because it would have been simply too ...

(I loved what Alastair Reynolds did about this in his Revelation Space universe; sends a chill down your spine). But the timescales his stories pass immediately show why many SF authors decide to have FTL available... Spacetravel is simply a one-way ticket to the future in his stories (one dark uni...

No matter how hard you try, every single FTL method will create paradoxes. You can even use clever tricks to avoid it from yours and your target's Reference Frames, but there will always be another frame of reference, somewhere, where it will be breaking causality. It sucks. Of course, but since th...

Seeing as Arioch has just delivered a Barsam overview, I think we can expect some jolly cooperation to appear in the comic soon. At least until they learn Alex is telepathically inert, and decry humanity as dangerously corrupt demonspawn. Something tells me, given the fact that humans have always b...

Amazing work. I really like the amount of background for the individual races and would like to read about the others as well.

I get now why the Barsam seemed to be so "amused" by the existence of Humanity.