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hi hi I think it's pretty clear that Fireblade makes Alex uncomfortable, in times when he's looking at her but not directly interacting with her, his expressions are generally unhappy or guarded. But I feel like the way he is prodding Fireblade is less about him getting even, and more about him tryi...

hi hi I feel concerned for Fireblade... it seems 'sad' that her caste 'seems' to impose upon any social or close interaction. I think Fireblade keeping to herself is more of a Fireblade thing than a caste thing. Unsheathed are still able to use telepathy, which is the Loroi's primary means of commun...

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I know it wouldn't lead to as interesting a topic as each species' homeworld, I would also curious if the Loroi haven't invented any kind of artificial milk. (baby formula)

hi hi My first thought is someone in an over the top victorian accent saying "Oh my! How positively scandalous!" :lol: Although looking at the reactions, it seems like this is more than just a passing shock. Spiral in particular, it seems like something Alex said has seriously damaged her perception...

hi hi You could suspect that at a certain tech level, livestock is simply not efficient anymore. Beryl might know such things only from history lessons. If I recall correctly, even when the Loroi were a pre-industrial civilization, they didn't have any large livestock that could be used as beasts of...

hi hi Perrein cuisine, eat your heart out! :lol: It is a little surprising that Alex knew the word for milk, coming strictly from non-loroi version of trade language. I'm betting that this will be a good segue into an explanation that humans did, in fact, evolve on their own planet with a wide varie...

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If I'm reading this right, Alex is shocked by the implant that Fireblade seems to have.

hi hi Surely eating in groups is a loroi cultural norm, not taboo? It's been said on the forums before that Loroi do not have a communal eating instinct like humans do. They see it like a bodily function, and there are certain taboos about eating in front of others. (Eating in front of males especia...

hi hi Beryl is just going straight for all the Loroi cultural taboos. Eating in groups now? What a deviant! :lol: (Also, to paraphrase a quote: 'I'm not interested in finding truth, that is the purview of religion. As a scientist, I'm concerned with quantifying doubt.') I didn't take Tempo for being...

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By the time you've got neural interfaces of that level, I think you'd probably be better off leaving the meat out entirely.

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Even if the Loroi from Taben have somewhat different customs due to proximity on seafaring vessels, I think that Talon and Spiral's physical closeness is almost certainly a result of how close they are personally.

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hi hi That pose is great! I'm half tempted to draw a picture of Talon and Spiral dressed up as magical girls. :lol: I really like the character dynamics we're seeing. A lot of stories that deal with aliens will go out of their way to show how said alien race is different from humans by focusing on a...

hi hi may want to contact NASA then and tell them their plans to map objects to small/dark/cool for normal detection methods to detect by sending probes with Quantum Gravity sensors into the outer solar system is doomed to fail. Wat? I mean, first off, citation please? Can you be specific? Which mis...

hi hi Quantum gravity sensors detect gravity, that's it. They detect it very precisely, but when they take a reading, they only return a number. Things like underground rivers, ore deposits, and oil fields are interpolated based on a solid understanding of the surrounding area and its values. A quan...

hi hi As a matter of human psychology, threats tend to increase the chance of an opponent fighting back rather than decrease. It's hard to say what nature of alien psychology might be though. Also, as a matter of human psychology, one shouldn't underestimate the possibility of people to choose "No D...

hi hi In realistic space flight, there's a big trade-off between the ability to hide, and the ability to be useful. It's possible to stay like a stationary lump and be mostly unseen, but at that point, that is pretty much an object's primary function. If an object wants to move to approach a target ...

hi hi If the Umiak could raise a creche of Loroi to be loyal to them, they might make for a formidable group of interrogators, even if they could only be used against non-Union targets that the Umiak are expanding into. Even if they had instilled loyalty into a group of orphan children after a gener...

hi hi Phosphorus isn't rare on Earth Usable, extractable phosphorus is comparatively rare. And it's not as if phosphorus a limited resource; it returns to the system when the organism using it dies. (Which is another good reason not to throw your waste into a star or down a core tap mine shaft... we...

hi hi I'm not familiar with the Greaves & Cigan study, but it seems like that was published in 2018? The rarity of phosphorus has been a topic of concern a lot longer. I remember hearing about it first from Asimov's 1959 novel " Life's Bottleneck. " Even if you look at just the Earth, phosphorus is ...

hi hi Speaking of waste management in the Umiak thread, I got to thinking. Since phosphorous is so rare, and one of the primary reasons why humans in space would absolutely need to recycle all organic waste, including the dead; I wonder if Soia-Liron species were engineered so that they don't use ph...