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hi hi I didn't mean to imply that the Loroi have some sort of moral authority to admonish humanity. Its just that I don't think the Loroi would be the type to be above holding their client races to a double standard. "Do as I say, not as I do," sort of thing. Or maybe they're like the politician tha...

hi hi To flip this on its side in a hypothetical situation: Suppose the Loroi come to visit Earth and one of the Loroi ambassadors is taking a sight seeing cruise of the ocean. Suddenly, a deep frown appears on her face. "You didn't tell me you were oppressing a peaceful sentient race here on your h...

hi hi Since the hyperspace generator opens up a rift in space time, I wonder if someone could use that as a defense mechanism. If you are invading a system, you could open up a rift in-between you and the opposing fleet, but rather than fly through it, you let their beam and torpedo attacks go throu...

hi hi I think it might depend on who you ask what their views of humanity's war stained past. Some of the Loroi's past emperors may have seen holding back ones forces on any occasion as a weakness, though others like Swiftsure might appreciate humanity's power sharing balancing act. The Umiak and th...

hi hi I suppose you could use "probe golf" to try to attack someone through FTL, if you knew they were about to jump into your system, you could launch a ton of unmanned kamikaze probes into the jump corridor. Though that would probably require a level of precision that nobody has at the moment. Hol...

hi hi I'm not going to try to predict what would have happened if the USA had decided to use its nukes, or if the Soviets had the bomb first, you can use your imagination for that and its really anyone's guess. I suspect that it wouldn't be as simple as it seems in theory. What I am saying is that t...

hi hi 50 nukes aren't going to cover the 54,759,000 square kilometers of Europe and Asia. Without satellite surveillance, what are you going to target anyway? A handful of cities in the Russian buffer states? Maybe hope that they bunch up their entire army in a big convenient clump for no reason? Ma...

hi hi I see your operation sandstone and I raise you one: "The USA didn't have ICBMs until 1959, and conventional bombers were not nearly as capable a delivery method." The answer that the Soviets would have had would be to intercept our bombers with their air force, to roll across Europe with their...

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The US had the bomb all by itself and the most powerful wartime economy in the world at the end of WW2. We could have dominated the world, or blown anyone who would not bend the knee into non existence, literally without resistance.

I'm not so sure about that statement. see: Soviet Union.

hi hi I get what you're saying, but since the time elapsed from when you enter and when you exit is essentially zero, all that would happen is that you disappear and then instantly reappear, maybe facing a different direction. If you timed your jump for the exact instant someone else jumped, I dunno...

hi hi Hey, a super massive black hole is technically somewhere. :P I think what happens as far as energy expenditure is that energy is expended to enter hyperspace, but it is only the force of gravity at the destination that pulls you back out again. So presumably, once you're in hyperspace, you sta...

hi hi I would think that since the hyper-space trajectory keeps going and is influenced by gravity that eventually, after a well nigh infinite distance, practically instantly, subjected to well nigh infinite gravitational perturbations, the traveling ship would exit hyperspace somewhere . Even if th...

hi hi There's a difference between building something within your tech level that you previously had no need for, and building something outside of your tech level. For example, right now, we desperately need a long lasting alternative energy source that is at least on par with gasoline, but in spit...

((hi hi)) Salehi recoils at the suggestion. "C-coffee rations?" Then, after thinking about it for a moment, a look of determination and a grim smile forms on his face and he extends his hand as if to shake. "Three, three days worth of coffee rations, if you're up for losing a bet that is. If we take...

hi hi Alex may not know design specifications of Terran military technology, but we can reasonably assume that he is well educated in some of humanity's more advanced sciences, like FTL in particular since he was a navigator/pilot. Also, being capable of damage control is something that would be nec...

hi hi I dunno if "Storm-Witch" is a complement, they could just be mistaking her for a "Sand-Witch," or some other culinary construct. :P From what I remember reading about the Umiak's relationship with the Loroi before the war broke out, I would have to say that they're probably very good liars. Th...

hi hi So [Forces of the Hierarchy] is first on the stack, [The Enemy Forces] is second on the stack, [Kikitik-27 etc.] is third on the stack, and [The Storm Witch] is fourth on the stack, or maybe "abnormal" is fourth on the stack... I think everyone involved has a good reason to be lying about dest...

hi hi This is usually the part where I'd make some kind of sage prediction about what is going to happen next, but honestly I haven't the foggiest clue. Is Stillstorm telling Tempo to back off, or just wait a second? Is she going to cut the comm link before the Umiak get a chance to speak? Is she go...

((hi hi)) Salehi's enthusiasm refuses to dim "Well, even if it isn't ancient, it is still a huge find, and thats just what we've seen in the mountains. For all we know there could be more hiding underneath the planet's thick cloud cover. I'd bet you lens cleaning duty for a week that we've only seen...

hi hi Even if you are looking at it from a narrative viewpoint, saying that the Umiak found the tanker ship would really cut Alex off entirely. However, since I'm trying not to look at this from a narrative point of view, and it seems likely to me that they are calling on the telephone because they ...