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Honestly I don't think Earth Alliance would do any better or worse than the TCA. Their ships are somewhat fragile and require spinning sections for artificial gravity. On the plus side, they do have Hyperdrive Jump Engines, so they can at least tac-jump into close range (where the TCA could never re...

Always saddened me a little how cool/fleshed out the human stuff was given how little a role it (seemingly) plays in the story It's probably why there's so much speculation about what humanity could do to help in the war (the canon answer being nothing). If there weren't so much information on all ...

Alex... Alex... Did you learn nothing from Thanos? You should have gone for the head! Alex actually could have been aiming for the head but the hardtrooper just had greater horizontal velocity than Alex could track. A bit more to the right and his shot would have been grazing its head if not plinki...

After spending three months engrossed in Helldivers 2 , I did a few playthroughs of Stellaris with a Barbaric Despoiler civ (which tended to get bodied) until finally returning to Kerbal Space Program 1 . https://i.imgur.com/e1zo39m.png https://i.imgur.com/esVdHDW.png https://i.imgur.com/J3dbx4L.png

dragoongfa wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 04, 2024 5:37 am

The story; yeah, for having 14 writers they surely butchered everything up. Some of the missions are 'neat' but damn was it a chore to watch the lets play of the campaign during the dead hours of the graveyard shift.

"14 writers" is usually a sign that something has gone terribly wrong.

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...

It also can't be understated how useful Earth could be as a staging area. The potential resources in the asteroid belt alone make it valuable from an industrial standpoint. As someone who spent time and thought-effort on coming up with ways humanity could be helpful after first reading Outsider, I'...

Maybe it's just me being weird, but I'm looking at the girders in the picture and thinking the way they're oriented is to resist a single direction of force ... I would expect structural girders to be triangular in cross-section and laid out as tesselating triangles. Something like this: https://ww...

Its interesting to me that the hangar seems fairly not-crazy looking and incorporates things like fairly run of the mill girders. It always annoyed me when basic strong geometric shapes were not used by aliens and they instead went for weird organic shapes that would be either impossible or incredi...

Jagged wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:47 am

I wonder if a ship can do more damage firing its weapons from the inside?

I wouldn't be surprised if the hangar was armoured on the inside, since the doors are going to be a weak spot.

Cannot afford to be like real life always. For example if the Deathstar ACTUALLY used security cameras I doubt Luke, Han, Chewie and the bots would ever have escaped off it. Darth Vader wanted them to escape, because he'd put a tracking device on the Millenium Falcon in order to find the Rebel base...

I know this may sound like a really strange question... butttttttt.... Why does Fireblade's (pressure suit/environmental suit/armor/vac-suit) not cover her hair? Everyone else is wearing an enclosed helmet, or does she just have plumage attached to the helmet to resemble her hair? Just wondering if...

I know this may sound like a really strange question... butttttttt.... Why does Fireblade's (pressure suit/environmental suit/armor/vac-suit) not cover her hair? Everyone else is wearing an enclosed helmet, or does she just have plumage attached to the helmet to resemble her hair? Just wondering if...

Alex and crew hijack the Umiak cruiser, turn it toward the Jump Point, and accelerate like hell, pursued by a bunch of Umiak warships
Barsam Courier: "Are we still supposed to pick you guys up or what?"
Alex: "Change of plan! LEG IT!"

IRL pilots will use the rudder of an aircraft to yaw back and forth a bit "wagging the tail" when in view of another plane, like waving to each other. This is sometimes done to indicate a problem when a radio is unavailable, or it can just be a friendly acknowledgement. "They're waggleling!" -- Bat...

Plot twist: The Construct wasn't saying the Loroi are secretly evil.

Makes sense.

Going back to the original point of the thread... Even if humanity could turn the Moon into a deathstar, that wouldn't affect the war. It could only defend Earth. It can't invade the Umiak, and it can't defend the Loroi. The only way it could affect the war is by being such a drain on resources that...

spacewhale wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 27, 2020 6:01 am

and of course they'd go out of their way to steal every bit of technological shininess they could from any greater power, and make iterative improvements.

Come now, we're not Hiigarans.

We've been all up and down this tree before. https://well-of-souls.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2409&p=34761#p34761 Also, the "Humans proposed this in the 1960's at TL6, but it never occurred to the aliens before and they're at TL11" is perhaps one of the dumbest tropes in science fiction. Fun, t...

i dont know why but my first thought was "poor korin, that kitty did no harm"... I think this is ether a premonition, or memories of one of the lorai. The ruins to the left remind me of our human ferroconcrete skyscrapers. Loroi architecture we have seen so far looks round and organic. I am leaning...