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Fragile Storm was not having a terrifically good day. Certainly, an historic occasion, the formal alliance of the Terran Colonial Authority and the Loroi Union, was well underway. That did not please her, as she could not shake off the feeling that, in some way or another, it would be an event which...

Note: Doing some post-reordering to try and keep these in something approximating chronological order. So the post after this one will actually contain the story chunk from the post immediately preceding this one, which will have been deleted. Sorry. ==================== Fireblade was vaguely uncom...

Sucker-punch tricks work... once. In a milieu in which folks have supposedly been at war for a long time (looking at you, Kzinti!), it's impossible to imagine that such tricks had not been tried before. Well, in fairness, it can keep working as long as the other guy doesn't know about it. Eliminati...

hi hi I submit for your consideration, the solid rocket powered flying washing machine. http://knhauber.phpwebhosting.com/games/kerbal/flying_washer1.png http://knhauber.phpwebhosting.com/games/kerbal/flying_washer2.png http://knhauber.phpwebhosting.com/games/kerbal/flying_washer3.png I wish this f...

A group of Loroi can have a pretty intimate telepathic convo without touching. The physical link turns that bandwidth up to 11 and is pretty intimate... it's possible to do it with more than one other person at a time, but I think that would be pretty bewildering. Like trying to make out with 7 peo...

The portraits in the second screenshot have made that round trip, the pipeline I'm using seems to work. Given that Arioch has plenty of experience with doing 3d stuff I'm sure there's good odds he knows how to handle .dds, but png is a heck of a lot more convent in my experience. Really? Huh... May...

You can land a washing machine on a runway if you're got enough airspeed; it's just a question of how long a runway you have to work with. Now I want to make an SRB-powered giant washing machine in Kerbal Space Program. Thanks, Arioch. :) If you have thrusters that allow you make a VTOL landing, th...

Arioch wrote:The Juno probe performs its orbital insertion maneuver on July 4.

The burn is scheduled for Under three minutes, guys. Granted, we won't know much about it for a while longer.

How much do Loroi sleep?

This is a silly question. I feel like I've read somewhere that they only need about two hours of sleep in a day, but I've searched the Insider high and low and I can't seem to find any mention of it. The Insider search function isn't being very useful. Have I imagined that?

Assuming the runway is made of tarmac, that could be a risk (the Loroi may not use hydrocarbon-based surfacers). But, the shuttle wouldn't necessarily need to use the thrusters all the way till contact. Just long enough to bleed enough speed that it doesn't hit the ground as hard. The problem with ...

The Highland weighs two and a half times what a 747 does, and the mass is spread out over the lifting body, instead of concentrated in a tubular fuselage. It can make a vertical landing on its maneuvering thrusters if it's not carrying too much, but a normal landing on a runway is much safer and mo...

The Highland weighs two and a half times what a 747 does, and the mass is spread out over the lifting body, instead of concentrated in a tubular fuselage. It can make a vertical landing on its maneuvering thrusters if it's not carrying too much, but a normal landing on a runway is much safer and mo...

Your art would grossly mismatch the art style of Stellaris. Obviously it would need to be done in a style appropriate to the game. Sorry, I apologize. It was not my intention to be insulting, it's just that from what I understand, artists who draw primarily in a bright, colorful, animesque style th...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/896078/loroimod_images.zip all the human female portrait images pre-converted to png. I'm willing to handle conversion and insertion of new images into the game, but I can't promise speed for it. Um, be mindful: Stellaris does not seem to like files that have bee...

I wonder - is the Highland going to have wheeled landing gear as seen in the sketch, or solid landing pads as in the wireframe? Why would a shuttle like that have wheeled landing gear, though? I'd think it would be really, really hard to load a TL11 shuttle so heavily that it needs a rolling takeof...

If there's a template for the uniforms, I could probably knock something simple out for it. Your art would grossly mismatch the art style of Stellaris. I'm not saying your art is bad - it's not, and TBH I haven't crushed on an anime-style character as hard as I crush on Beryl since I was a teenager...

I wonder - is the Highland going to have wheeled landing gear as seen in the sketch, or solid landing pads as in the wireframe? Why would a shuttle like that have wheeled landing gear, though? I'd think it would be really, really hard to load a TL11 shuttle so heavily that it needs a rolling takeoff...

hi hi ShadowDragon, you may find these images helpful. It would appear that the airlocks on each side of the shuttle are symmetrical, but the seal around the umbilical walkway extends further around the hatch than just covering the opening. Huh, she's a quinticycle-lander? Fair enough. That is usef...

This is probably gonna sound silly... Just, I have tons of questions about the pinnace. The Highland-class shuttle appears to have an asymmetrical arrangement of hatches, as can be seen here . It looks like the starboard hatch is roughly the same size as the port forward hatch, and is offset just sl...

Just me, or is Fragile Storm a bit too happy about her being the one giving Alex headaches for once? ;) I think she's more amused by the idea than seriously contemplating it. I mean, one cultural facet we probably don't want to introduce to the Loroi is the concept of the Frag List, and for Opalsto...