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"A good death is its own reward," is, I guess, a Loroi thing.

Space Angels too.

Isn't "welcome" a noun, a verb, and an adjective? I'm not trying to be picky here, but English is my second language and I still find its grammar... slippery.

Boring politics references are boring. And Beryl would never have anything to do with those numpties.

"Ride of the Valkyries" (like a lot of late '60s pop music used in Vietnam War movies/TV) is kind of ruined for me because my brain superimposes helicopter sounds over the music...

What do you call Beryl driving a truck?

If you want a look at a setting with similar FTL rules but no artificial gravity or internal dampers, check out The Mote in God's Eye by Niven and Pournelle.      Another recommendation for this sort of universe is the "Antares Trilogy" by Michael McCollum: "Antares Dawn" , "Antares Passage" , and ...

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Fri Apr 01, 2022 9:43 pm

I think the "tubular gizmo" is a power cartridge of sorts. You can see Cloud loading one into her pistol on p. 200

Very well spotted! I'm sure you're correct.

The perception of time while in hyperspace is... strange . External clocks record the duration of a jump to be as long as an hour, but for the transiting ship and its occupants, it seems that only a fraction of a second passes. How could external clocks measure the duration of a jump, especially wh...

↑ Ahh . . . another TNE player, I see. Actually, I was introduced to Traveller when I was at uni by a group still playing the "Black Books" version, and later moved on to Mongoose, and generic "2d6 Science-Fiction Role Playing Game" stuff. I've never actually played TNE, but that image is just too ...

I am not sure how to aim this thing, i dont see any holo or iron sights on it. Perhaps the pistol projects some sort of holographic sight that does not require a tube or frame, and only "powers up" when the safety is released or a finger is inside the trigger... space? Or that tubular gizmo on the ...

Cloud and Beryl are both left-handed? Come to think of it, I noticed that before of Beryl Cf.157

Yes, I've always been sceptical of the "life-signs" trope myself.

I wonder if the Umiak can detect life-signs, or will they have to board?

You can grow grass on a steep hillside and send those lambs up to eat it. Good luck getting a complicated crop harvester machine up and down that hill without tipping over. Yes, it is totally impossible to grow crops on steep slopes, and my ancestors certainly haven't been doing it for a few thousa...

By Mitra!

A dis that is pretty rich coming from the equally spiky-haired pilot...