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I wish the glowing eyes during psionic exertion were diegetic (at least ISTR Arioch saying they aren't). I'll leave it up to the reader to decide whether their eyes are really glowing. I'm going to interpret it as the eyes not actually glowing in a way that can be measured with instruments or obser...

Perhaps humanity's special power is being able to hug without psychicly telling the other person exactly what we think of them.

I wonder what that is on the floor next to Fireblade's foot? My first guess was that it looks like some sort of pry tool..

The drums are a nice touch. It's been so long, I forget how much support there is in the forums and Insider, but I've had headcanon for a while of Umiak fleets passing the time by engaging in ship-to ship rap battles and impromptu slam poetry competitions.

Have we ever gotten a good look at Flint? It seems like Reed was the one of the two security officers who got the most face time. Which I can understand from a narrative point of view, given recent events. But now I'm curious.

Thanks! Something else I've been wondering about: would a Farseer on a command ship be able to sense that there were Loroi (and few or no Umiak) on a particular ship in an Umiak fleet? (Assuming that the ship doesn't have the Umiak telepathic cloak, or that it's turned off, or that it only applies t...

I was looking at the "sister worlds" page, and have a couple of questions: Which came first, the name "Azerein" for the "great ringed gas giant that dominates the outer Deinar system", or its use for the "First Deinar Emperor, Zaral Siilad"'? Also, there's a picture of Toridas that looks a lot like ...

I have a weird thing--when I submit a new post, I get sent to a blank page, with no way of getting back to the thread. I have to manually type in the main forum page, or else Google and look for it that way. Except it's not consistent--for example that didn't happen just now. That just happened to ...

Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but I just wanted to clarify that organisms cannot evolve features so they can then use them for some function they can't attempt until after they evolve the feature. To take one example, neither humans nor reptilians could have evolved an upright posture so that ...

I get logged off after somewhere between 0.5 and 3 hours of inactivity. I've been assuming that was some account or browser setting I forgot about (it seems like something I'd choose). I haven't noticed the 500 error, yet.

Edit: didn't see one then.

Edit 2: Or then.

The closest relatives to humans are chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans, roughly in that order. Why did humans develop bipedalism and an upright posture? Is there some connection to our greater intelligence, or is it random chance? If we can figure that out, then we might be able to deter...

I seem to remember Arioch stating that humans and Loroi are not genetically related. That we were used as a physical template for visible characteristics, but the Loroi genetic code isn't derived from ours. I don't recall the specifics, but the model I've been using is decompiling a binary computer...

Maybe Tempo's got the comm officer mind-slaved?

Also: this doesn't look good for Reed.

Maybe this was asked already, whats with the different colors of glowing armor? Is that a rank thing? e: does anecdotally seem like its a comissioned officer thing from the bridge pictures such as page 91 I think this page might have what you're looking for? https://well-of-souls.com/outsider/loroi...

Arioch wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 29, 2023 5:31 pm

Though saying "Misesa dollidaro!" would probably result in a quizzical look from the listener.

"Touch wheat!" might be even more provocative than "touch grass!", in illustrating how far most of us are from the source of our food.

That would be another very good explanation. Proxy wars are not unheard of... Yeah, when stepping back and looking at the big picture, I find it kinda suspicious how the Historians gave the Loroi just enough technological help to achieve a stalemate. For a while, anyway. Of course, if they'd given ...

Arioch wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:23 pm

The official clock is based on Perrein time

Why Perrein? Was this a compromise when making first contact with the other Loroi, or first setting up the Loroi Union, to convince everyone that Deinar culture wouldn't be completely dominant?

Kikitik-27 and the Superheavies (which would make a great band name): IsGho4eM3Q4 (The Wolf, Andante Molto No. 19 (french horns), Peter and the Wolf, Sergei Prokofiev) I think it's got the ominous mood of the massive fleet slowly emerging, and the gradual zoom in on the superheavies, then a cut to T...

My own headcanon for Arioch's story contains a dormant telepath element. It doesn't make sense that Humans should be so abnormally telepathically inert in the absence of some form of long term, evolutionary selective pressure. I haven't really played with the idea too much though. Same here. My hea...

F-35 vs A-10 doesn't really apply here. The A-10 is super cool, but it's over 50 years old, designed to fight an opponent that doesn't exist in a battle space that will never happen all without the benefit of technological advances that it's designers could never have conceived of. Sure, if you wer...