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"niceties". "house rules". "morality". We´re talking about humanism and dignity . And they weren´t just "granted". That was fought for. With unbearable sacrifices. And you just want that to be thrown out of the window. No. That would be a devastating message to everybody. How do you want to keep mor...

The survivors can ponder moralities. No survivors = no moral quandary. That´s utmost sick. What you (perjoratively) call "moralities" is not "negotiable" at all, or "to ponder". If you are at that point, you already f***** up beyond salvation. Or how did "kamikaze" work out for imperial japan? This...

Sweforce wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 01, 2023 7:30 am

I doubt that Alex's borrowed blaster pistol shots can bounce.

But the splinters/fragments it generates.
And then there´s the foes hitting back.
Bad enough when they are lousy marksmen, worse if they go into martyr-mode...

Demarquis wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 30, 2023 10:36 am

Why would they be accelerating?

There´s also a plume when engines are idling.

Decades, on the other hand, is too long. If the Umiak found human abilities interesting or useful, they would have invaded human space long ago. More subjects means faster research. Valid point. Unless they´re already among us. Call Chris Carter - he got it wrong, the Syndicate works with Bugs, not...

Bellarmine, the Captain that Alex's ship was named after and her scoutship went missing, presumed misjumped decades ago, and I don't believe that was the only one that's gone missing. so there are possibilities for the Umiak to have had a scout ship for more than a little while. THAT could be a gam...

More moving parts means more things that can break. So you need redundancy and safety mechanisms for each moving part that can break. Aaaand a smart way to do this is redundancy by at least another refuelling point. Because if one refuelling point is out of service, you´ll have a second one. Even o...

Arioch wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 22, 2023 9:03 am

Since a cargo ship can generally only set up transfer lines with one ship at a time

Why not two - one on the port side, one backbord?
Or even four, including top and bottom, too?

Even with four, a minimum of agility is still attained; also emergency separation.

Krulle wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 21, 2023 7:52 am

But we're all rather agnostics.

Same here.
Faith is something very personal - no contracts with, or love for "Church industries"...

I don´t think the Umiak could have learned about humans Lotai AND develope some useful device in that short time. Even IF they catched another scout ship - this could have been only a few weeks ago. And if they captured humans earlier in the war they would have been on our doorsteps in no time. But ...

GeoModder wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:06 am

For all we know, Mezan orbits its star retrograde.

Hu? Not sure if that would be a stable system?
And i didn´t found anything in the Insider about that?

Actually it is more complicated to reach INNER planets. To outer planets a "simple" Hohmann transfer orbit will do. Extra mass required because of the "dust and debris" still present in the inner Deinar star system? Either for shielding or propellant? Other circumstances, other methods to solve the...

A full-blown planet with a dense atmosphere requiring specifically constructed landers. Easyly tested in your own atmosphere... And from there going back to Deinar means twice climbing up a gravity well. Ok, THAT requires a LOT of resources. But still, it is a matter of money, not tech. First in go...

Hey, thanks for so much detail! Half of my family has eastprussian ancestry, and the very first recordings were entries in baptism books after the Teutonic Order conquered the baltic and "pre-prussian" (Pruzzen and Barten eg) tribes (around 1280, there is/was a copy of a copy in Rastenburg of that)....

Actually, its already 66-and-counting years since the first artificial satellite (Sputnik) temporarily achieved orbit. With a first interplanetary (manned) mission nowhere in sight. Moon or planet is no big difference from a technical view - lander is lander, pack some more supplies in a bigger roc...

QuakeIV wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:17 am

have we considered treason

Hm, but how? As far as i understand the Loroi themselves do not fully understand how their Farsensing works?
Or am i wrong?

Krulle wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:52 pm

"the spit" refers to the Curonian Spit.

Are you of prussian ancestry?

That would be another very good explanation.
Proxy wars are not unheard of...

Slightly offtopic since it doesn´t apply to the outsiderverse, but i had to chuckle when i saw it:

Sry for necroposting, burt this thread is far to important (and good!) to pass! When i stumbled over the timeline in the insider i noticed the fall of the Soia empire was obviously within a very short span of time, roughly 275.000 years ago. On earth that was the time of the middle pleistocene, when...