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I must say, I *do* like this version better.

Also, Ashrain needs a hug. Also maybe an AA meeting.

Also, re-reading the "Project First Son is Revealed" bit, as far as I can tell the number of people who actually *know* about it and what Greywind can now do is still less than ~1,000 people. Keeping them from telling the secret would be *difficult,* but not impossible given that almost all of them ...

Ooh, the title makes sense now! And we've got Good news and Bad news:

Good News: The human-included sanzai network seems to be coming online.

Bad News: It's basically an unmoderated chatroom which moves at the speed of thought, with exactly the results anyone would expect.

It's been explained that a very large percentage (the majority, IIRC) of loroi civilians are ones who went through warrior training but failed their diral trials. That makes sense for most of the warrior castes, but what happens to prospective Teidar/Mizol who wash out? Are there loroi civilians out...

A question that I'm not sure fits in this Loroi Q&A thread (although many loroi would disagree...) When the Soia's Dreadstars/tonsillat/moon-ships are described as "moon-sized," is there a more accurate estimate for their scale? Since at least for the Sol system, we've got moons ranging in diameter ...

Would Loroi ladies freak out if they saw a ridiculously muscled over masculine guy on par with Gigachad man? Honestly, given that most *humans* tend to stop and stare at someone that unusual, probably about the same. Essentially, they'd react the same way human women would to meeting, say, Andre th...

Ah, that's the angle you were going for. On that topic, it definitely still passes the plausibility test. For one, IIRC Arioch hasn't quite stated the 'range' at which a mizol can pick through someone's mind, but presumably you can't just toss one into every random street-corner checkpoint and scan ...

Honestly, I suspect that the sort of person (either human or loroi) who'd be interested in literally sleeping with an alien would be the sort of person who wouldn't be turned off by something like a body temperature difference.

For what it's worth, keep in mind that as a general rule, political revolutions *cannot* be achieved solely by the "under-class" (serfs, peasants, farmers, workers, etc.). To be successful, a revolution needs help from at least one group that already has *significant* political power, but wants more...

I would advise one to be cautious not to conflate "technology" with "practice." There are a great many things that can be performed in a laboratory environment or on paper, but have yet to be done in practical cases or scales. A great deal of genetic-alteration technology falls into this category, a...

The reason I wrote that was because someone mentioned Loroi have to compete for limited males. Loroi females don't compete for 'limited' males. Females are granted the privilege of an 'encounter' every now and then, as a reward for her accomplishment. They don't pair-bond and take the male in quest...

Wouldn't it be easier for AI companies to place restrictions on their LLM's output, rather than the training input? It's not copyright infringement if the customer cant get to see it. It's also a lot harder to control the output than the input. To use Arioch's example, it's very difficult to write ...

<3 Old Man's War. Now *that* was a fun series, and quite a few interesting twists on the genre.

For what it's worth, Arioch has stated before that unmanned vessels aren't really effective given Outsider-setting technology. Something about the constant (and non-standard) maintenance needed, IIRC. It's why courier ships are still manned by all sides. Similarly, Word of God says that torpedoes ar...

You could maybe argue that they have the tech, but choose not to use it. But in the emergency of a war for pure survival such considerations simply pale. The thing is that this sort of genetic manipulation *isn't* useful to the Loroi war effort. They're not losing the war because they lack soldiers...

To be fair, the Loroi are one of those fictional societies that I can actually see *not* researching particularly far in the area of artificial gestation. Their species has the potential to produce as many children 'naturally' as they could possibly want, and most of the traits that they *do* desire...

My two cents say that there's going to eventually be a market for 'limited-scope' algorithmic art. As in, LLMs that have been carefully and specifically trained *only* on certain sets of available artwork, and with extensive paper trails to prove it. Anything from art that's in the public domain, or...

(BTW: Are most Loroi left-handed? Because Beryl referred to the dial as "...here at your thumb" - while Alex obviously shoots right-handed) Yup, Arioch has said that most loroi are left-handed. It also occurs to me that Alex hasn't had cause to hold a 'handed' tool for most of the comic, so Beryl p...

Which still seems strange - between Beryl and Alexander, she is presumably the more well-trained in marksmanship (having been trained during a time of total war, for a navy posting, versus 'you Scout Corps members are *technically* military, so here's some basic rifle training') *and* has the loroi ...

Narrat Ziradin , meaning 'Noble.' As close of a translation as I can get for 'Brian.' And the UFO scene would just be a very confused Narrat Ziradin getting taken for a joyride by two Historians on their first (and last, as it turns out) unsupervised shuttle flight). [Ziradin stumbles out of the smo...