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Loroi olympics?

*imagines a Loroi using telekinesis in the 100 meter sprint, tripping her opponents at random, or perhaps preventing them from moving from the starting blocks*

I must say i find it highly amusing to note a minor addon to one of my posts earlier started a major debate regarding my favorite plane. And when it comes to dog-fighting, the A-10 surprises most jet fighters by turning on a dime and aiming their main cannon at them faster than the jet fighter can g...

it's normally cheaper to repair than replace, but to repair say one of their engines is probably a replacement job :p That said, they are more likely to ferry a limited number of replacements/upgrades around with them (maybe inside the shipyards?) for quick repairs in combat situations. (IE: we got ...

the key to the A-10 isn't the ability to fly fast. It isn't that it can mount loads of missiles. The A-10 was DESIGNED to suit that epic gun. I know we aren't facing tank columns, but we don't need to be using the depleted uranium rounds, thats all, and a magazine of ammo for that monster is still s...

The only difficulty in building a mobile shipyard is working on the means you use to hold the incomplete sub-assemblies together without rattling. And as Arioch explained, there are several hours from the original jumping in of opposing forces till their actual arrival, and a shipyard doesn't really...

Hence: Any station will be in a civilian system far from the front, because they'd already be destroyed in outsider during earlier hostilities. But monitors, kept with high manoeuvrability, built by those populated planets based near the front, supported by more conventional fleet assets can contrib...

Maybe Unsheathed would be the equivalent of a shock troop? Shock troops, Elite forces, and similar groups are normally utilised in groups, to break hardened targets. Unsheathed are both highly valuable, and also remarkably vulnerable to attack, clustering them into units like a shock troop would ac...

I was thinking to myself for a while trying to pick an apt measurement for an unsheathed in a combat force. My first attempt was they are officers... which they aren't really. Then I pictured them as a detachment from a machine gun division, which would be about right, a force multiplying, specialis...

Lesson for us all: DO NOT TEMPT THE CARTOONIST WITH AMUSING PICTURES! We already got telepanticly disrupted from receiving 98 and 99 :p And do you know how complicated a roller coaster really is? and how hard the perspective is? I foresee almost a month of redrawing the picture to get the proportion...

No, jump-drive-less ships aren't stations. They're system defense craft, or system defense monitors, or what have you, depending on which set of sci-fi terminology you're using. An actual station is not only going to be larger than a ship, but it will be, relatively speaking, more or less immobile ...

Point to make: people imagine stations in star systems as some kind of immobile object... The fact of the matter is, if you want to protect a planet, you need the thrust of a starship to react to targets incoming with starship manoeuvrability, otherwise they will just go around your defences, or sta...

that '3' i'd suggest that Alex note and comment on it, before revealing the normal symbol on the front of the normal starship, and getting a 'uh... right' moment ^_^

Can't have our main character losing an opportunity for a foot in mouth moment :p

Twilight anyone? :twisted: And Mills and Boon for the parents... Ironically enough my mother reads them because they are so dry and boring they put her to sleep... Seriously: Sir, you obviously speak my language. I tap my hat. It´s also similar to the cause why there are so few female hobbymechanic...

My understanding of the female fandom, is the common female fangirl will flock to whatever comic they can appeal to the emotions and feelings shown within, thus they tend to like badly written books which take three pages to explain how good holding hands feel, and tend to dislike or ignore other bo...

Interesting fact: The key to efficient oxygen transport isn't actually in the transport molecule's active ingredient. It's the ability to moderate oxygen levels in the body! Humans have both Haemoglobin and Myoglobin in their tissues: with Myoglobin binding and attracting oxygen at far lower concent...

according to old conversations and concepts, the long hair either gets tucked away (in heavy armour) or in normal armour it goes through an iris thing to form a seal. Alternatively, they could use the secret of personal shielding to hold air close to their body and thus protect their hair with the s...

I do have to wonder why they feel the need to wear armour, given that does appear to be Fireblade, who has already demonstrated her ability. Although it is possible, although maybe unlikely, they've already arrived and are wearing appropriate gear for the occasion. Also, modern composite armour isn'...

*Following the disruption of internet, news media and ultimately the governments who enforced the laws which caused the chaos and mayhem, allowing news media and the internet to become properly established, it was of certain caution that most evidence and history was largely removed for the sake of ...

CRACKPOT THEORY! it's crazy, but all we know about the historians is they like their privacy. Who's to say they don't protect a race they know as the 'caretakers' who protect and hide the secrets of a number of 'species of interest' from the past... One of whom is humanity. When the 'caretakers' dis...

Thanks Arioch ^_^ I knew that one but kept drawing blanks. By the way, recall how the captain dislikes Alex's 'words of honour' (page 67). Also sent him off the bridge? Re-reading their interview he spoke the name Umiak, and they had never mentioned WHO their enemy was. Interesting no? Poor guy, he'...