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I wonder what type of ship Alex and co are transferring to? Beryl said it was an escort but that could be any thing from a Cutlass Light Cruiser to a Herald Courier Corvette. My guess would be a Blaze Frigate because it is fast, it is likely to be escorting a supply column, and it is more likely to...

The vestibules look like they are half height rooms so crawling would be the only means of access. Using a toilet with that kind of height restriction would be very uncomfortable. To me they look like normal height, but are half a level below the main deck. I see what your talking about. I was thin...

Well there is an area labelled as a vestibule which although a fairly ambiguous term one of its possible meanings is a toilet. It also fits with the kind of language the Loroi use so sounds like the kind of word they would use to refer to the heads. As for the lack of berths people manage to sleep ...

I wonder what type of ship Alex and co are transferring to? Beryl said it was an escort but that could be any thing from a Cutlass Light Cruiser to a Herald Courier Corvette. My guess would be a Blaze Frigate because it is fast, it is likely to be escorting a supply column, and it is more likely to ...

Nice, a new page. But does this mean that we won't be seeing Fireblade and Beryl for a while? My thought? At the very least Fireblade, and possibly the two others, will ride on the shuttle to the courier ship that he's taking to Seren. Beryl will go to the courier to convey the knowledge that she's...

In the Sun/Earth L2, Earth provides shade; if I recall correctly Herschel and other observatories are already in orbit around that point. You're correct, Riess, and if Celestia is to be trusted, Earth would block most of the Sun's light at 1.5M km distance, … except for the fact that Herschel is in...

geo: that is because you are thinking in plutonium waste product terms, some fourth gen nuke plants would just gobble that stuff up and say 'moar plz!' take the thorium cycle, waste products have a half life of...a few hundred years, sure it's pretty hot during that time, but it cools a hell of a l...

Some TV show a few years ago did some number crunching, & decided that an army of Spartans vs an army of 'standard Samurai' would result in a Spartan win (which surprised them, because they expected that iron/steel > bronze). The Spartan shield was a big part of that (the Samurai sword, in comparis...

Let's please try to give each other a bit of leeway in the discussions here. Leeway? Look pal, there ain't but one internet, and it ain't big enough fer the two of us. /highnoon The bar freezes. . . . . Some guy leans back nudges Nemo, saying 'that's the God of this here world you don challenged'. ...

Atomic wrote:Is it me or the way hyperjumps are described allow for hyperspace "ballistic" shots?

They do allow for "ballistic" shots through hyperspace.

If that does not answer your question please rephrase your question.

The bell inequalities show that Non-Local phenomena must exist using quantum entanglement. Non-Local phenomena may allow for useful and causality problem free FTL communication and transport. Thus the confusion.

Found a reference on telekinetic range. See http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/fredgiblet_quotations.html Telepathy section part 11. Quoted below in full. Telekinetic attacks against inanimate objects are limited by the Teidar's ability to judge distance to the target; it may take some "poking" aroun...

You seem to forget the Telekinetic capability of Loroi "unsheathed" I think that a unarmed unsheathed loroi, with somewhat some imagination, could be a threat to even a tank, and could probably decimate a squad without giving her position away. As far as we can see this allowed her to push Alex som...

What farseers can sense (without detrimental effects) is the spatial location of minds. While this can be used to transmit information by giving specific formations of ships specific meanings. The speed at which random concepts could be transmitted would be very slow and incredibly inconvenient. Tr...

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Tamren wrote:Makes me wonder how effective telepathic semaphore could be.

Just wire up your crew's brains so you can rapidly put them to sleep and wake them up to blink out the message to watching farseers.

Has sleep ever been confirmed as a means to suppress a farseen contact?

Only loroi have non-lag communication. While farseer's can telepathically communicate mind to mind over interstellar distances the transmit portion of their communication causes the telepathic equivalent of bursting of the ear drums (IIRC permanent telepathic hearing loss). What farseers can sense ...

If Stillstorm is an example, that doesn't automatically turn out to be the case. She's a reknown commander, but still stuck at her post since we don't know how long (IIRC, it has something to do with bad political choices/opinions). Wasn't she the primary rival to Greywind for the emperorship? --Ay...

I though that Farseers could communicate with other Farseers at interstellar distances at FTL. Direct communication would apparently pose a danger to nearby Loroi and likely rapidly burn out the Farseer. If anyone ever tried, it'd be to give some very bad news. Farseers' talents and equipment might...

The human main character is a pipsqueak who's only important because his father sold his own people out to the Abh, and he's only on of the side of the Abh because he's got the hots for an Abh princess. To be fair IIRC it was less father selling out, and more Abh responsibility dodging. The negotia...

Without FTL communications, resupply must be either at prearranged places and times, or the resupply convoy must have a Farseer so she can detect and "intercept" the friendly strike groups. Farseers are in short enough supply that they can rarely be "wasted" on supply convoys. For the normal, conti...