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But I think the importance placed on the heroic myths and the analysis thereof is probably more Western than Eastern. So, more or less as if "Lord of the Rings" ever becomes scripture? May I say that the level of detail and self-consistency you have put into the setting of this story is truly Tolki...

[Historian]: And now I can rewrite your DNA! HA HA HA HA HA!

[Zap]

[Human]: Uh, I don't feel any different.

[Historian]: You used to be lactose intolerant. Here, have some milk.

The Loroi and most of the other major combatants use taimat-powered "Floater" drives. Taimat (also known as "Type A" fuel) is an artificially-produced form of exotic matter with similar properties to helium-4. It is unstable, and can be induced to self-annihilate on demand, which releases an amount...

Being able to send particles in a pattern is one (very hard) thing--being able to meaningfully recode something as complex as human DNA is something else entirely.

Forgive the newby, uninformed question, but can someone remind me what kind of drive the Loroi ships use when simply traveling through normal space? What that ever described?

Alex has been named Ambassador of his species, and was sent with the explicit mission of collecting information and establishing communication, not getting Earth involved prematurely in the Loroi/Umiak war. Picking sides will be the deliberative decision of Terran policy makers, not a random ensign,...

Hi everyone. First post. It seems to me that you can't evaluate or compare military technology without specifying the strategic goal. Presumably the goal for humanity in an armed confrontation with either of the warring parties isn't to win, but to make invasion so expensive, through attrition tacti...