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Personally, I'm done with it so long as Disney owns it.

The wikipedia article also states: To the surprise of many involved in the program, the helicopters proved extremely dangerous to the fighters when they were properly employed, racking up a 5-to-1 kill ratio over the fighters when fighting at close ranges with guns. The lesson was that fixed-wing ai...

Great rundown. Spoilers abound.

Relevant video. The necessity to right angle your mech out of the path of incoming 20mm fire and pull out non-conventional weapons to be able to beat an airborne fighter highlights the weaknesses of a mech in today's battlefield. Gasaraki was pretty realistic in how they approached near-future tech...

Kirk is a great character for a wild west in space, Picard when space is more defined, policed, and alliances are of important to maintain. Sisko is still the best. But only after he grew the beard. Though I think a Stargazer-era Picard would have potentially been the best. In canon, young Picard w...

StarCruiser wrote:Somehow appropriate:

Beat me to the punch, lol.

First and foremost, the square-cube law and (current) material strength limits the size of any prospective mech. Could we reasonably have powered armor? Yeah, I think so. Tank-mass mechs? Only if the benefits outweighed the added cost and complexity. Otherwise, the concept would not be viable for mi...

May I present a much better Star Wars movie.

One missing stat...

Attractiveness: Kirkian

Fascinating - I had never quite pieced that together. I knew they were advanced, but was always under the assumption that they simply had recovered faster after the fall. That's not to say that they weren't affected by the fall, but they didn't suffer a complete breakdown of their civilization or c...

A partial answer is that they see themselves as passive observers of history more than active participants in it. Their "civilization" (if you want to call it that) predates the fall of the Soia, and they've basically been watching the rest of the races recover and rebuild without really helping th...

raistlin34 wrote:Being the first to document data about their society could get an otherwise unremarkable Listel into the Hystory books if only as a footnote.

I wonder if "historian" in trade is the same as the name the Historians give themselves and, if so, why is it that the Historians see themselves as such?

It's very cool that you created that level of backstory for all the characters.

Sounds a little like Coming of Age in Karhide though with long-term shifts.

Arioch wrote:Talon's leave was suspended pending disciplinary action.

Because of course it was

As far as we here speaking about humanity IQ and gender biases in general , such studies would also be unrelevant, because they reflect only one culture biases. The one of many. To an extent. From what I've read, IQ tests are not biased (as uncomfortable as the results may be when applied to demogr...

For what it's worth, I don't think you can draw any cultural equivalencies in that lane between Russia and the West.

IIRC, it translates to the given name he provided Stillstorm, Guardian of the Garden. Alex being guardian and Jardin being garden.

Or she just raised one hell of a death flag.

Also...

Based on the latest background posted, we might get to see tiny versions of Spiral and Talon.