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That's Beryl's expression when she realizes Talon is now Best Girl™

Seriously doubt it unless Ellen attacked in a way that couldn't be non-violently contained. The Loroi have shown all indication of wanting to learn as much as possible about this new race. Wantonly killing one of two survivors would be foolish and worthy of reprimand. She certainly wouldn't be allow...

I'd be more worried about the sergeants reading my thoughts, than I'd be about them crushing me with their minds. :/ But maybe the Loroi are a lot more callous when it comes to enforcing authority. How do they compare to something like the British Navy of Sir Francis Drake in regards to discipline ...

Little did they know... Earth has had a functional psi suppressor for centuries:

The varying designs of the amps reflect differences in the users, both in terms of abilities and power; in general, a smaller amp suggests lower power levels. Ashrain was probably of a lower PK power level to begin with (or they might not have consented to let her transfer out of the Teidar), but I...

Fun fact: (non-lubricated) condoms are put in survival kits not for their intended purpose but because they're cheap/small water storage containers.

It's been said before, but it's worth stating again: once we have the materials and powerplants necessary to make a workable mech, the technology would be better applied to these scenarios in a form other than a humanoid robot. Even without their skating ability, a Tachikoma-style spider would be fa...

Arioch wrote:

jterlecki wrote:Would Loroi DNA contain 'artificial' nucleotide bases like P, B, Z and S from Hachimoji DNA, on top of the usual A,T,G,C ?

I don't know enough about molecular biology to speculate about such details... I wouldn't say for certain that the Loroi even have DNA.

How would their cells replicate?

Arioch wrote:And in particular, biologists looking at the Loroi genome are going to be very confused.

"Even the DNA is blue... how is the DNA blue?"

From a human biologist perspective, what would be the taxonomy for the Loroi? Or the binomial nomenclature? Alien organisms will require entirely new taxa, since they will be completely unrelated to Earth organisms. I'd be curious to talk to an exobiologist to see what, if anything, they have in mi...

LOL @orion1836 I have a feeling that you were going for a teenage boy running errands for his mother/aunt but I would be half tempted to write him out as a 'friendzoned' short stack finally getting lucky. EDIT: Let me put it like this: I am about 183cm tall (6 feet), not attractive per se but I dre...

Are you sure you want to do this? Ember eyed the brown liquid warily. It slid smoothly around the glass as she swirled it. Windfall grinned wolfishly at the orange-haired Loroi. Thirty-two jumps, three of which were scoped. I'd say that deserves a drink, alien or not. Besides , she waved the scanne...

Actual beef stroganoff MRE for reference.

I'd rather Not see any civilization blown up. In the Cosmic ALL the most precious thing so rare among the stars is consciousness... the sentience that can look upon the grand Cosmos and wonder its place in the grand design! So sentience in all its variety is precious beyond all measure. I'd never w...

I finally broke down and saw Rise of Skywalker yesterday. I bought a ticket for Frozen then switched seats. I should feel bad about that but I figured it was the same ticket price (Matinee) and the theater actually gets to keep more money from the Frozen ticket because it's been out longer. The mov...

Yoda is really old, okay? You can't blame him for sleeping in on D-Day. The action is good, but the story makes no sense. From the video description: Q: How did the CIS fleet sneak in undetected? A: Darth Sidious gave the CIS the location of a secret hyperspace lane through the galactic core unknow...

Wow.

Why can't Disney just hire these people?

We are a long way from the tech that would make a tachikoma work, but there is a good example of a role where a mech would shine. Regarding space, I think any fighter in the near future will be a glorified gun turret with a thruster. Without gravity or atmosphere, the only thing that matters is how ...