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Earth and Mars (the two industrial powerhouses of Humanity) and their four colonies across 35 light years of space aren't going to be able to do a lot compared to the Loroi's 300 light year spanning empire. Not with less than 50 years of experience with what they have for warship technology compared...

Umiak effective beam weapon range seems to start around 40,000 to 50,000 km depending on the model of beam weapon. They use missiles to cover their approach until they get to those ranges where their more damaging weapons can wreck Loroi ships. Loroi blasters and pulse cannons can fire farther away ...

Lower body temperature than humans.

Teaser trailer for Yamato 2205:

The "Story" seems to suggests the background elements of Dessler's search for a new homeworld for his people. Finding one in Bolar space (in the Core Worlds of the Milky Way Galaxy) and fighting them for control of this world Gamilas will move to to survive. However, back at Gamilas and Iscandar, th...

Yamato 2205 (Chapter One) will be released in Japan on October 8th. It seem to be only a two part set of films at this point. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-06-10/1st-of-2-space-battleship-yamato-2205-films-opens-on-october-8/.173814 It seems to be introducing some of the background plot...

If I remember my Masters of Orion 2.....lasers would be red.

Ships tend to not travel as lighthugging speeds. Time-dilatation would still be a thing if they got much past half the speed of light. It would take around a day to cross an entire solar system at half the speed of light, but their would be no need to cross the whole thing. Just from the planet of i...

What if their uniforms performed some of the same functionals at the stillsuits from Dune.

Plot twist: Fireblade was using an Australian hand gesture. Alex gave the proper, if American, response.

See for yourself. https://well-of-souls.com/outsider/weapon_profiles.html Provides some explanations on many of the ship based weapons used by the Loroi, Umiak, Historians, and Humans. As well as how much relative damage drops off with range. Several beam weapons have a large area of extreme range w...

Humanity has zero experience in space warfare in the 2160s. We have theories only and little to no understanding of the technologies involved in the current war. While our theoretical tactics might work, we don't have the tech to back up these theories against the more technologically advanced races...

As for evidence of deflector screens, there is at least once show of a Umiak ship bouncing a pulse cannon blast at range: https://well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsider077.html Possibly here as well, though the angle makes it difficult to see if it was deflected, or if there was a blue explosion: https...

The Loroi units we have see are designed for rapid movements and interceptions. Highly mobile forces designed to take advantage of the Loroi's Farseeing traits to be where the Umiak fleets are intending to strike. Doing so has keep the Umiak from gaining much territory in the last decade or so, whil...

The Loroi and Umiak screens aren't talked about much, but the tech levels suggest a mix of electromagnetic screens and force screens. The Umiak has more powerful screens as their tech level is slightly higher than the Loroi in some places.

Vibration of the helmets touching. It gives the vibrations a medium to go through. It will be muffled, like trying to hear into the next room with a cup on a wall, but you can still hear.

The Loroi have mission specific escort cruisers designed for fleet defense. This also appears to be what the Umiak target first, as that was what the Winter TIde was in the battle we witnessed. It wasn't the missiles that took out the Winter Tide, is was the beam weapons once the Umiak got into rang...

Vibration from helmet to helmet as you speak.

Wargame colleges do things like that as games. Table top or computer games to test scenarios. Its a thing that's done from time to time, without needing to use actual troops or ships for war games. The trouble here is that the humans do not have information on the two powers technology (or at least ...

It would depend on just how good humanities' assumption were on Loroi and Umiak technology. Since Alex is the only known human to have encountered either species, and he hasn't been able to report in yet, Earth's war colleges got very little to go on.