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Indeed, the Loroi were very unpatient. Yes. Double plus unpatient. From a story perspective, I was a bit boxed in by the first person viewpoint and the knowledge that the wheels simply had to fall off. So rather than dragging things out I just ... umm ... railroaded it. Arent Historians also in a p...

OK, now we're getting to the heart of it. This will likely be the past part, because this whole story's a warmup effort and the things that the characters want are likely to pull the story apart. ------------------------- The Parat looked sad. "The Tithric claimed to be a neutral party, but they act...

Also: I'm waiting for motives for Humanity to make contact now. Yes, motives. One of the very best books I've ever read was called The Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi, 2009), where pretty much everything in the book happens because people want stuff. It's amazing. I have tried to give the characters ...

I'm working up the next instalment, but I should say that it will contain spoilers for the Tower and the Hive books by Anne McCaffrey. (Which does indeed feature the Nine Star League.) The bemusing thing is that the forthcoming reveal for my little effort is simply part of the background for the McC...

And here's part three. The balance issues will rapidly become apparent, but I've tried to be fair to the capabilities of McCaffrey's characters. Edit: is there a table of times and units somewhere? I'm not sure how long a kilometre is in Loroi units... --------------------------- Hello? It simply ha...

Well, there will be some chunks of that station floating around. (I assume it's, regrettably, been blown apart by this point.) I guess a relevant question at this point is, what powers a station? Would you use some kind of antimatter or something nuclear. Antimatter will be denser, but fusion fuels ...

Loroi environmental systems must be very efficient if the shuttle is going to chill down. I understand that on human-occupied spacecraft a more common problem is getting the waste heat out. Loroi pillow forts, regrettably, seem to be lacking in couches which makes it hard to get the proper tent-like...

All right, no-one's throwing vegetables yet... on with the motley ------------------------------- Within a few hundred solons, Torret Stillwater called on the communicator. "It seems you have confirmed a tracking target." "Yes." I was self-conscious about my voice, so I spoke as little as possible. ...

Hi all Also, the only reason I came up with the thing is because I thought to myself "Telepaths fighting aliens... where have I heard that before?" and remembered Anne McCaffrey's The Tower and the Hive books. Following the McCaffrey books, I'm going to use italics for thoughts and telepathy sanzai....