Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

[Hālian]

What is the occurrence rate of Mizols?

[GeoModder]

What is the occurrence rate of Mizols?

The answer to that question is currently classified.
Kindly report to the closest Teidar Academy for... educational... purposes.

[manticore7]

I've observed that the more conservative and buttoned-down the society, the more ridiculous and outrageous their sense of humor. I suspect that a lot of what the Loroi would find funny is slapstick, wacky non-sequitur Monty Python type stuff.

I wonder if Tempo would find "Romanes eunt domus" funny being the only one who deals with language.

[Arioch]

What is the occurrence rate of Mizols?

The primary requirement for the Mizol is high unamplified telepathic power, and the secondary requirement is some level of psychokinetic power, which is desirable but not absolutely necessary. Individuals who are powerful in both telepathy and psychokinesis are usually trained as Teidar, but someone who does not respond well to amplification may end up as Mizol. The Mizol induction numbers are probably smaller than the Teidar, however in wartime the Teidar have a much higher attrition rate, due to more hazardous duty and potential cumulative side effects of amplification.

If you're asking that the Mizol numbers are or what they represent as a percentage of Loroi forces, I don't have any hard numbers for you. But in addition to staffing their own intelligence/diplomatic establishment, there is also at least one attached to nearly every military unit of company size or larger.

[Karst45]

side effect of amplification?

are you saying the grumpy attitude of fireblade may be due to overuse of amp?

[fredgiblet]

They burn out, that's why Farseers need to be replaced.

[Karst45]

why i think of farseer like lightbulb

[Ktrain]

I was thinking more on the terms of migraines, muscle tension, exhaustion. Though, for all we readers know the primary side effect of psi amplification could be constipation.

[Count Casimir]

If you suffer headaches, drowsiness, constipation, irritation, blueing of the skin, itchiness, lightheadedness, restricted breathing, loss of appetite, or fainting, please stop using AMP-UP immediately and consult your nearest Doranzer.

[Arioch]

APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD

[Nemo]

APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD

Curse. You.

I wonder, did that commercial ever meme its way over seas?
http://youtu.be/f_SwD7RveNE

[Hālian]

APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD

Funfact: Head-On is just wax.

Snake oil is alive and well. ._.

[Karst45]

Face palm:

APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD

[Alexandr Koori]

As I understand, the backbone of industry is conquered by Loroi races. By logic, every race must have their units and standards. How do Loroi solve the problem of big distance between the factories and operators? After all, if the ship was have damage of engine, made and bring new more preferably from more close planet without Loroi than from long Loroi world. Does they have something like GOST or SI?

[Arioch]

Foreign producers would need to make their products to Loroi specifications. I don't think that would be a problem. Even before the war, standards would have been necessary to make an inter-species economy work.

I'm sure that there were issues involved with integrating Pipolsid drive technology, Delrias weaponry, etc. into Loroi ship systems, but they've had many decades to work those problems out. Even the "new" Historian technology is 20 years old at this point.

[fredgiblet]

Many of the standards are likely based on Soia standards anyway, right?

[Absalom]

APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD

Funfact: Head-On is just wax.

Snake oil is alive and well. ._.

Considering that the first commercial that I saw for it didn't even say why you were applying it to your forehead, I think you're giving them too much credit: even snake oil salesmen get as far as saying what it's for by the end of the pitch. As far as headaches go though, it might work for any that could be treated by a (very very very) light massage (assuming that there are such headaches), in which case the wax is just a lubricant, but I might have seen it ten times before they said that it was actually FOR something.

Many of the standards are likely based on Soia standards anyway, right?

Measurements-wise, sure, but I suspect that specifications for Soia bolt threads didn't have much meaning to hunter-gatherer society Loroi, and power and data connections even less so.

[Hālian]

I suspect that specifications for Soia bolt threads didn't have much meaning to hunter-gatherer society Loroi, and power and data connections even less so.

Now I'm interested in seeing such standards :3

[Alexandr Koori]

Well, and another one question. Loroi must to trust to others races if allow to them organize complete production cycle of weapons. Am I right?

[Arioch]

Some standards would be based on Soia technology or culture, partly from elements of residual language, partly from having examples of devices lying around.

Considering that the first commercial that I saw for it didn't even say why you were applying it to your forehead, I think you're giving them too much credit: even snake oil salesmen get as far as saying what it's for by the end of the pitch.

Yeah, considering that the commercials never tell you what the product is supposed to do, it would come as more of a surprise to me if the stuff had some actual medicinal value.

Measurements-wise, sure, but I suspect that specifications for Soia bolt threads didn't have much meaning to hunter-gatherer society Loroi, and power and data connections even less so.

I think that during much of the "dark age" for all of the races on the former Soia Empire worlds, there would always have been a small number of functional and semi-functional devices that were preserved, maintained by small cadres of tinkers (probably super-secret orders akin to shamanism) who figured out a few basic functions and collected spare parts. These near-magical workings wouldn't have been much help to the actual advance of technology in the classical/medieval eras, as they were too far removed from what the primitive cultures could make themselves. But with the invention of their own machinery, developing cultures could start to make the connections between their own technology and the secrets that the Keepers of the Digital Calculator of Nesed had been hoarding for a thousand years.

Well, and another one question. Loroi must to trust to others races if allow to them organize complete production cycle of weapons. Am I right?

Well, in many cases like the Delrias beam weapons, there's not really a question of "keeping" sensitive information from the Delrias, since the Delrias invented the technology and understand it better than the Loroi. But for the Loroi, "trust, but verify" is better stated as "we can 'trust' them because we have telepathic operatives watching them all the time." Insurgency operations against Loroi occupations have been spectacularly unsuccessful.