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D1ff3r3nt wrote:To be honest I am a bit curious about the "Great Wasteland" Do they know that there is nothing of value there or is it more of, "well we looked and did not see much around so there probably is nothing worth going after"? Perhaps Humanity is sitting on a resource gold mine and no one else knows because they have no bothered to look.
Well, we know that the previous regional empire had located earth and sampled its species (thus the existence of the Loroi), so it seems likely that if there were a treasure trove of valuable resources in the area they likely plundered it and moved on. The only real exception to that appears to be the Earth itself, which is a very habitable world by our standards and those of the Loroi too I'd imagine. Yet a lone habitable world far from galactic trade lanes and the inhabited parts of their empire would have made for a lonely frontier colony at best, and an unprofitable venture at worst.
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I think the biggest indicator of how useful the other groups view earth is probably based on how useful they are to a species that's only a few steps behind. I.E. Humanity.

Remember that there's only two other life bearing worlds in human space, and they aren't overly habitable or advanced, even to a species who's one advantage over most others is they can just throw bodies at a problem due to population. But you can't throw bodies at an issue of a thin to nearly nonexistant gravity well, or an atmosphere that just won't work for you, or the fact that there just aren't a lot of valuable minerals to mine on these planets to begin with, and most of that has no one click fix with the tech the other groups have.

Hell, based on the scale of what's available, half the human colonies wouldn't even be worth it with the level the Historians are at.

EDIT: I did a bit more reading and it's even less useful. With no less than three precursors who could just make or renovate planets to be far more habitable than ANY of the human colonies, there really doesn't seem to be much use in investing in this region of the galaxy, except maybe academic curiosity.

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Jayngfet wrote:Remember that there's only two other life bearing worlds in human space, and they aren't overly habitable or advanced, even to a species who's one advantage over most others is they can just throw bodies at a problem due to population. But you can't throw bodies at an issue of a thin to nearly nonexistant gravity well, or an atmosphere that just won't work for you, or the fact that there just aren't a lot of valuable minerals to mine on these planets to begin with, and most of that has no one click fix with the tech the other groups have.

Hell, based on the scale of what's available, half the human colonies wouldn't even be worth it with the level the Historians are at.

EDIT: I did a bit more reading and it's even less useful. With no less than three precursors who could just make or renovate planets to be far more habitable than ANY of the human colonies, there really doesn't seem to be much use in investing in this region of the galaxy, except maybe academic curiosity.
On the other hand, there are 3 habitable worlds within a mere dozen lightyears of eachother (in the current epoch, probably not back in the Soia era).
In that light, I'd say its more surprising scouts haven't found at least another one somewhere on the edge of the explored region of human space.
Unless as stated in the "Humanity in 2160" Insider read, the 82 Eridani passage really is the only feasible route out of Humanity's relatively isolated bubble of space.

Which brings me to a question:
Arioch, is 82 Eridani the only feasible way out of Human space because of Humanity's limited space-faring technology (ship&supply endurance), or is it because there literally aren't other viable jumproutes out of its explored bubble (no other safe 'connections' with stars outside the explored region).
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There are other routes leading deeper into the Great Wasteland.

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That... sounds strategically (super-strategically?) interesting to the Loroi.

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For stuff humanity and others can do and they Soian's and other precursors have done I suggest taking a look at these two futurists work.

Isaac Arthur's channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipe ... Ujx6grh54g

John Michael Godier's channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEszlI ... U8LSAiRbDg

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It seems the Umiak force entering Leido from the Rallis jump zone knows the outbound trajectories for further jumps deeper into Loroi territory.

Was the Leido Crossroads system earlier in the war contested territory, Arioch? In other words, they already have a stellar map of the area.
Or is it for the Umiak and Loroi a piece of cake to determine probable jump zones minutes after arrival in an unknown system?
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GeoModder wrote:It seems the Umiak force entering Leido from the Rallis jump zone knows the outbound trajectories for further jumps deeper into Loroi territory.

Was the Leido Crossroads system earlier in the war contested territory, Arioch? In other words, they already have a stellar map of the area.
Or is it for the Umiak and Loroi a piece of cake to determine probable jump zones minutes after arrival in an unknown system?
Jump vectors are calculated based on the masses and relative locations of the stars; the closer you are to the stars in question, the more accurate your measurements will be, but stars can be observed with significant accuracy from a great distance.

However, the Umiak have been here before. Most of the current Loroi front line (including Leido and Azimol) was in Umiak hands prior to the Semoset offensive in which the Loroi pushed the lines back to more or less where they are today. There was also some limited commerce between the two sides prior to the war, in which both sides had access to navigational data provided by friendly third party traders.

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While we are patiently waiting for the next update and activity on the forum has decreased (it appears that the length of Page discussion threads is an indicator to when it's time for the next Page - when it reaches 4+ forum pages, everything has been chewed up and over and it's time for an update), I have a question for Arioch and something the others can theory craft on.

How do the Neridi feel about the current state of the Umiak war and the state of the Union in general? Are they pleased with how the Loroi navy and administration are handling things, or not so much? Can there be Neridi factions who are not pleased with everything and might be pressuring the Loroi to "step it up" or even look for third party solutions to the war? If I understand the map correctly, most of the action now is happening near or in the Neridi part of the Union and their nation have suffered a lot from the war already and as far as the official Union position is concerned, not taking latest developments near Azimol into account, nothing's about to improve anytime soon.

The idea I would like to throw in for discussion is, has anyone considered a possible Neridi involvement into the Leido invasion?

I know the general state of opinion is to blame the Historians for the destruction of the Bellarmine based on two sentences spoken by Tempo and their VI, but that's kind of too obvious. As far as I understand, the bulk of the Umiak fleet came through Neridi operated checkpoints and another fleet is already inside Union (Neridi) space and we haven't seen any Neridi on screen, aside from the Leido traffic controller (may he rest in peace).

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entity2636 wrote:How do the Neridi feel about the current state of the Umiak war and the state of the Union in general? Are they pleased with how the Loroi navy and administration are handling things, or not so much? Can there be Neridi factions who are not pleased with everything and might be pressuring the Loroi to "step it up" or even look for third party solutions to the war? If I understand the map correctly, most of the action now is happening near or in the Neridi part of the Union and their nation have suffered a lot from the war already and as far as the official Union position is concerned, not taking latest developments near Azimol into account, nothing's about to improve anytime soon.
There is widespread unease throughout the Union about the current stalemate, but there is also awareness that things could be (and recently were) much worse. Greywind is under significant pressure to go on the offensive, but mainly from internal Loroi groups.

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Arioch wrote:
CF2 wrote:How likely are the Umiak to expand into Human space if they win this war with the Loroi, given the fact previous empires regarded it as not worth colonizing?
Could it be regarded as a refuge for the Loroi, or would the Umiak search all neighboring space in a genocidal hunt for any remnants or secret colonies?
There are too many hypotheticals there to give a definitive answer, but... if the various parties knew there were inhabited worlds beyond the Great Wasteland, it would change their strategic view of the region.
Humanity is easy pickings due to technological difference. A handful of ships could do it. Then when the local industrial base is upgraded the empire can expand from here as well. They could easily do that even when simultaneously wrapping up the conquest of the Union. Except that the Historians may take offense to that and step in to wipe out the Umiak once they dealt with the Loroi and other Union species.

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Arioch wrote:There is widespread unease throughout the Union about the current stalemate, but there is also awareness that things could be (and recently were) much worse. Greywind is under significant pressure to go on the offensive, but mainly from internal Loroi groups.
I see, Neridi activities may be potential spoiler territory.

So, in other words, noone else has the "official balls" to speak up and demand results? Everyone's either comfortable enough under Loroi's stiletto-heeled boot, or afraid to receive said boot up where they don't want to if they appear displeased? :lol:

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entity2636 wrote:So, in other words, noone else has the "official balls" to speak up and demand results? Everyone's either comfortable enough under Loroi's stiletto-heeled boot, or afraid to receive said boot up where they don't want to if they appear displeased?
Speak up and say what, exactly? "Win the war by Sunday or else"? Or else what?

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Arioch wrote:Speak up and say what, exactly? "Win the war by Sunday or else"? Or else what?
:lol: yeah, something like that, sure :lol:

I'm not a politician, but how about "this mess has been going on for, how long exactly? 25 years, for three of your generations? And remember, most of it is happening in our back yard, not yours. We find the amount of progress that has been made thus far... meager, and the effectiveness of your military leaders and intelligence department, how shall I put it, lacking."

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What you call Neridi space is only one of the three main front'lines'.
The Seren -and Maiad theaters sound to have been way more active from what I read in the Insider, and both seem strictly Loroi expansion sectors.
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entity2636 wrote:I'm not a politician, but how about "this mess has been going on for, how long exactly? 25 years, for three of your generations? And remember, most of it is happening in our back yard, not yours. We find the amount of progress that has been made thus far... meager, and the effectiveness of your military leaders and intelligence department, how shall I put it, lacking."
And what do you expect this would accomplish, aside from insulting the Loroi?

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Arioch wrote:
entity2636 wrote:I'm not a politician, but how about "this mess has been going on for, how long exactly? 25 years, for three of your generations? And remember, most of it is happening in our back yard, not yours. We find the amount of progress that has been made thus far... meager, and the effectiveness of your military leaders and intelligence department, how shall I put it, lacking."
And what do you expect this would accomplish, aside from insulting the Loroi?
Maybe he's a masochist?

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Arioch wrote:
entity2636 wrote:I'm not a politician, but how about "this mess has been going on for, how long exactly? 25 years, for three of your generations? And remember, most of it is happening in our back yard, not yours. We find the amount of progress that has been made thus far... meager, and the effectiveness of your military leaders and intelligence department, how shall I put it, lacking."
And what do you expect this would accomplish, aside from insulting the Loroi?
Heh.. Apparently I was misinterpreted or did not put it clearly enough. I meant it as a general idea, public opinion or opinion of a political party and not something one or a couple persons would or should openly say in the face of the Empress.

My initial question was, is it within the realm of possibility that there may exist such a party/corporation/group of individuals among the Neridi, that may be more upset about the current state of affairs than the rest and seek third party solutions to end the conflict, with certain benefits to themselves or the Neridi nation.

*EDIT*
In layman's terms, the general opinion among the readers is that the Historians are somehow involved in the so far successful Umiak invasion of Union space. I would like to ask, can it not be an "inside job".
*END EDIT*

If that is classified information relevant to future storytelling, I'm perfectly happy with that. If it is impossible or unrealistic for such a group to exist, I'm also perfectly fine with that, and will go on considering the Neridi as either spineless or, how to put it, "we have the Loroi protecting us, we don't care, as long as the military contracts are coming in".

@boldilocks - I dunno, maybe, if it involves blue space elf girls in uniforms :roll: :lol:

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I was reading the Insider and, that we know of, there are 3 confirmed sentient species using the Soia-Liron biochemistry. This got me thinking, are there any species (sentient or otherwise) using more exotic types of biochemistry in the known Outsider galaxy? Things like Dextro Amino Acids, Ammonia world dwellers, Carbosilicate structures, liquid methane swimmers...?
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GabrielGABFonseca wrote:I was reading the Insider and, that we know of, there are 3 confirmed sentient species using the Soia-Liron biochemistry. This got me thinking, are there any species (sentient or otherwise) using more exotic types of biochemistry in the known Outsider galaxy? Things like Dextro Amino Acids, Ammonia world dwellers, Carbosilicate structures, liquid methane swimmers...?
Speaking of that, what kind of biochemistry do the orgus work at?

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