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trantor: probably when she wants to kill someone and is VERY angry about it....

dfacto: ever heard of the rosetta stone? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_stone it was the key to learning ancient Egyptian, figuring out a alien language is a non trivial task even before you add a couple of layers of digital infrastructure and paranoia, not to mention xeno engineering(building...

death is lighter than a feather duty is heavier than a mountain

'nuff said.

but i am curious, where is the reference to trading captives? all i see is 'letting you go'.

geek: that should probably have been tchpth.

suryasm: aye, the maple syrup war was a nasty business.

straker: well, if we EVER get ACME corporation powered toys working it would be a bad day for the universe....

mjolnir: we already have the technology for it, since we know how a star works, different elements and the chains....don't remember what it was that you would use as accelerator in the process, but i think it was simple iron, so dump a few million tons of iron into a star and you have nova in proces...

majincarne: assuming a casing for the C4 to shield it from the explosion, should work just fine, add a detonator and you have a small explosive round....but why not do it properly and use a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M32_MGL a curious thought though... could you make a hyper jump that WILL drop ou...

also the slight detail of what was ordered for the blackbox, useful at a court martial.

being outnumbered at least 4 to 1 in proper ships, and more in weight of metal(since if you add gunboats it's closer to 10 to 1 and those super heavies are MASSIVE, heck in tonnage those ten super heavies might match all of the 26 ships in the loroi fleet.) is not a good situation, heck I'd go so fa...

dfacto: in a run and gun scenario you are depicting you are correct, the loroi would be able to inflict massive amounts of damage that way, BUT(and as some say, everything before the 'but' in a sentence is pointless) the loroi would run out of gas before the umiak would, leaving them dead in space, ...

actually i think the armor value might be a combined shield/armor value thingie, just giving a indication of how difficult the ship is to hurt. and remember the fuel issue, since it is a VERY significant one, loroi have faster acceleration, but the umiak have significantly longer 'range' at full spe...

battleraptor: again, you are comparing monitors, who the *bleep* cares about generating visual light? it is not relevant to the question, period effing dot. okey, i shall now calm down and refrain from this discussion before i blow a fuse and go crazy....and get myself yet another reprimand from ari...

battleraptor: just want to point out, the CRT/LCD arguments you are a putting forward are about generating VISIBLE LIGHT! at which point you are probably pretty close, but how much energy do you think is lost in the CRT when converting from the particle stream through the screen to produce visible l...

okey, on the subject of technological advances with help, i'll just say this. WITH working prototypes to tinker with, schematics, science manuals to examine, teachers/advisors to speed up the introduction AND a surplus industrial module(over sized multipurpose workshop, which in this case is basical...

and with sufficient velocity would crack the mantle of a tectonically active planet, which would be all kinds of bad....

sanzai thingy, gives them the ability to talk without the pesky human hearing....or for that matter any official record.

or maybe just a lass that just lost a ship load of friends....

dex: actually, the bow vs modern guns is a good approximation, on land a bow could actually still be a pretty viable weapon....people do hunt and kill deer, and some might go for elk, with just bow and arrow....so killing a human with one is not all that difficult, being silent, it is a matter of ap...

trashman: heavier maintenance? not a certain at all, since it is a perfect sphere, the armor plates would be pretty standardized, so no extra job there, if anything less....due to larger volume to surface ratio, you could get more internals into it...making it MORE self sufficient, and have more red...

the only 'part of the war effort' humans would bring, would either be as prostitutes or ground pounders, the one most certainly not excluding the other. oh, and a supply base on the flank. and on Terran ship design, i am thinking more along the lines of the babylon 5 nova dreadnought or omega class ...

"Metal Storm has created a 36-barreled stacked projectile machine gun, boasting the highest rate of fire in the world. The prototype weapon demonstrated a firing rate of just over 1 million rounds per minute for a 180-round burst, with a claimed maximum rate of fire of 1.62 million RPM" BUT that sti...