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Trantor wrote:There is no latin word like that.

Okay so add a [sic] to the quote and go pick a nit with the person that wrote the screenplay, not the rest of us that have to live with the quote as it exists in this reality.

Some xkcd-style musings on failure modes of jump travel. http://www.well-of-souls.com/temp/when_good_jumps_go_bad.gif (Split into a new thread to avoid dragging the other one further off topic.) A little nitpicking on the exclamation: Actually it is "Liberate tutemet ex infer(n)is". ;) " Tutemet " ...

Arioch wrote:

TrashMan wrote:6km/s? Human mass drivers are pathetic. It's it's no 0.05% of LS or more, it's a dud.

If you guys keep using the numbers from that old table that I removed for a reason I'm going to start killing catgirls.

Make that blue space elves and they might listen >.>

The raiding parties are dispatched to strike at fleets observed by farseer. You march a fleet under the cover of this jamming into the steppes. No response, the Loroi didnt see you and you come back. No combat, you tested it against their predictability, and the Loroi don't know a thing about it. T...

It's 2010 and we're beginning to kill each other with robots, are we really going to put squishy people in warships and slug it out old-timey style in 200 years? After the War of Machine Ascension in 2033 we do. We only survived that thanks to someone writing a computer virus and uploading it to th...

Arioch wrote:I don't imagine that trying to activate a jump field on a planet's surface would do very much. A planet is at the bottom of its own gravity well, so it would take a lot of energy to give any chunk of it enough momentum to go anywhere.

Which is really too bad. The fun possibilities...

I wont try to find a reason (other than because it cooler to see a space shipyard with a lots of SCV roaming around an half build hull) why they just dont "beam" a new ship They do make a plot point a few times of replicated matter being full of 'errors'. It's somewhat possible that at the toleranc...

Too bad we can't do something like stick a warp generator inside of a gas giant and accurately stream the hydrogen and helium to a place of our choosing. It would probably take more energy than the fusing of those materials would release to do that. :( Still, that'd make an amusing weapon. Smuggle a...

hi hi To flip this on its side in a hypothetical situation: Suppose the Loroi come to visit Earth and one of the Loroi ambassadors is taking a sight seeing cruise of the ocean. Suddenly, a deep frown appears on her face. "You didn't tell me you were oppressing a peaceful sentient race here on your ...

CptWinters wrote:Stillstorm is the infiltrator.

Fix'd

>.>

I still can't wrap my mind around why the Umiak are calling the Loroi up here. Is it a fishing expedition to see why they're defending a static point, or is there a third (fourth?) party in the system interfering with Umiak operations? I don't really see gloating or polite chivalrous discourse being...

dfacto wrote:Ok, I definitely did NOT see that coming.

Me either. I kinda just stared at the screen. Are the Umiak fighting someone else too?

The argument is based on some people missreading what I wrote, then attempting to argue outsider railgun specifics as if they had access to real world outsider tests in response to a statement of fact, instead of simply admitting they fracked up. Rosen its a question of species evoloution. You inve...