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Some of the crew won't be affected by a loss of pressure -- it's as much of a distraction as anything else -- but some will. 219ed.jpg This is the part I think people are missing. A lack of oxygen (or methane for those alternative biologies in the crowd) is resolved very easily with an atmosphere m...

Due to the large amount of time that has passed since I started working on the story, there are all kinds of details that are not strictly necessary for the story that I have worked out, mainly for my own amusement. Many of them will never make it into the story, but sometimes it can be useful to h...

If the space fighter and the larger carrier ship are using the same drive design, then the fighter is just a carrier scaled down, and the carrier is just a very large fighter. They're not the same design, though. While they may both utilize the same underlying technology, there are still significan...

So Umiak weakness in play due to Loroi infilitration is due to: 1. Being suscetible to their mental attacks and otherwise. 2. Not relying on camera drones that would not have that problem. Camera drones are susceptible to ECM and cyber-warfare, and the devices used to do that are built in factories...

Remote control will be in wide use, but there are limitations on range according to lightspeed lag and line of sight, and the potential for jamming. I recently read the US Air Force's specifications for what they wanted in a sixth-generation fighter, and one was the capability to fly either manned ...

Can't believe I didn't notice that Fireblade's hair works with her pressure helmet before this. Neat.

The problem with such weapons is actually threefold, as far as I can see it: 1. Battery power. Current devices or portable generators do not offer the necessary energy storage density. Also, even live ammo is still "safer" than a big lithium-ion battery, considering their possible reaction to battl...

I love how, despite the severity of the situation, Fireblade has pissed Alex off enough that he cannot help but take some satisfaction in her being annoyed at him having a weapon. I can sympathize. It must also be satisfying to have some small measure of agency. Ever since the destruction of his shi...

Yes, except that the kinetic-based weapons should have a slightly different recoil pattern. Also, the Bellarmine would be equipped with laser pistols, I guess? Those don't even have a recoil, and Beryl should know this from the examination of the wreck. Therefore, Alex is highly likely to miss his ...

Rather than discussing how a blaster may work based upon nothing but conjecture, how about trying it out first ? Well, jokes aside, we actually need to have a look at them in action. Even if the weapon is too small to feature inertial dampening, there are various ways to lessen the recoil. As a mat...

It needs to be usable by people in heavy armor and bulky environmental suits. The fingers of which may be restricted by a trigger guard. Note also that the real-life M-16/AR-15 pattern of rifles have a removable trigger guard for this exact reason; to allow use of gloves in arctic environments. The...

There is a limited extent to which our concept of racism can be applied to non-human species. Cats and dogs are not treated the same as humans; they don't have the same rights or privileges, and they are chattel that can be bought and sold. Is that racism? The aliens from the Alien movies are presu...

My point was that the most likely scenario for caseless rounds to become fully practical is some sort of advancement in the propellant used that somehow satisfied a very narrow set of conditions...while also still being economically feasible to supply. Ah, I see. You're talking about the use of ele...

Caseless have some significant drawbacks regardless of how good TCA sience will get. By the time a species is flying around in fusion torch-ships, handling the issues of caseless ammo is pretty trivial. Remember that caseless ammo was invented a good hundred years ago in our world (nitrated paper c...

hello I think the key thing for Alex to do is enable wireless communication on his pad by that the Historien can take controll over the ship maybe even send some of his commrads to the hole division. sorry for my bad English ... oh, my. Yes. That would be quite clever, wouldn't it? Given all we kno...

Forgive the newby, uninformed question, but can someone remind me what kind of drive the Loroi ships use when simply traveling through normal space? What that ever described? The Loroi and most of the other major combatants use taimat-powered "Floater" drives. Taimat (also known as "Type A" fuel) i...

Nope, it's a Type-KT cruiser, those have around 300 bugs on board. This alone means Alex could play a significant role without ever touching a weapon, because the deciding factor in their success isn't going to be direct combat per-se, but in managing to access the right control interfaces to do so...

I think maybe part of it is because (understandably) many people look at Outsider as if it was an RPG or strategy game setting ("Loroi are OP!"), and partly because popular Scifi has spoonfed everyone settings like Star Trek, Babylon 5 and Stargate in which Humanity is not the most technically adva...