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- Mon Jun 03, 2024 3:17 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Homeworld 3 Announced
- Replies: 68
- Views: 76704
Re: Homeworld 3 Announced
Sadly, I must concur. Even on the gameplay front alone, ignoring the downright-awful campaign, it's a definite step down from HW2. Dumbed-down capital-ship attacks, fewer ship options... it's not good. I get the impression (from adding unit 'abilities' that require serious Actions Per Minute to opti...
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 10:27 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
- Replies: 21
- Views: 914
Chapter Seven: Resignation
Talon was mentally on autopilot as she watched the prowler lifting off of the hangar floor, nosing out of the narrow entrance with barely a hand’s-width to spare on each side as Ensign Jardin’s nimble and agile fingers danced across the — don’t think of that right now ! Had the Lashret really sent w...
- Fri May 31, 2024 10:15 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
- Replies: 21
- Views: 914
Re: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
With regards to "Soia-UNSC relations" there's this quote: “Then came Humanity. The Soia… came into conflict with us, and she was sent to oversee our annexation.” ... “Over the five decades of the First War, [Tempest's] actions brought her great fame throughout the Soia Empire.” Colonel Jardin’s voic...
- Fri May 31, 2024 4:34 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
- Replies: 21
- Views: 914
Re: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
To be fair, even in Outsider canon Arioch has said that the Shells hold a *particular* ancestral hatred for the Soia, and that the way the Loroi style themselves as the Soia's heirs is a significant factor in making the Hierarchy hostile to them. Not the *only* cause of the war, but definitely one o...
- Fri May 31, 2024 4:18 am
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
- Replies: 21
- Views: 914
Re: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
Thanks! And don't worry about the story getting abandoned; I *finished* writing it 2 weeks ago, it's complete already. I'm just uploading it one chapter at a time. I've got plans for a sequel if there's interest in it, but this story itself is a ~130,000-word (19 chapter) storyline that I'm confiden...
- Fri May 31, 2024 12:23 am
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
- Replies: 21
- Views: 914
Chapter Six: Liftoff
The loroi warband that had so eagerly stormed downwards into the “Soia Weapons Cache” earlier was rather more 'subdued' on their way back up. Sanzai was clipped, muted, even without the suppressive effects of the walls around them. For her part, Talon felt like that one time she’d had to gingerly br...
- Wed May 29, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
- Replies: 21
- Views: 914
Re: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
I wanted to make the crossover something more than the "Master Chief appears in [X] setting, what do?" plots that *so many* crossover fanfictions end up being. So by blending aspects of Outsider's backstory and Halo's backstory, I've made something that I hope ends up feeling like a cohesive setting...
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:59 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
- Replies: 21
- Views: 914
Re: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
So, there's the deep-dive into the backstory, the seam where I welded the Outsider setting to Halo's setting.
And also a bit of foreshadowing...
And also a bit of foreshadowing...
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:58 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
- Replies: 21
- Views: 914
Chapter Five: Reunion
<Door’s sealed, Lashret! They’ll need some serious explosives to get through it, now!> sent the gallen as she stepped away from the control panel. Fireblade eyed the ancient Soia mechanism suspiciously. She had had to push the very limits of her powers to force a way through that first Soia door nea...
- Sun May 26, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
- Replies: 21
- Views: 914
Chapter Four: Weapons Cache
<That is it?> Stillstorm asked. <Affirmative, Lashret.> replied Tempo, crowded next to her in the narrow cockpit and looking out of the same window. <It is the structure that the Shell laborer had known, in this same swamp.> <The Enemy seems to have… withdrawn from the area. Have they completed thei...
- Sun May 26, 2024 5:57 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6290
- Views: 5303413
Voice pitch
Hiya!
Quick question: since loroi males are much smaller than females, does that mean that loroi males would have a higher voice pitch (shorter vocal cords)?
Quick question: since loroi males are much smaller than females, does that mean that loroi males would have a higher voice pitch (shorter vocal cords)?
- Thu May 23, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
- Replies: 21
- Views: 914
Re: Chapter Three: Crashed
Author's Note: Okay, this forum's system is *really* starting to annoy me. It ate the last version of this chapter, with all the last-minute minor edits. So now I've re-done all the ones that I can remember, and hopefully it won't fail to upload this time. Teidar Pallan Fireblade was the first to a...
- Thu May 23, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
- Replies: 21
- Views: 914
Re: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
Yup. I figured that they would do so, for pretty much the exact same (but mirrored) reasons that most human cultures refer to ships as feminine.
Anyways, Chapter 3 is going up in a few minutes; it's where the story proper really begins.
Anyways, Chapter 3 is going up in a few minutes; it's where the story proper really begins.
- Tue May 21, 2024 9:42 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
- Replies: 21
- Views: 914
Chapter Two: Shot Down
Author's note in spoiler-box to make things neater: I'm not quite happy with the time-skip here, jumping over some action and describing it in past-tense. But Halo:CE doesn't give the player much of a view of the outside combat, and you mostly see it via Cortana's narration(/boasting) once you arriv...
- Sun May 19, 2024 6:56 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: A Chorus of Stars
- Replies: 77
- Views: 265044
Re: A Chorus of Stars
Ooh, dramatic!
- Sun May 19, 2024 6:23 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: [Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
- Replies: 21
- Views: 914
[Crossover Fanfiction] The Past Awakens
Author's Note: Hi everyone! I've written this story over the last ~4 months, and I'm going to be posting it over the next few weeks. There's 19 chapters, and I'm aiming to post one every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Now, to get a few things out of the way: 1) It's a crossover, and you'll probably ...
- Mon May 13, 2024 11:23 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Loroi Trade translation request general
- Replies: 350
- Views: 658682
Re: Loroi Trade translation request general
Hiya!
Translation request: What would the Trade word be for:
1) "Security." As in the job description/category, if different from the concept as a whole.
2) "Conquest"
Thanks!
Translation request: What would the Trade word be for:
1) "Security." As in the job description/category, if different from the concept as a whole.
2) "Conquest"
Thanks!
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:29 am
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: A Chorus of Stars
- Replies: 77
- Views: 265044
Re: A Chorus of Stars
I must say, I *do* like this version better.
Also, Ashrain needs a hug. Also maybe an AA meeting.
Also, Ashrain needs a hug. Also maybe an AA meeting.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:46 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: A Chorus of Stars
- Replies: 77
- Views: 265044
Re: A Chorus of Stars
Also, re-reading the "Project First Son is Revealed" bit, as far as I can tell the number of people who actually *know* about it and what Greywind can now do is still less than ~1,000 people. Keeping them from telling the secret would be *difficult,* but not impossible given that almost all of them ...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: A Chorus of Stars
- Replies: 77
- Views: 265044
Re: A Chorus of Stars
Ooh, the title makes sense now! And we've got Good news and Bad news:
Good News: The human-included sanzai network seems to be coming online.
Bad News: It's basically an unmoderated chatroom which moves at the speed of thought, with exactly the results anyone would expect.
Good News: The human-included sanzai network seems to be coming online.
Bad News: It's basically an unmoderated chatroom which moves at the speed of thought, with exactly the results anyone would expect.