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That assumes that the inertial damping system produces a net thrust on the ship itself, or actually negates the external effects of gravity, neither or which I think is necessarily the case. If they had true antigravity, then even the largest vessels could easily get to and from the surface on mane...

hi hi One of the basic workarounds for gravity propulsion in settings that have artificial gravity is that the artificial gravity requires both a physical positive and negative pole. That is, a plate in the ceiling to push and a plate in the floor to pull. Making it impossible to simply put a pushe...

That implies a practical limit that prevents them floating ships up and down on their artificial gravity systems. The Kzin lesson implies loroi ships have some low power maneuvering capability for maneuvering near things like crippled friendly ships or repair docks. That assumes that the inertial d...

I couldn't find an answer to this with a brief forum search, though I may not have searched particularly intelligently. During his time aboard Tempest , was Alex held in some kind of brig cell/quarantine room/other form of containment cell, or was he held in crew quarters? If he was in the brig, wh...

What's a Morzen?

Time to dig out this thread again..... http://well-of-souls.com/gallery/images/citadels_fancy.jpg That looks great. Not that functional, but this is a visual medium. The battle station needs to turn quite a bit to get the manoeuvring engines positioned to be effective... Will they already appear on...

First, I just need to say that not only am I glad to see a new page, I'm glad to see that Talon is something of a wiseass. Brought a smile to my face. :) As for Tempo holding her face in her hand, I don't think that some of you realize just how large of an impact the fact of Alex and the rest humani...

An interesting ending. One thing especially stood out to me: the fact that Alex specifically saved Beryl. Genuine gratitude for saving the ship (and him)? Mere repayment of a debt? Either way, it seems to me that there may still be some semblance of humanity remaining in Alex. I can't say I'm surpri...

Guess we're about to find out what it looks like when crap hits a mutli-dimensional fan. This should be fun! :o :lol: Since we've never actually seen the Wave-Loom get used I had to guess for its activation sequence, so its operation is likely quite different than what Arioch had in mind. Using it a...

Is it OK that I laughed? Because I did. At Stillstorm. Oh, man, if she thought her day was bad before...

Hope everyone packed their brown pants before they deployed.

Perhaps humanity or their enemy sets off a weapon that has the side effect of driving lesser telepathic beings insane. The fact that Alex was in the Steppes could suggest that some new front has opened in the local realspace/timeframe of the Local Bubble. Not every weapon deployment need result in ...

On the other hand, I might be able to work something out. Originally I had assumed that Alex would be completely unable to interact with any of the Loroi systems, as they're just too primitive. It would be like trying to interface your tablet with an abacus. But that limitation was arbitrary just t...

Well, that could be an interesting story. The species of the Local Bubble suddenly find themselves in the middle of a war they can't see, but is wreaking utter havoc upon them. Maybe you could do a set of brief snippets from their perspective as they witness their all-too-likely end? Wouldn't be a ...

How about whoever blew up Alex's ship (assuming that's how he ended up with the Loroi) learns exactly what they blew up? Someone did blow up his ship. But they knew exactly what they were doing when they did. The Loroi, Umiak, and even the Historians don't have a snowball's chance in hell of destro...

I believe the exploded head thing was Alex screwing with their heads. The fought they had shot him, seen the head explode and brain matter splatter everywhere but in reality, they did nothing. They got false memories placed into them just because he wanted to. he is fully capable to mind control th...

Have you seen GURPS Psionics? It offers a lot of interesting content involving Telepathy including a "reflective" upgrade to the mind shield which bounces any attack back at the attacker. I'm only loosely familiar with GURPS, though I know the Outsider tech levels are loosely based off GURPS' 3rd E...

The concept that humans are Cthulhu is a strange one, and difficult to pull off. However, I believe that you have captured that with such a Lovecraft element even simple communication would be a difficult, if not potentially lethal Thank you! There's actually a fun reason Human telepathic communica...

@dragoongfa Enjoyed the story and I look forward to more. Even then you're still dealing with energy storage after a fashion, just that the energy is locked up in matter and released via fusion, or locked up in a black hole and released via hawking radiation. The "ideal" forms of energy are either v...

This kind of makes me curious. Just how many of us are regularly active in the forums? We're a small group (I recognize several users by writing style), but we seem pretty vocal.

hi hi If Talon is showing up, could we be about to take the highway to the danger zone? :) Hot, blue space elves plus one of the greatest songs ever written? YES!! Or it could be the loooong boring part of the trip where she sets everything to autopilot and comes back to the passenger cabin for som...