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wasp609 wrote:I just imagined some loroi crew members pocketing some humans stuff and playing with it. Imagine a loroi finding a pokemon game or something and storming into alex's cell to demand a means of charging the gameboy.

"You blew up all the double-A batteries"

I don't think that was VTOL? I remember him talking about how you could make a viable supersonic jet just by swapping out the Concorde's inefficient 60s engines for modern ones, and that going electric would let you fly above what is termed "coffin corner" (the point where wing lift and engine thru...

One of Elon Musk's dream projects that he talks a lot about is a supersonic (!) electric VTOL aircraft, so we'll see. I don't think that was VTOL? I remember him talking about how you could make a viable supersonic jet just by swapping out the Concorde's inefficient 60s engines for modern ones, and...

It is said that loroi have a better range than the Umiak, about 1 light second vs half that for the umiak Given this, and the IIRC higher acceleration of the Loroi forces, I have to wonder why the Loroi would ever move into the Umiak's combat range. The logistics involved in dancing around and cutt...

Those support beams seem to block visibility pretty badly... I imagine the pilots could wear augmented reality helmets/visors to allow them to see 'through' the shuttle, so a good window may not be necessary. We can already do this now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19372299 Also, those thre...

Karst45 wrote:It is said that loroi have a better range than the Umiak, about 1 light second vs half that for the umiak

Given this, and the IIRC higher acceleration of the Loroi forces, I have to wonder why the Loroi would ever move into the Umiak's combat range.

Having a 90% female population (and the ability to artificially inseminate) means you can have a pretty much exponentially expanding species, if you can provide supplies for it. That means even a 10% expendable male fighter population will grow exponentially too. Again, this is an unnecessary speci...

I agree with you that, with a high percentage of females, you could create a larger population. But then you have the issue of who is going to go into combat. You can't send the pregnant women or the women raising the children, or you'll lose that reproductive edge. I just think that, if you were e...

I only note that it's strange because Loroi seem to have been based on humans in-universe. I know there are out-of-universe reasons, but it does make me wonder what the in-universe reason the Soia might have had for deliberately swapping it back around. Speaking hypothetically, of course, Beryl not...

Loroi seem to have their sexual dimorphism the opposite way round to humans. Yes, but so do most non-mammalian Earth species; the females tend to be larger. I only note that it's strange because Loroi seem to have been based on humans in-universe. I know there are out-of-universe reasons, but it do...

How many new weapons created Loroi during the war? Most of the new weapons created by the Loroi during the war were based on the Historian technology exchange -- the Pulse Cannon and the Wave-loom device. There have been other refinements and incremental improvements, but nothing major that I can t...

I bought a 3D printer.

A Bellarmine would be a cool desk ornament.

eeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!! STILLSTORM! VERSUS! KIKITIK-27! BEGIN What's the population of the umiak compared to lorii populations? How much are the lorii outnumbered? Nobody knows. The Loroi do not know the extent of Umiak territory, and (as is the case with man...

At this rate, there's not going to be any insiders.

red: actually imho honorverse is kinda age of sail in space, but the fact remains that there is damn near zero terrain to make use of in space, a open field battle has more opportunity for 'tactics' there at least is 'earth' to work with, outmaneuvering...yeah, due to shorter deployment times on th...

red: Problem with tactics in space is there aren't really that much to it since there is very little terrain to make use of(which is were tactics really comes in), pretty much the whole thing is get real sneaky(and do things that could go wrong spectacularly) or keep your fleet clustered for larger...

The two fuels are similar in terms of energy output per mass of fuel, but taimat reactors would be different from antimatter reactors; the containment mechanisms are different (supercooling vs. magnetic isolation) and the reaction is different (some kind of induced decay vs. ramming particles and a...

We have no Taimat production. We could possibly make anti-matter, though. A Lunar Ring of solar panels could provide enough power to create hundreds of tons of anti-matter a year. Problem is, do humans in Outsider have the technology to store it? Likely not, or we'd already be using it instead of f...

This is why I mentioned my "Point Defence Fleet" idea. Humanity doesn't have lasers powerful enough to kill Umiak ships, but they can kill missiles. Hell, their numerous small laser turrets are perfect for the role. They just need to be able to keep up with Loroi ships in order to do that. The Loro...

I think anti-matter production is probably the single most important technology humanity needs to be able to make the smallest contribution to the war effort. IIRC, Taimat's advantage over anti-matter is that it's easier to make. Other than that, the two are interchangable. If humans could make ant...