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- Mon Aug 07, 2017 1:55 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Of course, this is all based on the idea that human broadcasts will simply propagate normally along usual channels. If they thought it would be beneficial I don't doubt a hundred different national leaders would start picking things out to send out. Remember the moment humans realized a probe would ...
- Sat Jul 08, 2017 4:07 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Stars in Shadow
- Replies: 137
- Views: 111962
Re: Stars in Shadow
Got my copy during the summer sale. It's exactly what I wanted in a game like this and I can't really go I to any big problems without way more play time, which is an indication they aren't that big. Maybe the only thing I'm noticing is a lack of an obvious tutorial. I do want some better clarificat...
- Fri Jul 07, 2017 5:24 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6283
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
I mean, presuming the mantle is hot enough and you can tap into enough power effectively, you could probably power a ground to base military installation off geothermal, or at least partly power it. But anything that chunky to do it effectively would be a big and obvious target to hit first. A mantl...
- Tue Jul 04, 2017 5:52 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page: 119
- Replies: 45
- Views: 33659
Re: Page: 119
So that averages out to just under 750 battleships total.Arioch wrote:[
Just jump-capable ships. The division that attacked SG-51 on pp.68-84 was a pretty typical medium Umiak division: 8 heavies, 64 medium vessels, and about 50 light vessels and gunboats.
Jeez.
- Mon Jul 03, 2017 4:00 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page: 119
- Replies: 45
- Views: 33659
Re: Page: 119
Does this count gunships carried on tow cables or is it just inter-system ships?Arioch wrote:It varies, but a typical Umiak division is around 75 vessels.CrimsonFALKE wrote:How large is a bug's division?
- Mon Jul 03, 2017 3:45 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6283
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
I think you're again misunderstanding. Once you get past whatever physical limitations the body has, a 13 year old can pilot a fighter. The actual act of learning to fly isn't really the time consuming part of training a modern fighter pilot compared to needing a four year degree and going through m...
- Mon Jul 03, 2017 4:47 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page: 118
- Replies: 105
- Views: 125816
Re: Page: 118
I'm not really seeing the illusion of autonomy is the distinction. Alex can move unrestrained, provided he goes where he is told and is accompanied at all times. There isn't even really a pretense to rely on at this stage. Which is what the issue is. He hasn't really been given much in the way of in...
- Mon Jul 03, 2017 4:40 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6283
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Excepting of course that that study has many problems, some of which are pointed out even within the article itself. I'm currently on mobile and I'll provide links when I can but that information is in fact directly contradicted by other studies that handle language and the brain. EDIT: Harvard has ...
- Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:44 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page: 119
- Replies: 45
- Views: 33659
Re: Page: 119
My best guess after going through the ship profiles is that it's probably something like a Lone Fire backed by whatever ships aren't mobile or modern enough to see action on the offensive, like Halberds and Catapaults, backed by something defensively oriented like Rapiers. Given that you can park a ...
- Sun Jul 02, 2017 9:22 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6283
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
You're mistaking the entire original question for an assumption.
- Sun Jul 02, 2017 8:03 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
I think you aren't following what I'm saying at all. Of course you can keep learning after that point, it just becomes more difficult. A side by side comparison would be if you took a Loroi and a Human born at the exact same time and exposed them to the same information in the same way, the Loroi mi...
- Sun Jul 02, 2017 6:28 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6283
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
I assumed that, but I just wanted to confirm. Mainly because the implications of that are kind of huge once you actually work through the concept. By which I mean that while other primates, dolphins, and equivalent species can reach mental adulthood in a similar timeframe, they aren't running a stel...
- Sun Jul 02, 2017 8:58 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6283
- Views: 5092308
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
I think you have a very skewed idea of what the average soldier's age was in ye olden days. An average knight wouldn't even become a squire til mid teens, and wouldn't even become a Paige until about the age a Loroi is physically an adult. Even a reasonably young knight could usually fall into what'...
- Sun Jul 02, 2017 6:55 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6283
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
How does the Loroi brain work? I don't mean that as in "how do psychic powers work" so much as "how does the brain develop over time". I'm no neurologist but my impression of the brain is that the formative years are when the mind is best able to take in information and adapt, and that becomes far m...
- Sun Jul 02, 2017 6:34 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page: 118
- Replies: 105
- Views: 125816
Re: Page: 118
To reopen a discussion from a few pages ago I don't think it's really a question of "Can Alex reveal the location of earth" but "was it appropriate right now". Nobody asked him for it because it wouldn't really have been appropriate. It wasn't exactly pertinent to his situation since it was already ...