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GeoModder wrote:Short question about the Dinnan sector.
It does not yet has enough population and/or inhabited planets to warrant its own defensive sector fleet?
Yes, that and it has no contact yet with any foreign territory. There will be a few patrol & support vessels drawn from the Minzan and Maoren pools, but as yet it does not have a need for a formal defensive fleet.

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Will we get more information about medival loroi in the future?

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Zorg56 wrote:Will we get more information about medival loroi in the future?
'No, knave.'

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Zorg56 wrote:Will we get more information about medival loroi in the future?
What sort of information are you looking for?

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Arioch wrote:
Zorg56 wrote:Will we get more information about medival loroi in the future?
What sort of information are you looking for?
Just more detailed history and social information.
Wonder how strong psionics affected society, and warfare.
In medival period one psionic can kill thousands if i understood insider correctly.

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Considering an earlier argument in the tread. If you absolutely want to use mines in space I would go for self activating missiles in orbit around something. Then again the term may change meaning. What we today call mines was first called torpedoes. I suspect that the word "mine" in military term may have had something to do with the job of a sapper, a soldier that dug holes under enemy installations and planted explosives there and before the invention of explosives undermined their foundations or simply dug entrance tunnels for troops to get under that pesky wall. Apparently the first seismographs was invented to detect these.

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Zorg56 wrote:
Arioch wrote:
Zorg56 wrote:Will we get more information about medival loroi in the future?
What sort of information are you looking for?
Just more detailed history and social information.
Wonder how strong psionics affected society, and warfare.
In medival period one psionic can kill thousands if i understood insider correctly.
Or just give them an headache if there are no amplifiers around. In such a scenario actual amplifiers would be ancient artifacts and by themselves be worth fighting wars over. an ancient Teidar could perhaps kill single targets thou but would face the same treatment as snipers do, they would become priority targets on the battlefield and cannot expect good treatment if captured.

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Zorg56 wrote:
Arioch wrote:
Zorg56 wrote:Will we get more information about medival loroi in the future?
What sort of information are you looking for?
Just more detailed history and social information.
Wonder how strong psionics affected society, and warfare.
In medival period one psionic can kill thousands if i understood insider correctly.
It's a pretty big topic, as it's the history of not just one world, but three. I have a significant amount of notes on the details of Deinar history, and I can fashion an Insider entry out of them if there is interest, but it's a pretty big job, and a subject that's a bit of tangent from the story itself.

Psionic amplifiers were not discovered until after the rediscovery of spaceflight, so there were none available during Loroi history on all three worlds. Naturally lethal unamplified psychokinetic power is relatively rare, and so the telepathic abilities of psionic soldiers were often more dangerous than their PK abilities. In the Deinar tradition, psionic soldiers were mainly deployed as unit commanders, and telekinesis was most often used as a defensive weapon to protect troops around her from missiles, etc., and telepathic abilities were used both offensively and defensively; Teidar vs. Teidar battles were mostly telepathic and physical contests, with the odd "force push" used for utility. In the Perrein tradition, large battles between infantry units were more rare, and so psionic soldiers were more often used solo or in small groups in a commando or covert mode. The Mizol still use PK primarily as a utility, and rarely use amplifiers.

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+1 vote to focus on the web comic, at least for the foreseeable future.

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Are Loroi stronger, or more durable, than humans? Can we expect them to become injured from the same causes, or will they shrug off certain sources of injury more easily?
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They are proportionally stronger than humans, that is, a loroi woman will be stronger than a human woman of similar height, weight and build, about as strong as a human man, again of similar height, weight and build (which would be a rather wimpy man in comparison).

I don't think they have thicker or more durable skin, Beryl probably has a bump on her head as well from encountering Alex's forehead, somewhere hidden by her hair. Thick hair actually works rather well in protecting one's own head from bruises.

Anyway, that's why seat belt use is mandatory also for those in the back ;)

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Hey Arioch, what is Loroi Philosophy like? Do you have any notes you can share?

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Under what circumstances Loroi invented tanks?
In our world it was very specific WW1 trench warfare.

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It's a pretty big topic, as it's the history of not just one world, but three. I have a significant amount of notes on the details of Deinar history, and I can fashion an Insider entry out of them if there is interest, but it's a pretty big job, and a subject that's a bit of tangent from the story itself.
As for me, I certainly have interest to read more about Loroi history at some point.

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entity2636 wrote:Anyway, that's why seat belt use is mandatory also for those in the back ;)
I am blaming Talon for forgetting to light up the "fasten seatbelts" sign. :lol:

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Talon wrote:As we have lost artificial gravity, you are now free to float about the cabin.

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CF2 wrote:Are Loroi stronger, or more durable, than humans? Can we expect them to become injured from the same causes, or will they shrug off certain sources of injury more easily?
Loroi are slightly more durable, on average, than a human of the same size, and have a slightly better chance of resisting disease or toxins. But the difference is not dramatic. (This is reflected the GURPS sheets with the racial +1 HT.)
Warringrose wrote:Hey Arioch, what is Loroi Philosophy like? Do you have any notes you can share?
Loroi philosophy centers around the retelling of their heroic tales, which are telepathically conveyed rather than written. These span all of Loroi history, including some that purport to predate the fall of the Soia, and extend right up to the present day, to include modern tales of the fallen. These tales preach Loroi values: reverence for ancestors and their heroic deeds, duty, honesty, and valor ("From Duty: Unity; Through Victory: Ascension"). The telepathic sharing of these tales and discussion of their meaning and lessons is the common practice of this philosophy, and this is also how the Loroi honor their dead and keep their memory alive. These practices are aided by the work of the male Nedatan orders, which have Listel-like members who keep mental archives of the tales, and scholars who study them and help explain their meaning to laypersons.
Zorg56 wrote:Under what circumstances Loroi invented tanks?
In our world it was very specific WW1 trench warfare.
After the Deinar iron age, without suitable riding animals for cavalry, or missile weapons that could not be easily deflected by Teidar, most of the Loroi cultures developed a relatively static style of warfare that depended heavily on formations of ranked heavy infantry. As the ages wore on, combat became ever more formalized and subject to elaborate rules; this system of infantry combat continued well into the early industrial era. Even after the invention of gunpowder and the adoption of musket-like firearms, the same sort of rules stayed in force (ranked infantry using firearms instead of melee weapons). It wasn't until someone realized you could scale up firearms to create artillery that things started to change; by this point they were already up to ~TL5/6, and so the infantry suddenly had to contend with WWI style artillery guns, the response to which in many cases was probably defensive works and trenches. Around the same time, they started to experiment with vehicles to move infantry. Armored vehicles probably began as protective transportation for infantry rather than for breaching defensive works, and evolved into fighting vehicles in their own right once the Loroi had figured out how they could be used as cavalry (which they had never had before).

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Is it possible, to use Beryl as a mele weapon? :lol:

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Zorg56 wrote:Is it possible, to use Beryl as a mele weapon? :lol:
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