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God, I think my wallet just got lighter just by seeing those.

All the Umiak need to do is isolate the Loroi, not eradicate them in order exploit their systems. Perhaps Ktilitik-27 descends from a higher Umiak caste which is less egalitarian or maybe he's just nice fellow. Also, Machiavelli wrote the Prince for Di Medici after he had been tortured for a month i...

Rosen, that would be a pragmatic evolutionary arrangement I guess, but that assumes that Loroi have a similar conception of reciprocity as human culture (which can be seen in the way Loroi treat their Umiak prisoners). The question I was trying to get at was whether Loroi culture sees adversaries as...

Arioch: Did the Loroi ever develop a code akin to the Geneva convention when their society(ies) coalesced into larger nation states or did their warrior code/notions of honor limit the socially permissible/acceptable actions of conduct on the battlefield?

Which, to me at least, all this points at perhaps Arioch's plot is not for 'the human' to help the Loroi destroy or defeat the hated enemy with his deeds or the tactical possibilities humanity could potentially add to the mix but instead its Alex's 'unbiased' humanity that lends a world-view to the...

Solemn, perhaps the reason the bugmen stopped in place is that they know if they pursue the 51st that the 51st will retreat and destroy the remaining wreckage. Engaging the enemy is not really going to happen in this fight. @ fredgiblet, gearing up a war economy and producing a larger fleet might no...

Stillstorm will not give up that mustard so easily...

"I think we're going to need a bigger boot..."

Ya, in Star Trek you can poof out a cup of coffee but pooffing out a ship doesn't happen

Pistachios, scenario: Umiak gain access to the wreckage of the Bellarmine and find a package of pistachios... collapse of Umiak civilization soon follows.

Though I can see an Umiak just pulling a bunch of spaghetti into its mouth with two forks/chopsticks.

If the animals of Earth all share a certain Sanzai resistance, it would help in part to explain why Earth was never found in general. Oh yeah. Think of Sanzai-Ants. Earth = Telepatically "loudest" place in the universe. :D Then I think the Loroi would destroy us for just being annoying...... Anothe...

REPLICATORS: This forum needs a like button. Creating a self replicating army might not be capable with the story's given technology (though advanced adaptive AI's could theoretically exist and be used for colonizing/scouting, thereby giving mankind something to tinker with). The number of drones an...

That would a) require an already unstable star and b) a neutron star (which is not a star) c) a star fusing Oxygen (I think the Sun might stop at carbon but don't quote me on this) and a BUNCH OF MASS. Maybe a planetload, which Arioch state was beyond the logistical capacities of the current war par...

@ Use of low yield nuclear weapons: http://www.carloslabs.com/node/20 (and 10 Hiroshima nukes would have ejected enough material into the atmosphere, which would have resulted in a nuclear winter scenario). @ Nemo. Your opinions and attitude remind me of how I thought 8 years ago. There is a lack of...

The number one Russian objective has been territorial security; the idea that the Soviets wanted a world hegemony is just Cold War propaganda (and I never hear anyone complain about the capitalist hegemony that the West promoted and that has risen since the end of the bipolar world). Also, as antica...

Plan. Step 1. Acquire Technology Step 2. ??? Step 3. Profit (TERRAN GALACTIC HEGEMONY) If humanity were to acquire even some "backwards" or civilian tech; we might be able to put it to such good use that in 30-50yrs our neighbors might be facepalming/clawing themselves. We are a listless species tha...

Since verbal communication is taken as a form of aggression, it's how commanders exert dominance (also there is a limited range to senzai, so you must speak for ship to ship communications.)

I would think not. The US had the bomb all by itself and the most powerful wartime economy in the world at the end of WW2. We could have dominated the world, or blown anyone who would not bend the knee into non existence, literally without resistance. We did not. I think both the Loroi and Umiak wo...

Ya, I'm just playing semantic games anyways :lol: Also, I just tend to enjoy viewing humanity as both genius/idiotic at the same time. We kind of stumbled into space; we kind of went looking for aliens; we kind of got our ship blown up; we kind of have some guy trying to negotiate the best interests...

Not exiting hyperspace, patrolling between the two stars. Then maybe do something diabolical, like put a psychic loroi mind in a torpedo that "patrols" hyper space and looking for unrecognizable "alien" minds to hunt. I doubt given Loroi culture such an "innovative" weapon would be employed. They a...