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I do believe KRAK is the most accurate sound effect for an energy weapon like this. I imagine it sounds more like thunder than like the classic trope of a laser chirp. Good thing the area has been repressurized, with no air to ionize I expect the shot would be invisible and soundless... Far less dra...

I'm a bit confused by the sequence of events. Why repressurize when the hardtroops are outside the hull? When the interior is in vacuum, the hardtroops can make a hole anywhere and get inside to fight off the intruders. After repressurizing any hole will result in explosive decompression, and the on...

The density of stars in our vicinity is about 0.004 stars per cubic light year, the distance there is about 200 ly, so if the map displayed the stars in a 200x200x200 cube between us and Seren, it would show about 32,000 stars. Imagine Alex wiggling his finger at that....

The position is already clear[...] I... that is, We Loroi... can sense the presence of minds near to us. No wonder Loroi find Alex creepy. He must feel like a robot made of flesh to their senses. That brings up an important point - why is Beryl so sure the area is clear just because she can't sense...

Alex finally gets to witness firsthand the brutality of the Unsheathed. While he has chosen to side with the Loroi, I can’t help but feel that he will remember the Loroi’s capacity for aggression, and give him as well as other humans reason pause to completely trust them. Because if they can do tha...

But are the life support systems really so easy to sabotage? No one said it was easy. Are you saying it has to have be easy, or a girl couldn't have done it? j/k What did they take out, though? 1. Oxygen generation; it will still leave the bugs a few hours until it is depleted. 2. CO2 absorption; s...

I guess Tempo is on the Umiak ship, one by one killing their entire crew. Except for one that will be kept to radio the other ships, reporting that everything is fine. Not because he's under threat to do so, but because he actually believes it to be the case.

I think Tempo is the blue figure with the right hand extended - which I think is a sign she and Fireblade are actively using telepathic manipulation. They were the ones we saw guiding out the Umiak that wandered in, and I suspect they're still actively preventing more of them from doing so - reading...

I think Tempo may well have her own Lotai, and may instinctively use it when she wants to hide, even when the enemies are so telepathically blind, they cant even sense Fireblade. Also, I think Tempo has brought Alex to the bridge for the Historians and Barsam to see specifically so it cant be covere...

But what of the prophet's reason? Are they to be arranged to have an accident as well? Also, can there be a conspiracy to hide the fact that humans exist, in a society of telepaths that cant really hide their thoughts from one another? And what's the plan - to send a few trusted ships to commit geno...

I wonder if that gesture is universal and is understood by the female dominated space elves? I don't think it is universal, but I do think Alex's face and body language do universally convey that it is an act of defiance. I also feel like Fireblade's gesture is designed to be a universal "I'm watch...

I noticed there are a bunch of already fired ordnance in the background - missiles with blue trailing thrusters above the Umiak ship, and some without a blue trail below it. Have they fired on the Shuttle already? Are they just ships far away in the background? The giant Umiak ship looks like the sa...

What information can we assume that the pocket historian have on humanity and Alex? The location of earth? A (more or less plausible) confirmation on a peaceful human mission? Since the construct claims they have been through the wreckage of the Bellermine, given they're impressive ability to hack ...

She'll remember Micky Mouse and ask for an explanation once she knows what it means.

Have Beryl's hands always been this long and narrow? Also, it's strange that we only see 3 fingers on the right hand - is the index finger and thumb supposed to be behind? Playing around with my own hand showed me such a perspective is possible, but it somehow seems wrong to me. For the index finger...

Humanity has managed to learn a whole Loroi-trade-language from the Orgus, which includes a number system, but it doesn't include a unit of measurement for time and distance? I find that really hard to swallow. The whole purpose of a trade language, facilitating trade, is closely linked to having a ...

I notice that Tempo appears to be talking in a cellphone or the equivalent therof. To whom are she talking? Time will tell. Anyway the fact that we see a picture of her does not necessarily mean she will come with them on the trip. She may be making that phonecall from her quarters on Tempest or so...

And how do the Loroi generally feel about sharing technologies with primitive civilizations? Are they likely to open up and share lots of new technologies with humaniti, or are they likely to hold everything back, even if humaniti joins the war against the Umiak?

Wouldn't telomerase activators also help suspend aging?

Yes, but they'd make us much more susceptible to cancer. Every living person has lots of small cancer tumors that do not grow to dangerous sizes due to the telomers fuses running out.

How many stars are there approximately in Loroi territory, and what fraction of these have been explored, colonized, or somehow utilized? atlasoftheuniverse says there are 260,000 stars within 250 ly of sol. Seeing the scale of the map seems to suggest similar numbers. Are all of the stars in the re...