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Unlike NATO, the TCA has its own independent military and intelligence gathering forces, and it's the TCA Scout Corps that is conducting the Alien Contact Mission; almost all information that Humanity has about the aliens has been collected by the Scout Corps, and the only means of communication wi...

Unlike NATO, the TCA has its own independent military and intelligence gathering forces, and it's the TCA Scout Corps that is conducting the Alien Contact Mission; almost all information that Humanity has about the aliens has been collected by the Scout Corps, and the only means of communication wi...

And, things continue to get worse for our intrepid heroes. But, I have to give kudos to Beryl. In spite of the incoming enemy, the increasingly dire combat situation, and the fact that she and Alex really should make their way to a couple of crash seats, she just refuses to relinquish her spot on Al...

I can't say exactly when, but thanks to that link Krulle posted, I can say sometime in 2003 between pages 10 and 11...

Holy crap, I've been following this for a looooooong time.

YAY!!! New Page!! Makes me imagine a missile boat with a giant cargo hold just piling a ton of missiles in a corner. Where else would you store missiles? Secured in racks? Psssh. :P hi hi The more I think about it, the less confident I am about Loroi relationships. I mean, it is totally normal wher...

That's some really great work, icekatze! I think you did an excellent job with the ship design - it was immediately clear it was a new model of TCA ship. That's also an interesting point about bridge/CIC location. On the one hand, center of mass is generally what you would aim at, so putting your pr...

Yay, new page! :D As for the page itself, I agree that there's nothing romantic going on here, but there are far worse things to have fall in one's lap. :) Unless the Soia-Liron species have a radically different approach in how their muscles are actually made up I doubt that it is physically possib...

It's a great day for Space ! They say it's gonna be playing music the whole time but I have't seen anywhere about a power source beyond the car battery. Makes me wonder if they have a couple solar cells rigged up or something. The whole way to Mars? I hadn't heard that, I only thought it was being ...

Beryl is definitely having an "OH @!#$" moment and I'm sure Alex would much prefer the non-ironic use of the phrase "may you live in interesting times."

Everyone and everything at my workplace just stopped so we could all watch the FH launch. Seriously impressive accomplishment; my jaw went slack at the simultaneous side booster landings.

Kudos to everyone at SpaceX.

Of course for all we know Beryl may find Alex a little too vanilla. Her definition of Alien is based on giant spiky dudes and carnivorous raptor people. That giant spiky dude and the carnivorous raptor person are detectable and readable by her telepathy. As is pretty much every other non-Loroi life...

Funny enough the secondary guns on the heavy cruiser design I've been working on has a total force of 2,094.375107 kilotons of energy, that's kind of ridiculous for a shell the size of a flipping car. Which there are six of these guns on the ship I've designed, 2 X 3 turret guns on staboard and por...

Hey guys, I need some help crunching some calculations, I'm trying to determine the amount of explosive force a projectile, let's say a ferrous tungsten shell, weighing 7 tons fired at a velocity of 0.1% the speed of light, how much energy would be generated from such an impact, measurements in eit...

Arioch wrote:Stars in Shadow is now available on GoG.com, if any of you were waiting for a non-Steam release.

YES!!!

It's mostly "which space magic do I like more?", but I think there's some room to debate tactics as defined by physics... What about UNSC Super MAC Guns which fire at some what close to the speed of light and effective ranges as I heard around the Lunar Perimeter so that be our one ace bad news only...

I think it would mostly boil down to a numbers game. The UNSC has an immense industrial base dispersed over a relatively large volume; it would be difficult and time consuming for the Loroi or Umiak to dismantle it. As far as I can tell, that was a big reason the UNSC was able to weather the Covenan...

Pretty sure by the end of this, Alex is going to relish some dull moments, because he's not going to be seeing any for some time to come. Interesting times...

@icekatze

Entirely plausible and I approve wholeheartedly the term "sneaky fleets."

hi hi I've played enough Eclipse Phase to have wild and fantastical imaginings about cosmic horrors that reside in the Empty Quarter, waiting to be accidentally awoken. :P But I notice that Beryl says "not well surveyed," instead of "totally unsurveyed." I'd find it kind of humorous if some old sch...

New here. Kind of shocked to see the discussion above :shock: Hope this isn't standard on these forums Talk about genocide? Nothing new, as the major combatants of the story have engaged in it. We often engage in the debate of morality v. total war v. threat of extinction. We usually avoid the Holo...

Arioch wrote:They're opening the Ark of the Covenant.

Alex really ought to know better than to look at it, then...