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I guess the short translation would be

She our Torrai baby sister now, therefore only us Torrai are allowed to do nasty things to her!

if I get the gist of it?

I’m pretty sure the “does not speak” is about vocalisation, not sanzai. My reading was that an Unsheathed would sanzai in a normal situation, but in a threatening situation she would block off her sanzai to reduce attack surface and then user her voice. Yup. As the Unsheathed are apparently the equ...

There is a lot of places where you simply cant go with a tank, i can seehumanoid mecha with APC like combat capabilities in the mountain regions or in the half frozen swamps of far north. Ground pressure is your problem in that case. See, tracked vehicles do pretty good on snow or swampy ground, bu...

As soon as she handed the blade to him, I was getting a Dune vibe (the scene when Paul gives water rings to Chani... not noticing that in Fremen culture it is an elemnt of courtship. It takes Stilgar, the tribe's chieftain intervene to explain the somewhat stunned girl the newcomer doesn't know thei...

hi hi Assuming the Historian construct was telling the truth about the Barsam, and that it hasn't actually just contacted the Umiak to make the pickup, I don't think the Barsam have any way of effectively hiding information from the Mizol. True. Then again, the Historian construct is likely to be w...

The Historians certainly have been around the local bubble for ages, but it is kinda difficult to intercept signals if there aren't any (first radio broadcast is dated in 1906, with first radio signals being transmitted in second half of the 19th century. And keep in mind radio waves have limited sp...

Well, I wouldn't be really surprised if the Loroi had equivalent materials.
Taking cultural differences into account, of course.

Nb. that Historian AI is scary: it got to it pretty damn quick when ti goes for cultural things...

Well, fashion means a lot in terms of given names. Some survive well, others disappear - sometimes to resurface years later. In modern times, popular culture does influence such popularity a lot. Actually Vlad is different name and not an abbreviation. I'm just too lazy to type a whole name, when re...

By "middle name" do you mean otchestvo ? I guess Loroi would understand the concept of patronymic (or rather, in their case, matronymic) - as a part of one's name - pretty well, even if they do not seem to practise it themselves. Nb. to my knowledge, patronymic and matronymic surnames are pretty pop...

Well, let me join the fun here... First name, essentially: gift of God (originally Hebrew, but well-established in Christina tradition) Second name: one to create glory / fame (Slavic) Family name: of the cherry tree settlement (Adjective form, if interpreted literally, though historically this form...

Any kind of game can be fun; whether it's a flight simulator or a fighting game or a shooter or an abstract game like chess or Tetris or Bejeweled. Fun is not the issue. Games like Mortal Kombat and DOOM are different from fighting simulators not because they're fun, but because they are based on a...

Well yeah, with TL12 (or better...) you are bound to know a few tricks about van Eck's phreaking, TEMPEST warfare and related topics. Tricks Humanity on its TL 9 didn't invented yet. It is interesting to notice that the Historian Construct is impressed with the quality of Humanity's computers (well,...

Well, according to the Insider, Humanity is rated at Tech Level 9 / on the cusp of TL 10. I doubt the tablet in question is the bleeding edge of the available tech, so I'd bet it is TL 9. Loroi / Umiak are early TL 11. We've seen, basically, how big difference is there between (I assume) mature TL 9...

Several of the ships you've listed share names with Earth Company's warships from the Alliance/Union universe by C.J.Cherrych. The ECS-XX format is also consistent (even though the numbers do not match, obviously), so I had a hunch it might be inspired by it. ECS-05 Norway is probably the most impor...

Since I'm around... I have a question that has been bothering me since I read the Outsider Insider:

Who is the captain of ECS-088? Especially given ECS-05 seems to be long out of commission... i.e. not listed anywhere, and apparently predating the ECS-020 Centaur...

SVlad wrote: As large, as typical server rack.

I stand corrected, then

The shuttle should have some source of fresh water for emergency situations - Loroi need to drink water too. I'm sure they have a supply of fresh water on board - not only for emergency operations, but as standard equipment also. I mean, the shuttle is meant to ferry passengers on trips several hou...

Long-time lurker, first-time poster here. Hello everyone! (And who wants a wager that they won't have enough water for Alex to rehydrate his rations?) Well, Jardin can certainly pee on his rations. Current MREs can be rehydrated using any water including urine, right? I'd like to think that future r...