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Quickdraw101 wrote: ↑

Sat May 01, 2021 12:13 am

Why you gotta be mean to Fireblade? She's been through quite enough as it is.

Because she exists for being tenderly bullied by someone universally weaker than her.

She did give the leaders of the coup attempt against her "free helicopter rides," but that's not Stalinism... that's called "rule of law." Well, that's exactly how Our Saint Wario of Georgia justified his policy, too. With exactly the same logic to it - that relying on an untrustworthy military com...

My main argument is that interstellar politics and by extension conflict in such a setting are a 'marathon' instead of a 'sprint'. Some strange marathon. Loroi have been running it since before humans figured out what electricity is, and then they just show up two blocks behind. With the right poli...

Waging a counter war upon a species that defeated you but is yet still weakened at the very least allows you to diminish a proven threat or regain what you lost. By that measure, everything is a proven threat to the Union, and everything is up for regaining. Because the Fall happened. He'll bring u...

Realistically, an entire generation of humans would be spend on that victory. Now what would stop the Loroi from coming back 20 or even just ten years later for round two? Oh, any number of things. Literally too many to list all the possibilities - from internal conflict, to lack of political will,...

Werra wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:11 am

If Heinlein wasn't such a degenerate coomer

Where do you think you are?

Werra wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 19, 2021 5:55 am

Wouldn't a gravity well have the opposite effect to a hill for defensive purposes?

It's an abstraction.

Well, I'll be honest and say that it's a mix of conjecture and reasonable assumption. The first bit of conjecture: The war isn't anywhere close to over at the time of the story. All the language used up to now has indicated as such, and while I can assume the Loroi are able to keep a potential spy ...

Big mood.

Since they can father a new kid every night, 1 in 100 should be sufficient to make the population go exponential. 1 to 1 is already enough to make it go exponential if the circumstances allow for it. Rarer men only allow for making the curve steeper, and shifting the slider of male status between "...

That shouldn't matter, should it? There are only 10 women per male and if they aren't having many children, the males can't either. 1. That assumes that the fatherhood is equally distributed, which is not the case. Dawn Star is a direct nephew of the Azerein, and as such he's the single hottest pie...

What information can we assume that the pocket historian have on humanity and Alex? It speaks stoopid gewd Hanglish. Either it says the truth and really did pilfer all the way through Bella's databanks and thus knows way too much for comfort, or it had an alternative source of info - meaning it als...

Ah, yes, nautical classification - one of the purest fields for expression of OCD in all of nerddom.

Roeben wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 01, 2021 2:06 pm

What do humans smell like to loroi, equivalently?

Like salt, ofc.

Yes, NaCl is odorless - for humans, that is.

DCR wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 22, 2021 2:44 pm

On more serious note: I hate nightmares, they slip past defenses and attack emotions directly

Fourth panel is what attacks my emotions directly. It's not fair guys, I refuse to believe that drawing alien redheads this cute is somehow legal in the US - straight up cardiac arrest hazard.

the compression itself would represent an energy storage method for ships effectively a battery so even if main power is lost as long as the containment/gravity compression system is not damaged it would continue to function. Curiously enough, we know that the gravity control system on the Bennet-c...

Crossposting from the Loroi thread: Given the likelihood that they're using fusion rockets? I doubt they would be using hydrogen, largely because it balloons their ships far too quickly (1 metric ton of (liquid) hydrogen has a volume of 14.12m^3, (liquid) helium is 6.25m^3, liquid water has 1m^3, a...

I'm not sure why we care.

That is definitely "shik", because the font is "Incy Wincy Spider" - Arioch just used capital S and K together with lowercase h and i:

Arioch wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 03, 2021 8:12 am

it's a lot easier to take the guts out and put them in an artificial shell than it would be for a vertebrate with all that pesky bone in the middle of everything.

Just take some bone with you.