Well of Souls Forums

Secondly, break in continuity? Tempo sort of handed off Alex to Talon for her to give him access to the starmaps (see pg. 111), and now it requires Beryl to access them? Either it is a plot hole or another sort of a demonstration on Beryl's side giving Talon a signal to back off and not intrude on ...

This may end up being a spoiler so feel free not to answer this if it is. Are humans the only of Earth's lifeforms with Lotai? I.E. Will the Loroi be able to sense the animals of Earth? My guess? They'll be able to read the thoughts of cats, and will be startled to learn that they are both evil AND...

What an excellent surprise! Very glad to you've been able to devote some time your comic, Arioch. To the comics themselves, I have to say the facial expressions are top-notch. Beryl's shock, indignation and skepticism were quite plain. Talon's final expression on 117 is hilarious - *does not appreci...

@White While it is true that there are other methods of detection beyond thermal, I think the purpose of stealth in this case would not be to make an object invisible as much as to make is "unidentifiable as a hostile ship". By removing the thermal element, an Umaki craft facing a barrage of lasers ...

Schlock Mercenary? That's space drama. I'm not sure what Space Opera is -- I don't see singing here or there. (I don't see singing anywhere :-) Space Opera has been a thing for a long time. Star Wars, Babylon 5, and Battlestar Galactica are all examples. Schlock could count, too. It's not just the ...

stealth does not work in space, nor does it meaningfully work for surface ships, nor aircraft, although the speed involved with aircraft means a slightly shorter distance you are detected at can actually be useful, for ground troops it CAN work though, enough clutter to hide around in. and as menti...

Just an FYI, we had a really big discussion on stealth, jamming and countermeasures about a year ago. Pretty much everything you're positing was discussed there, @novius and @sweforce. Suffice it to say, decoys wouldn't work, false signal emitters wouldn't work, minefields wouldn't work, any energy ...

(Not that a ship with a terajoule-per-second drive plume is a stealthy creature to begin with...) That could easily define battle doctrine. As in, once a combatant risks to get into the enemy's scanner range, it would be "engines on hot standby", to not to be given away by a terawatts (Joule/second...

Happy New Year, all!

Speaking of radiation in space, bearing in mind I'm hugely nerding out here, I'm trying to figure out how many rads/sieverts someone fighting basically nude at the altitude of geostationary orbit would take over the course of an ~5-10 sword fight. I haven't been able to find a good answer with the ...

@Arioch To echo Codius, I stumbled upon Outsider in the early 2000s. Practically a geological epoch in Internet time. Updates can be sporadic and slow, but despite that, you have still managed to build an incredibly detailed and interesting universe. A place where, in spite of the wait, a whole comm...

Probably they were using repulsors or the equivalent, but that doesn't counter his point. Whether maneuvering by adjusting repulsors or engines, if you adjust your net thrust vector instead of adjusting relative positions in a PID or similar loop (and the vector is probably faster...) then you cras...

Actually fixing the problem? That's just crazy talk!

Eeeeeeh, let's not be TOO hasty to call bad writing there. I mean, it COULD be, but I could see it being perfectly plausible, too: Executor was operating very near to the surface of the Death Star II, which is so massive it has its own gravitational field. As such, the pilot was probably having to ...

Are we sure Edgar wasn't a bit wacky before cosmic rays smacked into his brain matter? I'd heard about his... transcendental(?)... experience during the Apollo 14 mission, but hadn't realized he'd also conducted a "psychic communication" experiment attempting to transmit info to people on Earth from...

ShadowDragon8685 wrote: Have to disagree with you there. Ayala Secura gets my top pick.

The accent just gives her that little extra something...

Eh, I tend to use the right word for the job. I mean, I could describe someone flashing a "wise-alec half-smile," but isn't that what the word "grin" is for? <wise-alec half-smile> You can probably guess my answer, but, anecdotally, I can make a whole range of facial expressions beyond grinning to ...

If people will actually come and stay come, I have no qualms with starting it back up. Especially if "people" includes Jim. IRC is a little dated and a lot cumbersome for people who didn't start using the internet until about 2008 or so. Perhaps a Discord chat would be more appropriate today? It ha...

Another interesting addition, Shadow. I definitely enjoyed the development this provided for the Fragile Sisters. I would offer a piece of con-crit, though. You used the word "grin" or one of its conjugations 48 times in this entry. I saw the word so often that I decided to search to see if I really...

...suddenly tens of thousands of angry Canucks were riding their Battle Moose into New York state... . Not to discount everything else you said, but I completely lost it here. :lol: I just can't get the image out of my head... Let me make it worse: http://i.imgur.com/0qjbpVw.jpg http://a57.foxnews....