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I was citing it mainly for the electronic ignition aspect. To my knowledge the G11 still used mechanical firing. The former is desirable because it means you can use propellant that is "harder" to ignite, which is important for avoiding cookoff when you don't have as many heatsinks anymore like meta...

My assumption is they figured out a chemical propellant that is resistant/immune to water/humidity and normal atmospheric temperature variation and which does not require atmospheric oxygen to be present for complete ignition either. And only needs something as simple as an electrical arc within the...

AFAIK we so far have not also have not seen from a Loroi POV what it is like for a Loroi to utilize an amplifier either for that matter; is it perceptible to third parties at the point of execution only (once the ability has been manifested on the target)? Or does the amp user get a DBZ aura powerup...

One thing just occurred to me... Have any of the Loroi that have been in direct physical contact with Alex ever try directing their abilities at other targets than him during that contact or has every one of them been too focused on trying to detect/mindprobe him at the time of contact (or otherwis...

One thing just occurred to me... Have any of the Loroi that have been in direct physical contact with Alex ever try directing their abilities at other targets than him during that contact or has every one of them been too focused on trying to detect/mindprobe him at the time of contact (or otherwise...

hello I think the key thing for Alex to do is enable wireless communication on his pad by that the Historien can take controll over the ship maybe even send some of his commrads to the hole division. sorry for my bad English Granted, that would come with its own set of complications. It's supposed ...

In modern terms he's a green butterbar with high marks fresh out of Westpoint. Might be smart/talented as hell but not actually battle tested, (his ship getting gibbed before they could react wasn't much of a battle) and going up against an alien foe that might whip out some Outside Context Problem ...

I'm still waiting for the moment when Alex starts getting grilled about Mickey Mouse and its cultural significance in Terran funeral rites.

Yeah they'd be collectively meta-gaming like crazy to do something like that. Barring some in-story context that has not yet been revealed.

I think he meant that Umiak ships don't keep Loroi prisoners on hand. Interstellar travel in Outsider is rather slow; it would take weeks or months to even get humans captured from the scout missions to places where Loroi prisoners are, if they still have some, and then weeks or months to get get w...

Without active psi abilities of their own, how would they find out? Keeping a captive Loroi around with any form of strong telepathy would be an unacceptably huge risk barring some sort of Sword of Damocles plot device to compel obedience, so it's not probable to use one as a proxy to discover that....

CrimsonFALKE wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:52 pm

I wonder if the umiaki could do asmr videos and get their resources that way.

Sounds like they'd end up making a bunch of Klik-bait.

"Receive only" would not only make no sense, it would be quite weird story-wise. Or maybe I'm too spoiled by the various fanfics. It's a pity that "What to do with Jardin" was abandoned, it was hilarious. Receive-only fits the data we've seen thus far from my perspective. Alex is definitely receivi...

There's reasons large Battleships could still be around or still dominant in a sci-fi setting. For example, the Handwavium-Narrative reaction necessary for FTL drives simply happens to require an engine size too large and expensive for them to be practical or economical to use in maneuverable muniti...

True, wetware is somewhat more difficult to hack than software too. Meat-drones also self repair and self supply to an extent too "out of the box" compared to mechanical ones. Fewer issues with EMP, etc. But we are seeing wetware being "hacked" right on this page!? Assuming Fireblade is bending min...

These soldiers are as good as drones for the Umiak. Breed to do this and probably only this. Why build a mechanical robot when you can grow your own genetic drones. True, wetware is somewhat more difficult to hack than software too. Meat-drones also self repair and self supply to an extent too "out...

Werra wrote: ↑

Tue May 25, 2021 3:37 pm

The Umiak will softly but resolutely knock on the shuttle, introduce themselves, their ship and their division and politely ask to take the inhabitants prisoner.
Then this will ensue, in space.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXVN7QJ8m88

I was thinking something more to the tune of Yakety Sax.

Especially if even dead bodies and equipment could provide them enough of any intel they wanted. Venting the atmosphere would then nearly always be a better option to help reduce or hamstring any resistance as the boarder. And in the event of the boarded ship personnel attempting to use incendiaries...

^ Human fallibility being one of the biggest weaknesses of any security system. Fishing attacks, exploiting people's greed or stupidity...etc... Or overconfidence in the effectiveness of their technology leading to lax security elsewhere. Like allowing a remotely acessible recording device of any s...

I used to work in military satellite communications...everything was required to be bulk encrypted before being sent over broadcast, regardless of what was done at the trunk level already, *and* even then anything once it had sent over any broadcast medium was considered to be on a delay timer befor...