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Well you appear to be right. Effectively duct taping 6 heavy lasers together would produce a far better weapon range/damage if they acted as a single laser with matched wavelengths and converged on target. Not as good as having a dedicated Emitter/Lens but vastly better then particle weapon spinal ...

Well its not the length thats important its the width of the Emitter. I was describing the length of laser loop required to make a Xaser using a Free Electron Laser, the most practical means we would have using modern of near future technology to build such a weapon. The length doesn't determine ra...

1e-8 wavelength Xray laser at only 5% efficiency(4800000MW Output) and a 20m wide projector that fires in 1 second pulses. Gives a rather fearsome weapon. Target distance-beam radius at target-Tungsten Armour Penetration Depth. 300000km, 0.183m, 91m 200000km, 0.122m, 308m 100000km, 0.061m, 2.4km(ye...

Arent wrote:The mysterious hair grooming device(TM) is vital for Loroi war efforts.

Once, commander Stillstorm killed five Umiak with only a hair grooming device and a little bit of duct tape

Fire the Wave-Groom Device!

They've released some concept art. This one looks to be an ion frigate, based on some of the other art. Looks like a cross between Vagyr and Taidaan. https://fig-images.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fplayfig.s3.amazonaws.com%2FCampaignMediaItem%2Fimage%2Fcampaign_media_item%2F2019%2F09%2F10%2F82c28dd1-bb3...

Fusion in a magnetic containment chamber made for it I can't see making the ship immune to such weapons, shooting sabot round does not make a tank immune to sabot rounds or human shooting a bow immune to arrows. No one else has pointed this out, so I will. Sabots and bows are not the same thing as ...

I like the trademark on the end. I think the construct has a sense of humour.

To sum up what we know so far, it appears that the Historian AI/VI, while in standby mode inside it's bucket (it's obviously not registering on the shuttle's displays since everything's supposed to be offline to reduce emissions), is aware that Alex is alone in the cargo bay and has obtained a tabl...

H'mm. How'd that show up on the Pad's desktop screen before the message was opened?

(I spy the Emissary's visage)

I'm thinking based on the Dramatis Personae that the Emissary may have uploaded itself into the Pad. Yes, as some have noted, the Emissary claimed to be being transmitted to the container from Mozin's ship, but even if that were true (Historians would never lie!) that doesn't preclude copying itself...

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so batteries probably last a good while longer than they do now.

Seizing born of fire wreath.

So complete nonsense then.

Alex is beginning to pick up a bad habit of being too close to giant explosions. But it's a good thing he wasn't looking at that one, or I imagine he'd have the image forever burned into his retina. :P It’s a good thing the EMP didn’t knock out the electro or photochromic glass that instantly darke...

IIRC EMPs are only an effect of nuclear weapons because of their interaction with the atmosphere. In vacuum, it wouldn't happen.

I'd just like to say, I really like the shuttle's design.

Now they got rid of the incoming missiles but face the prospect of drifting towards interstellar space, especially since the Relay seems to have taken quite a battering, too, and may be in no shape to catch up to them. I assumed that was the Barsam Courier's job. Also, I noticed the explosions are ...

I'm sure such tests have been done, the point I was making was that the wording ProjectRho was using either suggested it hadn't, or that physicists getting to keep their jobs was more important. The highlit part about holding on to causality even tighter was not specific. If they meant they held ont...

Your average physicist holds Relativity quite strongly. It has been tested again and again with an accuracy of many decimal places. They hold onto Causality even tighter. Without Causality the entire structure of physics crumbles. Causes must preceed effects, or it becomes impossible to make predic...

Makes more sense now that I've had sleep and you're using diagrams that aren't full of confusing and unlabelled lines.

I usually use warp drive in my fictional settings... which is not an instantaneous drive. It takes time to get places. So that would avoid the paradox, yes?

I'd argued with people over similar complaints, and never got a satisfactory answer. According to the argument, all FTL travel breaks the universe. My view: A paradox requires that you go backwards in time. If all frames of reference (start point, starship, and destination) are moving forwards in ti...