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I bet Beryl is intently cataloguing the difference in Human and Loroi reactions when someone falls towards them.


Purely for science of course.

Clearbrook: Look at the bright side kid, you get to keep all the money.

I remember this comic existing while I was still in the military. So pre-2004 or so? Didn't join the old forums right away though as I tend to lurk more than I post.

since all you would need to defeat it is a wearable faraday cage, which actually exist, and looks kinda badass, but it makes the weapon sorta useless for military applications. There's a bit more nuance than that to that interaction; after all, personal body armor and vehicle armor exists, yet we s...

.....wherein Beryl learns the Human idiom "Have a seat and talk about the first thing that pops up."

The equipment lists in the characters sheets are items that the characters might be equipped with, rather than a list of all their personal effects (though I suppose that would be an interesting exercise). Fireblade for example doesn't own any weapons. She has a small pouch that is on her right leg...

If one has sufficiently solved the power supply issue well enough to deploy antipersonnel scaled railguns or lasers, then other types of directed energy weapons should be viable as well which would also allow bypassing some of the issues of the prior mentioned weapon types. Directed Energy Weapons O...

Dreadnought may interest some of you. Strategic ship based shooter. I just recently tried it out and so far it's been pretty fun.

Arent wrote: But that wouldn't explain why she is surprised.

Maybe a warning of an unidentified vessel approaching? (With weapons primed to finish what it started with the Bellamarine now that the shuttle is far enough away from the Tempest.)

It makes a lot of sense that Alex is telling them where human colonies are. Honestly, now that we know what both sides look like it is hard to imagine that Humanity has any possibility of survival other than getting Loroi fleet protection as fast as possible. The Umiak aren't going to let what are ...

Just don't tell them about Monopoly. No need to give them any more reasons to scourge Humanity from existence.

I just love how everyone is focusing on the Blue space elf Genocide and glossing over what was said in the comic.. "Empty Quarter" NO one goes there.. Also... http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/images/display.htm?local_bubble03_cropped.jpg and http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/images/display.htm?lor...

That definitely implies no one visited those systems in person "recently" and/or relied on some sort of long range scanning to make that determination, otherwise they should have at least picked up radio signals and other EM emissions that were not part of the normal stellar background noise. Which ...

So now the question is why the Empty Quarter has its name and why no one has bothered to go there. Some sort of shared taboo, space horror, or simply lack of time and logistics? Heh. It would be amusing if Human drive tech had a better jump range than the more advanced races, which ends up being par...

Hmm. There definitely was more than one reason for Stillstorm (other than her being cranky at both Alex and Tempo) putting Alex and his complementary escort on a shuttle and thus off her ship based on this recent interaction. He resembles Loroi males closely enough that his continued presence on-boa...

Modern US military in part deals with the officer/enlisted divide with the dual concepts of "Authority by Rank" and "Authority by Assignment/Position". (At least it did while I was in the Army) When I was an enlisted, I occupied a position that within its domain I could issue directives to officers ...

subtext looks a lot like:

Talon: "Ha! I got to touch him first!"

Beryl: "WTF he didn't greet me like that... "

Which reminds me, what was the reaction of Deinari and Tabenese Loroi to the native lifeforms of Perrein? In before "Kill it with fire" Perhaps "Let's use it on the enemy!"? Like the Perrein cuisine? Heh....reminds me of the varied uses for capsaicin. One xeno's spice is another xeno's bioweapon! B...

I know the reasons why you "shouldn't" use AI, and I disagree with all that I have heard of so far. 1) It's dangerous: Yes it is, to your enemy. You don't have to make an AGI to traverse terrain and pull a trigger, and considering that Umaki are Umaki and look nothing like Loroi, that makes it full...

Plenty of time for an unplanned crash landing on a lush deserted jungle world with gratuitous bikini survival action!

*unfortunately it is Alex in the bikini. Terran garb is not as durable as Loroi clothing.