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mjolnir: which is one of many reasons to the 'there is no stealth in space' attitude, even with thermal dynamics defying magical technology, it is still damn near pointless.

Actually guys, I think your math is off, you do not really need to cool down the entire ship, you only need to cool down the outermost layer and enough cooling power to negate low power emissions from the working ship(so as to remove transference of heat from the inner life supported hull to the out...

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 mentio...

I am unsure how to feel about being used by Arioch in such ways....

slightly more seriously, some fire and blunting by time it would be rather safe to carry a 'knife' in such a way during normal tasks, at this time trying to use it as a knife would be a non-trivial restoration project.

absalom: pipeline the cooling water for the nuke plant from the sea should work just as well(or if salt is such a issue, just reuse the river water?), gets the water to the arid area, still uses a nuke plant, and you get to keep the power generated instead of using it all.... well, i suppose you cou...

absalom: if you do not like the site, just hop in your spaceship and find some new place?

thicket: there is a single great advantage to farming(or better yet mixed economy with fishing, hunting, and lots of other sources of food) as compared hunter gathering. population density is the advantage. why you ask? #1 defensiveness, having more people is safer from external attack, since if you...

the answer is probably, counter intuitively enough this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator but a decent sized such in a magazine to charge the capacitor in the rifle, and you are golden.... gives new meaning to the old 'charging handle' which of course leads ...

shadow: those are some awfully short carbines, bordering on SMG territory...how short would you consider optimal?

http://gurpscharactersheet.com/ <--- admittedly 4th edition, but a damn good digital character sheet.

dragoon: that math is over simplified, there is a slight problem of structural integrity as well, and is the reason why star destroyers would go crunch under any significant acceleration. the 'tear yourself apart' due to being TOO strong is not just a fictional thing. as you apply acceleration your ...

or simply write the contract as getting something done, the amount of time it takes is irrelevant and when you get the 'well i want you to tweak that' to the remodeling of the house, you can simply state, you ain't paying me for a weeks work, you payed for a job, that job is done and if things went ...

well, the astro people get a hell of a lot better imagery through math magic and using timelapse to get more data to correlate from. since adding time into the equation you can extrapolate more data and get 'half pixel' data due to angles changing and movement, not really very functional for geostat...

cacambo: google maps earth mode might be a tad bit better then 30cm/pixel, just saying.

My guess currently involves cryo sleep of some kind, since as far as i have understood it, it is the consciousness that telepaths detect, a not-quite-corpsicle probably have very little in the way of a signature. and although you do NOT want a fully AI controlled warship, Autopilot is an entirely di...

nemo: that is mostly US military, the americans do love their acronyms

overkill: you are aware that capsaicin IS a nerve toxin towards humans right?

nemo: as i understood it the south was well on it's way to get rid of slavery, and it was a passing trend, not good business practice in terms of profit, when the north guys said 'comply!' the south just opposed them because they did not like the north guys telling them what to do. the american civi...

preordered at highest level, not because i want the extra stuffs, it's throwing money at devs for making things i like.

EMC: given that the characters are modeled with GURPS it would be THREE dice not two.

Arioch: yes it would be interesting to see first contact between the loroi and their new overlords(cats).