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"Going to 11" in a base-8 system would be "Going to 9."

The power slider is on both sides of the weapon.

Like Talon begrudgingly accepting their cozy sleeping accommodations on page 149. NOT! On that thought, how would Talon’s sarcastic remark on page 149 look in Trade? Trade handles negatives similar to English, with a keyword ("sal") before the negated word, so it would look very much like the Engli...

I suspect that Snoofman actually wanted some version of *reluctant* agreement. That's what I assumed, but Loroi Trade doesn't have forms built into it for sarcasm and passive-aggressive attitude. Trade is a language that's used in a formal and technical capacity by the Loroi; it's very literal. If ...

A blaster does the same amount of damage regardless of which species is pressing the trigger.

A picture is worth a thousand words; even if telepathy has much higher bandwidth than the spoken word, visual information is still significant.

Snoofman wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 02, 2024 11:30 am

The Loroi equivalent of "Fine, whatever." or "Uh... okay then."

annen - affirmative
nestas - accepted

Is "sanzai range" a binary thing where two loroi are either in-range and can 'chat' normally/are out-of-range and can't hear each other, or is there a gradient where sanzai conversation becomes easier/clearer/faster as distance decreases until they get to physical contact and sanzai efficiency real...

I wonder if any Loroi have mastered the art of telekinetically knocking themselves out of the way of an attack while making it look like they got hit? A PK with appropriate power and skill could apply an appropriate force to both herself and a tackler to fling herself away and provide the appropria...

Afaik over half of that is network delay as the signal moves around your body, so you could definitely cut down on that by making everything electronic. Even if you improved reaction time by several orders of magnitude, the lag from an electronic signal traveling about a meter would still not be si...

"Natural" Umiak have their brains in their heads, but a full-replacement cyborg like a Hardtrooper could have its brain anywhere. I think it's very unlikely that the delay of a few nanoseconds for the data from sensors on the head to travel down a wire half a meter into the torso is going to have a ...

Generative AI trained on 2D images doesn't understand the context of a 3D world, which is why it's especially bad at symmetry and objects which pass in front of or behind each other. And it has no persistence of memory, so if you try to create a sequence of images (for animation or sequential art) ...

Generative AI trained on 2D images doesn't understand the context of a 3D world, which is why it's especially bad at symmetry and objects which pass in front of or behind each other. And it has no persistence of memory, so if you try to create a sequence of images (for animation or sequential art) e...

Telepathic techniques only affect the conscious mind of a target, not its physical body (which includes memory). So a Mizol can't edit or erase memories, but she can temporarily affect access to memory (causing the target to temporarily forget or overlook something obvious), and suggest untrue thin...

Hardtrooper knitting attachment: standard If every Brittish Tank can have the equipment needed for making tea standard issue in every war since WW1 (yes, I know it was unitentionaly in the first one but thats what inspired it), then the Bugs can have their Knitting kits. Do they produce their own s...

Snoofman wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 20, 2023 3:56 pm

Can Farseers be male or female?

The Farseers deployed aboard ship are exclusively female, because the duty is hazardous. There are males (notably the Nedatan Timadi) that have similar capabilities, but they are used domestically in a safer way.

This seems more a technical question than a Loroi related one, but since it pertains Loroi tech and communication, are digital transmissions within a star system instantaneous regardless of distance? Or is there a delay? I.e. As I understand it, it would take about thirteen minutes to transmit a di...

Question: Do Loroi space-suits have any sort of (emergency) thruster system, as something to have in case personnel get ejected from a ship/station by anything from battle damage to accident? The TCA suits that we see in Chapter 1 have what look to be thruster packs on the back, but I don't see any...

Hardtrooper knitting attachment: standard

A blaster would be a beam emitter and some kind of power cell; I think ideally you'd want to have power cells that don't easily explode. I think you could rig a blaster so that it overloads and fails, but I doubt it would explode in an efficient or predictable manner that would make it useful as a "...