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I suggest GURPS and Master of Orion 1+2. It has been my ally through many a dark day.Well crap, now what am I gonna use to sate my need for more outsider?
I am torn between posting something now or waiting for the next week...majorminor wrote:Well crap, now what am I gonna use to sate my need for more outsider?
Please, tell me it won't be some dark fic about Alex being tortured continuously and mercilessly by Stillstorm and co.dragoongfa wrote:I am torn between posting something now or waiting for the next week...majorminor wrote:Well crap, now what am I gonna use to sate my need for more outsider?
You lot already got 3 parts this week so I will just spoil the basic premise of what I consider a mix of an unhealthy quantity of HFY and what a lot of people may have wondered about what would happen if the initial contact of Alexander Jardin with the Loroi was done on slightly different terms.
Terms which become obvious when one adds just 1000 years on every date in this timeline:
http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/loroi_timeline.html
This one will be far smaller, with irregular updates and written exclusively for fun so the quality of the writing may vary.
Still, I already got the prologue and 1 and a half chapters written so that's going to get done relatively quickly.
I haven't studied Japanese History that much but I think that it is obvious that the many billions of young warriors that have been born just to fight this war will be a root of societal friction in Loroi society. To be honest this was a 'last month' realization from my part when I actually started tinkering with post war scenarios in my head.Razor One wrote:Looking over the epilogue, it seems that the Loroi experienced a similar problem that Japan did at the end of the Sengoku Jidai; they had a bunch of warriors that knew only war. Japan 'resolved' the problem by banning their peasantry from having weapons and wasting lives in Korea. The Loroi solution seems to have been the opposite; remain at peace but throw out the 'useless' civilians and rabble rousers.
Iirc Arioch has said that the Union has around 1000 ships at the moment of the story while the Umiak have a lot more but I would put their number to around 4 to 5 thousand. The difference in industrial capacity between the Union and the Hierarchy is offset by the significant advantage that telepathy and in particular farsense provide. Ships in the outsider setting are ridiculously expensive to build and maintain and due to their importance in war this means that only the best are assigned to them.JQBogus wrote:I don't know that there would be billions of extra warriors laying around.
Whoever controls space, controls (or sterilizes) the land. So the war was primarily a ship to ship thing.
It has not been made clear just how many ships the Loroi had, but it has been said (IIRC) that about 50% of the Loroi were warrior caste of one sort or another, and that there were about 50 Billion Loroi overall in the Union. So... you've got 25 billion warriors already. Even if 99% of those are for local control and support (land forces, base facilities, administration) that leaves 250 million warriors that can be deployed to ships. If the average Loroi ship has a crew of 500, then that 1% is enough to crew half a million ships.
Did the Loroi have 500,000 ships? Did they lose them all? Were they producing so many ships that they had to breed billions of warriors to provide crews? If they were producing enough ships that they needed to breed a billion warriors a year (that is 2 million ships per year) how is it that the ~30 ships in a Strike Group could have a significant harassing effect on an Umiak assault group at all? That group would probably be tens or hundreds of thousands of ships.
Fine here is an other hint:raistlin34 wrote:Are you sure you couldn't give us the premise for the next fic?
You mean... a Time Lord?!dragoongfa wrote:Fine here is an other hint:raistlin34 wrote:Are you sure you couldn't give us the premise for the next fic?
http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/tech_level.html
Someone is at tech level 16 and is somewhat amused.
Nope, no time travel.raistlin34 wrote:
You mean... a Time Lord?!