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Resisting the urge to do infodumps. I find it difficult to avoid writting too much about the setting and it's tech rather than the character and story. I find it useful to write all that stuff up in encyclopedia-style format. That way it's available if I need it, and it gets the information out of ...

Character interaction and spacing.

Your concerns are noted. I am redoing chapter three. Wasn't very happy with it anyway.

Er, hard to aim as in "hard to hit a target 50 km away precisely enough?" or hard to aim as in "hard to draw a bead?" It is "hard to aim" battleship-caliber artillery at an attacking fighter-bomber; this does not mean that the fighter-bomber is too far away to be hit b...

Don't be too sure- ME ships are stated as not using laser weapons at close ranges because it's hard to aim them. Close range, in this case, is about fifty kilometers, which they refer to as "Knife-fighting range." Considering that now, on our world, in the year 2011, we can reflect a laser...

I was using BOLO! too- I'm just forgetful. And it's not all Mark XXXIII's that have to shut down their sheilds to use counter-grav, it's just that that one had no reaction mass at all. It was running on solar and batteries, not the usual fusion. Really? Wait, i have a story in "The Best of the...

That was very cool. Only one small comment: The Bolo the Golem resumed fire at a furious pace, but even battlescreens and the finest durachrome alloy can only take so much punishment. An instant after their last payload was released, they were holed through utterly. This is a bit vague. Are you say...

Here's Chapter Three. Oh, and Mr. Doom? Remember when I said that A Bolo wasn't the one who said "Battle Reflex Mode Activated?" This was technically true. More accurately, it was three Mk. XXVI Bolos and a military AI mounted on the Centerpoint Station. :twisted: Chapter 3: The Battle of ...

So far I like this story, but like Mass Effect I don't like how it is heavily reliant on the codex for back story. It would definitely be interesting to see mass Mass Effect ground forces attacking a bolo :D (Yes, I did that on purpose) Yay, two pages! But I sort of disagree. The codexes imply that...

Plus, the whole, you know, the whole "Radiation," and "Cancers," thing. Maybe it's just me, but being in any proximity to a nuclear device is an experience I'd rather avoid.

But you guys know me; I'm weird like that.

Princess Mononoke. Greatest. Movie. Ever.


At least, to me.

madd0ct0r wrote:trying to fly a giant nuke driven spaceship through the atmosphere is bad?

well, i learned something new today.

And Knowing is half the battle!

G.I. JOOOOOOOOOOOOE!

Agreed, the Etherdrive could be useful over short distances, particularly when boosted by a Navigator. Plus, since it has far less connection to the Warp, or as some call it, "Super Space Hell," it'd be far less likely to attract the attentions of, say, demons, hellmonsters, the Chaos God...

Well, no, but in-atmo, as this topic refers to, it can be, uh, what's the word what's the word what's the word, Oh yeah, BAD.

Though I'll note that part of the reason I mentioned the failings of Etherdrive was because of the notion that it could be useful to the Imperium. Agreed, the Etherdrive could be useful over short distances, particularly when boosted by a Navigator. Plus, since it has far less connection to the War...

This, amongst many other reasons, is why an Orion Drive is considered a Really, REALLY bad idea. For those who don't know what an Orion Drive is, it's basically the idea that the propulsion of your ship is maintained by dropping nukes behind your ship and riding the blast wave. While awesome... you ...

Twenty- six ? Yay for self-aware Bolos! But given ME doesn't seem to have really heavy ground stuff, I doubt they could kill even a Mark I very easily, and even a Mark XV would probably require orbital bombardment to destroy, let along an XXVI... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: 'Course, that's just w...

[...] Oh, and if you want a Sci-Fi series that uses an Orion Drive, check out the Troy Rising series, by John Ringo. [...] Having recently finished the trilogy, I'd strongly support Sithking Zero's suggestion, with a caveat: book 3, "The Hot Gates", most definitely does not exist. Books 1...

...Damn you. :evil: Never the less, I eargerly await more violence and bloodshed. :twisted: Just one question, though- what era? pre-First Contact with Melcon, and obviously way pre-Ragnarok, but what era? What's the latest mark of Bolo? The last type of Bolo released at the start of this story was...

doom3607 wrote:

Sithking Zero wrote: Battle Reflex Mode Activated…

Is that a Bolo? If it is, I think I'll just quietly write off a big chunk of that 'grand fleet'...

Sir, I can personally assure you that this is not in fact, a Bolo speaking.

You've actually made Vader's death here seem credible, and whilst this might seem an initial victory for the Rebellion, things are about to get a lot harder for them unless Palpatine discovers Luke's potential and tries lots of complicated schemes to catch him. Without Vader's desire to take Skywal...

Chapter Two: First Contact Turian Destroyer Talon of Palavan (name translated into English) "…And one must always remember that a Spectre's first job is to defend the citizens of the galaxy. Without them, our group wouldn't exist," lectured the avianoid being with a plated, painted face. ...

It's actually not as big a problem in military SF as it is in crossovers , especially crossovers done in the very hardware-centric, analysis-heavy style that comes with the territory here. In crossovers, specifically, it is quite challenging to make it about the men and not the toys. But the toys a...

Looks good so far. I wonder, do the starships have AI minds as well? That would be a large factor in dealing with both the Quarians and the Geth. They do, although the AIs are a little lower-grade than Bolo AIs. This is an interesting start to the story, and frankly, introducing Bolos into anything...

Whoops.

Doesn't mean we can't resurrect this thread when the last launch really DOES happen, though, does it?