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Damnit you still killed Chewie! You bastard! Dare I say it it's a worse death this time around, at least in the original Vong War he got a nice defiant-to-the-end death. It may have been defiant to the end, but it also seemed generally pointless to me thanks to the circumstances. They made him powe...

28 [/b][/size] It was, Han reflected, another beautiful day on Sernpidal. The system's typical yellow star hung high in the sky, washing the plains with its bright light. Various trees and grasses that Han still didn't remember the names for yet were blowing in a gentle breeze, and the air, compare...

Saw this going around on Google+ and was somewhat surprised nobody had linked it here yet.

Um, all of them? You decided to scream about me being a moron instead of responding to anything. That England was also the seat of empire has nothing to do with the fact that the impoverished classes not benefiting from the gains of imperialism were able to provide sufficient demand to support bake...

Nah, don't think so. I doubt Otilia would be so dumb as to land right where the massive limb they sliced off was about to fall.

The bit about the concussion missiles in this chapter is pure speculation on my part, as I was trying to come up with a workable explanation for the effects documented in-universe. 27 [/b][/size] "Captain, we've received a FLASH-level dispatch." Captain Ollic regarded the Comm-Scan operato...

As promised. This chapter is still quite raw and has not been beta-read, so please let me know if you spot any typos in it. 26 [/b][/size] "Ferret data confirms PDC report on OpFor assets." Standing on the flag bridge of the Executor-class Star Dreadnought Lusankya , Commander Deanna Troi ...

So, was looking for this thread since I'm preparing to get Chapter 26 out sometime in the next couple weeks, and it seems that my record of providing an update once about... oh, every two years has not changed. This time, at least, it's not due to trying to go back and rewrite everything, but instea...

It's kind of funny that I just noticed this discussion, since I was musing on the topic yesterday. Here's a brief essay I put together on a possible explanation for the discrepancy in crew between the Imperator and both earlier and later designs. The official crew requirements of ships used during t...

It's especially ironic given that Benjamin Franklin was the one who said "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

I wonder how many US schools actually mention that bit in their history classes.

Going back to what I said earlier about the arguments over Israel's success in counter-terrorism, the racial profiling of course is their most suspect method and one that's a bulwark of their actual airport security measures. I found a dissertation regarding that topic published on Google Books . Ho...

Pretty much all ships run on unix based operating systems, along with almost all servers and industrial, research and defence supercomputers. Wrong. Wast majority of computers on ship are embedded industrial systems. These run on whatever embedded OS producer orders - things like RISC OS, LynxOS, T...

So it appears that the first instinctive reaction is to post armed guards at every airport checkpoint. I'm sure this will do so much for our actual safety from things that can't really be stopped by a bullet, such as... you know... explosives. But it makes the TSA personnel feel better, so I'm sure ...

I think it can be argued that there's something seriously wrong with anyone willing to kill themselves, regardless of religion.

Domestic flights in Mexico, for the most part, involve cursory metal detector checks throughout the airport and a checked bag search at the gate. I haven't made domestic flights in any other countries so I cannot say much other than pointing out that after 9/11, the US basically forced every country...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/01/us/lax-gunfire/ http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-live-lax-shooting-tsa-agent-alleged-gunman-shot-20131101,0,3517669.story <show caption > A A A (resize font) Los Angeles (CNN) - A man armed with what police say was an assault rifle and carrying materials expr...

It sounds like knowledge of Case Praetorian is very limited, which is not surprising given the circumstances surrounding it and the explicit mention that it was "quietly" put into place. I'm not sure any of Ordan's thralls are even aware of it.

In regards to your question, instead of acting as bait, I had the opposite reaction. As soon as I saw the massive infodump I started skimming over it. I suspect many other readers will have similar reactions. In this case, the reason it's generally not a good idea to infodump in the story is because...

I unfortunately don't have the time to make a detailed review, but after reading through about 1/4 of the chapter, I can say that your prose needs a severe trimming. Take the adage "Show, don't tell" to heart. Explore the surroundings piecemeal through the character's interactions, not in ...

I don't suppose that dear Maxwell's lady friend at CONTROL happens to be Agent 99...

Having read Arminias' other works, I think he'll do a decent job of balancing out any issues they may cause. It's one thing to have a secret uberweapon in your back pocket. It's another thing to know how to use it, and Arminias seems to have a good grasp of the damage that can be caused to plans by ...

How can you be so sure?

Bismarck and Hood , huh? History repeats itself in strange ways... I have to admit, as much as the BT universe's technology annoys me, this story so far has been very enjoyable. With the exception of the 'Mechs (which really can't be rationalized with modern physics knowledge, no matter how hard fa...

Well, can't say that I expected Agatha to remain incapicitated for long. After living with The Other in her head, she doesn't take very well to anyone attempting to control her.

Aaaand looks like more Sturmvoraus family antics.