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I really think that it depends on whether the biofilter on the transporter recognizes the Flood as a "disease". If it does, then either the folks being beamed up who are infected are either killed horribly (ala Star Trek: The Motion Picture) or simply get beamed back down to the planet's s...

<snip> The Viper carrier pod really has no sensor capability? Wookie's writeup on it seems to contradict that- and point towards a Cassini or Mars Reconnaisanace Orbiter like setup, claiming that the probe could also be programmed to engage pursuit mode, whereupon the Viper would track an enemy ves...

Did you miss the part where my post came right after Sheridan's? Or where Sheridan was proposing a general policy? My problem is with Sheridan's general policy, because I'm not clear on how far he'd want to take it. It could be taken to extremes easily enough: say, not permitting overflights of pop...

http://i873.photobucket.com/albums/ab291/roll8dn/Other%20Stuff/IMG_2275.jpg Me, the day after my bachelor party. http://i873.photobucket.com/albums/ab291/roll8dn/Other%20Stuff/IMG_2092.jpg My younger brother and I after quite a few beers at my bachelor party. No, it didn't come to blows. http://i87...

I've seen a lot of folks talking about the monetary cost of replacing the pilots in this thread. Quite simply, the cost of training the pilots or the cost of replacing the plane/buildings damaged/weregild payed to the families of those who die in an accident is, at best, a secondary concern. I don't...

Alright, so after looking at the Viper Probe Droid , it seems that it has a sensor range of up to five kilometers and a maximum overland speed of forty kilometers per hour. Since its transport pod doesn't have any orbital sensory capability, I think that maybe the Viper isn't the tool for the job. B...

Got it today and read it through in about four or five hours. Damned good. I've got a theory on the shooter, though. Remember in Small Favor , when Fix says that he'd have to take every advantage possible if Harry were ever to become Winter Knight? Well, it's entirely possible that he's capable of k...

Are there figures anywhere for probe droid mass? Looking at the Wookiepedia entry for the Acclamators, it seems that they can normally carry about ten to eleven thousand tonnes of cargo. I can't seem to find a mass figure for the Viper-class probe droid (assuming that the Viper is the most common mo...

Assuming that the probe droids are the most economical solution for the problem, what would be used to launch them? I can't see destroyers or larger ships giving up enough internal volume to carry great enough numbers to use them constantly (despite what we see at the beginning of Episode V; it's im...

<snip> Wasn't Echo Base discovered by an Imperial probe droid? What if you had far more widespread use of probe droids for surveying? Wouldn't that cut down on the costs immensely? Especially if the crew isn't simply eyeballing the system, they are actually just scanning then jumping away. They cou...

Eh, properly executed such books (indeed, anything like that) can be hilarious. Wank =/= bad, it's just that it happens to be a pervasive sign of a poor writer. Properly executed silly action like the above can be a fun read. This is a good point. I mean, see The Princess Bride for a good example; ...

<snip> "This is stupid, you're stupid" doesn't help me at all because in most cases, it's something that's already set in stone and going down whether or not you like it . I'm not writing fanfiction for your bloody pleasure, I'm trying to make the facts in my game jive as well as possible...

The mass for frigates is ridiculous, and so is the mass for cruisers. A Nimitz-class displaces 103,000 tons fully loaded- it was calculated that a UNSC frigate would have to be less dense than air in order to have a mass of 6000 tons. And there's no indication anywhere else of the UNSC having mass ...

I think you guys are conflating Tyber Zann and Darth Oster. They're different people; this is going to be a three-way throw-down. <snip> Crud. Sorry, I was doing that. <snip> So I think it might be smarter to do something like what Vehrec suggests: find Zann another supership, such as a Malevolence...

Let's assume that the Halo masses are off by two orders of magnitude. My reasoning? Nimitz -class supercarriers are ~332 meters in length and displace ~88,000 tonnes . UNSC frigates are 478 meters in length. This assumes, of course, that the frigates are built like modern aircraft carriers. I don't ...

Well, it seems that you've worked out most of the details. The only comment/suggestion that I have, based on the information that you've revealed, is to wonder what the average trooper under Zaan thinks about missing thirty frelling years of the universe. If they were already loyal enough to let the...

While my lore is sadly lacking in the entire EU, there is one piece of advice that I can give about running epic-style RPGs (or, really any RPG). The story is dictated by the characters' choices. Setting up background material that is different from established canon is fine. However, once the game ...

<snip>Seriously, though. A new breed? Are we gonna see a new breed of humans too, ones with extra fingers and humungous brains? Y'mean like the antagonists from This Island Earth (I know, they weren't strictly human)? That might actually be really cool, setting interociter-weilding superscientists ...

I'm in the midst of reading Olympos , by Dan Simmons. It seems rather interesting, but I think that I'm suffering from having picked up the sequel before reading the first novel in the series. Unfortunately, I bought it based on the back-cover blurb and the fact that he'd been recommended to me by a...

Dunmore looks cool. It seems like it'll be less than $10 US, and I'd assume that calcite deposits (my spelunking experiences, all two of them, were in limestone caverns) would be really pretty. I think that might have to be added as well. Glendalough looks interesting. I just don't know if I'm going...

Again, in rough order of posts: I agree that trying to find some of the local spots is better than most of the huge touristy things. However, there are certain places that grab my interest due to historical or cultural significance (or are just plain pretty , which is not an inconsiderable draw for ...

From Star Trek: TNG , there was Cyrus Redblock in the episode The Big Goodbye . I have a fondness for detective film noir stuff, and Cyrus met all of the Evil Mastermind tm criteria. It was also the first "holodeck goes crazy and traps people" episode, so the idea was new at least. Also fr...

Thanks, everyone, for the information! I'll try to answer/comment on each post in order. Unfortunately, the fiancee (this is my honeymoon trip, by the way) wants to steer clear of Belfast. I've tried to tell her that it isn't anywhere near as dangerous as it was during the Troubles, but she says tha...

As the title says, I'm going to be visiting Ireland and was wondering what (if anything) can be recommended by our board members here. I'll be in the country for a week early next month. I intend on spending three days in Dublin, driving (we've rented a car) up the coast as far as the Bushmills dist...

A note for the Illinois-Florida leg of your journey: for sheer amusement value, you might want to stop in Metropolis, IL ("Hometown of Superman"); they've got a twenty- or thirty-foot-tall statue of him in front of the courthouse, and the city sits on I-24. It's a detour, sure, but not mor...